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Book SynopsisUsed widely by Shi'ite seminaries, and valued by Sunni scholars for its intellectual rigor, Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr's Lessons is a key study of Islamic jurisprudence. It covers topics from the general characterization of jurisprudence to such specialized issues as the assessment of the verbal divine-law argument, study of procedural principles, and reflections on the resolution of conflicting arguments. The new translation by Roy Mottahedeh from the original Arabic employs a carefully designed and appropriate English terminology, and features a significant amount of supporting material including a glossary of legal and theological concepts , and a full index of Arabic terms.
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Table of Contents1 Characterization of jurisprudence: a preliminary word; characterization of jurisprudence; the subject matter of jurisprudence; the discipline of jurisprudence is the logic of legal understanding; the importance of the discipline of jurisprudence in the practice of derivation; jurisprudence is to legal understanding as theory is to application; the interaction between legal-understanding thought and jurisprudential thought; the permissibility of the process of deriving divine-legal rulings. 2 Substantiating arguments: the divine-law ruling and its subdivision; the division of rulings into injunctive and declaratory; categories of the injunctive ruling; areas of discussion in the discipline of jurisprudence; the divine-law argument. 3 Procedural principles: the fundamental procedural principle; the secondary procedural principle; the principle of the inculpatoriness of non-specific knowledge; the presumption of continuity. 4 The conflict of arguments: conflict between substantiating arguments; conflict between (procedural) principles; conflict between the two types of argument.
