The Foundations of Jurisprudence - An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory: An Introduction to Imami Shi'i Legal Theory: 1 (Classical Shi'ah Library, 1) - Tapa dura

Foundations of Jurisprudence is a dual-text critical edition, edited and translated by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi, of Mabadi? al-wu?ul ila ?ilm al-u?ul, an introduction to Islamic legal principles (u?ul al-fiqh) by the renowned Shi?ah jurist and theologian al-?Allamah al-?illi.

Jamal al-Din ?asan b. Yusuf b. al-Mu?ahhar al-?illi (d. 726/1325) was an influential and prolific scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Imami Shi?i school of ?illah, whose unrivalled mastery of the Islamic sciences earned him the unique title of al-?Allamah, ‘the Doctor’.Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi, Ph.D., the University of Edinburgh, is the Dean of the Shi?ah Institute in London. He is the translator of The Mystery of Prayer (Brill, 2015) and is currently engaged with multiple academic projects including the study and translation of the Nahj al-balagah.