Islamic Legal Maxims
About the course
This is a higher-level undergraduate course on the recurrent patterns in Islamic law. It introduces students to the legal maxims of Islamic Jurisprudence as a science and is designed to give students a firm grounding in the terminology, principles, concepts, and history of Islamic legal maxims. Students will study the meanings, proofs, applications, and examples of various legal maxims. This course will concentrate on the universal, major and some minor maxims. (2 Credits)
Prerequisite: Fiqh of Worship II
About the Instructor(s)
Dr. Alrahawan is Mishkah University’s Dean of Academic Affairs for the English department, and teaches courses in Fiqh, Hadith and Quran Sciences. He was instrumental in founding the university’s undergraduate Islamic Studies program in English. In addition he has an intensive history of scholarship at one of the oldest institutions in the world, Al-Azhar University. At the age of 21, he obtained his B.A. in Islamic studies from Al-Azhar University, earning the highest score at the Faculty of Languages and Translation. He gained his M.A. in 2002 and his PhD in 2007 at Al-Azhar, both in the field of Hadith Sciences. In addition to teaching at Mishkah, he continues to train local and international students at Al-Azhar University. Dr. Rahawan specializes in Hadith Sciences, Jurisprudence and Criticism, Quran Science and Shafi’i jurisprudence.