Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

A Glossary of Shiite Methodology of Jurisprudence (Uşūl al-Fiqh)

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• PREFACE
• Transliteration of Arabic Characters
• A
• • ‘Adam Şiĥĥat al-Salb (Incorrectness of Divesting)
• • al-Amāra (Authorized Conjectural Proof)
• • al-‘Āmm (General)
• • al-Amr (Command)
• • al-Aqall wa’l-Akthar al-Irtibāţiyyain (Relational Least and Most)
• • al-Aqall wa’l-Akthar al-Istiqlāliyyain (Independing Least and Most)
• • Aşāla al-Barā’a (Principle of Clearance)
• • Aşāla al-Ĥaqīqa (Principle of Literalness)
• • Aşāla al-Iĥtiyāţ or Ishtighāl (Principle of Precaution or Liability)
• • Aşāla al-Istişĥāb (Principle of Continuity of the Previous State)
• Constituents of Istişĥāb
• • Aşāla al-Iţlāq (Principle of Absoluteness)
• • Aşāla al-Takhyīr (Principle of Option)
• • Aşāla al-‘Umūm (Principle of Generality)
• • Aşāla al-Żuhūr (Principality of the Appearance)
• B
• • al-Barā’a al-‘Aqliyya (Intellectual Clearance)
• • al-Barā’a al-Shar‘iyya (Religious Clearance)
• • Binā’ al-‘Uqalā’ (Conduct of the Wise)
• D
• • Dalāla al-Iqtiđā’ (Denotation of Necessitation)
• • Dalāla al-Ishāra (Denotation of Implicit Conveyance)
• • al-Dalāla al-Siyāqiyya (Contextual Denotation)
• • Dalāla al-Tanbīh (Denotation of Hint)
• • Dalīl al-Insidād (Closure Proof)
• • al-Dawām (Permanence)
• • al-Đidd al-‘Āmm (General Opposite)
• • al-Đidd al-Khāşş (Particular Opposite)
• • al-Djam‘ al-‘Urfī (Customary Gathering)
• F
• • al-Fawr (Promptitude)
• G
• • Ghayr al-Mustaqillāt al-‘Aqliyya (Dependent Intellectual Proofs)
• H
• • Ĥadīth al-Raf‘ (Removal)
• • al-Ĥaqīqa al-Mutasharri‘iyya (Muslims' Literal Meaning)
• • al-Ĥaqīqa al-Shar‘iyya (Juristic-Literal Meaning)
• • al-Ĥudjdja (Authoritative Proof)
• • al-Ĥukm al-Wāqi‘ī (Actual Precept)
• • al-Ĥukm al-Żāhirī (Apparent Precept)
• • al-Ĥukūma (Sovereignty)
• I
• • al-‘Ibādī (Act of Worship)
• • al-Idjmā‘ (Consensus)
• • Idjtimā‘ al-Amr wa’l Nahy (Conjunction of the Command and the Prohibition)
• • al-Idjzā’ (Replacement)
• • al-‘Ilm al-Idjmālī (Summary-fashioned Knowledge)
• • al-‘Ilm al-Tafşīlī (Detailed Knowledge)
• • al-Inĥilāl al-Ĥaqīqī (Actual Reduction)
• • al-Inĥilāl al-Ĥukmī (Quasi-Reduction)
• • al-Istişĥāb al-Kullī (Continuity of the Previous State of the Universal)
• • al-Iţlāq (Absoluteness)
• • al-Iţlāq al-Badalī (Substitutional Absoluteness)
• • Iţlāq al-Maqām (Absoluteness of the Position)
• • al-Iţlāq al-Shumūlī (Inclusive Absoluteness)
• K
• • Kaff al-Nafs (Continence)
• • al-Khabar al-Mutawātir (Massive Report)
• • Khabar al-Wāĥid (Single Report)
• • al-Khāşş (Particular)
• • al-Kitāb (The Book)
• M
• • Mabāĥith al-Alfāż (Discussions of Terms)
• • Mabāĥith al-Ĥudjdja (Discussions of the Authority)
• • Mabāĥith al-Mulāzamāt al-‘Aqliyya (Discussions of Intellectual Implications)
• • al-Mafhūm
• • Mafhūm al-‘Adad (Number)
• • Mafhūm al-Ghāya (Termination)
• • Mafhūm al-Ĥaşr (Exclusivity)
• • Mafhūm al-Laqab (Designation)
• • al-Mafhūm al-Mukhālif / Mafhūm al-Mukhālafa (Disaccording Mafhūm)
• • al-Mafhūm al-Muwāfiq / Mafhūm al-Muwāfaqa (Accordant Mafhūm)
• • Mafhūm al-Sharţ (Condition)
• • Mafhūm al-Waşf (Qualifier)
• • al-Marra (Once)
• • Mas’ala al-Đidd (Problem of the Opposite)
• • al-Mudjmal (Ambiguous)
• • al-Mukhālafa al-Qaţ‘iyya (Definite Opposition)
• • al-Mukhaşşis (Restrictor)
• • al-Mukhaşşis al-Munfaşil (Separate Restrictor)
• • al-Mukhaşşis al-Muttaşil (Joint Restrictor)
• • Muqaddimāt al-Ĥikma (Premises of Wisdom)
• • Muqaddima al-Wādjib (Preliminary of the Mandatory Act)
• • al-Muqayyad (Qualified)
• • al-Muradjdjiĥāt (Preferrers)
• • al-Mushtaqq (Derived)
• • al-Mustaqillāt al-‘Aqliyya (Independent Intellectual Proofs)
• • al-Muwāfaqa al-Qaţ‘iyya (Definite Obedience)
• N
• • al-Nahy (Prohibition)
• • al-Naskh (Abolishment)
• • al-Naşş (Explicit-Definite)
• Q
• • Qā‘ida Qubĥ ‘Iqāb bilā Bayān (Principle of Reprehensibility of Punishment without Depiction)
• • Qā‘ida al-Yaqīn (Rule of Certainty)
• • al-Qaţ‘ (Certitude, Knowledge)
• • al-Qiyās (Juristic Analogy)
• Definition of Qiyās
• Shiite Position on Qiyās
• S
• • al-Şaĥīĥ wa’l A‘amm (Sound and What Incorporates Both)
• • al-Shubha Ghair al-Maĥşūra (Large-Scale Dubiety)
• • al-Shubha al-Ĥukmiyya (Dubiety concerning the Precept)
• • al-Shubha al-Mafhūmiyya (Dubiety concerning the Concept)
• • al-Shubha al- Maĥşūra (Small-Scale Dubiety)
• • al-Shubha al-Mawđū‘iyya (Dubiety concerning the Object)
• • al-Shubha al-Mişdāqiyya (Dubiety concerning the Instance)
• • al-Shubha al-Taĥrīmiyya (Dubiety as to Unlawfulness)
• • al-Shubha al-Wudjūbiyya (Dubiety as to Obligation)
• • al-Shuhra (Celebrity)
• • al-Sīra (Custom)
• • Sīra al-Mutasharri‘a (Custom of People of the Religion)
• • al-Sunna
• T
• • al-Ta‘ādul wa’l Tarādjīĥ (Equilibrium and Preferences)
• • al-Ta‘āruđ (Contradiction)
• • al-Tabādur (Preceding)
• • Tadākhul al-Asbāb (Intervention of Causes)
• • Tadākhul al-Musabbabāt (Intervention of the Caused)
• • al-Takhaş şuş (Non-Inclusion)
• • al-Takhşīş (Restriction)
• • al-Taqrīr (Acknowledgment)
• • al-Ţarīq (Path)
• • al-Tazāĥum (Interference)
• U
• • al-‘Umūm al-Badalī (Substitutional Generality)
• • al-‘Umūm al-Istighrāqī (Encompassing Generality)
• • al-‘Umūm al-Madjmū‘ī (Total Generality)
• • al-Uşūl al-‘Amaliyya (Practical Principles)
• • Uşūl al-Fiqh
• • al-Uşūl al-Lafżiyya (Literal Principles)
• W
• • al-Wađ‘ (Convention)
• • al-Wađ‘ ‘Āmm wa’l Mawđū‘ lah ‘Āmm (Convention General and Object of Convention General)
• • al-Wađ‘ ‘Āmm wa’l Mawđū‘ lah Khāşş (Convention General and Object of Convention Particular)
• • al-Wađ Khāşş wa’l Mawđū‘ lah ‘Āmm (Convention Particular and Object of Convention General)
• • al-Wađ‘ Khāşş wa’l Mawđū‘ lah Khāşş (Convention Particular and Object of Convention Particular)
• • al-Wađ‘ al-Ta‘ayyunī (Convention by Determination)
• • al-Wađ‘ al-Ta‘yīnī (Convention by Specification)
• • al-Wađ‘ wa’l Mawđū‘ lah (Convention and Object of Convention)
• • al-Wādjib al-‘Aynī (Individual Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Kifā’ī (Collective Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Mashrūţ (Conditional Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Mu‘allaq (Suspended Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Muđayyaq (Constricted Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Munadjdjaz (Definite Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Muţlaq (Absolute Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Muwassa‘ (Extended Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Ta‘abbudī (Religiously Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Ta‘yīnī (Determinate Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Takhyīrī (Optional Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wādjib al-Tawaşşulī (Instrumental Mandatory Act)
• • al-Wurūd (Entry)
• Z
• • al-Żāhir (Apparent)
• • al-Żann al-Khāşş (Particular Conjecture)
• • al-Żann al-Muţlaq (Absolute Conjecture)
• Table of Technical Terms
• 1. English-Arabic
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• 2. Arabic-English
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• Selected Bibliography