History of Maqasid Shariah
History of Maqasid Shariah
History of Maqasid Shariah
Introduction
As a theme of the Sharah in its own right, the maqasid did not receive much attention in the early stages of the development of Islamic legal thought and, as such, they represent rather a later addition to the juristic legacy of the madhhib. Even to this day many of reputable textbooks on Usl al-Fiqh do not mention maqsid
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The literalists thus tended to view the Sharah as a set of rules, commands and prohibitions that were addressed to the competent individual mukallaf and all that the latter was expected to conform to its directives. The precedent of the leading Companions indicated, on the other hand, that they saw the Sharah both as a set of rules and a value system in which the specific rules were seen as tangible manifestations of the overriding values. The textualist tradition of the first three centuries did not take much interest in maqsid al-Sharah and it was not until the time of alGhazl (d. 505/1111) and then al-Shtibi (d. 790/1388) that significant developments were made in the formulation of the theory
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