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Mohammad hashim kamali has 40 books on goodreads with 2229 ratings. For all those interested in hadith, islamic law, history and classical islamic intellectual tradition dr mohammad hashim kamali is professor of law at the international islamic university malaysia where he has been teaching islamic law and jurisprudence since 1985. Jan 05, 20 a tangible result of all this is that this book has now become arecommended text in a number of courses not only in the faculty of law but also in otherfaculties and departments of this university. Ijtihad, in classical ushul fiqh, is a collective obligation of the muslim community and its scholars to exert themselves in order to find solutions to new problems and to provide new guidance in matters of law and religion kamali 1991, xvii. A comparative study by mohammad hamidullah khan, p. This important work gives the fundamental principles of islamic jurisprudence and its influence continues to the present day. Thus the occasion of the revelation of the ayah of imprecation wan in sura alnur 24. Islamic jurisprudence is one of the sciences that glorify the islamic civilization.
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