At a glance
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
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Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Muhammad 'Ali al-Sayis, among the senior scholars of al-Azhar al-Sharif and former dean of the Shari'a faculty, author of Nash'at al-fiqh al-ijtihadi wa-atwaruh in the Islamic Research Academy's scholarly series 1. He wrote the study on commission from the Academy's council for presentation to the fourth Islamic Conference 2, tracing ijtihad's development from the prophetic age to the 'Abbasid and the foundations of the four madhhabs 3.
People and things also explored
Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)
Sources
- The Emergence of Ijtihad-based Jurisprudence and Its Stages — Muhammad Ali al-Sayis , p. 1
- The Emergence of Ijtihad-based Jurisprudence and Its Stages — Muhammad Ali al-Sayis , p. 3
- The Emergence of Ijtihad-based Jurisprudence and Its Stages — Muhammad Ali al-Sayis , p. 3-4
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Ali al-Sayis”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-ali-al-sayis/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.