Maryam Ahmad

AN EXAMINATION OF THE USE OF HUMAN REASONING (IJTIHAD) AS A SOURCE OF LAW IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC LAW

In Islamic law, the express textual injunction in the Quran and Sunnah are - limited in number, while the incidents and problems of life are unlimited and unending. It would therefore be unreasonable and illogical to assert that all the problems and exigencies of life will be covered by the textual injunction. Reason demands that rules of law shoul...