Al-Shāfiʻī's concept of hermeneutics : the Risāla and the role it has played in the hermeneutical formation of Islamic legal system -- Al-Shāfiʻī's concept hermeneutics, its modifications, and further developments -- Hermeneutics in the genre of mukhtaṣar, its significance, and emergence in the formation of Islamic legal system -- Shāfiʻī school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in K al-Umm, al-Muzanī's mukhtaṣar, and al-Shīrāzī's Tanbīh -- Ḥanafī school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in al-Ţaḥāwī's mukhtaṣar, al-Qudūrī's mukhtaṣar, and al-Marghīnānī's Hidāya in reference -- Ḥanbalī school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in Aḥmad ibn Ḥambal's Masā'il collections and al-Khiraqī's mukhtaṣar -- Mālikī school of law : hermeneutics as reflected in Khalīl's mukhtaṣar -- Differences of opinion in different schools of law from the hermeneutical perspective -- Conclusion. |