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Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (95 Books) Order Now

500 Volumes of All Juristic References Supplemented with Scholarly Features

The outcome of fruitful cooperation among the Islamic Development Bank, the Kuwaiti General Secretariat of Awqaf and Harf Information Technology

The Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence is a time-saving tool that helps researchers dedicate their time and effort to analyze and compare different juristic views, instead of wasting time searching for and collecting data sources.

• The Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence is designed for:

  • Individual Muslims who seek answers to everyday religious questions.

  • University and postgraduate students.

  • Researchers on Jurisprudence and other Islamic studies.

  • Judges and lawyers who seek legal solutions and a reference to a variety of juristic opinions to decide litigation.

  • Legal monitoring bodies in banks and Islamic monetary authorities.

  • Organizations and officials desiring to issue well-founded and detailed legal Fatwas.

  • Legislative authorities in Islamic countries planning to apply the rules of Islamic Shari`ah.

Features:

• Displays the text, with full diacritical marks, through the reference name, book title, or chapter title.

• Detailed indexing of juristic elements, making each a search entry. Indexes include:

  • Evidence: lists Qur'anic verses, Prophetic Hadiths, and sayings attributed to the Prophet's Companions.

  • Juristic Schools: includes the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali juristic schools in addition to other schools.

  • Juristic Topics: includes topics of

  • Jurisprudence, Principles of Jurisprudence, and Manners and Morals ... etc.

  • Proper Names: lists all men and women, and places mentioned in the entire program contents.

  • Jurists: displays a lists of all jurists from the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, Hanbali, and other schools and links every jurist with his juristic opinions.

  • References: includes references of Jurisprudence, Principles of Jurisprudence, and Qur'anic Interpretation ... etc.

  • Rules: includes Rules of Jurisprudence and Principles of Jurisprudence.

  • Scholarly Benefits: lists all poetic verses, proverbs, and aphorisms included in the program.

Different Search Methods

• Morphological Search: uses the Morphological Analysis technology, enabling word or phrase-based search to find exact matches or matches with affixes.

• Updated Terminology Search: searches on the level of the updated terminology of the studies of Jurisprudence and the principles of Jurisprudence.

• Thematic Search: uses a juristic thesaurus which covers all fields of Islamic Jurisprudence, including acts of devotion, transactions, customs, manners, as well as the principles of Jurisprudence. Search is carried out by navigating in 104 main topics subdivided into minor topics, totaling 27,000 juristic topics, enabling easy classification, search, storing and retrieval of data on each topic. The search topics will be linked by logical relations such as equality, condition, contrast, and causality.

• Item Search: searches on the level of any item of the included indexes.

• Successive Search: enables search in the output of a previous search output.

• Integration of the multiple search types, including textual, juristic, and terminological searches.

Other Features:

• Saves and prints search output.

• Copies the text to any word processor.

• Provides statistics regarding every informational element included in references with the ability to compare between each.

• Explains the difficult and technical juristic terms.

• Provides information about references and biographies of their authors.

• inks contemporaneous major issues that interest Muslims (medical, economic and legal) to the elements of the juristic search and deducing the related legal opinions.

Scholarly Benefits:

Retrieval of materials on juristic elements.

Easy comparison of the views held by different Juristic Schools.

Study of the methods applied to practice Ijtihad (exerting efforts to reach a solution to a question not dealt with by the Qur'an or the Sunna, or not decided by the unanimous agreement of Muslim scholars).

Tracing the methods followed by scholars in transmitting knowledge to successive generations.

Tracing the applications of the proofs of legal judgments.

Containing all the rules of Jurisprudence and the Principles of Jurisprudence.

A useful tool for verifying original manuscripts.

Codification of Islamic Jurisprudence.

Scholarly Supervision:

Committee of Scholarly Supervision and Approval, under the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf.

The program has been legally approved by Al-Azhar Al-Sharif.              The program runs under Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000.

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