Quran, Islamic Jurisprudence and Law

Expansibility of Quran’s Jurisprudential Capacity

Authors

Hamed Ma’refat 1
Abd ol-Karim Bahjatpoor 2

1 Level Three of Exegesis and Quranic Sciences, Qom Seminary School, and Ph.D Student of Quran and Hadith, Quran and Hadith University (hamed.marefat@hotmail.com).

2 Associate Professor of Research Center for Islamic Culture and Thinking (abp114@yahoo.com).

Abstract
< p >In spite of the large area of knowledge of jurisprudence, Fiqh olQuran exegetists have mostly referred to only about 500 verses or less which seems not to be representative of the whole jurisprudential capacity of Quran. The present article first mentions different doctrines about Ayat ol-Ahkam (verses of the revealed priscripts) and tries to provide some Vajh ol-Jam’s to justify diversities. Therefore, it is impossible to provide conclusive statistics about jurisprudential capacity of Quran and it should be considered more expansible. Next, to prove this claim some expansive principles of jurisprudential capacity of Quran are discussed including the possibility of extraction of a general rule out of particular propositions, possibility of extraction of a general rule out of a part of verse, and possibility of deduction of jurisprudential rule out of non-jurisprudential verses. Finally, some instruments to discover hidden capacities are mentioned like abrogation of feature, interpretation, and conclusive look.

Keywords

Ayat ol-Ahkam
Ayat ol-Qisas
Jurisprudence of Quran
Jurisprudence
Decree
Quran, Islamic Jurisprudence and Law
Volume 2, Issue 2
March 2015
Pages 7-38

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