Reasoning based on Islamic Legal Rulings in the Mālikī School: A Foundational and Applied Jurisprudential Study

Abstract

This stud investigates justification of a legal ruling by another legal ruling within Mālikī jurisprudence with reference to the theoretical and applied perspectives. This research depends on a partial inductive approach and survey material from authoritative Mālikī legal sources. An applied approach in presenting selected juristic cases reasoning based on Islamic legal rulings in the Mālikī School: A Foundational and Applied Jurisprudential Study grounded in this mode of justification, and an analytical approach to examine and evaluate the positions of Mālikī scholars across both theoretical and practical dimensions.  The findings of the study reveal that rulings preserved in the corpus of classical Islamic jurisprudence are not the product of subjective inclination. Furthermore, the results show that are rooted in systematic legal principles and coherent epistemological foundations. The results also indicates that rulings are based on a scientific rule and a deep understanding that assist readers to link emerging issues and nawāzil to their governing principles such as justification of a legal ruling by another legal ruling. Moreover, the results highlight the significance of one legal ruling through another, which    occupies a meaningful place within Mālikī legal thought.