The Jurisprudential and Legal Application of the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence in the Contemporary Era

Abstract

The principles of jurisprudence have been an instrumental science and is defined as a set of rules and methods that play a significant role in understanding jurisprudential and legal content through the deductions from Sharia rulings. Not only due to the distance from the age of Islamic legal texts and the nonexistence of circumstantial evidence of the time of revelation and the increasing needs of the Islamic society but also the suspicions regarding the ineffectiveness of Islamic sciences, including the principles of jurisprudence and the lack of independent research in this field, it was felt necessary to research this issue. Therefore, the fundamental question is how the principles of jurisprudence are jurisprudentially and legally applied in the present era. Collecting data via library and document search, a descriptive-analytical method was used to examine the applicability of the science of principles of jurisprudence in the present time. The results of this research showed that, currently, the principles of jurisprudence have usage in at least three areas: practical rulings, knowledge of the law, and legislation, which have proven the application of the principles of jurisprudence in the science of jurisprudence and law.