Al-Wadih Fi Usul Al-Fiqh (FOUR VOLUMES IN FIVE).

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Volume I: KITAB AL-MADHHAB, 27 pp., English text (introduction), + 163 pp., Arabic text/ Volume II: KITAB JADAL AL-USUL, 157 pp., Arabic text/ Volume III: KITAB JADAL AL-FUQAHA’, 7 pp., English text (foreword), + 221 pp., Arabic text/ Volume IV, Part I: KITAB AL-KHILAF, 7 pp., English text (foreword), + 561 pp., Arabic text/ Volume IV, Part II: KITAB AL-KHILAF, 628 pp.,Arabic text, paperback binding, biblio, index, Bibliotheca Islamica Bands 41 a, 41 b, 41 c, 41 da, 41 db, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart & Beirut, 1996-2002. Al-Wadih fi Usul al-Fiqh, The Clear Book on Legal Theory and Methodology, is the only extant, complete, major work of Ibn Aqil, the jurisconsult, sermonist, legal mothodologist, dialectician. It has been edited with introduction and notes by George Makdisi. The work, in fact, compasses four complete and independent works by Ibn Aqil, as follows: 1- Kitab al-Madhhab, consisting of Ibn Aqil’s basic principles of legal theory and methodology. 2- Kitab Jadal al-Usul, a complete work on dialectic, jadal, for use in any field of knowledge. 3- Kitab Jadal al-Fuqaha’, another work on dialectic destined for use of jurisconsults in particular; 4- Kitab al-Khilaf, in which the author deals with the disputed questions regarding the field of legal theory and methodology. ISBN: 3515069909