The Epistle on Legal Theory
In: Library of Arabic Literature Ser
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Letter from the General Editor -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- EPISTLE ON LEGAL THEORY -- Chapter on the Modalities of Legislative Statements -- Chapter on the First Kind of Legislative Statement -- Chapter on the Second Kind of Legislative Statement -- Chapter on the Third Kind of Legislative Statement -- Chapter on the Fourth Kind of Legislative Statement -- Chapter on the Fifth Kind of Legislative Statement -- Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book as Unrestricted, and Intended as Unrestricted, but Also Partly Restricted -- Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book, the Apparent Meaning of Which Is Unrestricted but Which Combines the Unrestricted and the Restricted -- Chapter Explaining What Is Revealed in the Book, the Apparent Meaning of Which Is Unrestricted but Which Is Intended in Its Entirety as Restricted -- Chapter on the Category of Statements in Which Context Indicates the Meaning -- The Category in Which the Wording Indicates the True Meaning Rather Than the Apparent Meaning -- Chapter on What Is Revealed as Unrestricted and Which Prophetic Practice in Particular Indicated Is Intended as Restricted -- Explanation of God's Imposition in His Book of the Obligation to Follow the Practice of His Prophet -- The Obligation from God to Obey the Prophet, Paired with Obedience to God and Mentioned Separately -- Chapter on God's Command to Obey God's Emissary -- Chapter on God's Statement to His Creation Concerning Having Obliged His Emissary to Follow What Was Revealed to Him -- The Evidence He Gave Concerning His Emissary's Following What He Was Commanded to Do, His Emissary's Being Guided, and His Emissary's Guidance of Those Who Follow Him -- The Beginning of Abrogation