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A History of Islamic Law

” … So what is wrong with these people that they fail to understand any word?”[1] The Arabic word Fiqh means to understand something, to know something[i] or to understand the intended meaning of the speaker. After the codification of many of the sciences of Islām, the meaning of Fiqh took a very specific turn in referring to the science of …

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