Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s mastery and expertise is not restricted to a particular field of knowledge. However, his erudition is very brilliantly and evidently represented in the realm of fiqh (jurisprudence). His numerous legal traditions have highly enriched our – and even the Sunnis’ – legal heritage; and great jurisprudents such as Ibn Abbās have harvested profusely from his stacks of knowledge. Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s fiqh has for a long time been favored by fiqh researchers and received their attention both in respect to its comparison to the fiqh of the Khulafā al-Rāshidīn (rightly-guided Caliphs) and its being a fountainhead for the later Imams' fiqh. Although many elements are represented in Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s fiqh, three of them seem to be the most significant and debatable: first, his state ordinances, which are of importance by virtue of his establishing a government and implementing certain decisions which apparently contradicted the earlier rulings. Second, his judgments and arbitrations, which in some cases require explications; and third, the traditions that are attributed to him particularly by the Sunnīs but the Imāmī scholars have regarded them as unacceptable.
b, B. (2006). A Glance at Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s Jurisprudence with an Emphasis on the Elements of State Ordinances, Judicial Approach, and Isolated Traditions. Fiqh and Usul, 38(3), 9-48. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.60783.0
MLA
b b. "A Glance at Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s Jurisprudence with an Emphasis on the Elements of State Ordinances, Judicial Approach, and Isolated Traditions". Fiqh and Usul, 38, 3, 2006, 9-48. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.60783.0
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b, B. (2006). 'A Glance at Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s Jurisprudence with an Emphasis on the Elements of State Ordinances, Judicial Approach, and Isolated Traditions', Fiqh and Usul, 38(3), pp. 9-48. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.60783.0
VANCOUVER
b, B. A Glance at Imam ‘Ali (A.S.)’s Jurisprudence with an Emphasis on the Elements of State Ordinances, Judicial Approach, and Isolated Traditions. Fiqh and Usul, 2006; 38(3): 9-48. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.60783.0
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