Legal reasoning (ijtihād), namely the jurists’ organized and methodical endeavor to infer legal rulings has been practiced since early Islam. Ijtihād has been based on individual attempts in all periods of Shī‘a jurisprudence (fiqh) and most of the periods of the fiqh of the Sunnis. Although significant and fruitful in itself, individual reasoning has always been exposed to serious losses which have stepped up with the human sciences and relations having turned more and more complicated nowadays. One of the proposed solutions to render ijtihād more efficient is to make it communal. Various interpretations have been made of communal ijtihād, such as the work a group of qualified jurists get together and through exchange of ideas arrive at unanimous conclusions. This type of ijtihād, although facing ambiguities both in theory and practice, seems to be more fruitful than individual reasoning. There are many issues involved in communal ijtihād, of which the present writing only deals with the concept and authoritativeness.
Mubīnī, ., & Nāṣirī Muqaddam, . (2005). The Concept and Authoritativeness of Communal Legal Reasoning. Fiqh and Usul, 37(3), 181-207. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.61078.0
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Ḥasan Mubīnī; Ḥusayn Nāṣirī Muqaddam. "The Concept and Authoritativeness of Communal Legal Reasoning". Fiqh and Usul, 37, 3, 2005, 181-207. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.61078.0
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Mubīnī, ., Nāṣirī Muqaddam, . (2005). 'The Concept and Authoritativeness of Communal Legal Reasoning', Fiqh and Usul, 37(3), pp. 181-207. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.61078.0
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Mubīnī, ., Nāṣirī Muqaddam, . The Concept and Authoritativeness of Communal Legal Reasoning. Fiqh and Usul, 2005; 37(3): 181-207. doi: 10.22067/jfiqh.2020.61078.0
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