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Fiḳh
(6,629 words)
(a.), originally “understanding, knowledge, intelligence”, and applied to any branch of knowledge (as in
fiḳh al-lug̲h̲a , the science of lexicography), has become the technical term for jurisprudence, the science of religious law in Islam. It is, like the
iurisprudentia of the Romans,
rerum divinarum atque humanarum notifia and in its widest sense covers all aspects of religious, political and civil life. In addition to the laws regulating ritual and religious observances (
ʿibādāt ), containing orders and prohibitions, it includes the whole fie…
