The Jurisprudence of the Nations, Based on the Book Aḥkām al-Milal wa al-Niḥal by Abu Bakr al-Khallāl (d. 311)
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10.22081/jap.2022.72541
Abstract
The jurisprudence of nations is a bilateral and interdisciplinary discussion between the two topics of "jurisprudence and nations and ethnography", which has always been considered and especially addressed in jurisprudential books. In a very simple form, the subject of this discussion is the rulings that have come from different angles in jurisprudence in relation to the believers and religious people of other religions, or the "nations". Some of these examples are very clear and well known; like the rulings of the people of Dhimma which are mentioned in different chapters of jurisprudence. For example, the ruling on the slaughter of the People of the Book, their impurity and purity, the taxes they have to pay as jizyyah, the ruling on their religious buildings, the issue of marriage, inheritance, and many other issues that somehow fall under the relationship of jurisprudence and nations.
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