Inferences by Parallel Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence Al-Shīrāzī's Insights into the Dialectical Constitution of Meaning and Knowledge /

• Main Authors: Rahman, Shahid (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Iqbal, Muhammad (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Soufi, Youcef (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, 19
• Subjects: Logic.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Epistemology.; Discourse analysis.; Philosophy.; Medieval philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Discourse Analysis.; History of Philosophy.; Medieval Philosophy.

This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyās. According to the authors' view, qiyās represents an innovative and sophisticated form of dialectical reasoning that not only provides new epi...