An Introductory to Social Jurisprudence and its Relation to Islamic Social Sciences

Social jurisprudence, as a field of general jurisprudence, studies social phenomena from the perspective of the rights and duties of believers and has profound methodological and cognitive links with the social thought of Muslims. Social jurisprudence can provide the platform on which issues are tabled and new theories are formed, and can in general be effectual in the process of producing social science. Towards this end, the study in hand uses a comparative methodology to delineate common grounds and relations between the two sciences in question, determining in the process their points of convergence and divergence, as well as the influence that they have on one another. The two sciences are common in putting forth behavioral and normative models. So while social jurisprudence facilitates the internalization of religious norms and beliefs via the mechanism of sociability, social science reciprocates by correcting the understanding and deepening the perception of the jurisconsult on social subjects and issues, thereby improving the integrity of the process of Ijtihad and helping him to reach a ruling in consonance with reality.