Strategic Study of the Islamic Jurisprudence

Islamic jurisprudence, according to the most famous definitions, is the science of declaring the precepts and inferring them from their proofs and jurisprudential sources and textbooks of this field of Islamic sciences have, undoubtedly, spared no effort in declaring the religious precepts and their proofs. However, the experience has proven that for precepts to be enforceable, sustainable and flexible in various social and historical contexts, the proofs alone are not sufficient and it is also very important to state the reason of precepts and the manner of their application. Unfortunately, in jurisprudential works, especially, Shiite sources, due to fearing of distancing oneself from devotion to divine precepts and falling into the trap of analogy and arbitrary inferences, not much attention has been paid to these two categories. The present research, in order to increase the efficiency of jurisprudential sources and strategizing the studies of this field, attempts to prove the necessity of dealing with these two categories and the consequences of ignoring them in sources and textbooks, through mentioning real examples and instances as two important strategies for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of jurisprudential texts and at the same time, note the disadvantages of excessive etiology and methodology of precepts.