Theory of Khiṭābāt-I Qānūnīyy-I (Legal Edicts) and its Role in Social Jurisprudence

Shiite jurisprudence despite the profoundness of various subjects and different spheres of human life, in comparison with Sunni jurisprudence, has always been far from social positions and has grown on the margins of the political and social life of the society. If this issue considered from its sociological effects aspect on the nature of sciences,  indicates the fact that Shiite jurisprudence is essentially individual and partial in nature In addition to the external supporting points, jurisprudence in its internal aspects, the stage of recognizing the creed and subject, and then, applying the creeds to the subjects based on partial logic, which are the result of the basic and philosophical roots of this knowledge based on Aristotelian logic. In this article, we attempt to explain this methodology by analyzing this kind of methodological individualism in Shiite jurisprudence. In contrast, the authors argue that the theory of legal edict provides a capacity in the field of social and governmental jurisprudence, which can be said of social duties and obligations.