"Islamic Jurisprudence Academy": Mohammed bin Zayed University for Human Sciences is a prestigious scientific beacon
ABU DHABI, 15 November / WAM / His Excellency Dr. Qutb Mustafa Sano, Secretary-General of the International Islamic Jurisprudence Academy, confirmed that the Mohammed bin Zayed University for the Humanities has, in a short period of time, become a prestigious scientific beacon, combining the originality of the curriculum, the depth of identity, awareness of the times, and a vision for the future, and confirms day after day its position in the service of solid scientific research, and the preservation of the Islamic civilizational personality that is loyal to its religion, loyal to its country and its leadership, and adheres to centrism in thought and moderation. Approach and tolerance in behavior.
This came during the lecture delivered by His Excellency at the university’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, entitled “Jurisprudence Research: Methodology, Characteristics, Effects, and Prospects,” and it addressed five main topics that included: the semantic development of the term jurisprudence and the emergence of jurisprudential schools. He pointed out in this regard that the term jurisprudence and jurisprudence, like other ancient Qur’anic terms, went through a gradual semantic path since the era of the message before its concept settled on the eve of the codification of sciences and knowledge as a branch of knowledge. Islamic.
He added, “At the end of the first century AH, the need emerged to control the sciences, differentiate them, and control the meanings of the terms and their generalization, so the concept of the term jurisprudence moved from its broad connotation to being a specific concept, which refers to the knowledge acquired through practical legal rulings from their detailed evidence.”
In the second axis, the lecturer addressed “the diverse and interconnected jurisprudential research method,” indicating that this axis includes three interconnected and integrated approaches, including: the archaeological transmission approach, the standard rational approach, and the syncretic approach. In the third axis, Sano reviewed the “characteristics of jurisprudential research.”
The lecturer moved to the fourth axis, which included “The effects of jurisprudential research on legislation and the building of civilization,” and said: Throughout the ages, scientific research has been a constructive, cultural force in the nation’s path, contributing to its intellectual renaissance, its social balance, its legislative justice, and its cultural independence. This has resulted in great effects on various intellectual, legal, and institutional levels, including building the rational and logical approach to Islamic thinking, establishing an integrated legislative system, consolidating the values of justice and mercy in the judiciary and fatwas, and the emergence of What is known as comparative jurisprudence and unifying the nation scientifically, in addition to contributing to building Islamic civilization.
In the fifth axis, the lecturer addressed “the horizons of jurisprudential research in light of digital transformations and artificial intelligence,” stressing that the horizons of jurisprudential study in this digital age are broad and open, but they require deep methodological awareness and arming themselves with new cognitive tools that help read reality and understand its rapid transformations.
Sano said at the conclusion of the lecture, “Our responsibility today, as scholars, researchers, and scientific institutions, is to preserve jurisprudential research by renewing it in a rational and conscious manner that does not neglect constants and does not restrict inheritance, but rather strives in the light of objectives, is enlightened by the light of texts, and responds to the challenges of the digital age and beyond, so that Islamic jurisprudence remains, as God intended it, a guiding light, a just balance, and a mercy to the worlds.”
He stressed that the Mohammed bin Zayed University for the Humanities, with its conscious leadership and enlightened vision, is able to be the pioneer of this new methodological transformation, and to produce for the nation a generation of creative jurists who combine originality and modernity, diligence and innovation, and serve their religion, their country, and their humanity with confident steps and penetrating insight.
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