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The 16 pages that link to Maqasid al-Sharia, each with the reason it gives.

• Islamic jurisprudenceRelated: These objectives help explain purposive approaches to interpreting and applying rulings.

• ShariaRelated: Purpose-based reasoning helps assess how rulings serve broader legal aims.

• TafsirRelated: Some interpretations consider broader legal purposes when deriving meaning from Quranic guidance.

• Usul al-fiqhRelated: Appeals to legal purposes help explain how rulings are interpreted beyond isolated wording.

• Islamic modernismRelated: A focus on legal purposes let reformers assess institutions by their effects, not only inherited forms.

• Maliki schoolRelated: Attention to public welfare and legal purposes informs later Maliki legal reasoning.

• IstihsanNarrower topic: The law’s purposes help explain why hardship, welfare, or fairness may outweigh an apparent analogy.

• MaslahaRelated: Maslaha is often assessed by whether a proposed ruling advances these legal purposes.

• Islamic ethicsRelated: Appeals to these purposes guide reasoning about welfare, harm, and competing values.

• Islamic socialismRelated: Welfare-oriented interpretations use these objectives to frame social justice as a purpose of Islamic governance.

• IstislahRelated: These objectives help jurists judge whether a claimed benefit serves the purposes of law.

• Islamic reformRelated: Some reformers use its focus on legal purposes to reassess rulings in changed circumstances.

• Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyyaRelated: Ibn al-Qayyim argued that law is grounded in justice, mercy, and wisdom.

• AhkamRelated: Jurists invoke these aims when interpreting rulings for circumstances not directly addressed by precedent.

• Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in IslamRelated: These objectives offer one way to interpret the declaration’s account of rights and human welfare.

• Sources of ShariaRelated: Purpose-based interpretation influences how evidence is applied to changing circumstances.