The Codification of Islamic Juridical Principles (Qawāʿid Fiqhiyya): A Historical Outline

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12- Al-Qawā'id al-Fiqhīyyah (7 vols.), by Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥasan Mūsawi Bujnūrdī. This valuable work includes 70 qawā'id of fiqh.

13- Al-Qawā'id al-Fiqhiyyah, by Shaykh Muḥammad Ḥusayn Yazdī (d. 1329/1911). Its original copy is found in the Martyr Muṭahharī College (Masjid Sepahsālār).

14- Tashīl al-Masalik ilā al-Madārik, by Mullā Ḥabīb Allāh b. 'Alī Madad b. Ramadān Kāshānī (d. 1340/1921), with a brief exposition of 500 qawā'id of fiqh.

15- Qawā'id al-Faqih, by Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī Āl-e Faqīh 'Āmilī, twice published in Lebanon.

16- Al-Qawā'id al-Fiqhīyyah (4 vols.), by Nāşir Makārim Shirāzī.

17- Lamaḥāt 'alā al-Qawā'id al-Fiqhīyyah fi al-Aḥādith al-Kāzimīyyah, by Sayyid Muḥammad Khāminih'ī. Compiled for presentation at the Third World Congress on Imām Riḍa (may peace be upon him) (March 1988), it was published in Majmū'at al-āthār al-Mu'tamar al-'Ālamī al-Thālith lī al-Imām al-Riḍā 'alayh al-salām (Vol. 1, pp. 169-258), this short treatise treats of 23 qawā'id of fiqh, drawn from traditions transmitted from Imām Mūsā b. Ja'far (may peace be upon him).

D. Persian Works on the Qawā'id of Fiqh:

In addition to the works mentioned above, all of which are in Arabic, the following are some Persian books on the qawā'id of Imāmī fiqh.

1- Qawā'id-e Fiqh, by Mirzā Maḥmūd Shahābi Khurāsānī (1321/1904), published by Tehran University.

2- Qawā'id-e Fiqh, by Ḥājj Shaykh 'Alī Bābā Firūz-kūhī, often reprinted, the last time in 1313 H. Sh. /1924.