Zain, Muhammad Ibrahim. “Induction in the Thought of al-Shāṭibī and the Methodology of Reviewing Uṣūlī Writings,” Year 8, Issue 30 (Fall 1423 AH/ 2002 CE), Pp. 27-60.

Abstract

Muhammad Ibrahim Zain’s article is comprised of three main parts. Part I compares the induction methodologies of al-Ghazālī and al-Shāṭibī. Part II explains the relationship between knowledge, action, and al-Shāṭibī’s intellectual project. Part III concerns the rebuilding  of the induction methodology on scientific foundations as is in the thought of al-Shāṭibī and Ibn ʿĀshūr. It concludes by emphasizing that the three scholars were enlightened figures in the understanding of methodological developments in the science of uṣūl al-fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), and that the linkage between induction and tawātur established the method of ascertaining the maqāṣid, and the possibility of developing a new Islamic science that resolves problematic issues in uṣūl al-fiqh.