TY - JOUR
AU - Hicks, Stephen C.
AB - AGENDA LA.1 Stephen C. Hicks* Faqih, (plural: fuqaha), is translated as a jurist, legal scholar, or expert in Islamic law. It has been said that the name for jurist in Arabic is itself a translation from the Latin, jurisprudens. Webster defines a jurist as: "one who practices law; a lawyer; a judge; a per­ son skilled in the philosophy or science of the law? a scholar in the law." A lawyer is defined as: "a specialist in or a practitioner of law; one (as an attorney, counsellor, solicitor, barrister or advocate) whose profession is to conduct lawsuits or as to legal rights and obli­ gations in other matters." Black's Law Dictionary defines a jurist similarly. In the west, therefore, "jurist" encompasses scholar, advo­ cate, administrator and counsellor but excludes teacher and spiri­ tual adviser. Coulson refers to the fuqaha as "the guardians of the Islamic conscience." Their significance in Islamic society goes far beyond that of jurist as such. They are more like a class, serving Is­ lamic law in different ways, than simply a profession. Little appears to have been written on the fuqaha or the role of the lawyer in general in Islamic society. What I have 
TI - The Fuqaha and Islamic Law
JF - American Journal of Comparative Law
DO - 10.1093/ajcl/30.suppl1.1
DA - 1982-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-fuqaha-and-islamic-law-Mze70PQrA0
SP - 1
EP - 13
VL - 30
IS - suppl_1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -