El-Shamsy, Ahmed

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The term fiqh refers commonly to religious knowledge, especially knowledge of Islamic law derived through legal reasoning (ijtihād) (al-Shīrāzī, 1:157), and the term faqīh (pl. fuqahāʾ ) to someone who possesses such knowledge. Etymologically, the root f-q-h denotes subtle and p…