THE GUIDANCE OF THE SIGN IN THE METHODOLOGY OF ISLAMIC LAW

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BAKKAL A.

BILIMNAME, vol.45, no.2, pp.337-377, 2021 (ESCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 45 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.28949/bilimname.952758
  • Journal Name: BILIMNAME
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Academic Search Premier, ATLA Religion Database, Index Islamicus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Religion and Philosophy Collection, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.337-377
  • Keywords: Islamic law, The word, The guidance, The guidance of the sign
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Although methodologists mentioned different ways to reach a verdict from certain words, they had agreed on those four styles of indication: The dalalah of the ibarah (the guidance of the word), the dalalah of the isharah (the guidance of the sign), the dalalah of the nass (the guidance of the explit text), the dalalah of the iqtida (the guidance of the need). The dalalah of the ibarah, the dalalah of the nass, the dalalah of the iqtida has explained in the books of methodologists' sufficient clarity, the dalalah of the isharah is not that clear. Although Debusi is the first methodologist who used the concept of " the guidance of the sign", Cessas and Abu'l-Huseyn al-Basri, who lived before him, mentioned about the nature of this kind of implication. Even though, methodologists who came after them used similar examples for the guidance of the sign. Debusi explained "It is what the siyaq ( the context) of the word does not cover and require, but in its apparent meaning without any excess or deficiency in itself." The methodologists after him continued to define it in the same way. However, some of them included the word "not intentional" into the same definition.