Na`ar¥yOEt al-îukm and Ma§OEdir al-Shar¥`ah مقالة

Due to the limited time available for academicians and scholars to prepare their papers, as well as holding it right after Ramadan, however, was the event to be scaled down to a local seminar limited to the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. After the chairmen’s introductory remarks, seminar director Saim Kaya- dibi (senior lecturer, Department of Shari`ah and Law) gave an opening speech that emphasized the importance of studying the Shari`ah’s funda- mental principles and how the seminar could make a constructive contribu- tion to advancing the participants’ knowledge and understanding of the inner dimension of the aúkŒm and ma§Œdir al-Shar¥`ah. The first session, “Classification of î ukm Shar`¥ and Some Unani- mously Accepted Fundamental Principles of Islamic Law,” featured a group of students from the Academy of Islamic Studies who provided a detailed understanding of the context. The Qur’an, the first and fundamental source of Islamic law, was well presented by a group of young scholars.