4 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2015
    1. awareness

      ma`rifa

    2. legal science

      fiqh

    3. roots

      Uṣūl could be translated in many ways, including sources, roots, foundations, or principles. I have rendered it roots so that the contrast with branches will make sense, but al-Juwaynī’s own definition suggests instead the idea of foundations.