Mastery Assignments (15%) Rubric-based assignments that reinforce concepts in the course. Assignments are aligned to course outcomes and require the student to spend extra time developing, reviewing, and revising their assignments prior to submission. Students are encouraged to seek out feedback from peers and experts to fully develop their assignments. Students are also encouraged to self-evaluate their work using the rubrics provided. 

The first half of his treatise (following his preliminary definitions) covers those topics in the discipline of legal theory that describe the material of Prophetic revelation

There are seven legal values: obligatory, recommended, permitted, forbidden,

consensus and reasoning by analogy. He does not deny those human contributions, he just strips them of their status as sources of law. That is why al Juwaynī’s comment about legal theory having two parts is so important: it shows that while he recognizes the

blocking the means (sadd al dharāʾiʿ): forbidding actions that would otherwise be lawful but are likely to result in evil

diligent inquiry