What is it about?
This study aims to analyze Muslim feminists’ criticism of legal rulings pertinent to women issues, with a special focus on their lack of understanding and conflation of two legal principles within these rulings, the universals (al-kulliyyāt) and the particulars (al-juzʾiyyāt).
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Why is it important?
We draw several key conclusions, notably the Muslim feminists’ failure to recognize and understand the dichotomy of particular (juzʾī) and universal (kullī) rulings, which manifests on two fronts or levels. The first level is operational and can be seen in their method of undertaking the legal text. The second level is epistemological and can be traced in how they define value universals (al-kulliyyāt al-qiyamiyya), especially in their assessments of the cases that pertain to each universal principle.
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The study contributes an original and substantial legal-theory based (uṣūlī) analysis of the fundamental principles upon which Muslim feminists build their criticism of fiqh rulings. As such, it highlights an aspect that has remained largely underexplored despite its relevance to the intellectual output of this movement.
Prof Abdallah El Khatib EiC Journal of college of Sharia and Islamic Studies A. Qatar University
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This page is a summary of: تعارض الكليات والجزئيات في فكر النسوية الإسلامية: دراسة أصولية تقويمية, Journal of College of Sharia & Islamic Studies, January 2026, Qatar University,
DOI: 10.29117/jcsis.2026.0434.
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