مختصر المناهج الفقهية المعاصرة

This book highlights three contemporary juristic methodologies with indepth analysis:

1. The traditional school (madhhabi) approach, whose adherents restrict themselves to the juristic interpretations of one of the four renowned schools of Islamic law: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali.
2. The Salafi approach, whose adherents rely on direct derivation of rulings from the Quran and Sunnah, and do not see the legitimacy of adhering to a specific school of jurisprudence except in limited cases.
3. The convenient (taysiri) approach, whose adherents share with the Salafi approach in not being bound to any specific school of jurisprudence, but tend to favor the easiest of juristic opinions.

The book explains the points of agreement and disagreement among them, and clarifies the extent of their adherence to a disciplined framework for juristic reasoning and derivation (ijtihad and istinbat). Whilst also highlightig the discrepencies in the latter two methodologies.

This edition is the first abridged version of the original book, summarised by the author himself