Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
Averroes's 12th-c. comparative jurisprudence — the four Sunni law schools compared on substantive legal questions
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Bidāyat al-Mujtahid (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
The 12th-c. Andalusian-Almohad period of Averroes's judicial-philosophical work.
Space
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
The Cordoba-Marrakech Islamic legal-philosophical world.
Matter
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
The embodied Islamic legal community whose practical-juridical life the work treats.
Observer
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
The qualified Muslim jurist as proper subject of the work.
Energy
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
The juridical-intellectual energies of comparative Islamic legal reasoning.
Information
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid
The comparative-juridical content of the major Sunni schools.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Bidāyat has been less prominent in modern reception than the philosophical works (Tahafut al-Tahafut, Faṣl al-Maqāl, the Aristotelian commentaries), but is recognised as a major work of Islamic comparative jurisprudence.