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Work #1154 · Mature

Bidāyat al-Mujtahid

Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
12th century (c. 1167-88) · Arabic
Comparative juridical treatise · Maliki jurisprudence / Islamic comparative law

Averroes's 12th-c. comparative jurisprudence — the four Sunni law schools compared on substantive legal questions

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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.

Bidāyat al-Mujtahid

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.