The fifth public lecture in the "OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II" on Knowledge Transfer will be held on Tuesday, 5th of November 2024 and as usual it will start promptly at 6.00 p.m. at the DAAD Regional Office Cairo, 11 El-Saleh Ayoub St. off 26th July, Zamalek. The lecture will be followed by a network gathering in the garden and is titled “Creation and Transfer of Knowledge in Islamic Law.” The lecture will be held by Prof. Dr. Mohamed Serag (AUC)

Concept Note
Islamic law admittedly finds its origin in the major principles contained in the Quran and the Sunna of the Prophet. Following his death, the judges appointed by the expanding nascent state made their utmost to decide cases and settle down rising disputes in order to keep peace and tranquility in the society. They succeeded in their mission and set lots of precedents that were created by their efforts. Their creative endeavor was termed later on as Ijtihad. The novel precedents helped solving disputes on one hand and the development of the legal systems. The case of the three girls playing the horse rider and driver game, for example, sets the principle of contributory negligence. It was decided by the fourth caliph, Ali bin Abi Talib. Many other cases established essential legal principles transferred to future generations through oral transmission up to the time of documenting them in the manuals of jurisprudence. Creative Ijtihad continues and its high value for securing justice and peace in society necessitated the preservation of the legal knowledge up to the present day. Taqlid exercised by the learnt jurists or التقليد المستبصر in the language of al-Shatibi has played a vital role in the transfer of the legal knowledge.

Bio
Prof.  Mohamed Serag is a professor of Islamic studies at the Sheikh Hassan Abbas Sharbatly Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Serag was a professor and chair of the Islamic Law Department at the Alexandria University Faculty of Law, Egypt; chair of the Department of Islamic Law at Cairo University; assistant and associate professor of law at the International Islamic University in Islamabad. He authored, translated, and co-edited numerous books on Islamic law, including books on the Islamic law of trusts; Islamic legal theory and practice; Islamic laws of contract, inheritance, and bequests; the Islamic banking system; and torts in Islam.

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