The Objectives of Islamic Law and the Effect of Lexical Polysemy Upon their Derivation: Qur'anic Marriage Terminology as a Case Study
This study examines the relationship between lexical polysemy in the vocabulary of the Qur'an and the derivation of the objectives of Islamic law (maqasid al-shari'a), taking the terminology of marriage as its applied field. It opens with a concise account of the objectives — their definition, kinds and divisions — as...