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Al-Uqud al-Taba’yyeah

Arabic (العقود التبعية) for accessory contracts/ documentation contracts. Under shari'ah (Islamic law), accessory contracts are contracts (uqud/ pl. of aqd)...

Al-Uqud al-Asliyyah

Arabic (العقود الأصلية) for principal contracts. Under shari'ah (Islamic law), principal contracts are contracts (uqud/ pl. of aqd) which exist...

Al-Uqud Ghair al-Musammah

A class of contracts to which shari’a neither assigned specific names nor handled in details their respective rules and stipulations....

Ijarat-ul A’yan

A type of ijarah contract which has the usufruct of assets and properties (a'yan, pl. of ain) as underlying. In...

Illah

Arabic (علة) for the underlying cause or element (ratio legis) on which a new ruling is based by making parallel...

Ain

Arabic (عين) for a determinate property or asset that has a marketable or non-marketable material value that can be converted...

Ba’i al-Musarrah

Arabic (بيع المصراة) for a manipulative transaction which involves the sale (ba'i) of a cow, she-goat, or ewe, with its...

Da’ wa Ta’jjal

An Islamic fiqh term (and a shari'ah maxim) that is associated with the process of sulh al-ibra' or discharge reconciliation....

Maqasid al-Shari’ah

Arabic (مقاصد الشريعة) for the higher purposes of Islamic shari'ah or simply for objectives of shari'ah. Maqasid al-shari'ah constitute the...

Qabd Hukmi

An Arabic term (قبض حكمي) that denotes constructive possession; a method of taking possession of an asset (commodity, currency, etc)...