In this lecture, Asad Ahmed (UC Berkeley / LMU München) surveys some elements of the architectonics of the theory of the presumption of continuity (Istiṣḥāb) in Islamic legal theory. It posits that, during its first period of sustained analysis, the conceptual framing of Istiṣḥāb reflected intuitions about proof theory.
In particular, legal theorists were concerned with establishing justifiable grounds for taking positions on the status of legal judgments that transcended the scope of established legal argumentation methods, and that, in the same vein, they wished to determine whether the probative force of certain principles of legal argumentation was temporally continuous. As such, theories of Istiṣḥāb were of a second order: they validated legal judgments in cases of argumentative vacuums, serving as principles of derivation out of the very absence of proof.
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Eine Veranstaltung des Münchner Mittelost-Mittelmeer-Mittelasien-Zentrums (LMU München) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gesellschaft der Freunde Islamischer Kunst und Kultur e.V. und der Deutsch-Türkischen Gesellschaft Bayern e.V.