TABARÎ’S APPROACH TO THE JURISPRUDENCE AND ABROGATION
TABERÎ’NİN FIKHA VE NESHE YAKLAŞIMI

Author : Naif YAŞAR
Number of pages : 321-335

Abstract

Tabarî, who devoted a big part of his long life -approximately ninety years- to the Islamic sciences, educated himself on all Islamic sciences and came out with precious, original and voluminous works on this field. He got interested with a high enthusiasm in jurisprudence, completed his jurisprudence education by particaipating to the numerious teachers’ lessons in Baghdad and became an important jurist and imam of the Madhhab Cerîriyya. When treating the controversial topics on the jurisprudence Tabarî interweave them if it is possible but if it isn’t possible to interweave them he generally chooses the view which is the easiest one for the community. When we examine his preferences about the controversial topics, we notice that he keeps in mind the objective of the sharia and accordingly he supports that facilitating the rules of sharia is the right attitude at this point. And also when examining the abrogation, he rejects the claims of abrogation in the verses in question as long as it is possible to interpret and integrate the abrogator and abrogated verses in a way or other. But if this is not possible he accepts the claims about abrogation. Because in his opinion, in order to claim that a verse is abrogator and an other is abrogated, a complete contradiction must occur between these verses and it must not be possible to interpret and integrate them in way or other to make their rules relevent. That is way, in his exegesis, he proved that a lot of verses which were claimed to be abrogated actually are not abrogated. So, the aim of this article is to show Tabarî’s method of jurisprudence and his abrogation approach through his methodology accompanied by examples.

Keywords

Taberî, Jurisprudence, Taberî and Abrogation

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