الورقات
Al-Waraqāt
Legal theory in about four pages: what a ruling is, where it comes from, and how a scholar gets from a text to a position. The first book of uṣūl anywhere.
The text
Public domain — read it at a library
Al-Maktaba al-Shāmila — al-Waraqāt
Al-Juwaynī died in 478 AH. Note that this is a Shāfiʿī text; the Ḥanafī first book of uṣūl on this ladder is Uṣūl al-Shāshī.
In English — ours
Not yet. We translate rather than reprint, so the English for this book begins the day its first lesson is taught.
We link rather than mirror. The classical texts are out of copyright, but the modern printed editions of them are not, so we point you at a library that already carries one instead of putting somebody else’s edition on our server. What we do host is our own work.
Lessons
Not written yet. This book is on the map so you can see where it sits in the course, not because it is ready to study here.