2018
Shahid Rahman et al., « Unfolding parallel reasoning in islamic jurisprudence. Epistemic and Dialectical Meaning within Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī’s System of Co-Relational Inferences of the Occasioning Factor. », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences, ID : 10670/1.34ec77
One of the epistemological results emerging from this initial study is that thedifferent forms of co-relational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyās,represent an innovative and sophisticated form of reasoning that not only provides newepistemological insights into legal reasoning in general but also furnishes a fine-grainedpattern for parallel reasoning which can be deployed in a wide range of problemsolvingcontexts and does not seem to reduce to the standard forms of analogicalargumentation studied in contemporary philosophy of science. However, in the presentpaper we will only discuss the case of so-called co-relational inferences of theoccasioning factor and only in the context of Islamic jurisprudence.