Loyalty Rulings: a Reading of the Religious Dimension and Legal Implications

Abstract

The subject of loyalty rulings occupied the minds of Muslim scholars in the last two centuries. They noticed the most important problem they faced lies in the variables, the problem of competition among them, the legislative constant, and in the developments of facts that seem at first glance to be absent from the texts. So they began to present number of theories that establish the legal dimension in the light of the intentional tendency, and the possibility of developing treatments capable of absorbing societal transformation under the title of the constant and the variable in Islamic law, and presenting the theories of the constant and the variable and what is related to them. The jurists try to overcome the obstacles in front of the law in filling the legislative vacuum with legal formulas to perpetuate tribalism in addressing all facts.