This course entails a detailed study of legal maxims; the general principles utilised in the inference of religious rulings in specific chapters of jurisprudence (fiqh). Students will gain an appreciation of the content, evidential basis and application of the most important legal maxims employed in jurisprudence. Discussions and readings will be based on Muḥammad Kāẓim al-Muṣṭafawī’s Al-Qawāʿid: Mi’a Qawā‘id Fiqhiyya.