Foundational Texts
Canon + framing
Core jurisprudential and legal-theory references used to define scope, terms, and inferential structure.
- Usul al-fiqh frameworks for evidence hierarchy and legal reasoning sequences
- Maqasid-oriented discussions on objectives, constraints, and public welfare
- Comparative madhhab treatments of analogy, juristic preference, and legal causation
- Classical terminology maps for ruling types, obligations, and legal capacity
Recent Papers
Field emergence
Representative modern scholarship where computational approaches intersect with fiqh discourse.
Methods & Tooling
Practical methods
Technical methods relevant to structured legal text, argument flow, and cautious computational modeling.
- Annotation schemas for legal propositions, conditions, and exceptions
- Information retrieval baselines for multilingual and transliterated corpora
- Knowledge graph patterns linking rulings, evidence, and juristic authorities
- Evaluation protocols emphasizing traceability over benchmark performance alone
Adjacent Disciplines
Interdisciplinary context
Neighbor fields that sharpen assumptions, broaden method awareness, and prevent category mistakes.
- Digital humanities models for textual variance and editorial lineage
- Philosophy of science notes on model validity, scope, and explanatory depth
- Legal informatics work on argument mining and norm representation
- Ethics and responsible AI scholarship on accountability in high-context domains