Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani, Ph.D. (2013), Durham University, is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute, and Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He is author of Moral Rationalism and Sharīʿa: A Study of Independent Rationality in Modern Shī ͑ī Uṣūl al-fiqh (Routledge, 2015).Dr Laurens de Rooij, PhD (2016), Durham University, is visiting Lecturer of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester, and visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town. He has published a number of works, including Media Discourses, Muslims, and non-Muslims in the UK (Manchester University Press, 2019), and his forthcoming work Muslims and Representative Engagement (Routledge, 2020).Professor Michael Bohlander holds the Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law at Durham Law School. From 2015 – 2019, he was the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. In 2017, he was appointed a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague. He is the author/editor of over 200 publications, including translations of his work into Chinese, Farsi, French, Khmer, Spanish and Turkish.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsVisions of Sharīʿa: An IntroductionAli-Reza Bhojani1 The Reception of Factuality (taṣwīb) Theories of Ijtihād in Modern Uṣūlī Shīʿī ThoughtSeyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad2 Reassessing the Pivotal Role of Certainty in Modern Shīʿī Uṣūlī Legal Method: A Case for Accepting a Wider Range of Evidence in the Inference of Sharīʿa PreceptsHashim Bata3 The Role of the Quran in Legal Reasoning (Ijtihād): A Shīʿī PerspectiveRahim Nobahar4 From Theory to Practice: The Role of the Subject in the Derivation of Rulings and Its Potential in Creating a System of Case Law for the Operation of Shīʿī LawImranali Panjwani5 Strategic Juristic Omission and the Non-Muslim Blood Price: An Examination of Shīʿī Fiqh and PracticeHaider Ala Hamoudi6 Towards the Hermeneutics of a Justice-Oriented Reading of SharīʿaAli-Reza Bhojani7 Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa Discourse in Contemporary Shīʿī JurisprudenceHassan BeloushiEpilogueRobert GleaveAppendix: al-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī on Uṣūl al-fiqh in Twelver Shīʿī Thought: Its Importance and Historical PhasesAli-Reza BhojaniIndex