Instead, its authority is derived from the political institutions that nominate its jurists, fund its operation, and implement and obey its decisions.
British jurists in the early nineteenth century authored a second generation of texts which secured this end.
Moreover, the early jurists clearly never intended that their opinions on such secular matters be final.
This is too short a time to create an elite social group of jurists with a sense of pride and responsibility.
Do politicians, civil servants or jurists receive any special instruction in communal science?
The early jurists (foqha) did not reject maruf-by which he meant local culture.
Indeed, he never portrays himself as a jurist (faq-h).
There are 249 marginal citations of scripture, in contrast to 55 to jurists.
