THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF MAQASID Al-SHARI’AH SCIENCE

Here is an apparent methodological problem in the knowledge arena. The more we talk about a particular knowledge concept, the more we get surprised by its transformation into an independent science without completing the scientific requirements and necessary conditions. This applies to what is as «Maqasid Al-Shari’ah» .We would not be exaggerating, if we claim that the «Maqasid Al-Shari’ah». is still looking for its methodological identity. It is unable to draw its epistemological boundaries with other fields of knowledge that are close to it; As well as its inability to create new procedural tools in the construction of legal rulings. May be the reason for that is the nature of the scientific upbringing that accompanied the emergence of the theory of the «Maqasid Al-Shari’ah It witnessed a difficult and intermittent birth. This article seeks to ask the following methodological questions: - Does the «Maqasid al-Shariah» theory possess all the characteristics of a complete scientific theory, such as the conceptual apparatus and independent methodology?