Renewal in Jurisprudential Rulings and Its Role in Addressing Contemporary Issues (Applied Models(

Abstract

 Praise be to Allah who revealed His Sharia as a mercy to the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the one whom Allah sent as a guide, a renewed, a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner, our master Muhammad, and upon his family and companions. Islamic Sharia is distinguished by its flexibility and capacity to encompass new issues, which makes jurisprudential renewal a necessity to keep pace with contemporary challenges. The importance of this becomes evident in modern medical issues such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and maxillofacial surgeries, where medicine intersects with jurisprudence and the objectives of Sharia. The problem of this research lies in how to activate the principle of regulated renewal to address these issues, in accordance with controls that preserve the stability of fundamentals and the flexibility of branches. Its significance stems from the urgent need for contemporary fatwas that respect human dignity and respond to rapid scientific developments. The research aims to clarify the concept of renewal in Islamic jurisprudence, its conditions and regulations, to analyze medical fatwas in its light, and to apply its principles to selected contemporary cases, while proposing practical guidelines for jurists. The study adopts an inductive, analytical, and comparative methodology by examining scriptural texts, scholars’ opinions, and the decisions of fiqh academies, while limiting the scope to two applied models: IVF and reconstructive surgeries of the face and jaws, in order to fill a gap that previous studies have not addressed comprehensively.