The foundations of Islamic law and the laws of the Sharia ( Sources , definitions and processes that lead to the development of laws and fatwas in Islam) , from Imam al-Juwaynî, " Kitâb al-Waraqât fî u sûl al- fiqh " (الورقات في أصول الفقه ), Translated from Arabic by Léon Bercher

This book deals with the Usul al-Fiqh ( Foundation of Law) . It is a summary entitled "The Book of Leaves ( Kitâb al-Waraqât) whose author is the great Shafi'ite jurist al-Juwayni nicknamed Imam al-Haramayn ( 4th century of the Hegira) . This book was commented on several times until the 17th century; it was included in the curriculum of Muslim higher schools and students learned it by heart.

Its translation by the great Arabist Léon Bercher retains all its interest, and its reissue will allow French-speaking readers to rediscover the importance accorded by classical Islam to the most typically Islamic and to the most endearing of the branches of traditional Muslim teaching.

The reminder of legal methodology and the purposes of the science of the Law as they were studied by the first theoreticians of Muslim law thus provides a good basis, in particular, for French-speaking students of Islamic sciences, as well as for training of French-speaking imams and generally to enlighten the reader on the sources , definitions and processes that lead to the development of laws and fatwas in Islam.