The Legal Addresses Theory; a New Horizon in Analyzing the Nature of Religious Ruling

The present paper discusses the legal addresses theory and offers a new reading thereof. The legal addresses theory, despite opening up a new horizon to analyze the reality of religious ruling and resolving many problems raised in the field of Usul al-Fiqh and Islamic Jurisprudence, the current reading still has deficiencies which the authors have attempted to resolve in this paper through offering a new reading thereof. Based on the new reading of the legal addresses theory, titled legal rulings, the problems concerning it have been resolved and it is reconciled with the rival theory i.e. the individual addresses.