Trends of Researchers in Islamic Jurisprudence in the United Arab Emirates [1987-2022]

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the trends of researchers in Islamic jurisprudence in the United Arab Emirates between 1987 and 2022. In order to achieve this goal, the analytical approach was applied. The analysis sample consisted of 289 university theses and 423 research papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The theses were distributed over two decades from 2001 to 2021. As for the research, it was earlier, starting from 1987 to 2022. The research concluded that the forefront of the topics focused on contemporary economic issues in university theses with a share of 21.45%, then it was followed by topics of investigation of jurisprudential manuscripts with a rate of 13.49%. Then, a close follower to them were topics of study of a traditional jurisprudential personality and its impact on Islamic jurisprudence by 12.45%, as well as topics of jurisprudence rules and their contemporary applications by 11.07%. Afterwards, the topics of Islamic jurisprudence followed at closer rates. Regarding the trends of research in published works, they aligned with the theses topics as contemporary issues had the largest percentage with 23.87%, then followed by contemporary issues in family rulings with a percentage of 14.65%, then contemporary issues of transactional rulings with a percentage of 10.16%, then the topics of Islamic jurisprudence followed with closer range of percentages. In addition, the trends in theses and research have matched on a limited percentage of topics that are less pursued namely environmental provisions, animal provisions, and artificial intelligence provisions. In this regard, the author recommends to grant greater attention to these aforementioned topics whether in theses or research papers.