qiyas

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic قِيَاس‎ (qiyās, “measurement, analogy”).

Noun

qiyas (uncountable)

  1. (Islam) The use of analogy as precedent in Shari'a jurisprudence.
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