Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Civilization is the greatest measurement of social life that controls and affects all aspects of human life; Therefore, achieving Islamic civilization can be the highest aspiration of Islamic societies and states. Islamic civilization is a civilization that basically follows Islamic law and jurisprudential inference. Therefore, maximum attention to civilizational jurisprudence is one of the necessities of seminary schools in the present era. Using analytical and library-based method, this paper seeks to answer the question "What are the sociological foundations of civilizational jurisprudence?" It seems that to answer this question, at least five main characteristics that can be effective in the method of ijtihad should be studied and considered: systematicity, imposition, directionality, positionality and skepticism. This paper, on the one hand, avoids the minimal approaches of jurisprudence by depicting civilization as a phenomenon included in human life, and on the other hand, by depicting civilization as a fluid and situational phenomenon, highlights its differences from approaches that try to offer a detailed design of civilizational structures regardless of social realities. Jurisprudence that provides the possibility and context of Islamic civilization based on jurisprudential theories, shapes social structures in accordance with political situations and social needs and requirements.