REGULATION OF ACCESS TO THE PERMISSIBLE (TAQYĪD AL-MUBĀḤ) AND ITS APPLICATIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

This research addresses a maxim among the maxims of the fundamental of Islamic jurisprudence (Usūl al-Fiqh) which is: “regulation of access to the permissible” (taqyīd al-mubāḥ) and its correlation with the Environmental Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and how its application has influenced the formation of the provisions of the Law. The research started with the first topic on the definition of the term maxim (al-qā’idah) lexically and technically, followed by the explication of the meaning the environment lexically and technically, and an introduction to the Environmental Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, then in the third topic the statutory provisions that were influenced by the fundamental maxim, which are the cynosure of the study, were highlighted, followed by the conclusion and the most significant findings of the study.