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:See <a href="page.php?w=Risala_%28disambiguation%29">Risala (disambiguation)</a> for other books known as "Ar-Risala".</p>

<p>The <b><i>Risala</i></b> by <a href="page.php?w=al-Shafi%27i">al-Shafi'i</a> ( 820), full title <b><i>' (, "The Book of the Treatise on the Principles of Jurisprudence"), is a seminal text on the <a href="page.php?w=principles_of_Islamic_jurisprudence">principles of Islamic jurisprudence</a>.</i></b></p>

<p>The word risala in Arabic means a "message" or "letter". Shafi'i's treatise received its name owing to a traditional,</p><p>
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