Treatise on Maqasid Al-Shariah - Paperbackby Muhammad Al Tahir Ibn Ashur (Author), Mohamed El Tahir El Mesawi (Translator) Shaikh Muhammad al Tahir ibn Ashur is the most renowned Zaytuna Imam and one of the great Islamic scholars of the 20th century. The publication of this translation of Shaikh Ibn Ashur's Treatise on Maqasid al Shari'ah is a breakthrough in studies on Islamic law in the English language. In this book, Ibn Ashur proposed Maqasid as a methodology for the renewal of the theory