A doctoral dissertation was discussed in the College of Islamic Sciences at the University of Karbala, which was titled Methods of Expansion and Restriction in Sharia Discourse: A Comparative Study between Fundamentalists and Interpreters. For the student Haider Abd Zaid Mohsen at nine o’clock in the morning on Tuesday, corresponding to 6/6/2023, and in the hall of Imam Hussein (PBUH) in the college.

The researcher carried out an extrapolation of the different methods of dialogue used in the legal discourse, and after part of it was what the fundamentalists meant, and another part was studied by the interpreters, and the third was the subject of research and attention of both the fundamentalists and the interpreters. This prompted the researcher to review the legal discourse methods of each team separately, and then shed light on what they participated in studying it, while directing the compass towards the issue of expanding the discourse by introducing extra individuals or credentials, as well as narrowing it by removing an individual or credibility from it, to clarify the legal position on the individual. The repetitive or probable, and this was done by first editing the research topics, with a brief mention of the most important issues related to it from the introduction to the one with the introduction, and then indicating the location of that method in terms of expanding or narrowing the legal discourse with a request to apply it or more to determine the requirement and bring it closer.

The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Dhurgham Karim Kazem Al-Musawi from the University of Karbala – College of Islamic Sciences – Chairman, and Prof. Dr.: Muhammad Kazem Al-Fatlawi – from the University of Kufa – College of Mixed Education as a member: and Prof. Dr. Fadel Medb Mutaib from the University of Kufa – College of Jurisprudence as a member. Assistant Professor Dr. Ammar Muhammad Hussein from the University of Karbala – College of Islamic Sciences, member: Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Nazim Al-Mafarji from Karbala University – College of Islamic Sciences, member: and Professor Dr. Hikmat Obaid Al-Khafaji from the University of Babylon – College of Islamic Sciences, member and supervisor, and the thesis was approved with distinction.