Intelligent Tool for Mufti Assistance

Abstract In the Islamic legislation, the Fatwā consists in the exhibition of a legal opinion in respect of the Islamic precepts. In this paper we focus our interest on reasoning modes in legal domain and more exactly in Islamic legislation field. Our approach consists in solving a new problem by reusing the solution of a similar problem already met, and stored in a memory of cases. The interpretative case based reasoning is a process of assessment of situations or solutions in a previous experience context. It is naturally daily used. Indeed, judges in their courthouse interpret a new situation in the light of case already met (case of jurisprudence). In the following, we are interested in applying this style of reasoning in the Islamic legislation field as a tool of information retrieval which can be used during the process of Fatwā generation.