"Guiding the Seeker to the Principles of Imam Malik", by the eminent scholar and critical editor Muhammad Yahya al-Walati, is regarded as one of the valuable later works on the principles of the Maliki school. It offers a precise key to understanding these principles, explaining and analysing the sixteen foundational elements of the school arranged in verse by the scholar Ibn Abi Kaff. It does so in a rigorous scholarly style that combines depth of theoretical exposition with accomplished practical application, drawing on textual evidence and examples from the Qur’an and the Sunnah to apply jurisprudential principles to subsidiary legal rulings. The work also includes a valuable appendix on overarching legal maxims. What distinguishes this critical scholarly edition, published by Mohamed bin Zayed University for Humanities, is that it appears for the first time as an edition critically established on the basis of five manuscripts. This has made it possible to produce a text of exceptional accuracy and editorial refinement, with substantial corrections and precise revisions to previous editions, alongside careful attention to the scholarly presentation of the work, annotation, and the preparation of its indexes. It is therefore a pioneering edition, indispensable to every specialised researcher and academic, placing in their hands a critically edited and documented distillation of Maliki legal principles that meets the expectations of professors, researchers and students, and enriches the Maliki juristic library.