The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-madhhab al-shāfiʿī) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence...
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scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. He is known to be the first to write a book...
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Madhhab (redirect from Sunni school)
[ˈmaðaːhib]) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence. The major Sunni madhāhib are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali. They emerged...
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al-Imam al-Shafi'i (Arabic: الوجيز في فقه الإمام الشافعي) or The Condensed in Imam Shafi’i’s Jurisprudence is a concise summary of Shafi’i Fiqh and 'Ilm...
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al-Nawawi, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn). As per Taj al-Din al-Subki, the purpose...
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Al-Juwayni (redirect from Imam al-Haramayn Dhia' ul-Din Abd al-Malik ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni al-Shafi'i)
thinkers in the Shafi'i school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, he was considered as the virtual second founder of the Shafi'i school, after its first...
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is the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence of Sunni Islam. Most of Brunei's Muslim population subscribe to the Shafi'i school as well, and Shafi'i is a major...
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theologian and one of leading member of Shafi'i school. A native of Cairo, he was a close disciple and companion of Imam Shafi'i. He has been called Al-Imam, al-'Allamah...
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the Shafi'i school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) within the Sunni branch of Islam. The work was composed by the founder of the Shafi'i school, Imām...
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traditionalist of the four major Sunni schools, the others being the Hanafi, Maliki and Shafi'i schools. Like the other Sunni schools, it primarily derives sharia...
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source of Islamic law. The Maliki school is one of the largest groups of Sunni Muslims, comparable to the Shafi’i madhhab in adherents, but smaller than...
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Islam in Malaysia is represented by the Shafi‘i school of Sunni jurisprudence. Islam was introduced to Malaysia by traders arriving from Persia, Arabia...
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Knowledge of the Shafi'i School is one of the earliest Shafi'i fiqh books written by Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni the leading Shafi'i jurist of his time...
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Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (category Shafi'i fiqh scholars)
a renowned Sunni Egyptian scholar. He was the leading jurist of the Shafi'i school of though, a mujtahid, muhaddith, historian and theologian. He came...
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last great scholar of the Mu'tazilite school of Islamic theology, and a reported follower of the Shafi‘i school. Abd al-Jabbar means "Servant of al-Jabbar...
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Ghusl (section Sunni school of thought)
mean sexual contact, while Shafi'i scholars interpret it to mean both physical and sexual contact. Hence, the Hanafi school of thought does not require...
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al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn). He was born at Nawa near Damascus...
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well. In terms of schools of jurisprudence, based on demographic statistics, 99% of Indonesian Muslims mainly follow the Shafi'i school, although when asked...
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title Reliance of the Traveller) is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. The author of the main text is 14th-century...
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school frequently relies on analogical deduction and independent reasoning, and Maliki and Hanbali generally use the Hadith instead. Shafi'i school uses...
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Muslim Filipinos practice Sunni Islam according to the Shafi'i school with the Hanbali (Athari) school in minority. In 1380, the Sunni Shaykh Makhdum Karim...
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Shafi'i school, leading authority on the foundation of doctrine, meticulous, a devoted ascetic and one of the notable defenders of the Ash'ari school...
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Al-Ghazali (section School affiliations)
Islam" (Ḥujjat al-Islām). Al-Ghazali was a prominent mujtahid in the Shafi'i school of law. Much of Al-Ghazali's work stemmed around his spiritual crises...
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schools, is permitted in the Hanbali school, and is recommended in the Shafi'i school. It is preferable that those praying divide themselves into odd rows...
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the school was not popularized. The final reason is that Imam Al-Shafi'i settled in Egypt soon after Al-Layth's death, and so the Shafi'i school quickly...
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Sayyida Nafisa (section Influence on Imam al-Shafi'i)
students came from faraway places, and among them was Al-Shafi'i, the man behind the Shafi'i school of Sunni fiqh. She financially sponsored his education...
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Islamic law (sharīʿa). The Shāfiʿī school regards circumcision as binding on all Muslims, both males and females. According to Shāfiʿī and Ḥanbalī jurists both...
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Sunnis of Malay, Arab and Indian origin who follow the Shafi'i school (76%) Hanafi and Maliki school (6%) of jurisprudence.[citation needed] Most of the...
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Shihab al-Din al-Ramli (category Shafi'i fiqh scholars)
al-Haytami, represents the foremost authority for fatwa for the entire late Shafi'i school. He was born and raised in his childhood in Ramla. He was raised in...
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