Rechtsschule abu hanifa biography examples

Why did you choose to read this particular book?

What peaks your interest?

What is the book about? What does it promise to deliver?

I’ve read several book of the development of Fiqh, the Hanafi school and on the bio of the Imam Abu Hanifa.

In the history of the medieval Middle East, Khurasan deserves special attention for a number of reasons.

In the history of the medieval Middle East, Khurasan deserves special attention for a number of reasons.

2 However, Abu al-Wafa' al-Afghani in his introduction to Usul al-Sarakhsi has credited Abu Hanifah (d.

Here I survey three bodies of evidence for early Ḥanafism: biographies of persons said to be followers of Abū Ḥanīfa, the earliest Ḥanafī legal literature, and.

This initial impression is confirmed not only by his repeated references to Abu Hanifa (twice as al-imam al-aczam, after the Hanafite fashion)36 but by the.

Hanifa believed that licit acts may be avoided when they can lead to dangerous consequences.

This book seemed to be quite codified and comprehensive.

Summary of book

I’ve previously written a biography of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah – The Wise Word but Nadawi includes more details of events in his book.

More importantly he discuss the development of fiqh and the Hanafi school.

One comes to the conclusion this was not a school of one man with a tunnel vision of Islam, but someone who continued a tradition from his teachers and really codified the law to make it clear for the rest of us.

Other things that are notable are that it lists out his fiqh and principles and examples of the principles.

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