Lost Islamic History
Firas Alkhateeb
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“…in the career of the first great jurist, Abu Hanifa (d. 767). A Persian born and raised in Iraq, he found himself squarely in the middle of a society that was a world…”
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“…THE ISLAMIC SCIENCES 97 One example confronting Abu Hanifa (and other early jurists) regarding the role of the Quran and the example of the Prophet (the Sunnah) in Muslim life arose from…”
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“…Ho wever, issues remained, particularly in places like Abu Hanifa’s Iraq, on which the Quran, Sunnah, and example of the Companions were all silent. It was here that the early jurists advocated a…”
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“…THE ISLAMIC SCIENCES 99 Ho wever, Abu Hanifa’s contemporary Malik ibn Anas (d. 795) took a different approach. Born and raised in Medina itself, Malik believed that his city had not…”
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“…these differences with the earlier schools. For example, Abu Hanifa prioritized extremely wide - spread and well-known hadith (known as mutawatir) above all others, and built maxims based on them that could be…”
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“…begin and end with their eponymous founders. While Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafiʿ i, and Ahmad laid the foundation with regards to the legal theory each school would employ , their followers over the…”
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“…had no precedent in Islamic thought. The same Abu Hanifa who founded a school of jurisprudence wrote a short treatise on theology , in which he stated, “we do not charge any believer…”
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“…The land of great Sunni scholars such as Abu Hanifa, Ibn Sina and al-Bukhari quickly became the center of the Shi‘a movement. But Isma‘il was not content controlling only the beliefs of Persians…”
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