[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم A madhab (Arabic: مذهب maḏhab, Lit: “way to act”) is a school of thought within fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). The major Sunni madhabs are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE, and by the twelfth century, almost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular madhhab.… Read More
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[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Sharia (Arabic: شَرِيعَة), is religious law that forms part of the Islamic faith. It is from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Al-Quran and the hadith. In Arabic, the term sharīʿah refers to God’s immutable divine law and contrasts with fiqh, its human scholarly interpretations. The traditional theory of Islamic… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Fiqh (Arabic: فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is often described as the human understanding and practices of the sharia, that is, human understanding of Islamic law as revealed in the Al-Quran and the Sunnah. Fiqh expands and develops Shariah through interpretation (ijtihad) of the Al-Quran and Sunnah by Islamic jurists (ulama)… Read More