Islamic Legal Thought Essay

3.0 DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL OF ISLAMIC LEGAL THOUGHTS IN COMPILATION AND CODIFICATION OF ISLAMIC LEGAL THOUGHTS. 3.1 Development of Islamic Legal Method (Shafi)

The Shafi school of jurisprudence was lead by Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’i who lived from 150H to 198H. Imam Shafi was born in Hijaz. He belong to the Quraysh tribe. During the time of the Fatimid Dynasty, the Egyptians were mainly the adherents of Ahlul Bayt. The teachers of his were carried out in al-Azhar University. Later, Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi came and executed a war against the school of Ahlul Bayt by forbidding the teaching of the mazhab in al-Alzhar and the other mazhabs were resurrected. Imam Shafi’i was killed in Egypt in 198H during the war.

His father died when he was just two years old and his mother took him Makkah. He memorized the Quran at the age of 7 years. He went to the desert to live with the tribe of Hudhayl where he

The Hanafi school is given name after the Muslim scholar Abū Ḥanīfa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit. He is a tabi’i whose legal views and perspectives were protected and preserved mainly by his two most fundamental disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani .

It is primary in the countries that were once a part of the historical and powerful empire which is the Ottoman Empire and the Sultanates of Turkic rules in the Indian subcontinent, northwest China and Central Asia. The Sunni Hanafi school is powerful in the Arab Middle East, India, Pakistan and last but not least, Afghanistan. The followers of this school and the followers of Imam Abu Hanifa are majorly found in Pakistan, India, Turkey, Iraq and many more. Sunni are found wide spread throughout the country of Afghanistan. It is estimated roughly that 84% of Afghanistan’s population is Sunni which strictly adheres and follows the Hanafi school of