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3 unusual facts about Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i


Ansar al-Islam

On May 4, 2010 Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i, Ansar al-Islam's leader since Mullah Krekar left for Norway in 2003, was captured by US forces in Baghdad.

Ansar al-Islam was formed in September 2001 from a merger of Jund al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam), led by Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i, and a splinter group from the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan led by Mullah Krekar.

Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna

In two of the videos, "The Emir" is heard warning Iraqis not to deal with US forces.


Abdel-Shafi

Salah Abdel-Shafi (born 1962), Palestinian economist and ambassador

Haidar Abdel-Shafi (1919-2007), Palestinian physician and political leader

Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Shafi

After he retired in 1982, Zizo was immediately appointed football director for Al-Ahly, winning the CAF Champions League in 1982.

Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi

He was killed in a safe house six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit and was found dead in a hole in the ground inside a house.

On 18 April 2010, al-Baghdadi was reported killed over the weekend when a joint operation of American and Iraqi forces rocketed a home where he was hiding near Tikrit, Iraq.

Al-Shafi‘i

He died at the age of 54 on the 30th of Rajab in 204 AH (20 January 820 AD) in al-Fustat, Egypt, and he was buried in the vault of the Banū ‘Abd al-Hakam, near Mount al-Muqattam.

Ba 'Alawiyya

For about 800 years, the city of Tarim in Hadhramaut has been the centre of learning in Islamic jurisprudence or fiqh, notably of the Shafi Sunni school.

Eid al-Adha

# Men should go to mosque—or a Eidgah (a field where eid prayer held)—to perform eid prayer; Salat al-Eid is Wajib according to Hanafi and Shia (Ja'fari) scholars, Sunnah al-Mu'kkadah according to Maliki and Shafi'i jurisprudence.

El Matareya

Men of the revolution accompanied the late president as Hussein al-Shafi, Kamal El-Din Hussein, Abdel Hakim Amer, Salah Salem, and others.

Haidar Abdel-Shafi

He co-founded the Palestinian National Initiative in 2002 along with Edward Said, Mustafa Barghouti and Ibrahim Dakkak as a national platform for combining the struggle for national liberation and the return of refugees with the values of national unity, democracy and social justice.

Iqbal Suhail

Iqbal Suhail's early schooling was under Maulana Mohammed Shafi who was one of the founders of Madarsatul Islah, Sarai Mir, Azamgarh.

Islam in Kerala

The majority of Muslims of Kerala belong to the Shafi`i school under Sunni sect of Islam, the conservative mainstream in which the Hadith is held in almost equal regard to the Quran itself.

Kitab al-Umm

The Kitāb al-Umm (Arabic: كـتـاب الأم) is a book of law that is used as an authoritative guide by the Shafi'i school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) within the Sunni branch of Islam.

Kunhippalli

Fat'h Ul Mueen a text book on Fiqh dealing with the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence is one of the greatest works of Sheikh Zainuddin Makhdoom 2.

Masabih al-Sunnah

Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionist Al-Tabrizi d.

Mawlid al-Barzanjī

Another prominent commentator was Muhammad ‘Ulaysh (d. 1299 AH/1881 CE) , the Highest Juridical Authority (Muftī) of the Malikites in Egypt. A further popular commentary was by the Sundanese scholar, Muḥammad Nawawī al-Bantānī (d. 1316 AH/1898 CE) , a Shāfi’ī jurist and sūfi who settled in Mecca.

Qeysar Aminpour

Aminpour attended the University of Tehran and studied Persian literature under supervision of Dr. Shafi’i Kadkani.

Salah Abdel-Shafi

His father was the Palestinian political and community leader Haidar Abdel-Shafi.

Shafi Edu

Shafi Lawal Edu (1911–2002) was a prominent Nigerian businessman and conservationist from Epe, Lagos State.

Shah Alam II

After ten horrible weeks during which the honor of the royal family and prestige of the Mughal Empire reached its lowest ebb, loyal subjects and allies of Shah Alam II, led by Farzana Zeb un-Nissa, Ismail Beg, Mirza Shafi, Asaf-Ud-Dowlah and Mahadaji Shinde fought their way into Delhi.

Sheikh Mustafa

In Makkah he studied under Mawlana Shaykh al-Islam Mufti Sayyad Ahmad Zayni Dahlan al-Makki’i ash-Shafi’i who was a great scholar of Makkah and Madina at that time.

Sintra

The earliest documents describe a built-up town in the 11th century by the Arab geographer Al-Bacr (who was later supported by the poets Luís de Camões and Lord Byron).

Tarawih

Tarawih prayers are prayed in pairs of two and can be prayed in at least 20 raka‘āt according to two schools, Hanafis and Shafi'i, of Sunni Islam.

The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence

The essentials of this fourfold methodology were initially and perhaps most clearly articulated by Imām al-Shāfiʻī, a noted legal scholar of the eighth and ninth centuries CE and founder of an eponymous school of Islamic jurisprudence.

Unified National Leadership of the Uprising

However, the uprising was predominantly led by community councils led by Hanan Ashrawi, Faisal Husseini and Haidar Abdel-Shafi, that promoted independent networks for education (underground schools as the regular schools were closed by the military as reprisals for the uprising), medical care, and food aid.


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