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unusual facts about Islamic jurisprudence



Dakheel Najafi

The different works on Islamic (Shi’ite) jurisprudence by Al-Najafi, all written in Arabic have never been translated into English or any other language.

Demography of Sudan

97% of the population adheres to Islam, with the overwhelming majority being adherents of the Sunni branch and the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence (with very few exceptions of Shia Muslims).


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Abdallah Ben Abdel Mohsen At-Turki

In 1972 he defended a thesis on foundations of Islamic jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, Cairo.

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.

Criticism of Islamism

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im further argued that, despite the abundance of Islamic jurisprudence about family law, Islam cannot even provide a clear basis for a centralised administration of family law, because the very idea of centralised administration did not exist at the time when the various schools of Muslim family law were evolved.

Hamza Abu Faris

In 2000 Hamza Abu Faris received his Ph.D in Islamic Sciences, with an emphasis in comparative Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from the University of Zaytuna in Tunisia; his doctoral thesis was entitled “Judge Abdul Wahab al-Baghdadi and his approach to Exegesis of the Prophetic Message.”

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.