Hanafi

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• Bukhari's Hadith, on the other hand, are recognized as supremely authoritative by both Hanafi and Shafi'i Muslims.

  Academic text (2007)

• It is reported by the Hanafi that supplication with other than Arabic is disliked (makrooh).

  Blog text (26)

• During the Ottoman era, higher education in Iraq was devoted to Islamic religious disciplines, particularly Hanafi legal thought, which was taught in "The School of the Greatest Imam."

  Academic text (2004)

• The Wahhabis also condemn Sufism, which enjoys a sizable following in Central Asia, second only to Hanafi Islam.

  Academic text (1994)

• The Egyptian administration established a formal hierarchy of qadis and muftis within the context of a system of religious courts designed to administer sharia according to the Hanafi madhhab.

  Academic text (1990)

• Shaybani, one of the most influential figures in early Hanafi Islam, was also a teacher of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of Islam.

  Academic text (2007)

• Sunnis share a distaste for what they consider to be the excessive Shia reverential practices at the tombs of saints, yet Hanafi and Shafi'i Islam require special regard towards religious structures.

  Academic text (2007)

• Subsequent laws were passed in Egypt in 1920 and in 1929, and these broadened the grounds for divorce by incorporating principles acceptable in the more lenient Maliki madhhab into the Hanafi-based law.

  Academic text (2003)

• In the case of southern Afghanistan, local Pashtun village society operates within the Hanafi school of Sunni Muslim jurisprudence and Pashtunwali indigenous traditions of the region expressed through narkh, a Pashto word meaning informal or traditional laws and rules.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Hanafi school of Islamic law emphasizes flexibility and reason in legal rulings.

Synonyms

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Sunni

vsHanafi

182 5.3

A Muslim who follows the largest branch of Islam and accepts the first four leaders after Muhammad

is a particular jurisprudence within that branch focused on law and practice

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Sunni Muslim

vsHanafi

6 3.2

A person in Islam who follows the largest group and accepts the first four leaders after Muhammad

is more specific naming one of several legal schools within that branch

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Sunnite

vsHanafi

1 8.9

A Muslim who accepts the first four leaders after the prophet Muhammad as the rightful successors

is a specific legal school inside that branch focusing on Islamic law

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