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🧑‍💼 A family name 📜 Islamic legal tradition 🧑‍🎓 A legal follower
Maliki

Maliki

9.9
Relating to one of the main Sunni Islamic law schools common in North and West Africa
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : malikí
  • During the lecture, the professor explained the key principles of Maliki jurisprudence.

And so at least one way to like stem the tide and make it less Maliki would be to change.

Examples

  • Students of the Maliki law school often engage in rigorous debates on Islamic jurisprudence.

  • The Maliki tradition emphasizes the importance of consensus in legal rulings.

  • And so at least one way to like stem the tide and make it less Maliki would be to change.

    Lex Fridman

Surface Forms

Maliki positive

Etymology

Maliki comes from the name Malik, an early Arabic scholar, and the Arabic ending -i which means 'of' or 'related to'. So Maliki means 'of Malik' and is used for things that belong to or follow the legal school started by Malik ibn Anas.