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

Maliki

9.3
A follower or scholar of one of the main Sunni Islamic law schools common in North and West Africa
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : malikí
  • He identified himself as a Maliki follower, adhering to the teachings of one of the four main Islamic legal schools.

Therefore you should respect all of the Maliki.

Examples

  • As a Maliki, she emphasizes the importance of the consensus of scholars in interpreting Islamic law.

  • Many students at the university study to become Maliki scholars by learning about Sunni Islamic law.

  • I have no idea where you got your "maliki is too weak story," but I am not going to bother wasting my time on the likes of your "throw mud and let's see where it sticks" attitude.

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Surface Forms

Maliki singular
Malikis plural

Etymology

Maliki comes from the name Malik and the Arabic ending -i meaning 'person of' or 'related to', so a Maliki is literally 'a person of Malik' and today means a follower or scholar of the Maliki legal school.