The Hanafi school [a] or Hanafism is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It developed from the teachings of the jurist and theologian Abu Hanifa (c. 699–767 CE), who systemised the use of reasoning .

Oct 4, 2017 · Hanafi: Founded by Imam Abu Hanifa (d. 767) in Kufa (Iraq), the Hanafi school is the oldest. Kufa was a center of rational debate, so Hanafis early on became known as Ahl al-Ra’y (“people of reasoned opinion”) for their willingness to use analogy and istihsān (discretionary preference) when scriptural texts were not explicit.

Hanafi school, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, incorporating the legal opinions of the ancient Iraqi schools of Kufah. The Hanafi legal school developed from the teachings of the theologian Imam Abu Hanifah, as spread by his disciples Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani.

Abu Hanifa [a] (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; September 699–767) [5] [6] was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, [3] and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. [3]

May 28, 2013 · The Hanafi School is one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic legal reasoning and repositories of positive law. It was built upon the teachings of Abu Hanifa (d. 767), a merchant who studied and taught in Kufa, Iraq, and who is reported to have left behind one major work, Al-Fiqh al-Akbar.

Jan 4, 2022 · Within Islam, Hanafi is noted—and criticized—for being the earliest school to apply qiyas, or reasoned legal deduction, in applying Sharia. This principle presumes that human reasoning and human insight can explain how Allah intends laws …

Hanafi is one of the four schools (madhabs) of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam. Founded by Imam Abu Hanifa, it is considered to be the school most open to modern ideas. Its followers are sometimes known in English as Hanafites or Hanifites (cf Malikites, Shafiites, Hambalites for the other schools of thought).

The Hanafi (Arabic الْحَنَفِيِّ) school is the oldest of the four schools of law or jurisprudence within Sunni Islam This page was last changed on 15 March 2025, at 18:07. Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

Dec 4, 2023 · This is the seventh article in a series based on the On Demand Course: The Hanafi Way: Lessons from Kawthari’s Fiqh Ahl al Iraq. It lays out the great defense of the Hanafi school in the 20th century by Imam Kawthari.

Hanafi is one of the four major schools of thought in Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, founded by the scholar Abu Hanifa in the 8th century. It is characterized by its use of reason and opinion in interpreting Islamic law, making it one of the most flexible and widely practiced legal traditions in the Muslim world.