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Sharia

shah-REE-ah
Also Known As Islamic Law
Religious Law Systems

Sharia, in the comparative-law classification JuriGlobe and other schemes use, names the Muslim law legal family, a system that derives its authority from religious sources and juristic method rather than from a secular legislature or accumulated case law alone. Applied as law it varies enormously by jurisdiction, from the near-complete state law of Saudi Arabia and Iran, to one law among several in a mixed system such as personal-status law for Muslims within Malaysia and Nigeria, to a purely private, opt-in arbitration framework such as the Sharia councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunal of England and Wales, which carry no independent legal force outside the ordinary law of contract and arbitration. This entry treats Sharia only as this legal-system facet: which jurisdictions apply it, and how its courts and jurists function as legal machinery. The doctrinal content of Islamic law, its sources, schools of jurisprudence and lived religious practice, remains Divinity Atlas's own subject under the family standing seam (ruling 631).

Facts
Example Jurisdictions
Saudi Arabia, where the 1992 Basic Law of Governance names the Quran and Sunna as the constitution and Sharia courts hear most civil, criminal and family matters alongside the administrative Board of Grievances; Iran, where all legislation is reviewed for conformity with Islamic criteria by the Guardian Council under the 1979 constitution; Malaysia and the northern states of Nigeria, where Sharia applies within a defined domain (chiefly personal status and, in Nigeria, some criminal law) alongside a general secular system; England and Wales, where Sharia councils and the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal operate as private arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1996, with no jurisdiction over criminal law or divorce and no independent state-law force. 2
Primary Source of Law
The Quran and Sunna as interpreted through juristic method by the classical schools of Islamic jurisprudence; in states applying it as public law, codified statutes and royal or ministerial decrees implementing Sharia principles sit alongside direct judicial application by Sharia-trained judges. 2
Disputed
Origin Year
632 2
632, the death of Muhammad, is sometimes taken as the point at which systematic juristic derivation of law from revelation began, but comparative-law scholarship more often dates the crystallization of Sharia as a working legal system, with its classical schools of jurisprudence and settled methodology, to the eighth through tenth centuries, so no single year is agreed.
Classification
Legal Family
Religious Law 1
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One Body of Law, Four Legal Statuses

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Sharia is a single body of religious law, but comparative-law scholarship classifies it as one of the world's great legal families precisely because no two states that apply it give it the same legal weight. In Saudi Arabia, the 1992 Basic Law of Governance names the Quran and Sunna as the constitution itself, so Sharia sits at the top of the legal order, applied by general Sharia courts and, for administrative disputes against the government, by the separate Board of Grievances. In Iran, the relationship is one step removed: an elected parliament passes ordinary legislation, but nothing it passes stands unless the Guardian Council, twelve jurists half named by the Supreme Leader and half nominated by the judiciary, certifies that the law conforms to Islamic criteria. Sharia there is less the whole of positive law than its outer limit.

Move further along the spectrum and the state stops applying Sharia as public law at all. Malaysia and the northern states of Nigeria carve out a defined domain, generally personal status and, in parts of Nigeria, some criminal law, where Sharia courts sit alongside a general secular system that governs everything else. In England and Wales, Sharia has no state-law status whatsoever. Sharia councils and bodies such as the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, formed in 2007, operate purely as private arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1996, a law that lets two parties agree in advance to have a civil dispute decided under a chosen set of rules, religious or otherwise. Criminal law and divorce sit entirely outside what the Act allows an arbitrator to touch, and a panel award carries legal force in England only because the ordinary civil courts enforce an unchallenged arbitration award of any kind, not because Sharia itself has any standing there.

Four jurisdictions, four different answers to the same question: what happens when this body of law meets the machinery of a state. Comparative-law classification treats that variation as the interesting fact, not an inconsistency to explain away.

Sharia
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Abd Allah al-Qaysi

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Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak

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Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i

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Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim al-Utaqi

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Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi

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Abdul Qadir Gilani

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Abdul Razzaq Gilani

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Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Imam

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Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi

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Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi

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Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i

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Abu al-Walid al-Baji

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Abu Bakr al-Khallal

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Abu Bakr al-Khassaf

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Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi

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Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi

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Abu Hanifa

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Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini

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Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi

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Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni

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Abu Tahir Multani

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Abu Talib al-Makki

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Abu Uthman al-Sabuni

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Adud al-Din al-Iji

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Ahmad al-Rifa'i

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Ahmad al-Wansharisi

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Ahmad ibn Hanbal

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Ala al-Din al-Baji

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Al-Akhdari

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Al-Allama al-Hilli

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Al-Baghawi

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Al-Baqillani

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Al-Barzanji

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Al-Damiri

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Al-Fadl ibn Shadhan

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Al-Ghazali

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Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi

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Al-Halimi

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Al-Hattab

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Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq

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Al-Jassas

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Al-Khatib al-Shirbini

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Al-Khattabi

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Al-Layth ibn Sa'd

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Al-Mahalli

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Al-Marghinani

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Al-Mawardi

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Al-Mazari

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Al-Muzani

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Al-Nawawi

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Al-Sarakhsi

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Al-Shafi'i

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Al-Tabari

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Al-Tahawi

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Al-Zarkashi

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Al-Zayla'i

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Amah al-Wahid

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Asad ibn al-Furat

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Badr al-Din al-Ayni

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Badr al-Din ibn Jama'ah

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Dawud al-Zahiri

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Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi

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Ghulam al-Khallal

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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr

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Ibn Abd al-Hadi

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Ibn Abd al-Hakam

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Ibn Abi al-Izz

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Ibn Abi Layla

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Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani

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Ibn al-Azraq

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Ibn al-Hajib

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Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari

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Ibn al-Mughallis

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Ibn al-Mundhir

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Ibn al-Rif'ah

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Ibn 'Atiyya

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Ibn Balban

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Ibn Battah

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Ibn Battal

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Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi

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Ibn Jalal al-Tilimsani

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Ibn Jurayj

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Ibn Khuzayma

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Ibn Muflih

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Ibn Qudama

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Ibn Raslan

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Ibn Sa'ada

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Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri

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Ibrahim al-Halabi

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Imam al-Hadrami

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Isa ibn Aban

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Ishaq ibn Rahwayh

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Jabir ibn Zayd

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Ja'far al-Sadiq

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Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi

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Malik ibn Anas

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Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri

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Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi

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Nur al-Din al-Samhudi

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Qadi Abd al-Wahhab

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Qadi Baydawi

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Ruwaym

Sharia

Sayf al-Din al-Amidi

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Shaqroun Al-Wajdiji al-Tilimsani

Sharia

Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi

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Sufyan al-Thawri

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Taj al-Din al-Subki

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Taqi al-Din al-Fasi

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Urwa ibn al-Zubayr

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Waggag ibn Zallu al-Lamti

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Yahya ibn Adam

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Yahya ibn Aktham

Sharia
Connections

In Legal Family

Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

In Legal System

Sharia is one of the named member systems of the Religious Law family per its own entity-description; JuriGlobe classifies Muslim law as its own legal family within the broader religious-law grouping.

Source JuriGlobe: Classification of Legal Systems (University of Ottawa)

Includes

Source AAOIFI, Official Website
Source Wikidata: Abd Allah al-Qaysi
Source Wikidata: Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
Source Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim al-Utaqi
Source Wikidata: Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi
Source Wikidata: Abdul Qadir Gilani
Source Wikidata: Abdul Razzaq Gilani
Source Wikidata: Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Imam
Source Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi (Wikipedia)
Source Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (Wikipedia)
Source Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i (Wikipedia)
Source Abu al-Walid al-Baji (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Abu Bakr al-Khallal
Source Abu Bakr al-Khassaf (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
Source Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (Wikipedia)
Abu Hanifa, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Abu Hanifa
Source Wikidata: Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Source Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (Wikipedia)
Source Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni (Wikipedia)
Source Abu Tahir Multani (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Abu Talib al-Makki
Source Abu Uthman al-Sabuni (Wikipedia)
Source Adud al-Din al-Iji (Wikipedia)
Source Ahmad al-Rifa?i (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Ahmad al-Wansharisi
Source Wikidata: Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Source 'Ala al-Din al-Baji (Wikipedia)
Al-Akhdari, Jurists
Source Al-Akhdari (Wikipedia)
Source Al-Allama al-Hilli - Wikipedia
Al-Baghawi, Jurists
Source Al-Baghawi (Wikipedia)
Al-Baqillani, Jurists
Source Al-Baqillani (Wikipedia)
Al-Barzanji, Jurists
Source Al-Barzanj? (Wikipedia)
Al-Damiri, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Damiri
Source Wikidata: Al-Fadl ibn Shadhan
Al-Ghazali, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Ghazali
Source Wikidata: Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
Al-Halimi, Jurists
Source Al-Halimi (Wikipedia)
Al-Hattab, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Hattab
Source Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq (Wikipedia)
Al-Jassas, Jurists
Source Al-Jassas (Wikipedia)
Source Al-Khatib al-Shirbini (Wikipedia)
Al-Khattabi, Jurists
Source Al-Khattabi (Wikipedia)
Source Al-Layth ibn Sa'd (Wikipedia)
Al-Mahalli, Jurists
Source Al-Mahalli (Wikipedia)
Al-Marghinani, Jurists
Source Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (Wikipedia)
Al-Mawardi, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Mawardi
Al-Mazari, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Mazari
Al-Muzani, Jurists
Source Al-Muzani (Wikipedia)
Al-Nawawi, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Nawawi
Al-Sarakhsi, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Sarakhsi
Al-Shafi'i, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Shafi'i
Al-Tabari, Jurists
Source Al-Tabari (Wikipedia)
Al-Tahawi, Jurists
Source Al-Tahawi (Wikipedia)
Al-Zarkashi, Jurists
Source Al-Zarkashi (Wikipedia)
Al-Zayla'i, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Al-Zayla'i
Amah al-Wahid, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Amah al-Wahid
Source Wikidata: Asad ibn al-Furat
Source Badr al-Din al-Ayni (Wikipedia)
Source Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamaʿah (Wikipedia)
Source Capital punishment in Islam (Wikipedia)
Source Dawud al-Zahiri - Wikipedia
Source Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (Wikipedia)
Source Fatawa 'Alamgiri (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: G̲h̲ulām al-K̲h̲allāl
Source Wikidata: Ibn 'Abd al-Barr
Source Wikidata: Ibn Abd al-Hadi
Source Ibn Abd al-Hakam (Wikipedia)
Source Ibn Abi al-Izz (Wikipedia)
Ibn Abi Layla, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn Abi Layla
Source Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (Wikipedia)
Ibn al-Azraq, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn al-Azraq
Ibn al-Hajib, Jurists
Source Ibn al-Hajib (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari
Source Wikidata: Ibn al-Mughallis
Source Wikidata: Ibn al-Mundhir
Ibn al-Rif'ah, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn al-Rif'ah
Ibn 'Atiyya, Jurists
Source Ibn 'Atiyya (Wikipedia)
Ibn Balban, Jurists
Source Ibn Balban (Wikipedia)
Ibn Battah, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn Battah
Ibn Battal, Jurists
Source Ibn Battal (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi
Source Wikidata: Ibn Jalal al-Tilimsani
Ibn Jurayj, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn Jurayj
Ibn Khuzayma, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn Khuzayma
Ibn Muflih, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ibn Muflih
Ibn Qudama, Jurists
Source Ibn Qudama (Wikipedia)
Ibn Raslan, Jurists
Source Ibn Raslan (Wikipedia)
Ibn Sa'ada, Jurists
Source Ibn Sa'ada (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
Source Ibrahim al-Halabi (Wikipedia)
Source Imam al-Hadrami (Wikipedia)
Isa ibn Aban, Jurists
Source Isa ibn Aban (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
Source Wikidata: Jabir ibn Zayd
Source Wikidata: Ja'far al-Sadiq
Source Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Malik ibn Anas
Source Muhammad al-Shaybani - Wikipedia
Source Wikidata: Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri
Source Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (Wikipedia)
Source Sharia Law Courts in the UK (House of Commons Library Briefing)
Source Nur al-Din al-Samhudi (Wikipedia)
Source Qadi Abd al-Wahhab (Wikipedia)
Qadi Baydawi, Jurists
Source Qadi Baydawi (Wikipedia)
Ruwaym, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Ruwaym
Source Wikidata: Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
Source Wikidata: Shaqroun Al-Wajdiji al-Tilimsani
Source Ministry of Justice History, Saudi Arabia
Source Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi (Wikipedia)
Source Sufyan al-Thawri - Wikipedia
Source Taj al-Din al-Subki (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Taqi al-Din al-Fasi
Source Wikidata: Urwa ibn al-Zubayr
Source Wikidata: Waggag ibn Zallu al-Lamti
Source Wikidata: Yahya ibn Adam
Source Wikidata: Yahya ibn Aktham

Long-Form Articles

Source Sharia Law Courts in the UK (House of Commons Library Briefing)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sharia
Sharia is a body of religious law that form the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of IslamView the Source
2. Major Legal Systems in the World Today
Rene David and John E.C. Brierley, Stevens and Sons, 1985
JuriGlobe: Classification of Legal Systems (University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa, Faculty of LawView the Source
Ministry of Justice History, Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Justice, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaView the Source
Sharia Law Courts in the UK (House of Commons Library Briefing)
House of Commons Library, UK ParliamentView the Source
AAOIFI, Official Website
Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI)Includes: AAOIFI Shariah StandardsView the Source
Wikidata: Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Includes: Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Ḥanbal; 780-855) was an Arab jurist and founder of the Hanbali school who is widely recognized as the scholar who memorized the most Ha
View the Source
Wikidata: Al-Shafi'i
Includes: Al-Shafi'i, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Al-Shafi'i, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Al-Shafi'i (Arabic: الشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; IPA: [a(l) ʃaːfiʕiː] ;767-820 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, traditio
View the Source
Wikidata: Jabir ibn Zayd
Includes: Jabir ibn Zayd, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Jabir ibn Zayd, Wikipedia lead paragraph
al-Shaʿthāʾ Jābir ibn Zayd al-Yaḥmadī al-ʾAzdī) was an Islamic scholar, theologian and one of the founding figures of the Ibadis, the t
View the Source
Wikidata: Asad ibn al-Furat
Includes: Asad ibn al-Furat, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Asad ibn al-Furat, Wikipedia lead paragraph
(Arabic: أسد بن الفرات; ca. 142/759, ca. 213/828) was a Muslim jurist and theologian in Ifriqiya, who played an important role in the Ar
View the Source
Wikidata: Abu Bakr al-Khallal
Includes: Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Wikipedia lead paragraph
الخلال) better known as Abū Bakr al-Khalāl, was a Medieval Muslim jurist. Al-Khallal was a student of five of Ahmad ibn Hanbal's direct stu
View the Source
Wikidata: Abu Hanifa
Includes: Abu Hanifa, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Abu Hanifa, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Abū Ḥanīfa; 5 September 699-18 June 767 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and ascetic, and the founder and eponym of t
View the Source
Wikidata: Malik ibn Anas
Includes: Malik ibn Anas, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Malik ibn Anas, Wikipedia lead paragraph
بْن أَنَس, romanized: Mālik ibn ʾAnas; c. 711-795) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Ma
View the Source
Wikidata: Al-Sarakhsi
Includes: Al-Sarakhsi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Al-Sarakhsi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
محمد بن احمد بن ابي سهل ابو بكر الأنصاري السرخسي), was a Sunni Muslim jurist and also an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of thought.
View the Source
Wikidata: Urwa ibn al-Zubayr
Includes: Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, Wikipedia lead paragraph
ibn al-ʿAwwām al-ʾAsadī; c. 644-713) was an early Muslim traditionist, widely regarded as a founding figure in the field of histor
View the Source
Wikidata: Ja'far al-Sadiq
Includes: Ja'far al-Sadiq, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ja'far al-Sadiq, Wikipedia lead paragraph
ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq; c. 702-765) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the sixth and last agreed-upon Shia Imam amongst Tw
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
Includes: Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ مُسْلِمَ بنِ عُبَیْدِ ٱلل
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Abi Layla
Includes: Ibn Abi Layla, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Abi Layla, Wikipedia lead paragraph
693-765), also known as Ibn Abi Layla, was an early Muslim jurist who served as the qadi (judge) of Kufa from c. 733 until his death
View the Source
Wikidata: Abdul Qadir Gilani
Includes: Abdul Qadir Gilani, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Abdul Qadir Gilani, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Abdul Qadir Gilani (c. 1077 or 1078, c. 1166) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi mystic leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya,
View the Source
Wikidata: Al-Nawawi
Includes: Al-Nawawi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Al-Nawawi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
(October 1233-21 December 1277) was a jurist and hadith scholar, better known for authoring The Meadows of the Righteous and Shar
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Khuzayma
Includes: Ibn Khuzayma, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Khuzayma, Wikipedia lead paragraph
بن خزیمه نیشاپوری) (838-924 AH) was a prominent Persian Muslim muhaddith scholar and Shafi'i jurist. He is best known for his hadith col
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Wikidata: Ibn 'Abd al-Barr
Includes: Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, Wikipedia lead paragraph
al-Barr (Arabic: ابن عبد البر) was an eleventh-century Maliki scholar and Athari theologian who served as the Qadi of Lisbon. He died i
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Wikidata: Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
Includes: Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
1156; Diyarbakır, d. 1233 in Damascus) was an influential Muslim jurist. Initially a Hanbalite, Al-Amidi belonged to the Shafi`i school an
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Muflih
Includes: Ibn Muflih, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Muflih, Wikipedia lead paragraph
AH/1310-1362 CE), was one of the leading authorities in Hanbali Law and one of the most prolific writers of the Ḥanbalī school of his pe
View the Source
Wikidata: Al-Mazari
Includes: Al-Mazari, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Al-Mazari, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Imam al-Maziri and Imam al-Mazari, was an important Arab Muslim jurist in the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic Law. He was one of the most
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi
Includes: Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
was a Maghrebi scholar in the field of history, Islamic law, Arabic philology and mathematics. He was born in Meknes from Banu U
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn al-Mundhir
Includes: Ibn al-Mundhir, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn al-Mundhir, Wikipedia lead paragraph
إبراهيم بن المنذر بن الجارود النيسابوري) was a student of Shafi'i scholar al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman who was in turn a direct student of al-Sha
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Battah
Includes: Ibn Battah, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Battah, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Abdullah `Ubaidullah ibn Muhammad ibn Battah al-Ukbari al-Hanbali, simply known as Ibn Battah al-`Ukbari was a Hanbali theologian and juri
View the Source
Wikidata: Al-Ghazali
Includes: Al-Ghazali, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Al-Ghazali, Wikipedia lead paragraph
c. 1058-19 December 1111), latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Persian scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the mos
View the Source
Wikidata: Al-Mawardi
Includes: Al-Mawardi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Al-Mawardi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
(Arabic: الماوردي, romanized: al-Māwardī), was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian,
View the Source
Wikidata: Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
Includes: Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
al-Arabi (Arabic: أبو بكر بن العربى; c. 1076-1148) was a Muslim qadi and scholar of Maliki law from al-Andalus. Like Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abba
View the Source
Wikidata: Ibn Jurayj
Includes: Ibn Jurayj, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ibn Jurayj, Wikipedia lead paragraph
an eighth-century tabi'i faqīh, exegete and transmitter of hadith. A student of early Meccan jurist Ata ibn Abi Rabah, Ibn Jurayj became a
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Wikidata: Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
Includes: Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Ishaq ibn Rahwayh (romanizated: Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, exegete, and theologian. A close friend
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Wikidata: Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
Includes: Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak, Wikipedia lead paragraph
al-Mubārak; c. 726-797) was an 8th-century traditionalist Sunni Muslim scholar and Hanafi jurist. Known by the title Amir al-Mu'minin fi a
View the Source
Wikidata: Ahmad al-Wansharisi
Includes: Ahmad al-Wansharisi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
Quote, Includes: Ahmad al-Wansharisi, Wikipedia lead paragraph
b. 1430 or 1431 in Ouarsenis, d. 1508 in Fez) was a Berber Muslim theologian and jurist of the Maliki school around the time of the fall of
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Wikidata: Waggag ibn Zallu al-Lamti
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in Aglu near Tiznit, in present-day Morocco) was a Maliki scholar and jurist who lived in the 11th century. He was a disciple of Ab
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Wikidata: Al-Fadl ibn Shadhan
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ibn Shadhan (d. 260 AH/873 AD) was a prominent Twelver Shia Muslim theologian (mutakallim), traditionist and jurist in the 9th century,
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Wikidata: Yahya ibn Aktham
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أبو محمد يحيى بن أكثم, died 857) was a ninth century Arab Islamic jurist. He twice served as the chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate, fro
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Wikidata: Al-Hattab
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بن محمد الحطاب الرعيني), more commonly referred to in Islamic scholarship as al-Hattab or Imam al-Hattab, was a 16th-century CE Muslim
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Wikidata: Yahya ibn Adam
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الأحول الكوفي) commonly known as Yahya Ibn Adam was an Islamic scholar, Hafiz, Quran Reciter and a jurist of Persian origins born and r
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Wikidata: Ibn al-Mughallis
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Ibn al-Mughallis (Arabic: ابن المغلس), was a medieval Arab Muslim theologian and jurist.
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Wikidata: Al-Damiri
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al-Damiri (Arabic: كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic fr
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Wikidata: Abu Talib al-Makki
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أبو طالب المكي; died 386 AH/996 AD in Baghdad), was a hadith scholar, Shafi'i jurist, and Sufi mystic.
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Wikidata: Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
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(Arabic: أبو إسحاق الإسفراييني) was a renowned Sunni scholar, jurisconsult, legal theoretician, hadith expert, Qur'anic exegete
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Wikidata: Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri
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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣbahānī, also known as Avendeath, was a medieval theologian and schol
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Wikidata: Al-Zayla'i
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Al-Zayla'i (died 1342) was a 14th-century Islamic scholar, theologian and jurist from Zeila in modern-day Somaliland.
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Wikidata: Abd Allah al-Qaysi
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al-'Absi al-Qaysi (Arabic: عبدالله القيسي) was an early Muslim jurist and theologian.
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Wikidata: Ibn al-Rif'ah
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known as Ibn al-Rif'ah was regarded as the leading Shafi'i jurist in Mamluk Egypt. He was praised by a number of people for his unp
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Wikidata: G̲h̲ulām al-K̲h̲allāl
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Ghulām al-Khallāl (898-973) was an Islamic scholar and jurist of the Hanbali school. His real name was ‘Abd al-‘Azīz. Al-Khallal was a close
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Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq (Wikipedia)
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is one of the most important authors in the field of Maliki common law. He is the author of the well-known Lamiyat al- Zaqqaq (the po
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Wikidata: Shaqroun Al-Wajdiji al-Tilimsani
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(Arabic: شقرون الوجديجي التلمساني) was a prominent Maliki jurist originally from Tlemcen. Born around c. 1503 and died c. 1574 in F
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Wikidata: Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn al-Imam
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محمد ابن الإمام; d. 845 AH/ c. 1441) was a Tlemcen-born Maliki jurist and polymath from the prominent Awlad al-Imam (“Sons of the Imam”)
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Wikidata: Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim al-Utaqi
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c. 750-806) was a prominent early jurist in the Maliki school from Egypt. He was one of Malik's main companions and had a tremen
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Wikidata: Ibn al-Azraq
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Abū 'Abd-Allāh Ibn al-Azraq (Arabic: ابن الأزرق) was a Muslim jurist born in Málaga, Al Andalus in 1427. Educated in law in Málaga and Grana
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Wikidata: Taqi al-Din al-Fasi
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Mecca, Hejaz, 6 July 1429, in Mecca, Hejaz) was an Arab Muslim scholar, muhaddith (hadith scholar), faqih (jurist), historian, genealogi
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Wikidata: Ruwaym
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Abu Muhammad Ruwaym bin Ahmad was an early Muslim jurist, ascetic, saint and reciter of the Qur'an. He was one of the second generation of p
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Wikidata: Amah al-Wahid
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Amah al-Wahid (died 988) was a mid 10th-century female mufti and Islamic jurist during later Abbasid Era.
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Wikidata: Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
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al-Hasan ibn Bashir al-Tirmidhi (d. c. 869) was a Persian Sunni jurist (faqih) and traditionist (muhaddith) of Khorasan, but is mostly rem
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Wikidata: Abdul Razzaq Gilani
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or reverentially as Shaykh ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlānī by Sunni Muslims, was a Persian Sunni Muslim Hanbali theologian, jurist, traditiona
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Wikidata: Ibn Abd al-Hadi
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Abd Allah Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الهادي المقدسي) better known as Ibn Abd al-Hadi (Da
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Wikidata: Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi
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Al-Humaydi (died 834) was a Shafi'i . jurisprudence scholar and Shaykh of the al-Haram. He studied under Imam Shafi'i himself in his majlis.
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Wikidata: Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari
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ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Maliki al-Fassi; Arabic: إبن الحاج العبدري الفاسي) also known simply as Ibn al-H
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Wikidata: Ibn Jalal al-Tilimsani
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Jalal al-Tilimsani (in Arabic: ابن جلال التلمساني) was a Muslim scholar born in Tlemcen around 1502-1503 and died in Fez around 1573-1574
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Fatawa 'Alamgiri (Wikipedia)
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lit. 'Fatwa of the Alamgir'), is a 17th-century sharia based compilation on statecraft, general ethics, military strategy, economic policy
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Capital punishment in Islam (Wikipedia)
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Capital punishment in Islam is traditionally regulated by sharia, which is derived from the Quran and ahadith
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Sufyan al-Thawri - Wikipedia
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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza al-Thawrī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْزَة ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ; 716-778 CE / 97-161 AH), commonly known as Sufyān al-Thawrī (Arabic: سُفْيَان ٱلثَّوْرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, ascetic, tr
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Dawud al-Zahiri - Wikipedia
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Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-Ẓāhirī (Arabic: دَاوُدُ بنُ عَلِيِّ بنِ خَلَفٍ الظَّاهِرِيُّ; 815-883 CE / 199-269 AH) was a Persian Sunnī Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian during the Islamic Golden Age, specialized in the study of Islamic law (sharīʿa) and the fields of hermeneutics, biographical evaluation, and historiograph
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Al-Allama al-Hilli - Wikipedia
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Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAli ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (Arabic: جمال الدين الحسن بن يوسف بن علي بن مطهّر الحلي; December 1250, December 1325), commonly known as al-Allāmah al-Ḥillī (Arabic: العلامة الحلي, "The Sage of Hillah"), was a Twelver Shi'a Muslim scholar and theologian of Iraqi Arab descent.
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Muhammad al-Shaybani - Wikipedia
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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad al-Shaybānī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/750-805), commonly known as Imam Muḥammad al-Shaybānī, was an Arab Muslim jurist, legal theorist, and a leading authority of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence.
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Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (Wikipedia)
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Burhān al-Dīn Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Abī Bakr bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī (Arabic: برهان الدين المرغيناني) (1135-1197) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.
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Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (Wikipedia)
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Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī (Arabic: أَبُو عَمْرو عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمَٰن بْن عَمْرو ٱلْأَوْزَاعِيّ; 707-774) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and the chief representative and eponym of the Awza'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.
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Al-Layth ibn Sa'd (Wikipedia)
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Al-Layth ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fahmī al-Qalqashandī (Arabic: الليث بن سعد بن عبد الرحمن الفهمي القلقشندي) was an Egyptian and the chief representative, imam, and eponym of the Laythi school of Islamic Jurisprudence.
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Al-Tabari (Wikipedia)
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Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839-923 CE / 224-310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.
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Al-Baghawi (Wikipedia)
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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī (Persian/Arabic:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), also known as al-Baghawī (Arabic: البغوي) was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar based in Khorasan.
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Qadi Baydawi (Wikipedia)
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Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d.
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Al-Zarkashi (Wikipedia)
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Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344-1392/ 745-794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth-century Islamic scholar.
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Ibrahim al-Halabi (Wikipedia)
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Burhān ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (Arabic: برهان الدين ٳبراهيم بن محمد بن ٳبراهيم الحلبى) was an Islamic jurist (faqīh) who was born around 1460 in Aleppo, and who died in 1549 in Istanbul.
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Al-Mahalli (Wikipedia)
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Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shihāb ad-Dīn Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥallī (Arabic: جلال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن شهاب الدين أحمد بن كمال الدين محمد بن إبراهيم بن أحمد بن هاشم العباسي الأنصاري المحلّي; commonly known as Al-Maḥallī (Arabic: المحلي; 1389-1459 CE) was an Egyptian Sunni scholar.
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Ibn Qudama (Wikipedia)
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Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī (Arabic: ابن قدامة المقدسي; January-February 1147-7 July 1223), commonly known as Ibn Qudāma, was a Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, Athari theologian, and ascetic of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence.
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Taj al-Din al-Subki (Wikipedia)
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Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (Arabic: تاج الدين عبد الوهاب بن علي بن عبد الكافي السبكي);, or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī (Arabic: تاج الدين السبكي); or simply Ibn al-Subki (1327-1370) was a preeminent Sunni Islamic scholar based in Egypt and the Levant.
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Al-Jassas (Wikipedia)
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Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī (Arabic: أبو بكر أحمد بن علي الرازي), widely known as al-Jaṣṣāṣ (Arabic: الجصاص; 370-305 AH/ 917-981 CE), was a leading Hanafi jurist and Qurʾān exegete in Baghdad of his time.
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Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i (Wikipedia)
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al-Ḥasan Imām al-Din Abū al-Qāsim al-Rāfi'i al-Qazwini, who was better known as Abū al-Qāsim al-Rāfi'i (Arabic: أبو القاسم الرافعي) was a Sunni Muslim scholar based in Qazvin.
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Adud al-Din al-Iji (Wikipedia)
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Abd al-Ghaffar al-Ījī (1281-1356), better known as Aḍud al-Din al-Ījī (Arabic: عضد الدين الإيجي) was an Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period.
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Al-Tahawi (Wikipedia)
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Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر أَحْمَد ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (853-5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (Arabic: ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian.
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Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi (Wikipedia)
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Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Shāṭibī (720-790 AH/1320-1388 C.E.) was an Andalusí Sunni Islamic scholar.
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Al-Baqillani (Wikipedia)
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Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْر مُحَمَّد بْن ٱلطَّيِّب ٱلْبَاقِلَّانِيّ; 950-5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative Islamic theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith.
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Badr al-Din al-Ayni (Wikipedia)
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Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni (Arabic: بدر الدين العيني, romanized: Badr al-ʿAynī; born 26 Ramadan 762 AH/30 July 1360 CE, died 855 AH/1453 CE) was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab and the Shadhili tariqa.
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Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (Wikipedia)
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Ibn Abī Zayd (Arabic: ابن أبي زيد القيرواني; 922-996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī, was a Maliki scholar from Kairouan in Tunisia and was also an active proponent of Ash'ari thought.
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Ibn Abi al-Izz (Wikipedia)
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Sadr ad-Dīn Abu'l Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn Abī al-ʻIzz (Arabic: صَدرُ الدين أبو الحسن عليُّ بن علاءِ الدين الدمشقي الصالحيَّ) was a 14th-century Arab Muslim scholar.
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Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (Wikipedia)
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He was an Ash'arī theologian, Mālikī jurist, Sufi saint and mufti centred in Tlemcen.
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Al-Khattabi (Wikipedia)
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al-Khaṭṭāb Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Bustī, commonly known as Al-Khaṭṭābī (Arabic: الخطابي), was a Sunni Islamic scholar from Sijistan.
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Ibn al-Hajib (Wikipedia)
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Jamāl al-Dīn abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Abī bakr al-Mālikī (died in 1249 in Alexandria), known as Ibn al-Ḥājib, was a Kurdish grammarian and jurist who earned a reputation as a prominent Maliki faqīh.
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Al-Khatib al-Shirbini (Wikipedia)
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Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani al-Khatib also known as al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy (الخطيب الشربيني, was an Egyptian Sunni scholar who specialized in the Shafi'i jurisprudence, legal theory, Qu'ran exegesis, and Arabic language.
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'Ala al-Din al-Baji (Wikipedia)
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He was a prominent Shafi'i jurist and considered a leading legal theoretician and Ash'arite theologian of his day.
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Al-Barzanj? (Wikipedia)
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Abd al-Karīm al-Barzanjī (1716-1764) was a Kurdish Sunni Shafi'i jurist who served as the Shafi'i Mufti of Medina.
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Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi (Wikipedia)
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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Umawī al-Qurashī al-Isnawī al-Shāfiʿī al-Miṣrī (Arabic: جمال الدين أبو محمد عبد الرحيم الحسن الأموي القرشي الإسنوي الشافعي), commonly known as Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi (Arabic: جمال الدين الإسنوي), was a Sunni Egyptian scholar who specialized in the Shafi'i school of jurispru
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Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (Wikipedia)
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ʾAbū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī (Arabic: أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي), more commonly known as Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (Arabic: أبو الليث السمرقندي‎), was a renowned Hanafi jurist and Qur'anic exegete from Samarqand in Transoxiana (modern-day Uzbekistan).
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Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (Wikipedia)
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Najm ad-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ 'Umar ibn Muḥammad an-Nasafī (Arabic: نجم الدين أبو حفص عمر بن محمد النسفي‎; 1067-1142) was a Muslim jurist, theologian, mufassir, muhaddith and historian.
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Ibn Abd al-Hakam (Wikipedia)
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Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم), generally known simply as Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (ابن عبد الحكم; 801 AD, 257 AH / 871 AD) was a Sunni Muslim historian and jurist from Fustat, Egypt.
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Al-Muzani (Wikipedia)
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Abū Ibrāīm Ismā'īl ibn Yahyā Ibn Ismā'īl Ibn 'Amr Ibn Muslim Al-Muzanī Al-Misrī (791-878 AD/ 174-264 Hijri) was an Islamic jurist and theologian and one of leading member of Shafi'i school.
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Nur al-Din al-Samhudi (Wikipedia)
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Nur al-Din Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hasani al-Samhudi (Arabic: علي بن أحمد السمهودي), better known as Nur al-Din al-Samhudi (Arabic: نور الدين السمهودي) was an Arab Sunni Islamic scholar from the 15th century.
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Abu al-Walid al-Baji (Wikipedia)
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Abu al-Walid al-Baji, full name Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Saʿd (or Saʿdun) ibn Ayyub al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujibi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi (28 May 1013-21 December 1081), was a Sunni scholar from Beja in al-Andalus.
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Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi (Wikipedia)
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Shihāb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Abi ’l-ʿAlāʾ Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yallīn al-Ṣanhājī al-Ṣaʿīdī al-Bahfashīmī al-Būshī al-Bahnasī al-Miṣrī al-Mālikī (Arabic: شهاب الدين القرافي) (also known as simply known as Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī or al-Qarāfī, 1228-1285), was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Sanhaja Berber
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Qadi Abd al-Wahhab (Wikipedia)
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Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Hārūn ibn Malik ibn Tawk al-Taghlibī (Arabic: القاضي عبد الوهاب بن علي بن نصر بن أحمد بن الحسين بن هارون بن مالك بن طوق التغلبي); commonly known as Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (Arabic: القاضي عبد الوهاب; 422-362 AH/ 973-1035 CE) was an Iraqi Sunni scholar.
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Abu Bakr al-Khassaf (Wikipedia)
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Abu Bakr al-Khassaf (Arabic: أبو بكر الخصاف,Abu Bakr Al-Ḫaṣṣāf ) (died 874, full name Abu-Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Amru ash-Shaybani al-Khassaf) was a Hanafite law scholar (Qadi) at the court of the 14th Abbasid caliph al-Muhtadi.
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Isa ibn Aban (Wikipedia)
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Abān was an early Sunni Islamic scholar who followed the Hanafi madhhab.
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Al-Akhdari (Wikipedia)
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Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidi ʿĀmir al-Akẖḍarī al-Bīsīkrī (Arabic: سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الصغير بن محمد بن سيدي عمرو الأخضري; 1512-1575), better known as Al-Akẖḍari (Arabic: الأخضري), was an Arab poet, logician, astronomer and Maliki jurist.
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Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi (Wikipedia)
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Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf al-Maʿāfirī al-Qābiṣī (935-1012) was a leading Ifrīqiyan scholar (uṣūlī) of the Mālikī school of Islamic jurisprudence (fiḳh).
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Ibn Balban (Wikipedia)
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1597-1672) was a Sunni Muslim scholar and jurist of the Hanbali school.
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Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni (Wikipedia)
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Al-Juwayni, `Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn `Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyuya, Rukn al-Din Abu Muhammad al-Ta'i al-Sinbisi al-Naysaburi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni (Arabic: أبو محمد الجويني), was a Sunni scholar based in Khorasan.
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Ibn Sa'ada (Wikipedia)
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Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Saʿāda al-Mursī (1103-1170) was an Andalusī Muslim judge and scholar with Ṣūfī tendencies.
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Al-Halimi (Wikipedia)
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Ḥalīm al-Bukhārī al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله الحليمي القاضي الحسين بن الحسن بن محمد بن حليم البخاري الجرجاني الشافعي) also known as Al-Halimi (Arabic: الحليمي; 403-338 AH/ 949-1012 CE), was a highly influential Sunni scholar and regarded as the
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Ibn Raslan (Wikipedia)
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Shihāb ad-Dīn Abū ’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Raslān al-Maqdisī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī al-Ṣūfī (Arabic: شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن حسين بن رسلان المقدسي الشافعي الصوفي), commonly known as Ibn Raslān (Arabic: ابن رسلان; 771-843 AH/ 1371-1440 CE) was a Palestinian Sunni scholar in the late medieval Islamic period.
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Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamaʿah (Wikipedia)
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Badr al-Dīn Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Jamaʿah (1241-1333) was a Shafi'i jurist of Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt) and a member of the Banu Jumah clan.
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Abu Tahir Multani (Wikipedia)
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Abū Ṭāhir al-Multānī was a 14th/15th century Hanafi jurist and the author of a widely used treatise on Hanafi jurisdiction in Persian, 'Umdat al-Islam.
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Ahmad al-Rifa?i (Wikipedia)
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Aḥmad ibn ʽAlī al-Rifāʽī (Arabic: أَحْمَد ابْن عَلِي ٱلرِّفَاعِي) was a Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam.
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Abu Uthman al-Sabuni (Wikipedia)
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Al-Sabuni, Ismail bin Abdal-Rahman bin Ahmad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Amir, Abu Uthman al-Sabuni al-Shafi'i also known as Abu Uthman al-Sabuni (Arabic: أبو عثمان الصابوني), was a Sunni scholar known for being the leading hadith expert in Khorasan, a jurist of great authority particularly in the Shafi'i school, a Qur'anic exege
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Ibn 'Atiyya (Wikipedia)
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He was a prominent Maliki jurist, traditionist, grammarian, linguist, poet, litterateur, and a bibliographer.
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Ibn Battal (Wikipedia)
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Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Khalaf ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Baṭṭāl al-Bakrī al-Qurṭubī al-Mālikī (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن خلف بن عبد الملك بن بطال البكري القرطبي المالكي), better known as Ibn Baṭṭāl (Arabic: اابن بطال) was an Andalusian Islamic scholar primarily known for his expertise in Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence.
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Imam al-Hadrami (Wikipedia)
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Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن الحسن المرادي الحضرمي) or el Mûradi Al Hadrami or al-shaykh al imâm Al Hadrami was an 11th-century North African Islamic theologian and jurist.
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Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (Wikipedia)
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Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahid al-Sa‘di al-Hanbali (Arabic: ضياء الدين المقدسي) (AH 569-643; AD 1173−1245) was a Hanbali Islamic scholar.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which countries apply Sharia as law?

Saudi Arabia is the standard example, with the Quran and Sunna named as its constitution.

In the comparative-law classification, Sharia names the Muslim law legal family. Saudi Arabia is the example given: its 1992 Basic Law of Governance names the Quran and Sunna as the constitution, and Sharia courts hear most civil, criminal and family matters.

What are the sources of Sharia?

The Quran and Sunna, interpreted by the classical schools of jurisprudence.

The primary source of law is the Quran and Sunna as interpreted through juristic method by the classical schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

Is Sharia the same as Islamic law?

Islamic Law is its common alternative name.

Islamic Law is recorded as the common alternative name for Sharia, which the comparative-law classification treats as the Muslim law legal family.
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