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The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-madhhab al-shāfiʿī) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
Al-Shafi'i [a] (Arabic: ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; IPA: [a(l) ʃaːfiʕiː] ⓘ;767–820 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.
Shafi’i, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, derived from the teachings of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i (767–820). This legal school (madhhab) stabilized the bases of Islamic legal theory, affirming the authority of both divine law-giving and human speculation regarding the law.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sunni Muslims of the Indian subcontinent comprising present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh who are overwhelmingly Hanafi by fiqh have split into two schools or movements, the Barelvi and the Deobandi. While the Deobandi is revivalist in nature, the Barelvi are more traditional and inclined towards Sufism.
May 25, 2011 · Shafiʿis are adherents of the Sunni school of legal thought based on the legal paradigm of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafiʿi (d. 204 AH /820 CE). During his lifetime, al-Shafiʿi attracted followers in Mecca, Baghdad, and Egypt by composing and teaching works on law and legal theory; the latter genre can be said to have been inaugurated by him.
accomplishments. Al-Shafi'i's status as a legal theorist whose aim was to build a comprehensive jurisprudential system is widely recognized by both. He is considered the eponymous founder of one of the four surviving Sunn? schools of law, and has been called the "master architect" of Islamic legal theory.1 Wael
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʿī was a Muslim legal scholar who played an important role in the formation of Islamic legal thought and was the founder of the Shāfiʿiyyah school of law.
