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The Islamic schools of thought emerged in the second century AH, before the doors of ijtihad (independent reasoning) had been closed. A school of thought refers to a specific legal methodology developed by a qualified jurist. Based on this, numerous schools arose within Sunni Islam, established by the leading scholars of the Muslim community. These founders were innovative scholars who had studied under a previous generation of Companions of the Prophet or their Successors.
The Hanafi school, also known as the school of reasoned opinion, originated in Kufa, founded by the great Imam Abu Hanifa al-Nu’man. He laid the foundations for the oldest and most widespread of the Sunni schools. A distinctive feature of this school is that it is not solely composed of Abu Hanifa’s opinions, but also those of his companions and students. This is what made the Hanafi school so influential in the development of Islamic jurisprudence, through its formulation and organization of legal issues into chapters.
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