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The Maliki madh'hab was founded by Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 795) in the city of [[Medina]], located in the Hijaz. The Maliki madh'hab is adhered to in North Africa, West Africa, the U.A.E., Kuwait, parts of Saudi Arabia, and parts of Egypt. The Murabitun World Movement is a religious movement existing within the Maliki madh'hab. | The Maliki madh'hab was founded by Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 795) in the city of [[Medina]], located in the Hijaz. The Maliki madh'hab is adhered to in North Africa, West Africa, the U.A.E., Kuwait, parts of Saudi Arabia, and parts of Egypt. The Murabitun World Movement is a religious movement existing within the Maliki madh'hab. | ||
Unique to the Maliki madh'hab is its non-exclusive reliance upon Islamic scriptures and some degree of reason. Imam Malik, living in a Medina that had just a few generations ago hosted Muhammad and his companions, thought it was prudent to observe and emulate the religious practices and beliefs of his contemporaries, even if they could not marshal a hadith narration to justify themselves. This was because Imam Malik believed strongly in what some have dubbed the "living" tradition in addition to the "written" or "memorized" scriptural tradition. As a result, the Maliki madh'hab is the only school of Islamic law to rely o on what is known as ''<nowiki/>'Amalu ahl al-Madinah'' (or, "the actions of the people of Medina"). The Maliki madh'hab is also distinguished by its relative cosmopolitanism and leniency compared to competing schools of Islamic law (thus making it particularly popular among Western converts to Islam today, most famously Hamza Yusuf) due to Imam Malik having allegedly received questioners from all over the Islamic empire and this needing to accommodate a wide variety of cultural and social milieus in his legal judgements. It is said that of all of the four madh'habs, the Maliki and Hanafi madh'habs are most similar methodologically. | ''<nowiki/>'' | ||
Unique to the Maliki madh'hab is its non-exclusive reliance upon Islamic scriptures and some degree of reason. Imam Malik, living in a Medina that had just a few generations ago hosted Muhammad and his companions, thought it was prudent to observe and emulate the religious practices and beliefs of his contemporaries, even if they could not marshal a hadith narration to justify themselves. This was because Imam Malik believed strongly in what some have dubbed the "living" tradition in addition to the "written" or "memorized" scriptural tradition. As a result, the Maliki madh'hab is the only school of Islamic law to rely o on what is known as ''<nowiki/>'Amalu ahl al-Madinah'' (or, "the actions of the people of Medina"). The Maliki madh'hab is also distinguished by its relative cosmopolitanism and leniency compared to competing schools of Islamic law (thus making it particularly popular among Western converts to Islam today, most famously Hamza Yusuf) due to Imam Malik having allegedly received questioners from all over the Islamic empire and this needing to accommodate a wide variety of cultural and social milieus in his legal judgements. | |||
It is said that of all of the four madh'habs, the Maliki and Hanafi madh'habs are most similar methodologically, as the Maliki madh'hab employs the principle of ''Istislah,'' also translatable as "public interest" (comparable to and in many ways indistinguishable from the Hanafi principles of ''Istihsan'' and ''Mashlaha''). The primary difference is that whereas the Hanafi madh'hab prefers ''qiyas'' to ''istihsan'', the Maliki madh'hab prefers ''istislah'' to ''qiyas''. | |||
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