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Madhhab (School of Law as Institution)
The school of law as a self-reproducing interpretive community with its own canonical texts, hierarchy of opinions (rājiḥ), and method of issuing fatwās.
The school of law as a self-reproducing interpretive community with its own canonical texts, hierarchy of opinions (rājiḥ), and method of issuing fatwās.
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Culama Muslimin 25↗explains
ʿUlamaʾ al-Muslimin wa-l-Wahhabiyyun (title of a modern edition; the text is al-Shaʿrani's) · al-Sha'rani
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al-Mustadrak ʿala Majmuʿ al-Fatawa · Ibn Taymiyya
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