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Founding of the Madhāhib (Schools of Law)
The crystallization of the major legal schools (Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī, Ḥanbalī, and others) around distinct methodologies of deriving law.
The crystallization of the major legal schools (Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī, Ḥanbalī, and others) around distinct methodologies of deriving law.
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Culama Muslimin 68↗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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