Hanafi
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The most prominent propagators of Hanafi thought were probably the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire, and as such the areas which they encompassed are predominantly Hanafite.
The Hanafi school is predominant among Sunni Muslims in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Lower (Northern) Egypt, where the influence of the Ottomans was strongest.
Northern Egypt, Iraq, and the Levant (Syria, Lebanon and Palestine) are mixed Shafi/Hanafi. Other areas with sizeable Hanafi adherents include Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, South Asia, Muslim communities of the Balkans (in Bulgaria and Romania for example), Central Asian countries (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, etc), regions in the Caucasus, China, Russia (Tatarstan, and Bashkortostan), and Ukraine. Most Tatars and Turks are also Hanafi adherents.
The Constitution of Afghanistan allows Afghan judges to use Hanafi jurisprudence in situations where the Constitution lacks provisions.
The Hanafi school is considered to be the most liberal. For example, under Hanafi jurisprudence, blasphemy is not punishable by the state, despite being considered a civil crime by some other schools.
There is little or no animosity between the four schools of religious law within Sunni Islam. Instead there is a cross-pollination of ideas and debate that serves to refine each school's understanding of Islam. It is not uncommon, or disallowed, for an individual to follow one school but take the point of view of another school for a certain issue (for example the Egyptian Sheikh Shihab al-Din Qarafi was an Imam in both the Maliki and Shafi schools).
External links
Islamic jurisprudence
- [AskImam.org] (Browse Q&A according to Hanafi fiqh)
- [SunniPath.com] (also has answers according to Shafi'i fiqh)
- [ShariahBoard.org] (Browse Q&A according to Hanafi fiqh - For Urdu Speakers)
Hanafi community
- [sunniforum.com]
- [masud]
- [sunniport.com]
- [al-zawiya] (Yahoo! group)
- [link]
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