Re: slavery, polygamy

salaam

from my reading, the ffg were some of those that were not arabs: Abu 
Hanifa, al-Nisa'i, al-Tirmidhi, Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, al-Ghazzali, Ibn 
Sina, al-Farabi, Razi...

I'm sure there would be a lot more if we included all the great muslim 
philosophers, mahemeticians, literary personalities, etc, all of whom contributed 
to the development of Islamic scholarship and civilisation.

na'eem

On 11 Mar 2004 at 8:15, Afdhere Jama wrote:

> i didn't know the major madhabs were started by non-arabs. i thought
> all four madhabs were started by arabs (check the link below.) but
> besides that, all the major muslim "paths" were carved by arabs---
> hence why a lot of people carry much of arab culture as "muslim" (the
> most apparent ofwhichis -- for example -- the khamiis and 3immamah
> wherein the arab world most arabs, including non- muslims, wear.)
> also, i don't know about other branches but the largest branch,
> sunnism, have hada majority of arab scholars;
> http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/ i would like to point out a
> rather obvious pointof this arab power amongst the muslims. while the
> paths arabs start seem to grow fast in other muslim lands (such recent
> paths would include wahabbism, which is the fastest growing path in
> islam now), non-arab paths seem to go a whole lot slower in the arab
> world. why do you think this is? :)