Re: slavery, polygamy

salam,

well, in the arab world, even though the laws of hanafi is in use (since it was forced by the ottoman empire,) majority of people in places like syria, palestine, jordan, etc, are shafi'is in practice. also, south east asia is mainly shafi'i. shafi'i's model of law (i.e, quran, sunnah, ijmah, ra'yi) is now used by all schools of thought. it is considered the 'basic' for islamic thought.

afdhere

Afdhere Jama
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>From: "na'eem jeenah" >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected], [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] slavery, polygamy >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:21:10 +0200 > >salaam > >I'm sorry but I think your understanding of the madhhabi >demographics as well as your understanding of the >location of these madhahib needs some revision. (Btw, >where do you get the idea that the Shafi'i madhhab is >regarded as "pure" Islam? Maybe where you come from. >Certainly not in most of the world - Muslim world and the >rest of the world. > >na'eem > >On 12 Mar 2004 at 9:03, Afdhere Jama wrote: > > > > > > > salam, na'eem, > > abu hanifa is a very good example. no one in the arab wor
ld but small > > minority follow his madhab. on top of that, the majority of the > > muslims (non-arabs) follow theother madhabs brought by arabs. in fact, > > the majority of muslims follow the shafi'i -- which is brought by the > > qureishi imam. shafi'i's system of laws, for example,are used by all > > muslims... since all schools use it. it's quite interesting when you > > look into all these things. yes, definitely there were a lot more > > scholars who were non-arab. that is not the argument at all. that is a > > reality in both number and interest. but the basic fact is that arab > > thought amongst muslims travels way faster than the other way around. > > and this is the natural process, perhaps, since arabs brought islam in > > the first place. the discussion began with arab culture being > > mish-mashed w
ith islam. it is interesting to note that abu hanafi's > > work was really more (non-arabic) cultural and then enveloped by > > islamic law. while the ottomans forced this thought on muslims during > > their reign, folks had no problem putting them aside when therule > > fell. however, shafi'i's more arabized islamic law was able to > > transform into 'pure' islam for most muslims. what gives? > > > > afdhere > > >_______________________________________________ >ProgressiveMuslims mailing list >[email protected] >http://willo.nitric.co.za/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/progressivemuslims

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