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Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʻmān b. Ṯābit ابو حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت

Titles: Imām

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Founder of the eponym Islamic juridical school. Very little is known of his life. He was born in Kūfa and there he lived, working as silk manufacturer and merchant. He studied Islami law with Ḥammād b. Abī Sulaymān (d. 120/738). Abū Ḥanīfa did not compose any work by himself, but disussed and dictated his opinions to his disciples (Abū Yūsuf, al-Šaybānī). In his interpretation of the sources he made a large use of reasoning and of his personal opinion, based, in some cases, on non Islamic sources. He was also a theologian, belonging to the Murǧi'a.
The ḥanafite school of law is now diffused in Turkey, Egypt and Central Asia.

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