Maghrebi Maliki tradition

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The Maghrebi Maliki tradition is a regional North African expression of the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic law, shaped by local customs, historical scholarship, and the religious institutions of the Maghreb.

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Label Occurrences
Maghrebi Maliki tradition canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic legal tradition
regional fiqh tradition
associatedWith Almohad dynasty
Hafsid dynasty
Marinid dynasty
Saʿdian dynasty
Alaouite dynasty
surface form: ʿAlawite dynasty of Morocco
basedOn Quran
surface form: Qurʾan

Sunnah
analogical reasoning (qiyās)
consensus (ijmāʿ)
characterizedBy close ties between religious scholars and ruling dynasties
integration of tribal customary law
strong role of qāḍīs and muftīs
continuesIn contemporary state personal status codes in the Maghreb
developedIn Islamic West
surface form: Islamic West (al-Maghrib al-Islāmī)

medieval period
emphasizes practice of the people of Medina (ʿamal ahl al-Madīna)
followsSchool Maliki school
hasCenter Algiers
Fez
Kairouan
Marrakesh
Tunis
hasNotableScholar Averroes
surface form: Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (Averroes the Elder)

Ibn ʿArafa
Khalil ibn Ishaq
surface form: Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (via reception in the Maghreb)

al-Māzarī
Al-Qarafi
surface form: al-Qarāfī
hasNotableText Bidayat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd
surface form: Bidāyat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd

Mukhtaṣar Khalīl (as a core teaching text)
influencedBy Maliki legal methodology
historical scholarship of the Maghreb
local customs (ʿurf)
legalDomain commercial law
criminal law
family law
ritual law
practicedIn Algeria
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
Spanish Sahara
surface form: Western Sahara

parts of the Sahara
region North Africa
surface form: Maghreb

North Africa
religion Sunni Islam
supportedBy Maliki madrasas of the Maghreb
Great Mosque of Tunis
surface form: Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis

Al-Qarawiyyin University
surface form: mosque-university of al-Qarawiyyīn in Fez
usesConcept istihsān (juristic preference)
maslaha (public interest)
sadd al-dharāʾiʿ (blocking the means)

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Maliki school hasSubtradition Maghrebi Maliki tradition
Maliki hasSubSchool Maghrebi Maliki tradition