Maliki school

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Sunni Islamic legal school madhhab

The Maliki school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its reliance on the practices of the people of Medina as a primary source of jurisprudence.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Maliki school of law 2
Maliki Sunnism 1
Maliki fiqh 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sunni Islamic legal school ⓘ
madhhab ⓘ
associatedScholar Al-Lakhmi ⓘ
Al-Qarafi ⓘ
Ibn Abd al-Barr ⓘ
Ibn al-Qasim ⓘ
Khalil ibn Ishaq ⓘ
Sahnun ⓘ
coexistsWith Hanafi school ⓘ
Hanbali school ⓘ
Shafi'i school ⓘ
surface form: Shafi‘i school
emphasizes community practice of Medina ⓘ
public interest in legal rulings ⓘ
foundedBy Malik ibn Anas ⓘ
foundedInCentury 8th century ⓘ
foundedInPlace Medina ⓘ
hasCanonicalText Al-Muwatta ⓘ
hasJurisprudenceField fiqh ⓘ
hasSubtradition Andalusian Maliki tradition ⓘ
Egyptian Maliki tradition ⓘ
Maghrebi Maliki tradition ⓘ
isOneOf four major Sunni madhhabs ⓘ
languageOfScholarship Arabic ⓘ
legalOrientation traditionalist Sunni ⓘ
mainRegion Algeria ⓘ
Bahrain ⓘ
Kuwait ⓘ
Libya ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
surface form: Maghreb

Mauritania ⓘ
Morocco ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
Qatar ⓘ
Sahel ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
Tunisia ⓘ
United Arab Emirates ⓘ
Upper Egypt ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ
parts of Egypt ⓘ
parts of Saudi Arabia ⓘ
parts of the Arabian Peninsula ⓘ
namedAfter Malik ibn Anas ⓘ
primarySourceEmphasis practice of the people of Medina ⓘ
religion Sunni Islam ⓘ
usesSourceOfLaw Quran ⓘ
Sunnah ⓘ
ijma ⓘ
istihsan ⓘ
maslahah mursalah ⓘ
qiyas ⓘ
urf ⓘ

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Qiyas → acceptedBy → Maliki school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maliki school of law
Istihsan → consideredBy → Maliki school ⓘ
Ja'fari school → contrastedWith → Maliki school ⓘ
Zahiri school of law → contrastsWith → Maliki school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maliki school of law
Shafi'i school → differsFrom → Maliki school ⓘ
Sharia → hasSchoolOfInterpretation → Maliki school ⓘ
Almoravid dynasty → ideology → Maliki school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maliki Sunnism
Shafi'i school → influencedBy → Maliki school ⓘ
Al-Zaytuna Mosque → mainRite → Maliki school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maliki school of Sunni Islam
Hausa-Fulani → majorReligionPractice → Maliki school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence
Hanafi school → otherSunniSchools → Maliki school ⓘ
Hanbali school → otherSunniSchools → Maliki school ⓘ
Alaouite dynasty → religiousSchool → Maliki school ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maliki fiqh