Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27 English Subtitles

Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27 English Subtitles

In Iran and Central Asia, the predominant madhhabs were the Shafi‘is and the Hanafis, while in Iraq the contest tended to be largely between Hanbalis and Shi‘ites, and to a lesser extent between Hanbalis and Shafi‘is.
Hanafism, traditionally pre-eminent in Transoxiana, was the madhhab of the Seljuk family.

Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27 English Subtitles

It allowed considerable latitude for the exercise of the ruler’s power, although its lax definition of who might be considered a Muslim – no knowledge of the Qur’an or even the religious duties of Islam was required – also had certain attractions for recently converted Turks with perhaps only shaky grasp on their new faith. Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27 English Subtitles 

Law schools were often associated with certain theological positions (and Hanbalism was in fact both a legal and a theological school). Hanafis generally tended toward Maturidi theology while Shafi‘ism was closely associated with the Ash‘ari theological school.Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27 English Subtitles

The theological schools were also fierce rivals: Ash‘arism claimed to represent the theology of all right-thinking Muslims, a claim vigorously disputed by Hanbalis who felt a particular antipathy towards the Ash‘aris.

The stronghold of Hanbalism was Baghdad, where it was backed by the caliphs up until al-N asir li- Din Allah.
The differences between the madhhabs derived from disputes over the processes to be observed when reaching a legal decision (fatwā).

However, there was plenty of scope for disagreement among jurists of one school, and men might move from one madhhab to another: the famous eleventh-century Baghdadi scholar Ibn ‘Aqil came from a Hanafi family and seems to have started his studies in that madhhab before becoming a Hanbali.

Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27

Adherence to a certain madhhab did not in principle require adherence to a given theology (except in the case of Hanbalism).

The discrepancy between the actual differences between the madhhabs and the passions aroused in their name has suggested to several scholars that there must be more to these disputes than the minutiae of legal procedures.

Richard Bulliet’s classic study of Nishapur argues that the denominations of Hanafi and Shafi‘i essentially stand for two different political groups competing for power and positions. Bulliet sees the Hanafis of Nishapur as the aristocratic and conservative party, while the Shafi‘is were more open to new trends in Islam, such as the growing interest in Sufism.

Alparslan Buyuk Seljuk Episode 27 English Subtitles