By: Noha Adel Bakr
” Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafii” (d. 204/820) was one of the most influential theoreticians of Islamic law during his time and remains so to the present day. As a student, then critic, of the two leading legal minds of his time, namely, Muhammad al-Shaybani and Malik ibn Anas, al-Shafii”presented a middle path between their thought.”
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