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Manhaj

Methodology: how the earliest generations understood the texts, and the principles later scholars derived for following them.

4 Imams & Madhabs

Why Are There Four Schools of Islamic Law?

They are four surviving methodologies for deriving rulings from the same sources — not four religions or four versions of Islam. Their disagreements are mostly in secondary matters and arise from differing interpretive principles.

Dr. Yusuf al-Amin 3 min read