As salaamu alaykum.
Could someone list
1) which countries in which the Maliki madhab is the most dominant madhab?
and
2) Which countries have some significant Maliki minorities?
Thanks in advance.
Jazakallahu Khair.
Wa'salaam.
The Maliki Madhab: Countries in which it dominates?
As salaamu alaykum.
Could someone list
1) which countries in which the Maliki madhab is the most dominant madhab?
and
2) Which countries have some significant Maliki minorities?
Thanks in advance.
Jazakallahu Khair.
Wa'salaam.
as salamu `alaykum
the maliki school is dominant is west and north african countries e.g. nigeria, mauritania, morocco, tunisia, senegal, ghana etc etc ....
i don't know how much the maliki school is still dominant in libya and algeria... in the latter, there are have been long-term attempts to remove the maliki, sufi ulama by the salafis...
sudan is by maliki also.
Egypt has a huge maliki population, and used to be the dominant maddhab until the shafi'is took that position.
apparrently most the imams in the Emirates are maliki also, since members of the families of the ruling emirs are maliki... you will find small minorities of malikis in all the other arab states.. but i have mentioned the main ones. Allah knows best
Thanks for the info bro. But could you, or anyone else who is familiar with the Maliki madhab, look over the following list and tell me whether or not the countries mentioned herein are ones in which it could rightly be said that the Maliki madhab dominates, either because 1) the majority of the country is Maliki, 2) the parts of the legal system that are inline with Sharia predominately come from Maliki fiqh, or 3) the Orthodox Ulema who are present in the country generally follow the Maliki madhab?
ARAB LANDS:
Algeria
Bahrain
Kuwait
Libya
Morocco
Mauritania
Tunisia
Sudan
BLACK AFRICA:
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Chad
Cote D'Ivoire
Gabon
Gambia
(Ghana)
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Mali
Nigeria
Niger
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Uganda
If there are any significant omissions, or countries incorrectly placed here, please inform me of them.
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Originally Posted by Pahlawaan Khan
I'm kind of confused on this when did Algeria, Morroco, Sudan, Tunisia, Mauritania became an Arab country
2. You mention black africa what does that have to do anything, you have the directional view East, West, North South. Now you have it listed by color?
can you please help me understand from your post. It can be pervceived as being sterotypical akhi.
Last edited by Abdur_Rahman; 06-04-2005 at 07:35 PM.
Ibrahim al-Harbi said, ‘I heard Ahmad Ibn Hanbal say, ‘If you love that Allah should keep you upon that which you love, then remain upon that which He loves, and the good is in the one who sees no good in himself.”
Refer to al-adab shariah (2/31) by Ibn Muflih
As salaamu alaykum.
The reason for why I listed Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Mauritania as Arab countries was because of the fact that their heads of state and consitutions recognize them as such by virtue of their voluntarily association with the Arab League. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, Arabic is at least one the official language of each of those countries, and many people would consider any area whose inhabitants, or ruling authority, are, by and large, native Arabic speakers, as Arabs. I recognize that in many of the aforementioned countries there are large non-Arab majorities, but nonetheless, the ruling authority and, by and large, the dominant culture, is largely Arab, hence the reason for my calling them Arab.
I classed certain countries wherein the Maliki madhab is followed as belonging to "Black Africa" for a reason. I have a number of questions, not only about the Maliki madhab, but all four madhabs, and among them is being able to ascertain to what degree, based on cultural, ethnic, and linguistic factors the following of each Madhab, be it in terms of which positions are more popularly followed, or to which scholars, both historically and in contemporary times, recourse is made. For example, I notice that, despite many a person's protestations, that there seems to be a definite difference in how the Hanafi madhab is practiced, in terms of which disputed positions are more popular and which Ulema's words are given greater creedence, in the Arab world as opposed to the Indian Subcontinent (and just for the record, I belong to neither). I would like to know if such a phenomenon exists among the followers of various other Madhahibs, although my questions, and thus purpose of research, is not limited to those questions.
I hope that this clarified things.
Wa'salaam.
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