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Four Schools / Fiqh
Rooted in the practice of the people of Madīnah as a living witness to the Sunnah and its applied fiqh.
Founder
Mālik ibn ʾAnas
Central Focus
How the school orders its legal sources and derives rulings.
5 sections
Virtues, outlook, and the school’s central emphasis.
The school’s better-known methodological and legal distinctives.
3 sections
How the school is situated within Sunni theological tradition.
Its development, spread, and long-term influence.
