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In addition to believing in the supreme authority of the Quran and teachings of Muhammad, Shīʿa Muslims believe that Muhammad's family, the Ahl al-Bayt ("People of the Household"), including his descendants known as Imams, have distinguished spiritual and political authority over the community, [19] and believe that ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ...
The school was greatly supported by Clara Muhammad, the wife of Elijah Muhammad and other Mothers of the Nation of Islam, [2] in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan and was one of the original institutions of the organization. It was an elementary school that taught "mathematics, astronomy and the general knowledge of civilization."
The Hanafi school [a] or Hanafism is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It developed from the teachings of the jurist and theologian Abu Hanifa ( c. 699–767 CE ), who systemised the use of reasoning ( ra'y ).
The number 4 is a very important number in Islam with many significations: Eid-al-Adha lasts for four days from the 10th to the 14th of Dhul Hijja; there were four Caliphs; there were four Archangels; there are four months in which war is not permitted in Islam; when a woman's husband dies she is to wait for four months and ten days; the Rub el ...
The four Sunni Imams founded the four madhhab (schools of thought) recognized in Sunni Islam.While they agree on the foundational principles of fiqh according to the Sunni narrative, their interpretations of certain legal and practical matters differ, which led to the development of the four distinct madhhab.
The most important of the schools of Islamic law developed in Kufa in Mesopotamia, according to Schacht's research, and its legal precepts spread to other cities such as Medina. [5] [6] [7] Beginning around 100 A.H. (720 CE), ahadith of Muhammad "began to be fabricated", forming the Islamic Sunnah as it is known today.
[1] [2] Like the other schools of fiqh, Shafiʽi recognize the First Four Caliphs as the Islamic prophet Muhammad's rightful successors and relies on the Qurʾān and the "sound" books of Ḥadīths as primary sources of law. [4] [6] The Shafi'i school affirms the authority of both divine law-giving (the Qurʾān and the Sunnah) and human ...
Mohammed Schools of Atlanta is a 3K–12 private school system founded by the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam in an unincorporated area of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, near Atlanta. [1] The system is located in the East Atlanta area. [2] The schools are administered by the Atlanta Masjid of Islam. As of 2001, about 300 students attend the ...