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Others maintain that the ḥanīf followed the "religion of Ibrahim, the hanif, the Muslim[.]" [10] It has been theorized by Watt that the verbal term Islam, arising from the participle form of Muslim (meaning "surrendered to God"), may have only arisen as an identifying descriptor for the religion in the late Medinan period. [10]
And Nabataean is generally considered as the region where the transformation of the term's meaning took place. [ 3 ] Alfred Felix Landon Beeston argues that the ambiguity associated with the shift of the term's meaning can be largely removed if one assumes that the term was introduced via Najran , instead of its direct introduction from Syria .
Hanif means a true believer, a righteous person in Arabic. It is the surname of the following people: Aamer Hanif (born 1967), Pakistani cricketer; Abdullah Hanif ...
The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107546073. Hanif, Sohail (2017). A theory of early classical Ḥanafism: Authority, rationality and tradition in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn 'Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197) (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
Hanifa (حنيفة) is an Arabic given name, the feminine form of Hanif, which means "incline" (to the right religion, i.e. Islam). It may refer to: Abu Hanifa (699–767), founder of Hanafi school of jurisprudence; V. M. C. Haneefa (1951-2010), Indian actor; Hənifə, Azerbaijan; Hanifa Abdullayev (1923-1991), Azerbaijani hematologist and ...
While it was likely used by some of his teachers, Abu Hanifa is regarded by modern scholarship as the first to formally adopt and institute analogical reason as a part of Islamic law. [28] As the fourth Caliph, Ali had transferred the Islamic capital to Kufa, and many of the first generation of Muslims had settled there. The Hanafi school of ...
The names and titles of Muhammad, [1] names and attributes of Muhammad [2], Names of Muhammad (Arabic: أسماء النبي, romanized: Asmā’u n-Nabiyy) are the titles of the prophet Muhammad and used by Muslims, where 88 of them are commonly known, but also countless names which are found mainly in the Quran and hadith literature.
The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic maddhab followed by a subsection featuring contemporary Hanafi scholars, in chronological order. List of Hanafis