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Jariri is the name given to a short-lived school of Islamic jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) that was derived from the work of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari , the ninth and tenth-century Muslim scholar of Baghdad .1In Sunni Islam , four main Madhhabs , or schools of jurisprudence, have survived into the present, but in the early centuries of Islam, many schools of interpreting Islamic law came into being, generally deriving from the work of prominent legal scholars. The Jariri school was frequently in conflict with the strict Hanbali school of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal. It is difficult to characterize Islamic schools of law in brief, but the Jariri school was notable for its liberal attitudes toward the role of women; the Jariris for example held that women could be judges, and could lead men in prayer.2
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Jariri is the name given to a short-lived school of Islamic jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) that was derived from the work of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari , the 9th and 10th-century Muslim scholar of Baghdad . Eventually, followers of the school dwindled until the Jariri school of law eventually died out.
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Jariri is the name given to a short-lived school of fiqh that was derived from the work of al-Tabari , the 9th and 10th-century Persian Muslim scholar in Baghdad .Although it eventually became extinct, al-Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni ulama for two centuries after his death.Although it eventually became extinct, Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni scholar for two centuries after his death.
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Legal school in Sunni Islam The Jariri school is the name given to a short-lived Sunni school of fiqh that was derived from the work of al-Tabari , the 9th and 10th-century Persian Muslim scholar in Baghdad . Although it eventually became extinct, al-Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni ulama for two centuries after his death. Although it eventually became extinct, Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni scholar for two centuries after his death.
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Legal school in Sunni Islam The Jariri school is the name given to a short-lived Sunni school of fiqh that was derived from the work of al-Tabari , the 9th and 10th-century Muslim scholar in Baghdad . Although it eventually became extinct, al-Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni ulama for two centuries after his death. Although it eventually became extinct, Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni scholar for two centuries after his death.
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name given to a short-lived school of islamic jurisprudence
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name given to a short-lived sunni school of fiqh that was derived from the work of al-tabari
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