The Four Imams Their Lives, Works and Their Schools of Thought

Author: Muhammad Abu Zahra

Number Of Pages: 518

Details: Product Description

This book is a compilation of four books which deal with the lives and works of the four imams who founded the four great canonical schools of thoughts of Islamic Fiqh. The Book was originally written in Arabic by the great Egyptian scholar and theologian Muhammad Abu Zahra and is presented in English for the first time.

About the Author

Muhammad Abu Zahra (1898 1974) was an Egyptian public intellectual, scholar of Islamic law, and author. He also served as a member of al-Azhar’s Academy of Islamic Research. Abu Zahra was born on March 29, 1898 in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, the second largest city in the Nile Delta. In 1913, Abu Zahra completed high school and enrolled in the Ahmadi Madrasa in Tanta. In 1916, he scored highest on the entry examination for the judiciary institute in the Gharbia rGovernorate despite being several years younger and less experienced than his colleagues.Having been rooted in traditional Azharite education, and never having studied in Europe or in Egyptian Westernized schools, Abu Zahra has been criticized by Orientalists as having a superficial grasp of Western methods. He taught at al-Azhar’s faculty of theology and later, as Professor of Islamic law at Cairo University.Between 1933 and 1942, he taught courses on the history of religions, denominations and sects at Azhar, during which time his lectures on comparative religion and Christianity were given, though the latter wasn’t published until 1965. His more than forty books include biographies of Abu Hanifah, Malik ibn Anas, Al-Shafi’i, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Zayd ibn Ali, Jafar as-Sadiq, Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-‘Abidin, Ibn Hazm and Ibn Taymiyyah, as well as works on personal status, pious endowments (waqf), property, and crime and punishment in Islamic law.

Release Date: 22-09-2010

Package Dimensions: 48x216x821