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  • Original Islam: Malik and the Madhhab of Madina (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East), (Routledge, 2006, ISBN   978-0-41555-407-7) [10]
  • The Codicology of Islamic Manuscripts : Proceedings of the Second Conference of Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 4–5 December 1993 (2nd ed.) London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation. ISBN   978-1873992159 [11]
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    The Hanafi school, Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools (Fiqh) of Islamic Law (madhhab). It is named after the 8th century Kufan scholar, Abu Hanifa, a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Imam Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani. It is considered one of the most widely accepted maddhab amongst Sunni Muslim community and is called the Madhhab of Jurists. A plurality of Hanafi Muslims follow and have followed the Maturidi school of theology.

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    Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Musa ibn al-Abbas ibn Mujahid al-Atashi was an Islamic scholar most notable for establishing and delineating the seven canonical Quranic readings (qira'at) in his work Kitāb al-sabʿa fī l-qirāʾāt. He was also notable for delivering the charge of heretical Quranic exegesis that reopened the trial of Mansur al-Hallaj, which ultimately led to his execution on the orders of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir.

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    Yasin Dutton
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of Oxford (DPhil)