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SECTION I
Q.1 Write answers in One or Two sentences, all 10 20 Marks
1.State any two schools of Muslim Law.[2]
Answer
Two schools of Muslim law are the Hanafi school and the Shafii school. Both are Sunni schools.
1. The Hanafi school. It is named after Imam Abu Hanifa.
- It gives the most room to reasoning, including analogy and juristic preference (istihsan).
- It allows a sane adult woman to contract her own marriage.
- It recognises the irregular (fasid) marriage.
- It is followed by the great majority of Indian Muslims. An Indian court presumes a Muslim to be Sunni, and in practice Hanafi.
2. The Shafii school. It is named after Imam Shafii.
- It systematised the theory of the sources: the Quran, Sunna, Ijma and Qiyas in ranked order.
- It restricted juristic preference.
- It is stricter than the Hanafi school about the guardian's role in a woman's marriage.
- It is followed by some communities in the south and on the west coast of India.
The other schools.
- The other Sunni schools are the Maliki, after Imam Malik, and the Hanbali, after Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
- The Shia schools are the Ithna Ashari, Ismaili and Zaidi.
Why schools matter. A school is not a source of law but a tradition of interpreting the sources. A party who proves that his family follows another school is governed by that school's rules.
So two schools are the Hanafi and the Shafii.
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