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  • Chapter 6 - The ‘Innovation’ of Legal School Affiliation

  • from Part I - Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) and Related Genres
  • Edited by Omar Anchassi, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Islamic Law in Context
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 70-80

  • Summary

    This chapter explores Salafī arguments against adherence to the Sunnī legal schools in the polemical writings of Muḥammad ʿĪd al-ʿAbbāsī, with an excerpt from his Bidʿat al-Taʿaṣṣub al-Madhhabī. Salafism (Salafiyya) is among other things critical of the edifice of the Islamic school system and its theoretical underpinnings. It emerged out of an interest in reforming Islamic thought generally, combined with a dissatisfaction and perceived decline in the spiritual health of the global Muslim community. Salafīs generally have refused to accept that the Islamic tradition - in law, theology and other disciplines - deserves the reverence and authority it appears to enjoy within the Muslim community.