Understanding the Four Madhabs
by Abdal Hakim Murad
Paperback Booklet of 30 Pages

Why four schools of thought? Is it necessary to follow one? Discussion on these and other questions. A great book for those confused about this subject.

Because of the traditional pious fear of distorting the Law of Islam, the overwhelming majority of the great scholars of the past - certainly well over ninety-nine percent of them - have adhered loyally to a madhhab. It is true that in the troubled fourteenth century a handful of dissenters appeared, but even these individuals never recommended that semi-educated Muslims should attempt ijtihad without expert help. 

About the Author
Abdal Hakim Murad graduated from Cambridge University with a double-first in Arabic in 1983. He then studied  Islam under traditional teachers at Al-Azhar, one of the oldest universities in the world. He went on to reside in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and other ulama from Hadramaut, Yemen.

In 1989, Abdal Hakim returned to England and spent two years at the University of London learning Turkish and Farsi . He is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali Ihya Ulum al-Din

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