RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sunnah, Ijtihad, Hanbali
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Early concerns within the first couple of hundred years of islam. Mishnah: islam is doing very much the same sort of thing and is in fact inspired by jewish customs, early on we get development on bodies of thought around the subject the. Idea behind sharia same as behind christian law embedding practices of piety and pirnciples of faith in practice. Sharia is about enacting god"s will or interpreting what might be. God"s will and embedding those in our practice. Most schools of thought and law recognized four major principles: quran, sunnah. Consulted if we cant find answers in quran. Contained in a large number of stories circulating around the prophet. Hadith early muslim scholars felt the need to examine these stories and to regulate and identify what is considered to be authoritative vs. just marginal. How do we know that a story is really authentic.
