RELIGST 2Q03 Chapter Notes -Abu Hanifa, MuʿTazila, Fiqh
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How to understand those things which are transmitted in the hadith; etc. Theology & jurisprudence ; share something in common (both dealt with things from a viewpoint of reason) earliest form of fiqh and jurisprudence were based on rational opinionated based premise; loosely based on hadith. Theology deals with the nature of god, etc. Ayoub fiqh and theology: jurisprudence and the rational instigation of god s existence, jurisprudence and theology developed in a similar current and both depended upon reason to derive their sources; In the early period, people like abu hanifah (iraq); the people that were developing the law were also developing the theology. Last saved on: 11/10/2013 6:27:00 pm: law and theology were not two separate fields, common sense? experimenting with how to form the law and theology, prophetic practice = hadith. Key areas of disagreement how to understand the physicality of god. No one disputed that the qur an is the word of god.