Imam Abu Hanifa a Great Islamic Scholar

Authors

  • 1Dr. Naseem Akhter Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Studies Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 2Dr. Sohail Akhtar Lecturer in History Department of History & Political Science Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan Pakistan
  • 3Hira Khan Lecturer, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Noman Bin Thabit famous as Imam Abu Hanifa is considered one of the most important jurists of Islam among all School of thoughts. He is also called Imam-e-Azam. Imam Abu Hanifa is known as a great intellectual of his time and he was the contemporary personage of Abbasid caliph Jaffer Al-Mansour. Imam Abu Hanifa formed Hanfi School of thought and his fiqah is considered as largest among all in the entire Muslim World. This paper is a brief study about his intellectual work.

  Key Words: Imam, Fiqah, Hanfi, Jurist, Kuffa, Abbasid, Caliphate. 

Published

2024-11-16

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 4 (2024): Al-Anfal

Section

Articles