The Hanafi-Iraqi Fiqh Tradition

The Hanafi-Iraqi Fiqh Tradition

The Hanafi-Iraqi Fiqh Tradition was a special event which was streamed live in September 2022 with the goal of shedding light on the special characteristics of the Iraqi, Hanafi  sub-school (madrasa) which produced the likes of Karkhi, Jassas, Natifi, Quduri, Saymari and many more!

Muhammed Yasir Shahin is a Researcher at the ISAM Centre for Islamic Studies in Istanbul and a PhD student in Islamic Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at Tripoli University in Lebanon, and studied Law and Sharia at al-Azhar University in Cairo. He obtained his Master’s degree in Islamic Law at Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul with the thesis entitled, “The Jurisprudential Difference Between the Hanafi Jurists of Iraq and the Transoxiana”. Muhammed Shahin pursues research about Hanafi approaches to both fiqh and usul al-fiqh, and studies fundamental manuscripts that belong to the Hanafi school. He has edited several rare manuscripts, such as al-Qudurī’s (d. 428/1037) al-Taqrīb.