Maghrebi Maliki tradition

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The Maghrebi Maliki tradition is a regional North African expression of the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic law, shaped by local customs, historical scholarship, and the religious institutions of the Maghreb.

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Label Occurrences
Maghrebi Maliki tradition canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic legal tradition
regional fiqh tradition
associatedWith Almohad dynasty
Hafsid dynasty
Marinid dynasty
Saʿdian dynasty
ʿAlawite dynasty of Morocco
linked to: Alaouite dynasty
basedOn Qurʾan
linked to: Quran

Sunnah
analogical reasoning (qiyās)
consensus (ijmāʿ)
characterizedBy close ties between religious scholars and ruling dynasties
integration of tribal customary law
strong role of qāḍīs and muftīs
continuesIn contemporary state personal status codes in the Maghreb
developedIn Islamic West (al-Maghrib al-Islāmī)
linked to: Islamic West

medieval period
emphasizes practice of the people of Medina (ʿamal ahl al-Madīna)
followsSchool Maliki school
hasCenter Algiers
Fez
Kairouan
Marrakesh
Tunis
hasNotableScholar Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (Averroes the Elder)
linked to: Averroes

Ibn ʿArafa
Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī (via reception in the Maghreb)
linked to: Khalil ibn Ishaq

al-Māzarī
al-Qarāfī
linked to: Al-Qarafi
hasNotableText Bidāyat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd
Mukhtaṣar Khalīl (as a core teaching text)
influencedBy Maliki legal methodology
historical scholarship of the Maghreb
local customs (ʿurf)
legalDomain commercial law
criminal law
family law
ritual law
practicedIn Algeria
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
Western Sahara
linked to: Spanish Sahara

parts of the Sahara
region Maghreb
linked to: North Africa

North Africa
religion Sunni Islam
supportedBy Maliki madrasas of the Maghreb
Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis
mosque-university of al-Qarawiyyīn in Fez
usesConcept istihsān (juristic preference)
maslaha (public interest)
sadd al-dharāʾiʿ (blocking the means)

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Maliki school hasSubtradition Maghrebi Maliki tradition
Maliki hasSubSchool Maghrebi Maliki tradition