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Madhhab / mazhab A particular ‘school’ of religious law or thought. In the second and third century, groups of jurists appeared in different Islamic cities, which later came to be known as madhhabs or schools of law. Out of more than nineteen, seven or eight schools have survived. Ja’fariyya (Ja’far Sadiq), in Iraq, Iran and India, Zaydiyya (Zaydb. Ali), Hanafiyya (Abu Hanifah), Shafi’iyya (Idris al-Shafi’i), Malikiyya (Malik b. Anas), Hanbaliyya (Ahmad b. Hanbal), Ibadiyya |