A follower of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, one of the four main schools of law in Sunni Islam.
From Arabic 'Hanafī,' derived from the name of Abū Ḥanīfah (699-767 CE), an early Islamic legal scholar and theologian whose methodologies became systematized into a school of law.
The Hanafi school is the largest Islamic legal school by followers, dominating from Turkey to South Asia—yet most English speakers have never heard the term, showing how non-Western knowledge systems remain invisible in English despite their billions of adherents.
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