Meaning of Zahirism | Babel Free

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The Sunni Islamic movement that promotes the apparent meaning of the Quran.

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“An exception was their position regarding Zahirism, the exoteric or literalist legal doctrine that through its adoption by the eleventh-century Cordoban scholar Ibn Hazm came to represent⟳ the most dangerous challenge⟳ to Andalusi Malikism. Zahirism is close⟳ to Shafi'ism and Hanbalism in its insistence on the predominant role played by Prophetic hadith, in its restriction of the use⟳ of analogical reasoning and in its denial of any validity to the consensus arising after the early generations of Muslims.”

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