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madhab

madhab is the nonstandard spelling of madhhab.

Meaning of madhhab

Noun

madhhab (plural madhhabs)

  1. A school of thought in Islamic jurisprudence.
    • Now some ignorant people claim that they have reached the grade of absolute ijtihâd, that they can draw rules from the Nass and that they no longer need to follow one of the four madhhabs, and they abandon the madhhab they have followed for years.2016, Mawlana Khalid Baghdadi, Belief and Islam: I'tiqad-Nama, page 55

Forms of madhab

pluralmadhabs

Questions about madhab

What is madhab the nonstandard spelling of?
Madhab is the nonstandard spelling of madhhab.

Words near madhab in the dictionary

  1. madges
  2. Madgett
  3. Madgetts
  4. Madgwick
  5. Madgwicks
  6. madhab
  7. madhabi
  8. madhabis
  9. madhabs
  10. madhalam
  11. Madhany

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