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mazhab

mazhab is the alternative form 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 mazhab

pluralmazhabs

Origin of mazhab

Transliteration of Persian مذهب (mazhab), from Arabic مَذْهَب (maḏhab).

Questions about mazhab

What is mazhab the alternative form of?
Mazhab is the alternative form of madhhab.

Words near mazhab in the dictionary

  1. Mazey Day
  2. Mazgaj
  3. Mazgaon
  4. Mazgay
  5. mazgouf
  6. mazhab
  7. Mazhabi
  8. Mazhabis
  9. mazhabs
  10. mazhanje
  11. Mazhar

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