Talk:Shafi'i school

message: Oy! Is there some reason people took out the ˤayns in Šāfiˤī and replaced them with glottal stops (alifs)? Seems silly to have it spelled wrong, especially when the ˤayns are so readily available. em zilch 22:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ayin

message: Anyhow the accent cute is misused as an apostrophe: Shafi`i should be Shafi'i. Terrible, just annoying. For more information, have a look here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
89.247.111.108 (talk) 13:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Acute Misuse

message: Hi there 
Regarding this paragraph:
The Shāfi‘ī school is considered one of the more conservative of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence, but there are many adherents of the Shāfi‘ī tradition who maintain liberal views in practicing their religion.
It is not quite true, Shafites are not one of the more conservatives of the four schools of Islam. Indeed they are the most liberal ones.
This is a almost entirely subjective arguement. On what basis do we determine how conservative or liberal a mathhad is? Perhaps in regards to individual issues of jurisprudence this can be determined but not as a generalization. Supertouch (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shafi'i school

message: The lead of this article should be expanded so those interested in just quickly learning about the most basic information don't have to read through the whole article. Just summarise the main article into two or three paragraphs. see WP:LEAD. Merbabu 12:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

message: The paragraphs implying that the other schools somehow also believe that Shafi`i is the best madhhab sound a bit too propaganda-ish. It might be a good idea for a muslim with more knowledge of these things to review those statements. -- 18:06, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubtful propaganda might need to be removed 

message: The history and philosophy of the Shafi'i Madhab is very interesting and important but this article seems to be very short of practical examples. As a non-muslim myself I would be interested to read about the practical day to day difference between the Shafi'i Madhab and any of the other 3 Sunni Madhab. For instance a friend of mine told me that there are different rules of prayer to be observed for each Madhab? If this is true I think this is the sort of information that would be good in this article. Ryan Albrey (talk) 03:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: For Non-Muslims

message: Is it possible to format the map so that it doesn't out any of the article?
David Cheater (talk) 18:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map blocks text 

message: It hardly seems necessary to have both lists of notable Shafi'is. I propose deleting the first list entirely, making sure all of the names in it are present in the second. My reasoning is that the organization of the first list is superior to that of the second - as many scholars excelled in more than one disciple their name would then appear on the list more than once.Supertouch (talk) 23:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two lists of Names? 

message: Hanafi article says:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Today, the Hanafi school is predominant among the Sunnis of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China as well as in Iraq, Mauritius, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia in the Balkans and the Caucasus.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
and the map in Hanafi article indicates similar info. Now, this Shafi'i article says:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
It is the dominant madhab of Syria, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Chechnya, Kurdistan, Egypt, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Maldives, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Indonesia.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
So both articles make claims about being dominant in Egypt and the Levant areas. From cursory google search I get the impression that the Hanafi claims for dominance in these places are valid for the modern times and the Shafi'i ones refer to some past era and are no longer relevant. 76.24.104.52 (talk) 04:12, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional spread info is inconsistent with the [[Hanafi]] article 

message: Content was recently merged from Sunni Islam, though the more relevant discussion can be found on that article's talk page. Per Wikipedia:Merging, however, I am still required to open a discussion here. I would suggest reading my comments on Talk:Sunni Islam first. MezzoMezzo (talk) 05:38, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Really disappointing that Wikipedia doesn't have a proper article on this important school of jurisprudence. There are: 0 in line citations, many dubious assertions, general formatting issues (over-linking, prose style, poor writing, lead etc). Uphill task. --Tachfin (talk) 15:42, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, GoogleBooks might be a good place to start for the history of the school. The task intimidates me, and possibly others, simply because there is a buttload of material out there from Brill Publishers, major university presses and so forth and while it provides a good amount of citable material on the onehand, it also makes for a mammoth undertaking to create a real article on the other hand. If we can round up some support on Wikiprojects and other places, are you down to volunteer some time? I'll step forward and admit that I would only be willing if others jump on the bandwagon too. MezzoMezzo (talk) 05:03, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, forgot to tag. User:Tachfin, what do you think of the above? MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:47, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: @ User:MezzoMezzo Yes but unfortunately I can't promise any scheduled commitment. Before posting the above message, I had already started improving the prose then stopped when I realised the quantity of work needed.  I think there may be a better earlier version of this article, we might start from there. The good news is, the Shafi'i school is relatively well formalised and documented, therefore one good synthesis book or paper could be sufficient to source most of the article. --Tachfin (talk) 05:13, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Tachfin, I agree on all counts. It doesn't have to be done tomorrow, so a scheduled thing would be cumbersome. GoogleBooks might be a good place to start, I will run a quick search in a few moments to see if I can throw in citations for at least the basic info. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:29, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: Opening sentence says "The Shafi'i (Arabic: شافعي‎ Šāfiʿī ) madhhab is one of the four schools of Islamic law in Sunni Islam". 
The Infobox lists five schools: Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Ẓāhirī. So, is it 4 or 5? Muzilon (talk) 10:21, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Four or five schools? 

message: Peace, I have provided my argument here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NeilN#Peace.2C_here_to_go_through_what_you_said_I_did.
Too long didn't read.
Biased, makes 5% of the Madhab seem like 95%.
Forgets majorly important pieces of information, tricking many people with no cause.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.193.224 (talk) 00:21, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said, you are free to add more sourced views to the article. --NeilN talk to me 18:47, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the bias in the page. 

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam#NPOV issues in Hanafi, Maliki and Shafi'i. Eperoton (talk) 22:39, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV issues 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Shafi‘i school's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "sunnah":
From Ali al-Qari: 
From Ibn Furak: 
From Apostasy in Islam: 
From Al-Shafi‘i: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:35, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Shafi‘i school]] 

message: See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Islam#Inconsistency_in_the_naming_of_madhhab_articles for rationale and post your comments there. TigraanClick here to contact me 16:59, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to [[Shafiʽi]]? 

message: Dalil 2401:4900:61A1:F8E4:2554:7FD6:3F66:4089 (talk) 15:51, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shatranj khelna kaisa hai jayaz ya na jayaz dalil