The Debate Over Talid Within Islamic Law and Theology

Sha e is the founding figure of one of the four major schools of islamic law. He ushered in a new phase of jurisprudence where class trained experts would replace more informal legal customs, which might differ from one place to another. A shaf himself does not always use the term taklid in a pajoritive sense but he thought that any jurist worthy of the name should be ling and able to perform icti had. Ashaf's followers were even more forthright in their critique of talid as it came to have an exclusively negative connotation.