Abu Hanifa dies in Baghdad; the legal school formed by his disciples, the Hanafi school, becomes the most widely followed school of Sunni law, carried later by the Abbasid, Ottoman, and Mughal states.
Tagged: Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- c. 767 (approximate)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Baghdad; today Baghdad, Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam
- Key figures
- Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf
- Key texts
- Kitab al-Athar
Primary Sources
- Abu Yusuf, Kitab al-Kharaj
Secondary Sources
- Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Cambridge, 2009)
- Schacht, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford, 1964)
Provenance: HIST-0219; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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