The followers of each mazhab established madrasahs to teach...

The followers of each mazhab established madrasahs to teach their own fiqh [^27] , or Islamic jurisprudence. Local conditions played an important role in the development of different fiqh schools because Islam had spread from Madina to Syria, Egypt, Iran and Iraq, and to Africa. The social conditions and political needs of these areas were totally different from those of the egalitarian tribal society of Arabia.

Therefore, local socio-political features are reflected in the fiqh developed in their respective regions. Rules of these fiqh continued to be taught in the madrasahs in India up to the present day.[^28] In earlier times,…