ABSTRACT
Abu Hanifa was the founder of one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools. He was a theologian and religious lawyer. The law school he founded, the Hanafi, today has the largest following among the Muslim community. A Persian, Abu Hanifa was one of the great jurists of Islam and pioneered the science of jurisprudence ( fiqh ) that a number of individuals believed was in need of reform due to its lack of systematisation and disagreements over details from one region to the next.
