Doctrinal Coexistence between Maliki and Hanafi – Ottoman Tunisia as an Example

This book is a study of a period of time from the Ottoman era, which extended its influence over vast areas of the world.

It sheds light on an aspect that has long been engulfed by ambiguity, which is the impact of the Hanafi Ottomans on the Tunisian Maliki society, and the extent of the influence of the Hanafi model coming to Tunisia on the scientific and jurisprudential production of Tunisian scholars during the period of Ottoman rule that continued for three centuries.

It also guides the reader to the features and characteristics of the emergence and spread of the two sects (the Maliki and the Hanafi sects) and their spread in Tunisia, and the study of the scientific and jurisprudential giving of the two sects in that period.

It also clarifies the image of coexistence and harmony between two sects at the same time, and presents a bright image in the history of the tight Islamic legislation.

The researcher, in this book, followed a solid, reasonable scientific approach, in which he relied on addressing issues and tracking sayings, opinions and positions, and then extracting scientific results which are based on research conviction, through depending on the methodological studies that he presented.