The history of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) is that of Muslim civilization. Studying the evolution of fiqh amounts to doing this introspection in the historical movement of Muslim society, its clashes and accidents, its scholars and their productions, the qualitative leaps achieved and also the less glorious hours when decadence began to set in. sclerosing the movement of thought and that of thought and that of society.

This work begins with a brief study of the different characteristics of the evolution of fiqh from the death of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) until this last contemporary period. We then continue with the study of the six great founding imams of the great legal schools whose fruitful work and methods (usul fiqh) are still present today:

imams

• Abu Hanifa,
• Malik,
• Zaid,
• Jafar,
• Shafi
• and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal.

We will end with a chapter in which we study other imams whose schools did not last:

• Awza'i,
• Layth,
• Ibn Hazm...),

by adding shaykh Ibn Taymiya who, even if he did not found a school, left and still leaves a very strong imprint.

This book would not have been as it is without the immense work of Shaykh Abu Zahra on this theme, of which he left, in Arabic, six voluminous books, each on one of the six imams, essential references. We were also largely inspired by this production.

As we were inspired by other works, in particular by the great scholar Dhahabi , essential through his fundamental books on scholars, or even by Ibn Kathir and his monumental history.