In this article, I address the long-standing debate on the existence of regionally defined schools of law in Islam’s formative period by focusing on the early Kufan tradition, with special attention to Ikhtilāf Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Ibn Abī Laylā , attributed to Abū Yūsuf (d. 182/798). By studying reports and legal opinions in the text, I argue that the legal thought of Kufan jurists in Abū Ḥanifa’s generation was based on a general deference to regional, Kufan authorities and that this larger legal project may meaningfully be termed a school. I provide a model for legal method in these early schools, taking into account the contributions of supporters and detractors of the regional-school concept. I suggest that formative-period legal methods are also expressed in the classical Ḥanafī school, enabling us to view questions of ijtihād , taqlīd and madhhab formation in a new light.

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两个库凡的故事：Abū Yūsuf 的 Ikhtilāf Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Ibn Abī Laylā 和 Schacht 的古代学校


在这篇文章中，我通过关注早期库凡传统，特别关注伊赫蒂拉夫·阿比 Ḥanīfa wa-Ibn Abī Laylā（阿布·尤素夫（Abū Yūsuf）），来解决关于伊斯兰教形成时期是否存在按地区划分的法学院的长期争论。 d. 182/798）。通过研究文本中的报告和法律意见，我认为 Abū Ḥanifa 一代的库凡法学家的法律思想是基于对地区库凡当局的普遍尊重，并且这个更大的法律项目可以有意义地称为学派。我为这些早期学校的法律方法提供了一个模型，考虑到区域学校概念的支持者和反对者的贡献。我建议在古典 Ḥanafī 学派中也表达了形成期的法律方法，使我们能够查看 ijtihad 的问题，