Sjafi’i (English: “Shafi’i (school of Islamic jurisprudence)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Islamic legal school that requires forty male worshippers for a valid Friday service; the school generally followed in the East Indies.
Translation
Shafi’i (school of Islamic jurisprudence)
Description
Islamic legal school that requires forty male worshippers for a valid Friday service; the school generally followed in the East Indies.
Significance
The term Sjafi’i is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.
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Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 349.