Fiqh
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Fiqh or Islamic jurisprudence is an expansion of Sharia law and is meant to be used with fatwas by Islamic clerics(known as 'Ulema' in Arabic) to help Muslims not break Sharia law. This is because the Quran on its own does not have every rule in every situation of a persons life so Islamic scholars (people who know a lot about Islam) make rulings so Muslims can follow the Sharia.
Clerics can not always agree on more harder issues so different schools of thought(points of view) have been made.
In Sunni Islam there are four main schools of thought, they are:
- Hanafi
- Maliki
- Shafi'i
- Hanbali
The different schools of thought are not different beliefs but different views .
In Shia Islam there is one main school of thought, it is called Jaferi