Islamic jurisprudence,
Fiqh in Arabic, is made up of the rulings of Islamic scholars to direct the lives of the
Muslim faithful. There are four schools or
madhhab of
fiqh. The four schools of
Sunni Islam are the Shafi'i
?, Hanafi
?, Maliki
?, and Hanbali
?. These four schools share most of their rulings (80%?) but differ on the particular
hadith they accept as authentically given by
Muhammad and the weight they give to analogy or reason in deciding difficulties.