Zahiri
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The Ẓāhirī school (Arabic: الزَاهِرائ, romanized: az-Ẓāhira), or Zahirism, is a Sunni madhab (school of Islamic jurisprudence),that was founded in the 9th century by Dawud al-Ẓahiri, a Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Islamic Golden Age.
It is characterized by strict adherence to literalism and reliance on the outward (zahir) meaning of expressions in the Qur'an and thehadith; the consensus (ijma) of the first generation of the Prophet Muhammad's closest companions (ṣahaba) for sources of Islamic law (sharia); and the rejection of analogical deduction (qiyas) and societal custom or knowledge (urf), which is used by other schools of Islamic jurisprudence. However, its wing against the scholar Ibn Hazm usually accepts religious inference.