Enciclopedia Cattolica

Malikite Rite

MÀLIKITA, RITO

Volume VII · p. 1135 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

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MÀLIKITE, RITE. - One of the four schools, or systems or rites of orthodox Islam. Its founder is the imām or Medinan scholar Màlik ibn Anas, born around 710 and died in 794 A.D. Having lived in the environment where the life of Muḥammad as head of the Muslim community had unfolded, he absorbed its still-living tradition, expressed through the canonical narratives or ḥadīth, which alongside the Qurʾān came

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“MÀLIKITA, RITO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), p. 1135. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/malikita-rito.