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Definition: One of four major legal schools in Sunni Islam, it was established by Ibn Hanbal (d. 855). One noted follower of this school was Ibn Abdul-Wahhab in the eighteenth century. Because of this, it is the dominant school in Saudi Arabia.
Hanbal had a reputation for strictness and one of his interests lay with reviving early Islamic practices, making him popular with fundamentalist Muslims through the ages.
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