Hanafi
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Origin of Hanafi
< Arabic Ḥanafī, derivative of name of founder Abū Ḥanīfah
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Minister Khalid Hanafi said it was the government's "responsibility to guide the nation to have an appearance according to sharia", or Islamic law.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The leader of the operation was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, a District resident who had formed the Hanafi group.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2023
Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, charged with imposing the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islamic law as minister for vice and virtue, was also present.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
Sari Hanafi, a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut who grew up in Yarmouk, said those returning are doing so because of “absolute necessity.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
He is a Hanafi; as indeed are all the principal people at Meccah, only a few wild Sharifs of the hills being Shafe’i.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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