Imam Al-Shafii is a man who has left a permanent mark on the world, so much so that he is still remembered more than a millennium after his death. He is the founder of one of the four schools of judicial law that arose in Sunni Islam. His legacy is that of a more balanced and well thought out process of law, one that attempts to stray from the other schools of law that employ personal judgment quite heavily in the course of legal decision making. Born in 767 in Gaza, Al-Shafii was said to have memorized...
