Spanish Muslims remained Maliki in law despite absorbing non-Maliki devotional texts

Evidence

The school of Islamic law to which Ibn al-Jawzi subscribed was Hanbalism, but all Spain’s Muslims at this time, indeed most of them at any time, followed in fiqh (Islamic law) the teachings of the imam Malik Ibn Anas (Malikism). (It was not until refugees found themselves living in lands where the other schools of law flourished that some late Spanish Muslims began to take some interest in them.) Ibn al-Jawzi’s work was valued for its religious preaching. When it came to the law rather than general religious instruction, in Spain the textbooks Muslims wanted were Maliki ones. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 723

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Malikism vs Hanbalism and that devotional/creedal borrowing did not extend to legal school.