The Four Juristic Schools: Their Founders, Development, Methodology, and Legacy. This work includes a discussion on each of the four schools starting with a biography of the founder; stating hi name, lineage, study, journeys, teachers, students, written works, legacy, and demise. Then it discusses the development of the school and the academic stages that it went through, from the founding and establishment, to the spreading and following including its collation and redaction. Then it discusses the principle methodology of deriving rulings within the school, the most famous written works of the school, the nomenclature and symbols used within the school that are either found in these written works or used by the scholars, and the preference of the soundest or most dominant position in the school.