ABU HANIFA AND HIS TIME: THE ARABIAN AND PERSIAN PEOPLES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF ISLAM AND THE KHALIFAT.
The paper focuses on the life, work and legacy of one of the early Islam lawyers, teachers and theologians - Abu Hanifa, whose public activity coincided with the two milestone events of that time: the development of a new great religion Islam, and the birth of a new Empire - the Arab Khalifat.