What is "zahiri"

n. A Muslim who adheres to this madhab n. A liberal and literalist madhab in Islam that considers everything halal if it is not explicitly forbidden in the Quran and mutawatir hadiths

Ẓāhirī is a school of thought in Islamic jurisprudence.

Zahiri may also refer to:

• Zahiri, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Zahiri, Shushtar, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī, alias Ibn Hazm, a 10th-century Andalusian |philosopher, litterateur, psychologist, historian, jurist and theologian
• Zahir-al-Din Fariyabi, a 12th-century Persian poet
• Jamel Zahiri (born 1985), French-born Moroccan football forward
• Mohamed Obaid Al-Zahiri, football player from the United Arab Emirates