Institutes of Mussalman law. A Treatise on Personal Law Accroding to the Hanafite School

Those of my readers whose interests in law or politics travel beyond the boundaries of India may remember that more than thirty years ago the Reglement Judiciaire which sanctioned the establishment of Mixed Tribunals in Egypt for the purpose of dealing with questions arising iu civil suits between the Egyptians and the subjects of the Powers also provided for the publication of the laws relating [...] Justice Scott whilst deploring the difficulties which the Indian Judiciary had to contend with in the administration of Mussahnan Law urged me to write a treatise on the lines of the Code of Kadri adapted to the needs and requirements of my co-religionists in India. [...] Thus it is that through no inherent defect in the system no lack or paucity of materials in the original Arabic the laws of Islam enveloped as they are. for the most part in the ample folds of mediaeval tomes written in the rich and exuberant language of Arabia remain a hidden mystery to our Judiciary and Executive as well as to the European student unacquainted with the tongue of the Prop [...] With the rise of the 'suit of learning in the West and of Western domination over the East the study of Oriental languages in India has owing to various causes fallen into the back-ground and Indian Mussalman youths are not infrequently obliged to learn their own Personal Law in English translations. [...] The motive of many a crime among the Indian Mussalmans remains unfathomed and the cause of many a life-long hostility untraced for want of familiarity with the forces which influence and dominate the life of a Mussalman.