Personal Law of the Mahommedans. Mahommedan Law Compiled from Authorities in the Original Arabic

Ghulam 'Camber.... 443 Tayheb Ally In the matter of........ 251 The Aylesford Peerage........ 193 The Advocate-General v. Mohammed Hossen Hosseni otherwise called Agha Khan.... 135 The King v. The Inhabitants of Brampton.. 183 Thoren v. Attorney-General.... 183 Toonanjan v. Mehndee Begum.. 123 TABLE OF OASES CITED. [...] (1) Whilst the similarity of the personal laws of the Mahommedans to the Hebraic domestic regulations can be satisfactorily explained by the presence of the Jews in the midst of the Arabs the reseblance which certain features of the Musulman Law bear to Roman Jurisprudence does not admit of so easy a solution. [...] The question of the Imdmate the spiritual headship of the Musulman Commonwealth forms the most distinctive feature of difference between the Sunnis and the Shiahs The Ind mate. [...] The Shiahs repudiate 'entirely the authority of the hantrat (or the universality of the people) to elect a spiritual chief who should supersede the rightful claims of persons indicated by the Founder of the Faith; whilst the Sunnis regard the decisions of the assemblies however obtained as of oecumenical importance. [...] (1) And this was the keystone of the fabric built up by the ablest monarch of the House of Abbas Mansfir the real founder of the Sunni church.