The Hedaya, or Guide : A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws Paperback / softback
by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society series
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Composed in the twelfth century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135–97), the original Arabic al-Hidayah remains a central text of Islamic personal law.
This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton (c.1752–92) for the East India Company in 1791.
Although since superseded, it remains a fascinating document in the history of colonial jurisprudence.
The legal system was central to the entrenchment of British rule in India, providing the framework for active control of civil administration and the courts.
Translations of Islamic texts were intended to remove the language barrier for colonial officials, and blurred British and native law for the first time.
Volume 4 contains sections on the partition of property, the eating of meat, sacrifice, abominations, the cultivation of wasteland, prohibited drinks, hunting, pawning, crimes against the person, fines, wills, and hermaphrodites.
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