Minhaj et talibin. A manual of Mohammadan law according to the school of Shafii

E. C. C Howard, Lodewijk Willem Christiaan Van Den Berg, 1233-1277 Nawawi

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MINHAJ ET TALIBIN:
TALIBINMINHAJ ET
A MANUAL OF
MUHAMMADAN LAW
TO THE OFACCORDING SCHOOL
SHAFII
BY
MAHIUDIN ABU ZAKARIA YAHYA IBN SHARIF EN
NAWAWI
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE FRENCH EDITION
OF
L. W. G. VAN DEN BERG
BY
E. G. HOWARD
LATE DISTRICT JUDGE, BINGAPOEE
LONDON
W. THACKER & 00., 2, OREED LANE, E.C.
CALCUTTA & SIMLA: THACKER, SPINK & CO.
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PKINTED BT
SOKS, LIMITED,WILLIAM CL0WE8 AND
LOKDON AND BECCLE8.PKEFATORY NOTE
Mr. L. W. C.his édition of the Fath el Karih in 1894,In the préface to
" controlfrom yoar to year EuropeanVan deu Berg remarked that
insistthat it is unnecessary toover Moslem peoples is extending, so
the two works that fonn the basis ofupon the importance of rendering
accessible, not only to athe légal literature of the School of Shafii
magistrates and politicalsmall number of Arabie scholars, but also to
Thisthat language is for the niost part unfamiliar.agents" to whom
toas it was twenty years ago it is thought advisablebeing as true now
translation of the other and larger work referred to,pubhsh an English
" légalthe first rank for decidingthe Minhaj et Talibin, which occupies
édition of this treatise, published in 1882cases." In the préface to his
Netherlands Indies, Mr. Van denat Batavia by the Government of the
the French version, of which this book is a ren-Berg explained that
literal translation of the concisedering into English, was not a mère
uninteUigible, paraphrase,Arabie text, which would hâve been but a
of Mehalli, andbased partly upon the Moharrer and the Commentary
thepartly upon the two principal sixteenth-century commentaries on
NiliayatMinhaj et Talibin—that is to say, the TohJat-el-Mohtaj and the
el Mohtaj. It is not always possible to décide a question by référence
to the Minhaj alone and in such a case a Muhammadan jurist—alim,
;
fakih, mufti or kadi, as it may be bas recourse principally to the—
and the Nihaya, which Dr. Th. Juynboll, in his Handhuch desTohfa
islamischen Gesetzes, 1910, calls "the two standard works in the whole
modem Fikh-literature of the School Shafii." It is hoped, therefore,of
that the présent publication may of practical utility thebe some in
direction above indicated, at the interestand same time not without
to the student of comparative jurisprudence.