| Details | “The Fatwa-i-Alamgiri is a work of great authority in Mahomedan law, and was commenced in the year of the Hijrah 1067 (A.D. 1656), by order of the Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, by whose name the collection is now designated. It contains a bare recital of law cases, without any argument or proofs; an omission which renders it defective for elementary instruction. The immense number of cases however, compensate in some measure for this want, which is, moreover, supplied by Hedayah, and other works; and the insertion of argument can the more readily be dispensed with those of the older writers on jurisprudence, and the mere decisions, within comment or explanation, are equally applicable to particular cases, when illustrated and explained by reference to works of authority as text, books,” [cited by P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon] |
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