508 EBMARKS UPON THE 



Op the books of Fmuwa which have been mentioned, 

 rone appear to require furiher notice, except the 

 Fuldwds-i Aah(7?igeiree, INlr. Hamilton, by an ex- 

 traordinary mistake, has stated tliis work to have been 

 *' composed in the I'e/sian language *, by the autho- 

 rity and under the inspection of the Emperor 

 Au'ruxgze'k ;" whereas it is well known to have been 

 written in Arabic, the usual language of Mjohummudan 

 law and science ; and to have been translated into 

 Persia?!^ by order of the Emperor's daughter, the 

 Princess Zeb oo'Nisa'. Several copies of the Arabic 

 original are in Calcutta; and some imperfect copies of 

 the Persia?! version ; or rather of parts of it -f-. In the 



''Jama,") are c 'llections of cases, of the nature of "Futawa." 

 A fnrrh'^rr collection, entitled *■' Khuzanui col futawa," by Alii);iud 

 bin-i-Mohummud, is umonc/ the books of the ^izivud Adalut, find 

 supposed by the " Kazee ool Ko.izai" to have'been compiled to- 

 wards the end of the 8th century of the Hijrah, Also a Persian 

 compilation, named " Futawa-i-Kurakhanee," the cases incku^.ed in 

 which were coUtcted by Moolla Sa'dr oo' det-n bin-i Yahood, and 

 arranged, some years af.er his death, by Kura Khan, in the reigi' 

 of Sooltan ul'^ oo'dr-on. The Kazfc ool Koozat has likewise pre 

 sented to the Nizamut Adalni a sii>all Persian book, entitled Mokht. 

 oo! Ikhtiyp.r, writt-- n A. H. SJl, by Ikhtiyar son of Gisyas ot 

 dren Husun ; containing, besides tke duiits of a kazee and mol'tee, 

 legal ibrms of various descri; tions for practical use. 



* Preliminary Discourse, {). 4-1. 



+ Mr. H. Culebrooke possesses a folio volume, containing about 

 half of the entire translation, from the commencement to t'ne book 

 ti;on evidence. I have also a volume which contains from the 

 book on marriage, to that upon endowments, or relig)(;us and cha- 

 ritrible appropriations. And, at ray suggt-s'ion, the Governor Ge- 

 reral in Council has been pleased to in=.truct the Resident at F^chiy 

 toendtavpur to procure two or more co!n[ilete copies of t'ie Persian 

 version med'^ by order of Zeboo Ni^a, v.ith a v.ew to prepare a col- 

 lated transcript, which may be lierc-ifter printed and published. I 

 have likewise a correct Per»i*n translation of ihe book ou *' Jioayat,'* 

 pr offences aga nst the {/crson, made for m*-, a few yeais since, 

 hy M(»ulavcc Saeed oodeen, (now law ofHcer of the Burely cwurt of 

 circuit) up.der the.sui>erintendeiice of his faiher, the Kazre ool 

 Koozut, who has added not';s of explanation where they app-^ared 

 requisite. Tnis version will probably be p:ioiedand publ.biie4, a* 

 it well deserves to be. 



