February, 1915.] Annual Address. xvii 
Hedaya have been so far the principal works in the English 
language which give access to lawyers, not sufficiently familiar 
with Arabic, into the intricacies of the Hanafi Law. The Per- 
sian translation of the Hedaya, however, does not, in many 
cases, correctly represent the Arabic original, as the translators 
interpolated many of their own interpretations into the render- 
ing; whilst Neill Ballie, in his desire to condense the matter 
by the omission of important passages and of the authorities 
on which the Fatawas are based, has created a certain amount 
of confusion in the apprehension of the principles.’’ This 
complaint, if I may say so without impropriety, is amply justi- 
fied, and it is hardly creditable to us that we should in this 
respect come out not even second best when a comparison is 
instituted between the work accomplished here and elsewhere. 
once be assigned to Precis de Jurisprudence Musulmane by Dr. 
Nicolas Perron, which was published in six volumes under the 
patronage of the French Government in Algeria and is a trans- 
lation of the celebrated work on Maliki Law, the Mukhtasar 
of Sidi Khalil. But it would be a mistake to suppose that 
this monumental work stands alone. e have further the 
Balance de la loi Musulmane, a translation by Dr. Perron of the 
Mizan of Al Sherane, one of the most important works on 
Moslem Comparative Jurisprudence; the Code Musulmane by 
Seignette, who furnishes an accurate edition of the Arabic text 
