324 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June 1911. 
A careful perusal of this paper—the result of considerable 
labour and research—containing excerpts from works of the 
highest authority, will, I venture to hope, leave no doubt in 
the minds of the readers about the validity of the wagf of 
moveables, including money, shares in companies, securities, 
stock, etc. In order to follow the historical development of 
this branch of Muslim Law, the reader would do well to peruse 
the extracts in the order indicated in the Bibliography in 
Appendix I. The relevancy of some of the extracts (appar- 
ently irrelevant to the matter in issue) will, no doubt, be 
obvious to the practical lawyer, if not to the lay reader. 
I have kept the English translation as close to the original 
as possible, even at some sacrifice of the English. Passages 
in the translation placed within crotchets do not occur in the 
Arabic original, and are inserted merely for explanatory rea- 
sons. Similarly, passages in the or ginal enclosed within crot- 
chets have been omitted in the translation, to avoid repetition 
or the introduction of irrelevant matter. The system of trans- 
literation adopted by me is, with slight modifications, that 
recommended by the Fourth Congress of Orientalists. 
I take this opportunity of expressing my sincere thanks 
to Muhammad ‘Ali Chevky Bey, and to Zaimzadé Hasan 
Fehmy Bey, grandson and First Secretary respectively to Field- 
Marshal Ghazi Ahmad Mukhtar Pasha, late Ottoman High 
Commissioner in Egypt, for obtaining access for me to several 
important Libraries in the Ottoman Empire, and also for pro- 
curing for me the Fatw&s of the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and of 
the Mufti of Alexandria ; to Shams al-Ulama Shaykh Mahmud 
Gilani for the Fatw4 from his brother, the celebrated Mujta- 
hid of Karbala; to Lt.-Col. Phillott for affording me every 
facility for research and placing at my disposal the Library 
of the Board of Examiners which is rich in the possession 
of some unique manuscripts on Muslim Law; and lastly, 
to my friend and colleague Mr. R. F. Azoo, for assistance in 
the elucidation of several obscure and difficult passages in the 
original. 
In a subsequent issue of the Journal of this Society I hope 
to give a translation of the well-known treatise on the subject 
of this paper by the celebrated Shaykh al-Islam, Mufti Abu’l- 
Su‘tid, @ manuscript copy of which I have just discovered 
in Constantinople. I am indebted to the Hon. Mr. G. H. C. 
