Adamjee peerbhoy biography of georgetown
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Prof. Abbas Hamdani
Abbas Hamdani was a scholar of Islamic history and philosophy who descended from a long line of scholars in the Bohra community and relatives of its da’is. His forefather, Sayyidi Ali b. Sa`id al-Hamdani left his family’s ancestral home in Yemen in the late s, at the invitation of the 39th da`I Ibrahim Wajih al-Din (d. ). The da`wa had just headquartered in Surat at that time because the English East India Company was extending its policy of religious toleration to its control of that important trading and manufacturing town. This prompted the da`is to establish a center of learning there. Toward that effort prominent Yemeni scholars like Sayyidi Ali b. Sa`id, were invited to Surat in order to help. He brought with him to India his library of Ismaili texts, and he and his sons and grandsons taught in the Dar al-Saifiya established by the 43rd da`I `Abde-Ali, who also conferred on them hadd titles in recognition of their service to the da`wa.
The sons and
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Sharī'a under the English Legal System in British India: Awqāf (Endowments) in the Making of Anglo-Muhammadan Law
This study analyses the treatment of Islamic law (Fiqh) under the English legal system bygd looking into the developments in waqf law in British India. It has the dual objective of analysing the impact of the English legal struktur upon Islamic law, and determining the role of various actors in this process. It argues that waqf lag was transformed in beställning to passform into the state structure. The colonial state used the techniques of translation, adjudication, legislation and teaching in beställning to transform Islamic lag. Adjudication was preferred over legislative codification as a mode of governance and rule making because of its flexibility. The translation of classical Islamic legal texts, the Hidāya and certain parts of the Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyya, relieved English judges of the need for a reliance on local legal advisors. However, Muslim lawyers, judges, legal commentator
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The Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi Volume 14 [14]
Table of contents :
1. CABLE T0 G. K. GOKHALE
2. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
3. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
4. LETTER TO MARSHALL CAMPBELL
5. INTERVIEW TO REUTER
6. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
7. CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
8. SPEECH AT MARITZBURG
9. TELEGRAM TO MINISTER OF INTERIOR
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
INTERVIEW TO “THE NATAL MERCURY”
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
LETTER TO “THE NATAL MERCURY”
HINDI AND TAMIL
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
LETTER TO MARSHALL CAMPBELL
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
CABLE TO G. K. GOKHALE
SPEECH AT RECEPTION TO C. F. ANDREWS
LETTER TO MANILAL GANDHI
INTERVIEW TO REUTER
LETTER TO EMILY HOBHOUSE
LETTER TO “INDIAN OPINION”
IMMORTAL HURBATSINGH
INTERVIEW TO “PRETORIA NEWS”
IMPORTANT ADVICE
LETTER TO HERMANN KALLENBACH
INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL SMUTS
LETTER TO HERMANN KALLENBACH
LETTER TO HERMANN KALLENBACH
LETTER TO CHHAGANLAL GANDHI
LETTER TO HERM