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    Volume 3
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    July 2014
    February 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139506496
    9781108055376
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506496
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    Dimensions:
    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.47kg, 624 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Legal History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, Area Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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    Composed in the twelfth century by the leading Muslim jurist Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135–97), the original Arabic al-Hidāyah remains a central text of Islamic personal law. This English translation, from a Persian version of the work, was prepared by the orientalist Charles Hamilton (c.1752–92) for the East India Company in 1791. Although since superseded, it remains a fascinating document in the history of colonial jurisprudence. The legal system was central to the entrenchment of British rule in India, providing the framework for active control of civil administration and the courts. Translations of Islamic texts were intended to remove the language barrier for colonial officials, and blurred British and native law for the first time. Volume 3 contains sections on agency, claims, laws of business, deposits, loans, gifts, the hiring of slaves, freed slaves, and disputed land sales.

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