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Qanoon-e-Islan, or the Customs of the Moosulmans of India; comprising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies ... By Jaffur Shurreef. Composed under the direction of, and translated by, G. A. Herklots

HERKLOTS, Gerhard Andreas. · 1863 · 34 pictures

An ethnographic survey of Muslim rites and ceremonies in India, written by Jaffur Shurreef and translated by Gerhard Andreas Herklots, published in 1863 for British colonial officials and scholarly readers. The plates are plain line diagrams of divination charts, magic squares, and talismanic figures with drawn faces and limbs, labelled with compass directions, weekdays and Arabic script, useful as geometric occult ornament and chart layouts.

British Library · HMNTS 10056.f.28. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library