The fifith edition, revised and updated by Tahir Mahmood, traces changes and modifications that have taken place in the law since the publication of the fourth edition in 1974. It highlights more than three decades of developments in the statutory as well as case law, without disturbing the framework and intellectual design of the original book. While remaining primarily an examination of Muslim law as it is administered in India, the book includes, where relevant, references to the legal position in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Muslim countries in West Asia and Africa.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint. Originally published: London: Oxford University Press, 1931.

Asaf A.A. Fyzee was a renowned author in the field of Islamic jurisprudence and his contribution to Muhammadan Law has been indispensable for advancing its understanding. This classic work, which essentially lays down the tenets of Islamic jurisprudence in a comprehensive manner, has enjoyedexceptional popularity for decades. In this book, Fyzee begins with the origin of Muslim law in the light of pre-Islamic Arabia and ancient Arabian customs and goes on to cover areas such as marriage and its dissolution, parentage, guardianship, and legitimacy, maintenance and gifts, as well as the Sunnite and Shiite laws ofinheritance. Since the publication of the fifth edition eight years ago, the higher courts in the subcontinent have come out with a number of highly significant decisions on various aspects of Muslim law. On the legislative front, there has been hardly any activity, except that in India the Wakf Act of 1995 wassubjected to massive changes in 2013. This sixth edition covers the developments through revised and updated chapter-wise addenda, leaving intact the original text as it appeared in the last edition.