The Proposed Political, Legal and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and Other Mohammadan States

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... xiv Introduction. preceding sources. Lastly, the supplemental source is the Qias, analogy of the process of reasoning by which a rule of law is established from any of the three elements. The Koran does not profess to teach a social and political law; all its precepts and I. The Koran......., preach1ngs be1ng a1med at a complete regeneration of the Arabian community. It was neither the object of the Koran, the Mohammadan Revealed Law, to give particular and detailed instructions in the Civil Law, nor to lay down general principles of jurisprudence. Some points of the civil and political law which were the most corrupt and abused have been noticed in it, such as Polygamy, Divorce, Concubinage, and Slavery. In these as well as other denunciations against immoral practices the Koran has checked and removed the gross levity of the age. A few judicious, reasonable, helpful, and harmless accommodations were allowed by the Koran to some of the civil and social institutions of the Pagan and barbarous Arabs, owing to their weakness and immaturity. These accommodations were set aside in their adult strength, or in other words when they had begun to emerge under its influence from their barbarism into a higher condition of amelioration. The more important civil and political institutions of Deductions from the Mohammadan Common Law the Koran. based on the Koran are bare inferences and deductions from a single word or an isolated Introduction. xv sentence. Slavish adherence to the letter and taking not the least notice of the spirit of the Koran is the sad characteristic of the Koranic interpretations and deductions of the Mohammadan doctors. It has been said there are about two hundred out of six thousand verses of the Koran on the civil, criminal, fiscal, political, ..