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Title: | The religious duties of Islam as taught and explained by Abu Bakr Effendi: a translation from the original Arabic and Afrikaans |
Editors: | Abu Bakr Effendi Brandel-Syrier, Mia |
Year: | 1960 |
Volume: | 2 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pretoria oriental series (ISSN 0555-0912) |
City of publisher: | Leiden |
Publisher: | Brill |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subject: | Islamic law |
About person: | Abu Bakr Effendi (-1880) |
Abstract: | Abu Bakr's Bayan Ud-din, written as a textbook for the religious instruction of the Cape Malays, and printed in 1874, discloses an important piece of S.African history. The text is a close copy of the most authorative elementary handbook of the Hanafite school of Law which has been in current use throughout the Turkish Empire from the 16th century onwards. Preface - Introduction: The manuscript and its author by A. van Selms - Short introduction to Islamic jurisprudence - The text and its translation - Abu Bakr's Bayan Ud-din (Turkish, Arabic, Arabic-Afrikaans introduction) - The religious duties of Islam as taught and explained by Abu Bakr. |