Fatawa Alamgiri (Urdu)- Volume 7
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Fatawa 'Alamgiri (also known as Al-Fatawa al-'Alamgiriyya ( Arabic : الفتاوى العالمكيرية ) or Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya ) ( Arabic : الفتاوى الهندية ) is a sharia based compilation on statecraft, general ethics, military strategy, economic policy, justice and punishment, that served as the law and principal regulating body of the Mughal Empire (which comprised almost all of the Indian subcontinent ), during the reign of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Muhiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir . The compilation has been widely regarded to be one of the most well organised works in the field of Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh). The collection comprises verses from the Quran , supplemented by Hadiths narratives, including those of Sahih al-Bukhari , Sahih Muslim , Sunan Abu Dawood and Jami` at-Tirmidhi .
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri was the work of many prominent scholars from different parts of the world, including Saudi Arabia , principally from the Hanafi school. In order to compile Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, emperor Aurangzeb gathered 500 experts in Islamic jurisprudence ( Fiqh ), 300 from South Asia , 100 from Iraq and 100 from the Hejaz (Saudi Arabia). Their work over years, resulted in an Islamic code of law for South Asia, in late Mughal Era . It consists of legal code on personal, family, slaves, war, property, inter-religious relations, transaction, taxation, economic and other law for a range of possible situations and their juristic rulings by the Faqīh of the time.
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