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A Treatise on the Muhammedan Law contains two works, Al-Nahr al-fa’id fi ‘ilm al-fara’id (The overflowing river of the science of inheritance and patrimony), and Al-Idah fi huquq al-nisa’ wa ahkam al-nikah (The rights of women, and the laws of matrimony). Written in English and Arabic, it is a textbook on Islamic law for judges and attorneys in the courts of Aden. The strategically important territory of Aden in the Arabian Peninsula became a British possession in 1839. The population was ethnically mixed, with Muslim Arabs predominating ...