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Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah (The Sirajite book of inheritance laws) is a treatise on the laws of inheritance according to the Hanafi School of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. It is regarded as the most important work in this field. Commonly known by its short title al-Sirājīyah, the treatise is named after its author, Siraj al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Sajawandi, a 12th-century jurist and mathematician. The English philologist and jurist Sir William Jones (1746–94) published the first English translation of this work in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India in 1792. Presented ...