Fatawa-e-alamgiri

Fatawa-e-Alamgiri

Fatawa-e-Alamgiri (also known as Fatawa-i-Hindiya in Turkey, Egypt and Syria) is a compilation of law created at instance of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (who was also known as 'Alamgir'). This compilation is based on Sunni Islam's Sharia law, and was the work of many scholars, principally from the Hanafi school. In order to compile it Aurangzeb gathered 500 fuqaha, 300 from the Indian subcontinent, 100 from Iraq and 100 from the Hejaz.This codified work served as the primary source for exercising and implementing the national laws according to Islamic code of law.It consists of exhaustive number of possible situations and their juristic rulings by the great Hanafi jurists of the time.