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Shurreef, Herklots, Crooke, and Qanoon-E-Islam: Constructing an Ethnography of 'the Moosulmans of India'

Qanoon-e-Islam, or the Customs of the Moosulmans of India was published in London in 1832 under the ’kind and liberal patronage of the United East-India Company’. The work was the product of a collaboration between an Army Surgeon in the Madras Medical Establishment, Dr. Gerhard Andreas Herklots (1790-1834), and a ’learned Muslim native’ of his acquaintance, Ja’far Sharif (d. 1863),’ better known to family and friends as ’Lala Mian’. Over 570 pages in length, it is a descriptive account of the contemporary ways of life of the Muslims of that part of southern India known as the Deccan. It was written by Sharif in the Dakkhani Urdu language, ’at the earnest request’ of Dr. Herklots,2 who translated it into English and added footnotes, addenda, a lengthy appendix, an Urdu-English glossary, some line drawings, plates, and an index. Although Herklots mentions in his Preface that he has ’some intention of publishing hereafter the Oriental version of [the] work’, believing that it would be ’of great advantage’ to British students of the Dakkhani language,3 he never in fact did this and the original manuscript was apparently lost after his death.