''Qanoon-e-Islam: or, the Customs of the Moosulmans of India'' (later published as ''The Qānūn-i-Islām; the customs of the Musalmāns of India'') is a book describing the culture and rituals of
Indian Muslim
Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, approximately 172.2 million people identifying as adherents of Islam in 2011 Census. India is also the country with the second or third largest number of Muslim ...
s in the nineteenth century. It was written by Jaffur Shurreef (Ja'far Sharīf) and translated into English by Gerhard Andreas Herklots in 1832.
H. P. Lovecraft mentions this book in his story "
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", where its title is used for disguising the text of the ''
Necronomicon''.
External links
* Digital text o
Qanoon-e-Islamat
Google Books
1830s books
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