LAW AND PUBLIC OPINION RELATING TO WAKFS
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Some Aspects of the Muslim Society of Ceylon with Special Reference to the Eighteen-Eighties – Part 3
Some Aspects of the Muslim Society of Ceylon with Special Reference to the Eighteen-Eighties – Part 2
Some Aspects of the Muslim Society of Ceylon with Special Reference to the Eighteen-Eighties – Part 1
(Speech delivered at the First International Conference of Tamil Studies held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1966)
MUSLIMS OF CEYLON ARTICLE IN THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM
Edited by B. Lewis, Ch. Pellat and J. Schacht Published by E.J. Brill, Leiden and Luzac & Co., London in 1961 (New Edition) CEYLON. The Muslims constitute only 6.63% of Ceylon’s population-roughly 550,000 out of a total of 8,000,000.…
THE CEYLON MUSLIMS AND THE MOTHER TONGUE
The Ceylon Daily News of 10th December 1941 It is not strictly correct to speak of the vernacular or the mother tongue of the Ceylon Muslims, as the term "Ceylon Muslims" connotes a religious and not a racial or linguistic…
NAME OF OUR COMMUNITY MOOR OR MUSLIM
Address on Sunday 30th October, 1949 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ceylonese Muslim Union On this important occasion when we are gathered together at the bidding of about five hundred conveners representative of all parts of…
CEYLON MUSLIMS – THEIR FOUR CITIZENSHIPS AND FOUR LANGUAGES
Prize-Day Report of the Principal, Zahira College, Colombo read on January 14, 1956 It is our conviction that we best serve Sri Lanka not by the abandonment of our culture but by its preservation and promotion aiming at unity in…
THE WAKFS ACT – SOME ASPECTS OF THE RELATION BETWEEN LAW AND PUBLIC OPINION
Article in the "university Majlis"- Vol. VII 1957-58 For twenty five years, i.e. from 1931 – 1956, the Muslim Community had to wait for a central authority, possessed of the necessary sanction of Muslim public opinion, that would adequately prevent…
PROBLEMS OF MUSLIM MINORITIES
Speech at the Seminar on Islam in the Modern World held at Karachi, Pakistan on 2nd February, 1959 It is significant that the theme of the 'Problems of Muslim Minorities' has become included in the topic titled "Political Trends…