The New Arrangement: How Twenty-Four Volumes Were Reassembled
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The first four volumes were published according to the juristic order; but afterwards, as much of the manuscript as was made ready was published, and the juristic order could not be preserved. Thus questions belonging to different chapters came into different volumes, and it was unavoidable that the questions of one chapter should appear in several volumes: for the whole…
Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya
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