rendered so difficult as to require the lengthy commentary of Al-Ashmumi.  The fifth is the well-known work called the Katr al-Nida (the Dew Drop), celebrated from Cairo to Kabul; and last of all the “Azhari.” [FN#28] I know little of the Hanafi school; but the name of the following popular works were given to me by men upon whose learning I could depend.  The book first read is the text, called Marah al-Falah, containing about twenty pages, and its commentary, which is about six times longer.  Then comes the Matn al-Kanz, a brief text of from 35 to 40 pages, followed by three long Sharh.  The shortest of these, “Al-Tai,” contains 500 pages; the next, “Mulla Miskin,” at least 900; and the “Sharh Ayni” nearly 2000.  To these succeeds the Text “Al-Durar,” the work of the celebrated Khusraw, (200 pages), with a large commentary by the same author; and last is the Matn Tanwir Al-Absar, containing about 500 pages, and its Sharh, a work upwards of four times the size.  Many of these books may be found-especially when the Ms. is an old one-with Hashiyah, or marginal notes, but most men write them for themselves, so that there is no generally used collection.  The above-mentioned are the works containing a full course of theological study; it is rare, however, to find a man who reads beyond the “Al-Kanz,” with the shortest of its commentaries, the “Al-Tai.” [FN#29] He begins with a little text called, after the name of its author, Abu Shuja’a of Isfahan, and proceeds to its commentary, a book of about 250 pages, by Ibn Kasim of Ghazzah (Gaza).  There is another Sharh, neatly four times larger than this, “Al-Khatib”; it is seldom read.  Then comes Al-Tahrir, the work of Zakariya al-Ansari,-a celebrated divine buried in the Mosque of Al-Shafe’i,-and its commentary by the same author, a goodly Ms. of 600 pages.  Most students here cry:  “Enough!” The ambitious pass on to Al-Minhaj and its commentary, (1600 pages).  Nor need they stop at this point.  A man may addle his brains over Moslem theology, as upon Aristotle’s schoolmen, till his eyesight fails him-both subjects are all but interminable. [FN#30] The three best known are the Arbain al-Nawawi, and the Sahihayn-"the two (universally acknowledged to be) trustworthy,"-by Al-Muslim and Al-Bokhari, celebrated divines.  The others are Al-Jami’ al-Saghir, “the smaller collection,” so called to distinguish it from a rarer book, Al-Jami’ al-Kabir, the “greater collection”; both are the work of Al-Siyuti.  The full course concludes with Al-Shifa, Shamail, and the labours of Kazi Ayyaz. [FN#31] Two Tafsirs are known all over the modern world.  The smaller one is called Jalalani ("the two Jalals,” i.e. the joint work of Jalal al-Siyuti and Jalal al-Mahalli), and fills two stout volumes octavo.  The larger is the Exposition of Al-Bayzawi, which is supposed to contain the whole subject.  Some few divines read Al-Khazin. [FN#32] To conclude the list of Moslem studies, not purely religious.  Al-Mantik