Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

MHtZA MAHUMUD BAAK.UR. 91

Mirza Mahumud Baakur, greatly esteemed by
the learned Mussulmauns. This work contains
the life and acts of every known prophet from
the Creation, including also Mahumud and the
twelve Emaums. The learned Maulvee, it ap-
pears, first wrote it in the Arabic language, but
afterwards translated it into Persian, with the
praiseworthy motive of rendering his invaluable
work available to those Mussulmauns who were
not acquainted with Arabic.

I have some extracts from this volumi-
nous work, translated for me by my husband,
which interested me on account of the great
similarity to our Scripture history; and if per-
mitted at some future time, I propose offering
them to the public in our own language, con-
ceiving they may be as interesting to others as
they have been to me.

The Persian and Arabic authors, I have re-
marked, substitute Y for J in Scripture names ;
for instance, Jacob and Joseph are pronounced
Yaacoob and Yeusuf. They also differ from us
in some names commencing with A, as in
Abba, which they pronounce Ubba (Father) ;