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 Rh Abdullah ibn Ahmad, 710, and the Talwiʾ Tauziaʾ, by ʾUbaid-Ullah ibn Masʾud,  747.

(3.) ʾAqáid (lit. "creeds").—Expositions of scholastic theology, founded upon the six articles of faith. The most celebrated exposition of the Islám creed being that by Imám Ghazáli, 505. In India the work most read is the Sharah-i-ʾAqáid, by Maulaví Masʾud Sʾad-ud-din Taftazáni, 792.

(4.) Fiqah.—Works on Muhammadan law, whether civil or religious. The work most read amongst Sunnis is the Hidáyah, written by a learned man named ʾAli, 593; part of which has been translated by the late Colonel Charles Hamilton. A smaller work, entitled the Sharah Waqaiah, by Abdul Haqq, is also much used.

(5.) Tafsír.—Commentaries on the Qurán. These are very numerous, and contain very many Jewish traditions of the most worthless character. One of the latest and most learned of these productions is said to be the short commentary by Shah Wali Ullah of Delhi, who died 1176.

The best known commentaries amongst the Sunnis are Baizáwi ( 685), Madárik (