As “Hidaya” is acknowledged by experts as a perfect and original book both in its structure and content reflecting the teach­ings of the Hanafian school of law, the works in the later periods were written in its style of expressing the legal notions. As was acknowledged by an Indian scholar …

In 1190/1776, “Hidaya” was translated into Persian by Ghulam Yahyakhan as a manual for the government offices of Bengal which was under the control of Eastern India Company. This translation was published in 1221/1807 in Calcutta. It should be noted that the first publication of “Hidaya” was made neither in …