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E. G. Browne relates this story in his A Year amongst the Persians in order
to demonstrate the ‘gross ignorance which sometimes characterises [a
mullå’s] decisions’. The episode was related to Browne by one of his BÇb¥
associates in Kerman, and the question was designed ‘to expose this ignorance’
of the clergy. As it is related here, however, the jibe is unwarranted.
A hole ‘half a yard in each direction’ is not half a yard square (it is half a
yard cubed). The mullå, in the absence of a specification of depth, assumes
that the hole is dug to the same depth as the original request. This assumption
is perfectly legitimate from a jurisprudential perspective.2 If this is the
case, then the workman does indeed deserve one quarter of the original sum:
eight k.
råns of wages are fairly reduced to two k.
råns. The enquirer’s remonstration
contains a piece of information which was not included in the original
request: that the hole is half a yard deep. It is too late though; the mullå,
acting presumably as a judge or muft¥, has been presented with the case,
given his response and sealed the reply.
RoutledgeCurzon; November 2004
512 pages; ISBN 9780203337370
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512 pages; ISBN 9780203337370
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9780203337370
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