First edition of a work on Arabic sources dealing with laws, by the German lawyer and professor Karl Ferdinand Hommel (1722-1781). He stresses the importance of also including sources written in Arabic when researching law, because they often contain new or different information, but are often overlooked or ignored. The first half of the book lists some Hebrew sources discussing law, and the second half contains many Arabic sources on law. Included at the end is an index listing all the authors mentioned.
Title-page restored in the gutter and on the back. Browned, but otherwise in good condition. G. Le Bon, La civilisation des Arabes (1884), p. 679.