In 1847, Pfander published a treatise called HALL UL ISHKÂL, or Solution of
Difficulties; being a reply to KASHF UL ASTÂR and KITÂB I ISTIFSÂR
The Kashf ul Astâr has already been noticed at some length in this
Review. Pfander's rejoinder is brief and pertinent. It is followed by a
translation of the remarks on the Kashf ul Astâr which appeared in
this Review. Then follow ten questions put to Pfander by a Maulvi Syad
Abdallah Sabzwari of Lucknow, with their replies.1 After these
comes the reply to Ali Hassan's Kitâb i Istifsâr, the work we have
just been reviewing. The chief points of the Maulvi's desultory attacks are
ably noticed and well refuted. The book concludes with the whole
correspondence which passed between Pfander and Ali Hassan, and which has been
previously described in the article referred to above. Dr. Pfander has not,
since the publication of this volume, entered into any further written
discussions with the Mohammedans. But although this