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The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences deserves congratulations for introducing Iqbal to its readers through this beautifully got up Czech translation of the "Pyam-e-Mashriq.
In the epilogue Dr. Marek says: "The work of Iqbal originated from three sources: the Indian world of Vedantic thought, the Quran and the Persian• Arabic mystical thought.
of the poet's philosophy the Czech people will have to wait for 'complete _translation of the "Payam ' and other Persian and Urdu works of Iqbal.
of the Cambridge History of India) and Percy Brown's Indian Architecture ( Islamic Period), there are hardly any studies worth the name on the subject.
Nevertheless; to Dr. Dani goes the credit· of preparing an exhaustive work, the first of its kind, dealing with the varied architectural styles that cha• racterise the Islamic monuments of Bengal.
D. The ,, Description," or to give the work its full name, ''A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East India Coasts of Mala• bar and Choromandel ; as also the Great Island of Ceylon and the Religion of the Heathes of the East Indies," was written by the Rev. Phillipus Baldaeus, who spent the last six years of his life in writing it, and it was published in Dutch in Amsterdam in 1672 A.
" Rare prints in foreign languages should be translated into English and made available to students of history.
The author fairly sums them up thus ; " As it is the Dutch records do not provide· us with important contributions to the historical views of the personalities of Haidar 'Ali .