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Sind has played a leading role in the development and progress of Arabic literature and has produced some of the famous figures in the Arab world in various departments of learning such as Arabic poetry, prose, language and script, from the earliest period of Arab occupation of the Indus valley.
) The exploits of the Arabs in Sind have been recorded by the contem• porary poets and the story of the conquest of Sind may be summed up in the following two lines : (View the image of this page) (6) F1'tu[i al-Buldiin, p.
Concerning the generosity of Junayd ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mari, a governor of Sind, Jarir says:- (View the image of this page) ( The guests and friends of Junayd came with smiling faces brightened by his gifts.
This shows that Indian works of Sind origin made a tremendous addition to the Arabic literature throughout the Abbasid period and almost all the works on various arts and sciences were added in due course of time.
543· "DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF ARABIC LITERATURE IN SIND DURING THE ARAB PERIOD" ABU JA'FAR AL-DAYBULI Muhammad ibn Abi Ja'far, well known as Abu ja'far al-Daybuli, was a ~ traditionist of high repute and a great teacher of his time on the science of • Hadith.
These two fragments appear as under:- (View the image of this page) Ibn Nadim, the author of the famous al-Fihrisi, reports that the script in use in Sind was written from left to right contrary to the Arabic script which is written from right to left.