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Apart -from being a member of the Department of Islamic History and Culture at the Dacca University, he is an author of note and has to his credit a number of papers on topics dealing with Mus• lim Spain published in various learned journals of the east and the west.
4-r~ i~t~-A~;1ic·;~i ~;<l·;h~ii/i~t~ English, This last work deals with· Muslim colonies in France, north Italy and Switzer• land which the learned author seems to ignore ( as on p.
) The work is a useful handbook on the politics of the Muslim rulers of Spain, a sub• ject on which quite a number of books 'have been written by non-Muslim authors in recent times.
The author plans to publish the complete work covering the entire Qur'an in three volumes, arranging the suras in all the three parts in what he believes to be the right, or probably right chronological order.
Dr. Fyzee's reading of the text is based of the readers, The text is preceded by a short, well-written introduction (muqaddama) in Arabic, and is followed by a number of indices, referring to the Quranic verses and the Apostolic traditions quoted by the author, as well as the names ofpersons, _tr(b~-~!l<i.
' For exam• ple, Dr. Karim claims to suggest a better reading for the mint and date of a coin of ~u~affar Shah ( p.
It is to be regretted that at a few places Dr. Karim has made certain careless statements attributing to the authors whose readings he seeks to improve upon such views as are un• warranted.