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Law and Political Science, recently founded by order of Kmg Zahn Shah, has already to its credit the following publica• tions, original compilations or translated from different languages such as Turkish, German, French, etc.
In its fourth issue (of October last), there was a learned article by Dr. Yusuf Husain Khan on Iqbal's conception of culture.
This year a Professor Subba Rao Prize has been announced for an essay competi• tion on " Why should we study the life of the Prophet Muhammad" =-reserved exclusively for non-Muslim students of the Osrnania University.
The idea of a Baitul-Mal (Muslim Public Treasury) for Hyderabad was first scientifically dealt with, some years ago, by Dr. Saiyid 'Abdul• Latif in a memorandum which he submitted to the Government urging the establishment of a department for not only collecting and disbursing zakat, but also for receiving the properties of Muslims dying without heirs and intestate in the Nizam's Dominions, in accordance with the personal law of the Muslims.
Here is the outline of a very long article by Principal Manazir Ahsan of the faculty of theology, Osrnania University, appearing in the Journal of the Osrnania University, Vol. VII, to which we referred in our las: issue:- For long it was believed by modern scholars, that the firs: attempts to compile Hadit]; in written form from the mass of oral traditions were made two hundred years after the Prophet.