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Harnidullah, the author of Documents sur la Diplomatic musulmane d l' epoque du Prophete et des Khalifes Orthodoxes, thinks that there may have been an original Prophetic letter, or one regarded as such, in the library of the present Negus of Abyssinia.
Though the carpets belongmg to the period earlier than that of the sixteenth century of the Christian era are very rare, yet they have been well-depicted in the Persian miniature-paintings \vhi~h we generally get from a unique manuscript of the poetical works of Kha. Ju Kirmani in the British Museum (Add. 18,113) which was copied at Baghdad .
of our history are preserved carefully, even jealously, in the magnificent palm-leaf collection housed in the University Library, the priceless docu• ments of Qutb Sha. hi, Mughal and Asafiyah times in our Record Office and the valuable manuscripts of the Asafiyah Library.
The following is a list of papers dealing with the History of Islam in India :- Section I, up to 71 I : (President Dr. H.
At the business meeting, committees were formed to plan out chapters, to select writers and to do all the work necessary for writing and editing the comprehensive history of India, and a Co-ordinating Committee was elected with Dr. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru as chairman.
The following papers were read by learned scholars :- II Need of Re-writing the History of India" by Prof.