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4 And Yahya ibn-Muhammad related, he said, " Whilst we were at the [palace] gate of [the Caliph Hartin] ar-Rashid, awaiting permission to enter, the porter came out and said to us; ' The Commander of the Faithful sends you Greeting.
,5 on the authority of Abu• 'Ikrama, he said, 'I went out one day to the principal mosque, and took with me some paper that I might write down on it some of what might be profitable from [the sayings of] the ' Ulama '.
Ninety years have passed over the establishment of Darul-'Ulum and twenty-five years over its conversion into the Osmania University-more particularly into its faculty of theology -and the occasion was a scene of intellectual festival in Hyderabad in the second week of Decembe~ An exhibition of Islamic History and Culture ; a series of lectures · a session of Arabic speeches and dissertations ; a demonstration of the art of.
" Prof Shaikh demands from the government at this future University :-(i) that in a high school or a college connected with the University, the facilities and provisions for teaching, through English, of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Muslim History, and Islamic Culture, should in no way be reduced below the present level and that the facilities available to Muslim students desiring to receive, through English, other subjects should not be denied owing to any restriction of numbers on the institu• tion teaching through that medium : (ii) that in the graduate and post• graduate work conducted by the University, the facilities provided through English, for the study of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Muslim History, Islamic Culture, etc.