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In publishing this book, Hindustani Tamaddun," the author explains in his introduction that this volume is the first of the series which is intended more for the layman than for the students of history.
In this book the author gives us a clear study of the complex details of the various elements composing the ancient civiliza-· tion and · also that each such element contributed to the production of the com• plex and the compound synthesis of the name of Ancient Civilization.
In fact, it is only this book which deals with the cultural aspects of ancient India in Urdu language for which the author deserves our best com• pliments.
L. THE ARABIC CIVILIZATION by Joseph Hell ; translated by Khuda Bakhsh; published by Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf; Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore, pp.
HE importance of Arabic language has been fully acknowledged by its forming popular subject of study among the Orientalists of I 7th and .
The main object of European people in embarking on the study of Arabic seems to have been confined in its early days to its philological value in understanding the difficult pass• ages of Bible and Old Testament which later on helped them to understand the spirit of Islam and Muslim people.
This booklet presents a Muslim view-point on the importance of the language.
Arabic in relation to other Islamic languages.
The author has put together considerable relevant facts in answer to the question " Why we learn Arabic language ?