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: He regards the books of the Old Testament as Hebrew history "recorded by writers who lived · hundred ofyears after the events and de• pended on hearsay- and a long chain of oral transmissions" (p, I 77).
Islam, which Professor Hitti calls the third great monotheistic religion of the world, "adopted the ethical monotheism of Judaism and Christianity" (p.
Coming to history proper, Professor Hitti takes us through Persian and Graeco-Ro• man times and says that Hellenism survived in Syria right up to the era of Islam.
Professor Hitti has a very readable chapter on pre-Islamic Syro-Arab states where he has utilised the latest discoveries pertaining to their history.
Passing on to what he· calls the Arab era, he begins by stating the position of Arabia vis a vis the rest of the world at the time of the advent of Muham• mad in these pithy words : "Persia and Byzantium were the only two world powers; the Arabians were nobody.
during the Muslim domination by his masterly delineation of it in such chapters as 39 ( the Syrian Christian Church) and 45 (the Crusades), for this aspect of Syrian history is sometimes over• looked by Muslim authors The work is · another great contribution which ProfessorHitti has made to the his• tory of the Near East.
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"The Lahjat-i-Sikandar Shahi, A Unique Book on Indian Music of the Time of Sikandar Lodi," III.
"Muslim Education in the Golden Age of the Caliphate; Hyderabad by Dr. A.