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NEW BOOKS IN REVIEW RECENT PUBLICATIONS of the Da'iratu'l-Ma'arif Hyderabad-Deccan URING the last two years ten important works have been published by the Dairatu'l-Ma'arif on the following subjects: five on mathematics and astronomy, two on ancient Arabic literature and philology, one on sufism, one on dogma and one on tradition, as per list given below : (View the image of this page) III.
The first eight works have been edited from extremely rare manuscripts and printed and published by the Da' ira for the first time and form a definite contri• bution to Arabic literature and afford original material for research on these branches of learning.
FIVE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED WORKS ON :MATHEMATICSAND ASTRONOMYBY FAMOUS MEDIEVAL SCIENTISTS The five volumes on mathematics and astronomy containing 38 treatises are from the pen of some of the greatest .
The Third volume is also a collectionoffifteen astronomical treatises : ISLAMIC CULTURE (View the image of this page) The author of these treatises is a famous pupil of the great astronomer Abu'l Wafa Buzjani and a teacher of al-Biruni.
IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF THE WORKS OF AL-BiRUNi Abu Raihan Muhammad b.
With this idea in view the Da'iratu'I Ma'arif has of late been greatly interested in the publications of original and hitherto unpublished works of al-Birunl, and published one of his principal works on geology, the Kitabu'l [amiihi: fil ]awahir in 1936, and 'has now published in three separate volumes: (1) the 15 unpublished treatises of his teacher Abu Nasr, (2) II treatises of his predecessors and contem• poraries and(3) his own 4 original treatises, as these works form a valuable link in the chain of the Biruni studies.