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It was left to Maulana Shah Ashraf Ali of Thana Bhawan to write a number of books on the correct interpretation and elucidation of truly Islamic laws of con• duct and spiritual disciplne in simple, convincing and inspiring language for the benefit of the Urdu speaking people in this country.
Maulana Abdul Bari Nadvi, retired Professor of Philosophy, Osmania University who has already established his reputation as a thoughtful writer of no mean order, had taken vast pains in collecting the writings of Shah Ashraf Ali, studying them closely and critically and · putting his ideas together in a readable and sufficiently convincing form almost all the essential teachings of his Master.
What great contribution he has made to the correct understanding of the theory and practice of truly Islamic life, can better be judged by a close perusal of the book under review whose author , Professor Abdul Bari is not unknown to fame.
The author has put the theory of the Islamic state under a microscopic exa• mination and has come to a number of conclusions among which the following might be noted here : ( i) The germ of the Islamic state probably emerged at Medi• nah ; (ii) The Arab people, hitherto organised on the basis of kinship now became bound together by ties of religion into a 'community of God,' a state in which political power was held by Allah and His prophet.