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NEW BOOKS IN REVIEW ARABIAN WOMANHOOD WOMEN IN THE AIY AM AL-'ARAB, A Study of Female Life during War• fare in pre-Islamic Arabia.
He has tried to apply this method in this work as well, and has reached the conclusion that the flowering of Islamic culture was mainly due to cultural contacts between the various countries and peoples whom the tolerant rule of the Arabs brought together in one fold, battering down the geographical, political and racial barriers which had kept them apart heretofore.
It is also noteworthy in this connec• tion that the Mughal Empire in India, the rule of the Ottoman Turks on both sides of the Hellespont and the rise of the powerful kingdom of the Safa• wids in Persia, all belong to the post• Mongol period of Islamic history.
Bar• told goes even so far as to say that " if at any time of their history, the Persians have undoubtedly acquired the first place in the cultural life of the world, it was when their country was under Mongol rule, a period which has till now been considered by many scholars to have been one of the destruction of culture by barbarians".
HE author describes his · aim in writing this book in the following words: "As things stand at present, communal harmony without correct history is a dream which cannot be realised.