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Lately it has published the Kitcili ;~~-Sid The Committee for Madras Lectures on Islam has invited during the last few years eminent scholars like Iqbal, Pickthall, Suleiman Nadwi and others to deliver popular lectures under its auspices.
, Director of Archaeology for Hyderabad, possesses several magnificent 'collections of Oriental Art, representing Pre-historic, Buddhist, jainite, Brahamanic and Muslim culture.
The programme of the Institute, accordingly, includes the advocacy of a comprehensive reform and modification of Muslim law so as to meet the needs of a changing society ; the close study of movements and tendencies in the Muslim world of to-day, with a view to giving an enlightened and well-informed lead in political and social matters ; the formulation of a scheme of primary education in conformity with the spirit of Islam; and, finally, the defence .
ho has recently published several interesting and important works on Islamic history and religion.
· So far as the history of the Muslim rule in India is concerned, the Academy has worked out a plan to write it in 14 volumes.
Most of the Persian chronicles were written by authors living within the realm of the Ilkhanis and clearly represent a too favourable picture, and the great Arabic historian Ibn al-Athir probably gives the most faithful account, but unfortunately his history only contains the early years of the devastations wrought by the Mongol hordes in.