خلاصه ماشینی:
The meeting was attended by great numbers of Muslims as well as Christians, and the occasion was a rallying point for all the Arabs irrespective of creed.
For, 'even English bocks cannot wholly exclude French, German and other European names, and some• times even technical terms and it is a commonplace that the same letters of the Latin alphabet have greatly differing sounds in different European languages.
Consequently, a committee was appointed some time ago, with experts in German, French, Italian, Greek, Latin and English phonetics, in order to suggest and evolve a complete system of transcrip• tion, adding new diacritical signs and letters of the alphabet if necessary.
'· The latest number of the Research Journal of the Osmania University Staff (Arts and Theology Section) contains a very learned article by Prof.
First, in any given age there is generally speaking but one focal point of culture> and secondly, Islamic culture is the result of the joint efforts of the adher• ents of many religions and not merely Muslims; it is the achievement of not one race or country, but many races and nationalities have con• tributed· to its extraordinary richness.
Moulvi, who had been specially invited to speak on the occasion, raised a most interesting issue when he stated that the story, which had been current for thousand years about Firdausi's writing the Shahnama · at the dictation of Mahmud of Ghazna, who is alleged to have promised to pay him one gold dinar for each couplet, and who on the completion of the book offered him 60,000 silver coins instead of gold.