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(Pakistan), 1959, Price Rs. 16/- HE title page gives the general idea of the contents of this work and it runs as follows: "The work is a collection of prayers from the Holy Qur'an and Traditions of Muhammad concerning matters spiritual and temporal, systematically arranged and literally transla• ted from Arabic into archaic English, with life sketches of the Prophets and Messengers of God referred to in the Qur'an, and explana• tory notes.
As the compiler himself states : "The work contains several hundred peti• tions concerning numerous matters connected with human life, including worship.
Q. Lash, Bombay, observes: "No one can read these prayers without having deepened within him a sense of the Majesty of God, the com• pleteness of His overruling Providence, His concern with every smallest detail of human life.
Even in Sindh many poets of Persian were born and bred arid some of them were first and second rate and many of lesser impo-tance, The book "Maqalat al-Shu'~a" deals with the lives and poetry of 719 poets and their works otherwise very little known to the world.
Credit is due to the Board of Publications of Persian Literature in Sindh for publishing such a rare and valuable work, with foot-notes, annotations, illustrations, list of authors, and names of books and places, QARI KALIMULLAH HUSAINI A SOCJAL HISTORY OF ISLA/11/C INDIA by Dr. l\L Yasin, M.
'The Muslims, on the whole," the author writes, ''entertained a strong aversion for country life.