The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t4.42

c14.s9.t4.42

It is interesting to have to observe that even as a profound student of Arabic literature Abul Fazl must have been introduced to the Hindu *vidyās*, because, as is well known, a considerable portion of Arabic texts was made up of translations of or adaptations from Sanskrit treatises in the eighth and ninth centuries. The amount of original researches in Hindu culture embodied in the work on India by Alberuni (973-1048) the great Arab mathematician and philosopher was immense.