Excerpt from A Volume of Oriental Studies: Presented to Edward G. Browne, M.A., M. B., F. B.A., F. R. C. P., Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambri, on His 60th Birthday (7 February 1922) For years past you have inspired successive groups of students with your own enthusiasm for the literature and culture of Islam, and by your writings you have stirred up in every part of the civilised world interest in the subject of your own studies, and have widened the bounds of human knowledge. It is the hope Of all your friends that you may long continue to carry on the torch, and add still more to those writings which are so precious a possession to all students of the Muslim world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.