It is a translation of German Treatise of Joseph Hell. Prof. Hell’s monograph is at once a summing-up and revaluation of Arab civilization. He has not added, by his own researches, anything of any significance or value to our knowledge of Arab culture, but, using all available materials, he has told the history of Arab civilization in a short compass, with wide-mindedness, sympathy, clearness of vision. So far as the present writer is aware, these is no such handbook compact, accurate, felicitous in diction, and sound in judgement to be found in any language in the world
