37. The Life and Works of Muhibb Allah of Bihar. 
By Mawuavi M. Hipayar Husain, Lecturer, Presidency 
College, Calcutta. 
It is a fact known to almost all students of Arabic litera- 
ture that the Persians have played a great part in enrich- 
ing that literature. Almost every standard work on various 
branches of learning is the outcome of their labour. 
The Indians too have tried their best to write books in 
the Arabic language, and some of them wrote such learned 
al-Shukir al-Kadi al-Bihari. He was born in Karah, a village 
in Bihar, India. He sat at the feet of Mawlina Kutb al-Din 
al-Shamsabadi (d. a.H. 1121, a.p. 1709), and became one of 
the most eminent Ulama of his time. He paid a visit to the 
pleased with him and he had to resign the service. However, 
through the recommendation of some of the nobles of ‘Alamgir’s 
capital of Afghanistan. 
On the death of the Emperor ‘Alamgir, Muhammad 
Mu‘azzam became the sovereign of India under the title 
of Shah ‘Alam I (a.m. 1119-1124, a.p. 1707-1712), and 
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made him Kadi al-Kudat (chief justice) of the entire Moghul 
Empire; but he did not live long to enjoy this title, and the 
great post, as he died a few months after in aH. 1119, A.D. 
1707. 
He is the author of the following works :— 
(1) al Jawhar al-Fard.—A treatise on indivisible atom 
