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Shahjahan, on the other hand, is looked upon by Muharamadan 

 historians as the reviver of the Islam at the Moghul Court. He 

 abolished most of the Hindu ceremonies, and the sijdah, or prostration, 

 which Akbar and Jahangir had enforced. "When His Majesty 

 [Shahjahan],'' says the Padishahnamah, "mounted the throne, he di- 

 rected his imperial care to the re-introduction of the customs of the 

 Islam, the strict observance of which had died away, and turned his 



august zeal to re-building the edifice of the law of the prophet, which 



« 

 had all but decayed." 



This explains the Muhammadan formula which Shahjahan has put 

 over his autograph. 



In conclusion, it is worth noticing that the autograph contains 

 Slmhjahan's own statement regarding the clay of his accession. The 

 Mir-At ul 'dlam, and the Pddishdhndmah refer likewise the accession to 

 the eighth Jumada II., but Khafi Khan, whom Elphinstone follows, 

 gives the seventh Jumada II. 



Library. 



List of books, received since the last meeting. 



* # * Names of Donors in Capitals. 

 Presentations. 



Jahrbiicher der K. K. Central-Anstalt fur Meteorologie und 

 Erd-magnetismus, von K. Kreil ; Band I- VIII ; Jahrgang 1848 

 1856. — Kaiserliciie Akademie der Wissensciiaften" in Wien. 



Beobachtungen von Sonnen-flecken und Bestimmung der Rotations- 

 elemente der Sonne, von Dr. J. G. Bohm. — The same. 



Einflnss des Mondes auf die Horizontale Componente der magneti- 

 schen Erdkraft, von K. Kreil. — The same. 



Variationen der Declination der Magnetnaded bcobachtet in Krakau, 

 von Dr. M. Weisse. — The same. 



Ueber die ewigen Gesetze der Natur, die Einfachheit, die Einheit 

 und das allmahliche Uebergehen, von Dr. Boml — The same. 



Ueber den ti'tglichcn Gang der vorziiglichstcn meteorologischen 

 Elemente aus don stiindlichen Beobachtungen der Pragcr Sternwarte 

 abgeleitet, von Dr. C. Jelinek. — The same. 



