Description:
"A History of Arakan: Past and Present,
by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, President of the
Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), Arakan, is a a welcome addition to the present
stock of our knowledge about the history
of Arakan and her interrelation with
neighbouring lands of Burma and Bengal.
It deals mainly with the advent of Islam
in Arakan about 800 C.E. and the eventual
growth of Muslim community
through thick and thin into
a major Rohingya community
of the country.
One can say unhasitatingly that for the first time
Dr. Yunus has been able to offer, even if
in a skeleton form, a connected and continuous history of the Rohingya community of
Arakan from the earliest down to the present
time. He has explored
an enormously wide
field in digging up a great variety of new materials drawn from an impressive number of
references. Specially commendable in this work
is the forging of all the material under
his command towards a new direction of
studying the history of the Rohingya Muslim
community in the perspective of the impact of
Islamic civilization on Southeast Asia, not
merely considering it as a part of the national or political history of Burma or Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
Network Myanmar
Date of Publication:
1994-00-00
Date of entry:
2015-10-04
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
Size:
2.05 MB