تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 23) — Page 29
سال 1965ء 29 تاریخ احمدیت۔جلد 23 into an easy mathematical one۔The philological part covers only a portion۔The author has drawn inspiration from Minanur Rehman, a book written by the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, holding the claim of Arabic to be the Ummul Alsena۔The broad outlines of that book have been filled in by the present author who has quoted amply from the earlier book۔A book of such a scholarly nature could well have been spared a devotional introduction and consclusions to keep it out of the arena of controversy and to be judged purely on its scientific merits۔It has been asserted that the author of Minanur Rehman was the first ever to have divined that Arabic was the very first language۔Some Philologists like Maxmuller, however, preceded him with the monogenesis theory۔The question of the first propounder of the Arabic theory remains open to research and confirmation۔The claim of Arabic to be proto-semitic has been established for quite some time as the article on Arabic in the Encyclopaedia and some other books would show۔There is no discussion of this stage of recognition of Arabic in the book under review۔The emphasis of both the writers is on the claim of the Quran to be Quoting this very claim of the Quran, Alfred Guillaume, the author of the book entitled Islam [and the compiler of the earliest biography of the Prophet by Ibn Ishaq] has cast reflections on the Arabic language by enumerating a few words from the Quran itself which, according to him, are not of