A Compendium of Calendars is an encyclopaedic work on the topic of the Christian, Saka and Hijrah Calendars. It is very comprehensive and elaborate. It consists of mainly three parts, exclusively dealing with the Christian, Saka (Indian National) and Hijrah Calendars. The author is of the view that the extant books on the topic are not very comprehensive and analytical. Moreover, the method adopted is more problematical and time-taking too. For the sake of making it comparatively more informative, easy-to-use and time-saving, author thought it worthwhile to construct a completely new work to meet all the desiderata. This Compendium of Calendars has been prepared after considerable study and labour with the hope that it will be useful to the students and the scholars as well as the layman alike.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shahabuddin Ansari
Shahabuddin Ansari having gained an M.A. degree in English in 1978 started writing articles on Islamic matters, specially on Islamic Calendar published in India and abroad. His initial leaning has been towards studying various dating systems. So, since various calendrical systems and tried to evolve a simple and easy method of presenting Christian, Indian National (Saka Sambat) and Hijrah Calendars and method of conversion of dates. For this cause he devoted a period of more than ten years and could complete three volumes – the Compendium of Calendars; Conversion Tables and An Easy Method of Interchanging Hijrah and Christian Dates. So far a series of articles, exclusively based on these volumes have appeared in the MWL Journal, Saudi Arabia; Hamdard Islamicus, Pakistan and Islamic Culture, Hyderabad. Moreover, the author has been associated International Islamic Calendar Programme (IICP), conducted by Associate Prof. Dr. Mohammed Ilyas, Astronomical Research Unit, University of Malaysia. In 1989, the author got a chance to participate in a Conference-cum-Workshop on Internationalisation of Islamic Calendar held at jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, convened by Dr. Mohammed Ilyas. The author is also an ordinary member of the Muslim association for the Advancement of Science, Aligarh. In June 1994, he was invited to participate in a Science Oriented Camp held at Khandala, Pune. In 1997, he was chosen for his distinguished standing and has been conferred with an Honorary appointment to the Reserch Board of Advisers by the Governing Board of Editors, and Publications Board of the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The author is also an Editor of Weekly Al-Hijr. Amongst his varied activities he is also a bibliophile.
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