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<p>Traffic in light benefits donor and recipient without the ambiguities that always cling to the traffic in goods. It can link all mankind into a family and can enable the people of any country today to become the inheritors of the legacy left by the peoples of any epoch of any land. There is a great tradition of Arabic learning in this country. But not all Indians have equally benefited from that heritage. The language barrier is admittedly formidable. But it is equally formidable in the case of Greek. Nevertheless there is a not inadequate awareness of ancient Greek literature in India and the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides have been presented on the Indian stage. Our links with the Arabic heritage are closer and yet the general awareness remains sadly inadequate. This book may help towards remedying this unhappy situation. For the layman original material will continue to remain inaccessible. But the corpus of translated material is large enough. However some stimulus to explore it is necessary and this book seeks in all humility to provide it. Though it does not want to claim to be anything more than an outline it seeks to provide a fairly complete frame. It covers poetry religious thought philosophical currents and mystical tradition the great contribution made by Arab historiography and the various categories of prose literature. About the Author Described by national periodicals as ‘one of the most original and stimulating minds writing in the subcontinent today’ and as ‘our nearest approximation to the Renaissance man versatile in interests and depth of learning’ Krishna Chaitanya is the author of over thirty books whose multidisciplinary range got him the ‘Critic of Ideas’ award of the Institute of International Education New York. The major categories are: a five volume philosophy of freedom for which he got a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship and which has been compared by critics to the work of Thomas Aquinas the French Encyclopedists Herbert Spencer Bergson Whitehead and Teilhard de Chardin several books on Indian Culture including a fourvolume history of Indian painting Sanskrit classics retold for children one of which got the Federation of Indian Publishers’ award for the best children’s book. The present work belongs to another major project of his: a ten volume history of world literature in English and several Indian languages. It got a special award from the Kerala Sahitya Academy and was hailed by the press as ‘a landmark in publishing history’. The series has covered ancient Mesopotamia Egypt Greece Rome Judea and Latin Christendom besides including histories of Sanskrit literature Malayalam literature and a major work on Sanskrit poetics.</p>
