Abdul Karim : Commemoration Volume/edited by Shamsul Hossain. Dhaka,
Adorn Pub., 2008, 248 p., 32 plates, figs., tables, drawings, 3 maps, ISBN 984-70169-0033-4.
Abdul Karim : Commemoration Volume/edited by Shamsul Hossain. Dhaka,
Adorn Pub., 2008, 248 p., 32 plates, figs., tables, drawings, 3 maps, ISBN 984-70169-0033-4.
Contents: Editors note. Part I. Tributes: 1. My humble tribute/Tapan Raychaudhury. 2. Remembering Professor Abdul Karim/Richard M. Eaton. Part II. Homages: 3. Professor Abdul Karim: life and work/Mahmudul Hoque. 4. Professor Abdul Karim's thoughts on history/Mamtazuddin Patwari. 5. Toward a history of religion in the Bengal region/Joseph T. O'Connell. 6. The culture in South Bengal durining the Sultanate Era: its archaeological sources/AKM Shahnawaz. 7. Epigraphs of North Bengal: a search for historical aspects in the medieval period/AKM Yaqub Ali. 8. Splendour of the Adina Masjid inscriptions at Pandua/Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq. 9. New approach in numismatic study: importance of the coin hoards in the Bengal Sultanate period/Sutapa Sinha. 10. A note on two manuscripts of Svarodaya/Anisuzzaman. 11. A rare Farman of emperor Jahangir/Syed Mahmudul Hasan. 12. Mughal antiquities of Bagh-I-Hamza/Shamsul Hossain. Part III and IV. 13 to 22 articles are in Bangla.
"Professor Abdul Karim was one of the great scholar in the field of medieval and archaeological studies relating to the history of Bengal.
His field of study has been especially focused on Muslim life, society, religion and culture. No other Bengali historian has written so many original books and articles in both English and Bangla on this subject. The period of Bengal history which Professor Karim has brought to the limelight of historical study had almost gone out of the ambit of research because of the dearth of source materials and linguistic problems. He collected his sources from medieval coins, inscriptions, books written in Persian, and writings on the Sufi-Saints and Bangla literature of the middle ages. His success as a path-breaking historian can be attributed to hard work, perseverance and his creative faculty. Professor Karim, however, has not denied the Bengali heritage in the study of history. Rather in his writings he frankly acknowledged his debt to his predecessors and expressed deep gratitude to them.
This volume was originally designed to facilitate Abdul Karim, but ill luck would have it, this wish has remained unfulfilled with his sad demise. Many scholars from home and aboard has contributed in this volume, as a mark of respect to a great scholar." (jacket)