Transcriber's note: Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Words italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. Letters superscripted in the original have been placed in {} brackets. The Arabic letter Ain is represented by ‘ and the Arabic letter Hamza is represented by ’. This text has a lot of Unicode characters, many fonts do not provide support for them. A list of these characters follows, separated by commas, if you do not see them properly please use a different font. Single letters: ā, Ā, ī, Ī, ū, Ū, ṣ, Ṣ, ḥ, Ḥ, ṭ, Ṭ, ẓ, Ẓ, ḍ, ś, Ś, ‘, ’, ⁂. Combined Letters (macron or two dots below): ḏ, Ḏ, g̱, G̱, ẖ, ḵ, Ḵ, s̱, S̱, d̤. THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAPHYSICS IN PERSIA: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF MUSLIM PHILOSOPHY BY SHAIKH MUHAMMAD IQBAL B. A. (Cantab) M. A. (Pb.) Ph. D. (Munich). LONDON LUZAC & Co. 46, Great Russell Street W. C. 1908 Printed by E. J. BRILL. — LEIDEN (Holland). DEDICATION TO Professor T. W. ARNOLD M. A. My dear MR. ARNOLD, This little book is the first-fruit of that literary and philosophical training which I have been receiving from you for the last ten years, and as an expression of gratitude I beg to dedicate it to your name. You have always judged me liberally; I hope you will judge these pages in the same spirit. Your affectionate pupil IQBAL. INTRODUCTION.