South Indian Star of Arabic Studies of Twenty-First Century

Dr K.M.A.Ahamed Zubair has been teaching Arabic Literature and Language in New College, Chennai, India. He has written 53 books in English, Tamil and Arabic languages, which were published from Germany, Iraq and India. His 173 research articles got published in Journals from India, Canada, Malaysia and Bangladesh. He is the editor of two Refereed journals NJAS & IJLLL.He has been popularizing and introducing Tamil Works into Arabic, and introducing Arabic works into Tami Languages.His efforts are resulted to carry out comparative studies of these two great literatures.He has given solutions to encoding Issues of Arwi, by substituting some characters in the available character set of the Unicode Consortium.He is the pioneer in popularizing and introducing the literary forms of modern Arabic literature namely Poems, short stories, Novels, essays into Tamil language.The United Nation has referred his translated poem "Gandhi" written by Ahmed Shawqi from Arabic into Tamil & Hindi languages and "Yaadum Oore Yaavarum Keelir" from Tamil into Arabic appreciated his efforts in translating this poem for the cause of Universal Peace and Brotherhood. von Fareedduddin Hussaini, Syed