“Arabic-Tamil was, and vestigially is, the kind of Tamil language written in the Arabic script. It was used by the Muslims of Sri Lanka and was also current in parts of South India. Arabic-Tamil was a part of the language-spectrum of the Muslims of Sri Lanka” (MMM. Mahroof. 1993) The subjects, including Islamic religious texts and quranic commentaries; Sufism; history, geography, law, and the sciences (astronomy, astrology, mathematics, medicine); poetry and literature, as well as biographies