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Volume 17 - Issue 1 - February 1955

Book Review

K. P. K. Whitaker: 1,200 Chinese Basic Characters: An Adaptation for Students of Cantonese of Simon's W. National Language Version. With an Introduction by W. Simon, xlii, 316 pp. London:Lund Humphries, 1953, 25s.

Ruopp Phillips (ed.):Approaches to Community Development, xvi, 352 pp. The Hague:Van Hoeve, 1953, 20s.

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J. B. Segal:The Diacritical Point and the Accents in Syriac. (London Oriental Series, No. 2.) xii, 179 pp. with 5 facsimiles. London:Cumberlege, O.U.P., 1953, 45s.

Van A. Selms:Marriage and Family Life in Ugaritic Literature.163 pp. (Pretoria Oriental Series, I.) Luzac, 1954, 20s.

Studia Islamica, collegerunt R. Brunschvig J. Schacht. I. 162 pp. Paris:Larose, 1953.

Proceedings, Royal (Egyptian) Society of Historical Studies. Vol. i, 1951, Vol. II, 1952. Cairo:Al-Maaref Press, 1952, 1953.

M. Guidi:Storia e Cultura degli Arabi. (Biblioteca Enciclopedica Sansoniana, 16.) 231 pp. Firenze:G. C. Sansoni, 1952.

Elma Marin (tr.): Abū Ja'far Muhammad b. Jarīr Al-Tabarī's ‘The Reign of Al-Mu'tasim’ (833–842). Annotated by the translator, xvii, 142 pp. New Haven, Conn.:American Oriental Socy., 1951, $3.50.

R. Strothmann (ed.):Kitāb al-Kashf of Ja‘far b. Mansūri’l Yaman. 180, xv, 14 pp. London:Cumberlege, O.U.P., for Islamic Research Assoc, 1953, 38s.

George C. Miles:Fatimid Coins in the Collections of the University Museum, Philadelphia, and the American Numismatic Society. (Numismatic Notes and Monographs published by the American Numismatic Soc., No. 121). 51 pp., vi plates. New York, 1951.

William Popper:The Cairo Nilometer, Studies in Ibn Taghrî Birdî's Chronicles of Egypt. I. xi, 269 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles:University of California Press, 1951, $ 3.00.

Harry W. Hazard:The Numismatic History of Late Medieval North Africa. (The American Numismatic Soc., Numismatic Studies No. 8.) 377 pp., VIII plates. New York, 1952, $ 10.

J. Caillé:La ville de Rabat jusqu'au protectorat français. Histoire et Archéologie. (Publ. de l'lnst. d. Hautes- Études Marocaines, tome XLIV.) Vol. i, 596 pp.; vol. II, 12 pp, 187 figs.; vol. in, 12 pp., LXXX plates. Paris: Vanoest, 1949.

L. A. Mayer, J. Pinkerfeld:Some Principal Muslim Religious Buildings in Israel. English text, 44 pp., Hebrew 39 pp., Arabic 50 pp., 60 figs. Jerusalem:Govt. Printing Dept., 1950.

Jacob M. Landau: Parliaments and Parties in Egypt, viii, 212 pp. Tel- Aviv:Israel Publishing House, 1953, 21s.

V. Minorsky:Studies in Caucasian History. (Cambridge Oriental Series, No. 6.) 196 pp., (18 Arabic text); 1 map. London:Taylor's Foreign Press, 1953, 35.

Gotthaed Jäschke: Der Islam in der neuen Türkei: eine rechtsgeschichiliche Untersuchung. (Die Welt des Islams, N.S. Vol. i, Nos. 1-2.) 174 pp. Leiden:E. J. Brill, 1951.

Charlotte Krause (ed.): Ancient Jaina Hymns. 144 pp. Ujjain: Scindia Oriental Institute, 1952.

Earl Swisher China's Management of the American Barbarians. A study of Sino-American Relations, 1841–1861, with Documents(Far Eastern Assoc. Monograph. No. 2.) xxi, 844 pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, for Far Eastern ssociation, 1953

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