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Volume 19 - February 1957

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D.S. Rice: The Wade Cup in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 39 pp.20 plates, 31 figs. Paris: Les Éditions du Chêne, 1955.

Charles Pellat: Le milieu baṣrien et la formation de Ǧāḥiẓ. xxxvi, 311, Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1953. Fr. 1650.

E.S. Kennedy: A survey of Islamic astronomical tables. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S., Vol. 46, Part 2.) pp.[ii], 123–77. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1956. $1.50.

E.L. Sukenik (ed.): The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University. 44+59 pp., front, 20 half-tone plates, 58 collotype plates. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1955. (Distributors: Publishing Department, Jewish Agency for Palestine, P.O.B. 7044, Jerusalem. $10.)

‘Abdallah Ṭayyib Al-Majdhüb: Al-murshid ilā ash‘ār al-‘arab wa-ṣinā‘atiha. I, 27, 492 pp. Cairo: Muṣṭafā al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, 1374, [1955]. 50 piastres.

Millar Burrows: The Dead Sea Scrolls. With translations by the author. xv, 435 pp., 10 plates. London: Secker … Warburg, 1956. 30s.

A.L. Tibawi: Arab education in mandatory Palestine: a study of three decades of British adminīstion. 282 pp. London: Luzac & Co., Ltd., 1956. 35s.

Hassan El-Hajjé: Le parler arabe de Tripoli (Liban). 203, pp. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1954.

Arnold J. Toynber: A study of history. Vols. VII–X. 4 vols.: xxxi, 772 pp.; ix, 735 pp.; viii, 759 pp.; vii, 422 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for Royal Institute of International Affairs, Ltd., 1954. Vols. VII–IX, 42s. each; Vol. X, 31s. 6d.; four vols., £ 10s.

Ars Orientalis: the Arts of Islam and the East. Vol. I. vi, 267, pp. plates. [Washington, D.C.]: Free Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; [Ann Arbor]: Fine Arts Department, University of Michigan, 1954.

Jörg Kraemer (ed.): Theodor Nöldkes Belegwörterbuch zur klassischen arabischen Sprache. Lief. 1–2, xxiv, 24 25–59 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter … Co., 1952–1954. DM. 26. 22.

H.T. Norris and F.W. Penhey: An archaeological and historical survey of the Aden Tanks. Aden: Government Press; London: Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, 1955. 46 pp., front., 14 photos., 3 maps [2 in folder]. 10s.

Taufīq Wahbī: Qawā'id al-lughat al-Kurdīya. Part 1, ch. 1–2. 56, 4 pp., front.; 57–112. 4 pp. Baghdād: [The author], 1956.

M.A. Van Den Oudenrijn (ed.): Eine alte armenissche Übersetzung der Tertia Pars der Theologischen Summa des Hl. Thomas von Aquin. 240, pp.; 4 plates. Bern: Francke Verlag, [1955]. Sw. fr. 62.40.

Louis Renou: Histoire de la langue sanskrite. (Collection ‘Les Langues du Monde’. Série Grammaire, Philologie, Littérature, Vol. X.) [vi], 246 pp., map. Lyon, Paris: Éditions IAC, [1956]. Fr. 1350.

Wendell Phillips: Qataban Sheba: exploring ancient kingdoms on the Biblical spice routes of Arabia. 335 pp., 64 plates, 3 maps. London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. 21s.

C.S. Ayyar (ed.): 108 kritis of Śri Tyāgarāja: text and notation in Devanagari script with gamaka signs. [v], vii, 182 pp., plates. [Madras: C. Subramanṇya Ayyar], 1955. Rs. 10.

E.S. Drowner: Water into wine: a study of ritual in the Middle East. xvi, 273 pp., front, 18 plates, 24 figs. London: John Murray, 1956. 25s.

Mary Boyce: The Manichaean hymncycles in Parthian. (London Oriental Series, Vol.3) ix, 199, pp. 4 plates. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxord University Press, 1954. 30s.

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