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Volume 82 - April 1950

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Mabāḥith fi'l-iqtiṣād al-'irāqī (Essays on Iraqi Economy). By Meer S. Basri pp. 226. Baghdad, 1948, 500 fils.

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Did Sir Richard Burton Translate Sadi's Gulistan ?

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The Spiritual Physick of Rhazes. Translated from the Arabic by A. J. Arberry. 7 × 5. pp. 110. John Murray (Wisdom of the East Series), 1950.

Old Babylonian Omen-Texts. By Albrecht Goetze, Ph.D. (Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts, vol. x.) pp. ix + 16, 138 plates. Yale University Press (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege). Price 42s. net.

Discoveries at Karatepe: A Phœnician royal Inscription from Cilicia. By Julian Obermann. pp. 1–49, 7 plates. Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 9. July–Sept., 1948.

Arabian Journey and other Desert Travels. By Gerald de Gaury. Harrap, 12s. 6d.

Studies in the Coptic Manichæan Psalm-Book: Prosody and Mandæn Parallels. By Torgny Säve-Söderbergh. Uppsala: Almquist and Wiksells Boktryckeri Ab. W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., Cambridge.

Ugaritic Mythology: A Study of its Leading Motifs. By Julian Obermann. pp. xxiv, 110, 2 plates. Yale University Press (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege), 1948. 15s. net.

Sam'al: Studien zur Entdeckung der Ruinenstaette Karatepe. Erste Lieferung. By B. Landesberger. pp. vii, 117. Ankara, 1948. [Veröffentlichungen der Türkischen Historischen Gesellschaft, VII, serie Nr. 16.]

Arab Administration. By S. A. Q. Husaini. Abdur Rahman, Madras, pp. xvi + 272. Rs. 8,4.

The Sanusi of Cyrenaica. By E. E. Evans-Pritchard. pp. 240, pls. 4, maps 13. Clarendon Press, 1949. 25s.

Dīwān 'Alī Ibn al-Jaḥm. Edited by Khalīl Mardam Bey. 9½ × 7. pp. 47 + 223. Arab Academy, Damascus, 1949.

The Book of the Zodiac (Spar Malwaŝia). Translated by E. S. Drower. (Oriental Translation Fund, Vol. XXXVI.) pp. 218 + 145. Royal Asiatic Society, 1949.

A History of the Jews in Baghdad. By the late David Solomon Sassoon. pp. 217. Rosenthal, Ltd., Oxford, 1949.

Byzantine Painting. With an introduction and notes by Gervase Mathew. pp. 24 + 10 plates. The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art. 8s. 6d.

J. Fück: Die arabischen Studien in Europa von 12. bis in den Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Sonderabdruck aus Beiträge zur Arabistik, Semitistik und Islamwissenschaft.) pp. 86–253. Harrassowitz: Leipzig, 1944.

The History of Chinese Society. Liao (A.D. 907–1125). By Karl A. Wittvogel and Fêng Chia-shêng. The American Philosophical Society, pp. 702, 43 illustrations, 2 maps. Macmillan.New York, 1949.

History of the Persian Empire (Achæmenid Period). By A. T. Olmstead. 1948. pp. xx + 576, with 70 plates. University of Chicago Press (and Cambridge University Press). $10.00.

The Red Sea and Adjacent Countries at the Close of the Seventeenth Century as described by Joseph Pitts, William Daniel, and Charles Jacques Poncet. Edited by SirWilliam Foster, pp. xl + 192. Hakluyt Society. Second series, no. C. London, 1949.

Po Hu T'ung (The Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall). Vol. I. Introduction, translation of Chapters I, II, XVIII, and XL. Notes. By DrTjan Tjoe Som. pp. ix + 367. Leiden: Brill, 1949 (Sinica Leidensia, vol. vi).

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