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Volume 86 - October 1954

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Persian Records of Maratha History. Vol. I. Director of Archives, Government of Bombay, 1953. pp. x and 213. 9½ × 6½ in. Price Rs. 2 annas 8, or 4s. 6d.

The Early Brahmanical System of Gotra and Pravara (a Translation of the Gotra-pravara-mañjarī of Puruṣottamapaṇḍita with an introduction). By John Brough. Cambridge.1953.

Muhammad at Mecca. By W. Montgomery Watt. The Clarendon Press, 1953. 18s.

The Shrine of Upulvan at Devundara. By S. Paranavitana. Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of Ceylon. Vol. VI. Colombo, 1953.

West Tocharische Grammatik. Vol. I, The Verb. By ProfessorWolfgang Krause. Heidelberg, 1952. Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag.

The Theology of al-Ash'arā. By R. J. McCarthy, S.J. pp. 275, 109. Imprimerie Catholique. Beyrouth, 1953.

Kitābu'l Kashf of Ja'far b. Manṣūri'l Yaman. Edited by R. Strothmann. pp. 180 + 42. Islamic Research Association Series, No. 13. O.U.P. sh. 38. 1952.

The Ancient Khmer Empire. By Lawrence Palmer Briggs. pp. 295, with 17 maps, 22 plans, and 58 half-tone illustrations. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1951. $6·00.

Da‘ā’im al-Islām. By al-Qāḍī al-Nu'mān b. Muḥammad. Edited by Āṣaf b. 'Alī Aṣghar Faiḍī (Fyzee). Vol. I. pp. 27 + 530 + 23. Cairo: Ma'ārif Press. 1370/1951.

Mandeville's Travels. Edited by Malcolm Letts. London: The Hakluyt Society, pp. lxiii + xii + 554, pls. 4. 1953.

Avicenna: Scientist and Philosopher. 128 pp. Luzac. 15s.

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John Linton Myres

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Trésors Monétaires d'Afghanistan. By Raoul Curiel and Daniel Schlumberger. Memoires de la Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, Tome xiv, pp. 130, pl. 16. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck. 1953.

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Dr. Philippus Samuel van Ronkel

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23rd International Conǵress of Orientalists

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The Meaning of China's Most Ancient Art. By A. Bulling. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1952. xii + 150 pp. Eight plates and 79 in-text figures. £2 10s.

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