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Volume 85 - July 1953

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Modern Persian Dictionary (Persian-Urdu-English). By ProfessorF. D. Razi. pp. iv + 240. Ripon Press, Lahore.

The Burden of Egypt: An Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Culture. By John A. Wilson, pp. xix + 332, pls. 32. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951. 45s.

Fatalism in Persian Epics. By Helmer Ringgren. pp. 133. Uppsala University Årsskrift. 1952, 13.

Islam in Ethiopia. By J. Spencer Trimingham. pp. xv + 299. London: Oxford University Press, 1952. 25s.

Maimonides ueber die Lebensdauer. Ed. by G. Weil. pp. 59. S. Karger, Basel and New York, 1953.

Compendium Legum Platonis. By Al-Fārābī. Ed. and tr. into Latin by F. Gabrieli. (Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi: Plato Arabus, vol. iii.) pp. xiv + 37 + 46 (Arabic). London, Warburg Institute. 1952. 21s.

Iran in Früh-Islamischer Zeit. Politik, Kultur, Verwaltung und Offentliches Leben. By Berthold Spuler. xxxii + 656 pp., 3 maps. F. Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1952.

Byzance et les Arabes. By A. A. Vasiliev. Tome II: La Dynastie Macédonienne (867–959). Edition française préparée par H. Grégoire et M. Canard. Deuxième partie; Extraits des Sources Arabes, traduits par M. Canard, pp. x + 440. Bruxelles, 1950.

The Book of Idols. Translated from the Kitāb al-Aṣnām o Hishām ibn al-Kalbī by Nabih Amin Faris, pp. xiii + 59. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, for Princeton University Press, 1952. 16s.

Tu Fu, China's Greatest Poet. By William Hung. pp. x + 300, and Notes, pp. 133. Harvard University Press, 1952.

Han Shih Wai Chuan. Han Ying's Illustrations of the Didactic Application of the Classic of Songs: An Annotated Translation by James Robert Hightower. pp. 368. Harvard University Press, 1952.

Archæologica Orientalia in Memoriam Ernst Herzfeld. Edited by George C. Miles, pp. 280. J. J. Augustin, New York, 1952.

Fouilles à qaryet el-'Enab Abū Gôsh. by R. de Vaux, O.P. and A. M. Steve, O.P. pp. 120 + 20 pls. Libraire V. Lecoffre, Paris, 1950.

Katō Shigeshi, Shina Keizai-shi Kōshō (Studies in Chinese Economic History), vol. i.

Arabian Jubilee. by H. St. J. B. Philby. pp. 280, ill. 48, map 1. Robert Hale, London, 1952. 30s.

Il Nuovo Ramusio, II, I Missionari Italiani nel Tibet e nel Nepal. By Luciano Petech. Vol. i, cxx + 224 pp.; vol. ii, vii + 273 pp. Maps. Rome, Libreria dello Stato, 1952.

Die anfänge der mission von Miyako. By Johannes Laures, S.J. pp. 164. Aschendorfsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster, Westfalen. 1951.

Arabian Highlands. By H. St. J. B. Philby. pp. 771, ill. 64, maps and diagrams in text 4, map 1. Cornell University Press, 1952. $8·50.

An English-Turkish Dictionary. By Fahir İz and H. C. Hony. Oxford University Press, 42s.

Early Gangas of Talakad. By S. Srikantha Sastri. pp. 56, with illustrations and a synchronistic chart. Bangalore: The author, 1952. Rs. 2/8.

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