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Volume 92 - Issue 3-4 - July 1960

Reviews of Books

II. Kullīyāt Jūyā-e-Tabrīzī. Edited By Muhammad Baqir. Panjab University: Shahanshah of Iran'S Grant Publications Series. Vol. II. Lahore: Panjab University Press. Pp. lv + xxi + v + 913. 1959.

Haft Bab, or “Seven Chapters”. By Abu Ishaq Quhistani. Ed. in the Original Persian and tr. into English By W. Ivanow. (The Ismaili Society Series A No. 10.) Pp. (10) + 28 + 86 English and (2) + 68 Persian text. The Ismaili Society, Bombay. 1959.

Studies in Arabic and Persian Medical Literature. By M. Zubayr Siddíqí. Calcutta University, Pp. xxiii + 173. Ills. 7. 1959. Sh.21.

V. Minorsky, A History of Sharvān and Darband in the Tenth to Eleventh Centuries, Pp. vii, 187 + 32 (Arabic Text). Cambridge, 1958. £3 3s.

Mossoul Chrétienne; Essai sur l'Histoire, l'Archéologie et l'État actuel des monuments Chrétiens de la Ville de Mossoul. By J. M. Fiey, O.P., Beyrouth, Imprimerie Catholique, L'Institut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth; tome XII. pp. 166, figs. 12. plans 11.

Sei Wada. Studies on the History of Far East (Mongolia). (Tōashi Kenkyū—Mōkohen). The Toyo Bunko Publication Series A, No. 42. The Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, 1959. Pp. 1–5, 1–2, 1–938 Plus 1–18 and 1–34. 5 Plates.

Der Kienlung-Druck des Mongolischen Geschichtswerkes Erdeni-Yin Tobci von Satang Secen. Edited by Erich Haenisch. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; Veröffentlichungen der orientalischen Kommission. Band XIII. pp. 8 + 271 (facsimile). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1959. D.M. 28.

A Critique on the Vivaraṇa School. Studies in some fundamental Advaitist theories. By B. K. Sengupta. Calcutta, K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959, 278 p., Rs. 12.00 (£1).

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India), Vol. 5, pt. 1. By Pandurang Vaman Kane. 718 pp. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1958.

The Edicts of Asoka. By N. A. Nikam and R. McKeon. pp. xxvii + 69. 1 map. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1959. 13s. 6d.

Śūdras in Ancient India. By Ram Sharan Sharma. xi, 318 pp. Motilal Banarsidass, Banaras/Delhi, 1958. Rs. 15.

Stone Age Industries of the Bombay and Satara Districts. By S. C. Malik, pp. ix + 68, 8 plates and 29 figures. M.S. University Archaeological Series No. 4 Baroda, 1959. Rs. 10 50np.

L'Archéologie Mône de Dvāravatī. By P. Dupont. pp. xi + 329, 3 maps, 15 plans, 541 half-tone illus. Êicole Française d'Extrême Orient, Paris, 1959.

Mu'iddāt al-Tajmīl. By Aḥhmad Mamdūḥ Ḥamdī (Museum of Islamic Art no. 3). pp. 150, ills. 32, pls. 60. Cairo, 1959.

Arthur Waley Anniversary Volume. (Asia Major, New Series, Vol. VII). pp. 252, 1 portrait. Percy Lund, Humphries and Co., London, 1959. £3 10s. (£4 in cloth binding).

Ahmad Shah Durrani: father of modern Afghanistan. By Ganda Singh, pp. xix, 457, x, 10 illustrations. Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1959. Rs. 22.50.

Obituaries

L. D. Barnett, C.B., F.B.A., Litt.D. (1871–1960)

H. C. Bowen, 1896–1959

Professor Elmer H. Cutts

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Sir Leonard Woolley

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