Langenscheidt Dictionnaire Universel: Turc-Français, Français-Turc by H. J. KornrumpeReview by: G. F. H.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1967), p. 221Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/597512 .

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Brief Notice of Books 221

Introduction, including explanation of meters; biographical notes on the poets. (G. F. H.)

Islamio Methodology.in History. By FAZIUR RAIMAN. (Publications of the Central Institute of Islamic Research, Pakistan, No. 2). Pp. 208. Karachi: CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF ISL&MIC RESEARCH, 1965. Essays on sunna, ijtihdd and ijmd', and some of the later medieval developments of Islamic thought, by a Muslim philosopher looking at Islam both past and present. (G. F. H.)

Al-Ghazdtl's Tract on Dogmatic Theology. Edited, translated, annotated and introduced by A. L. TIBAWI. Pp. 58. London: LuZAC AND Co., LTD., 1965. IO s. A new text and translation of ar-Riedla al-Qudsiyya ft qawdeid al-'aqd'id, a short treatise written in Jerusalem and later incorporated into Ihyd' 'ulum ad-din, Part 2. The text uses three manuscripts. The notes below the translation are brief but pertinent. The introduction is on "al-GhazAll's Sojourn in Damascus and Jerusalem."

(G. F. H.)

Ash-Shdfiya (the Healer), an Ismd''li poem attributed to SHIHAB AD-DIN ABC FIRAS. Edited and trans- lated with introduction and commentary by SAMI NAssIB MAKAM. (American University of Bei- rut, Publication of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Oriental Series, No. 48). Pp. 260. Beirut: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, 1966. A compre- hensive verse handbook of Ismaill doctrines, written C. A.D. 1300. Edited from a unique manuscript at Masyaf, Syria, of the late eighteenth or the nine- teenth century. The Arabic text and English trans- lation are printed on opposite pages, with textual notes below; the commentary afterwards, followed by two charts, an Arabic-English glossary of Ismb111 terms, a bibliography. (G. F. H.)

The Muslim World on the Eve of Europe's Expansion. Edited by JOHN J. SAUNDERS. Pp. 146. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: PRENTICE-HALL, INC., 1966. Cloth, $4.95, paper, $1.95. Short selections from modern historians and primary sources on the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, and other features of the Muslim world around 1500. The editor provides short introductions, a glossary, chronology and annotated select bibliography. (G. F. H.)

The Traditional Near East. Edited by J. STEWART- ROBINSON. (Asian Civilization Series.) Pp. 183. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: PRENTICE-H.AL, INC., 1966. Paper, $1.95. Reprinted articles on broad aspects of Islamic civilization by H. A. R. Gibb, G. E. von Grunebaum, Reuben Levy, Julius Germanus, N. J. Coulson, George Stewart, Richard Walzer, Fran- cesco Gabrieli, with a short introduction by the editor. (G. F. H.)

The Northern Tier: Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. By RouuoLLu~ K. RAMAZANI. Pp. 142. Princeton: D. VAx NOSTRAND Co., INC., 1966. Paper, $1.45. A survey of modern developments in the three

states. " The overriding thesis ' f this study it that although there are numerous factors and forces that now tend to militate- against the union of Afghani- stan, Iran and Turkey, there are also significant reasons to justify the hope for such a fusion before long." (p. 4). (G.F.H.)

Unknown Oman. By WENDELL PHILLIPS. Pp. 319. New York: DAVID MCKAY CO., INC., 1966. $6.95. A lively travel book by an oil magnate who is also an archaeologist and explorer. Plates, maps, ap- pendices on oil and archaeology, notes, bibliography, full index. (G. F. H.)

The Decadence of Judaism in our Time. By MOSHE MENUHIN. Pp. 497. New York: EXPOSITION PRESS, INC., 1965. $6.00. A combative attack on Zionism, by the father of Yehudi. The first half deals with the Palestine problem, the second half with the position of Jews outside Israel. (G. F. H.)

Langenscheidts Taschenwbrterbuch der Tiirkischen und Deutschen Sprache. Part 1, TPirkisch-Deutsch, by KARL STEUERWALD. Pp. 552. Part 2, Deutsch- Tiurkisch, by KARL STEUERWALD and CEMAL K6PRULtt. Pp. 618. Berlin: LANGENSCHEIDT, 1966. TL 48. In size and content this is something more than a pocket dictionary. The vocabulary is drawn particularly from the press and educated speech of modern Turkey and Germany. Indications of pro- nunciation, appendices on grammar, explanations in both languages. Strong flexible binding. Also available in two volumes, TL 25 each. (G. F. H.)

Langenscheidt Dictionnaire Universel: Turc-Frangais, Frangais-Turc. By H. J. KORNRUMPF. Pp. 384. Berlin: LANGENSCHEIDT, 1966. Pocket dictionary, of modern Turkish and French. (G. F. H.)

Tedzkiret en-Nisi-n fif Akhbdr Moloulk es-Souddn. Tra- duction francaise, texte arabe Edith par 0. HOUDAS, avec la collaboration de E. BENOIST. (Publications de l'iAcole des Langues Orientales Vivantes, IVe 96rie, vols. XIX-XX). Pp. xiv + 415 French, 233 Arabic. Paris: ADRIEN-MAISONNEUVE, 1966. 42 fr. Biographies of seventeenth and eighteenth century pashas of the western Sudan, completed in 1751, and a fragment of a history of Sokoto in the early nineteenth century. Originally published in 1913-14 (E. Leroux), now photographically reprinted.

(G. F. H.)

Illustrations of Old Testament History. By R. D. BARNETT. Pp. 91. London: THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MtTSEUM, 1966. This book is a guide to those antiquities in the British Museum which are related to Old Testament events. The twenty-three chapters and fifty-four figures are arranged chrono- logically from the Babylonian flood story to Herod's temple. Although the antiquities have been selected primarily for their relevance to certain events, some are purely epigraphic (the Amenemope papyrus, the Dead Sea scrolls). In some cases the illustra- tions have nothing to do with the events. Photo-

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