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Book reviewed in this article: Introduction à l'Étude de la Philosophie Musulmane. L'esprit sémitique et l'esprit aryen; la philosophie grecque, et la religion de l'Islam, par Leon Gauthier. Paris, 1923. pp. 136. Collection de la Revue du Monde Musulman. Arabic Simplified. (Revised Edition.) By A. T. Upson. American Press, Beirut. Price, £2; to missionaries, £1‐10. A Galilee Doctor. A sketch of the career of Dr. D. W. Torrance, of Tiberias, by W. P. Livingstone. $2.00. George H. Doran Company, publishers. The Secret of the Near East. By George M. Lama. 177 pages. The Ideal Press, Philadelphia, Pa. Die Renaissance des Islam. Prof. Dr. Adam Mez. Heidelberg, 1922. Karl Winter. pp. 492. The Book of the Lover and the Beloved. Translated from the Catalan of Ramon Lull, with an Introductory Essay by E. Allison Peers, pp. 105. Price 3/6. S. P. C. K. London. 1923. Unconquered Abyssinia, as it is Today. An account of its peoples, their customs, considered from the social, economic and geographical points of view, its resources and possibilities, politics and relations to other peoples. By Charles F. Rey, F.RG.S. With illustrations and maps. pp. 300. Seeley, Service & Co., London. 193. Price 21 s. Die Weltreligionen and das Christentum, von D. Martin Schlunk. pp. 213. Published by Agentur des Rauhen Hauses. Hamburg 23, Germany. La Mésopotamie. Lieutenant R. de Figaret. Librarie Delgrave, 15, Rue Soufflot. Paris. pp. 28. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies London Institution, Vol. II, Part IV, published by The School of Oriental Studies, London Institution, Finsbury Circus, E. C. 2. Price 6/‐. Algeria Today. By. Lieut. Col. Gordon Casserly, F.R.G.S. Published by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd. London. pp. 254. Die Machtmittel des Islams. By Friedrich Schulthess. pp. 25. Publishers, Schulthess & Co., Zurich, Switzerland. Petra, Perea, Phoenicia. By A. Forder. Marshall Brothers, Ltd.; London and Edinburgh. Price 7s. 6d. Jewish Theology. Systematically and historically considered. By Dr. K. Kohler. Pp: 505. $3.00. The Macmillan Company, New York. The Parish‐Watson Collection of Mohammedan Potteries. By R. Meyer Riefstahl, Ph.D. Illustrated with 19 plates in color and 46 in black and white, reproducing 75 examples. Luzac & Co., London. (Edition limited to 500 numbered copies.) Folio cl., pp. 84. Price £7.7.0. Le Nouveau Made De L'Islam. By Lothrop Stoddard. Traduit de I'Anglais par Abel Doysié. I Vol. 8vo. Francs 10. Pp. 323. Payot et Cie., Paris What of the Woking Qur'an? Criticism of a Qadiani Commentary. By Mufattish. Pp. 36. Price 2 annas. Christian Literature Society for India, Madras. The Idea of Personality in Sufism. Three Lectures delivered in the University of London By. Reynold A. Nicholson. Pp. 77. Cambridge University Press 1923. The Book of Religion and Empire. A semi‐oficial Defense and Exposition of Islam written by Order at the Court and with the assistance of the Caliph Mutawakkil (A. D. 847‐861), by‘Ali Tabari. Translated with a Critical Apparatus from an apparently unique manuscript in the John Rylands Library. By A. Mingana, D.D. 1922. Manchester University Press. The Table‐Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge. Translated from the original Arabic by D. S. Margoliouth. Pp. 300. Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1922. Der Musta'min. Ein Beitrag zum internationalen Privat und Völkrrecht des islamischen Gesetzes. Von J. Hatschek. Pp. 108. Berlin, 1919. (Walter de Smyter.) Palestine Peasantry. Mrs. Finn, M.R.A.S. 95 pp. Oppressed People and the League of Nations. By Noel Buxton and T. P. Conwil Evans. 1922. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons., Ltd., London; by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. Price 6 shillings. Pages 230, including a Bibliography, Appendices giving extracts of treaties and 3 maps. (I. The New Europe, 2. Middle East, 3. Far East.) Sachindex zu Bokhari, nach der Ausgabe Krehl‐Juynboll (Leyden. 1862‐1908) und der Ubersetzung von Houdas‐Marsais (Paris 1903‐1914) Zusammengestellt von O. Rescher. Folio. pp. 52. Stuttgart. 1923. Shoghi Effendi : Das Hinscheiden Abdul‐Bahas, von Sitarih Khanum (Lady Bloomfield.) Stuttgart. 1923. PP. 32. Les Almohadee : Historie Tune dynastie berbère, par R. Millet. Precédé d'une lettre du Maréchal Lyautey, et d'une Préface par Gaston Guiot. Avec portrait. Paris. 1923. pp. xxix. 160. 12 fr. The Shahnama of Firdausi , done into English by A. G. Warner and E. Warner. Vol. viii. London. 1923. pp. xvi. 447. Trübner's Oriental Series. 10/6. Histoire de la Philosophie orientale par René Grousset. Paris. 1923. Pp. 376. Nouvelle Librairie Nationlae. 15 fr. The Arab Conquests in Central Asia. By H. A. R. Gibb, M.A., lecturer in Arabic, School of Oriental Studies, London. The Royal Asiatic Society, London. 1923. pp. g8. The Lotos Woman. By Nathan Gallizier. Thomas Page Company, Boston. PP. 470. $2.00. Kings of Arabia : The Rise and Set of the Turkish Sovranty in the Arabian Peninsula. By Harold F. Jacob, C.S.I., Officer of the Legion of Honour. Mills & Boon, London. 1923. pp. 294 Price 12/6. The Arab Conquests in Central Asia. By M. A. R. Gibb, M.A., lecturer in Arabic, School of Oriental Studies, London. The Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1923. pp. 98. The Lotos Woman. By Nathan Gallizier. Thomas Page Company, Boston, pp. 470. $2.00. Kings of Arabia : The Rise and Set of the Turkish Sovranty in the Arabian Peninsula. By Harold F. Jacob, C.S.I., Officer of the Legion of Honour. Mills & Boon, London. 1923. pp. 294. Price 12/6. Early Buddhist Monachism : 600 B. C.—100 B. C. By Sukumar Dutt, M.A., B.L. Trübner's Oriental Series. London. 1924. Pp. 196. Price 10/6. Baalbek in Islamischer Zeit , von Moritz Sobernheim. Berlin 1922. Walter de Gruyter. Folio 39 pp. Islam at the Cross Roads. A Brief Survey of the Present Position and Problems of the World of Islam. By Lacy O'Leary, D. D. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. London. 1923. Price 6/6. Pp. 215. The Young Knight. Or, How Michael Faversham fought valiantly with the Knights of Saint John against the Turkish hordes and won his spurs as a Knight of Malta. By I. M. B. of K. L. C. Page & Company, Inc. Boston. 1923. Pp. 233. $1.65. Tafsiri Ya Kurani Ya Kiarabu Kwa Lugha Ya Kisawahili Pamoja Na Dibaji Na Maelezo Machache. By Godfrey Dale. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London. 1924. Pp. 686. Price 3/6. Al Hijab or why Purdah is Necessary. H. H. Nawab Sultan Jehan Begum Shaeba. C. I., G. C. S. I., G. C. I. E., G. B. E. Ruler of Bhopal. Printed by Thacker, Spink & Co. 6, Mangoe Lane, Calcutta for the Ruler of Bhopal. 1922. Pp. 212*6. Baha'u'llah and the New Era. J. E. Esslemont. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. pp. 236. Price 8/6. Voyage Du Marchand Arabe Sulayman En Inde Et En Chine : Rédigé en 851 Suivi de Remarques par Abu Zayd Hasan (vers 016). Traduit de l'Arabe avec Introduction, Glossaire et Index, par Gabriel Ferrand. Éditions Bossard: Paris. 1922. pp. 155. Wanderings in Arabia : The Authorized Abridged Edition of “Travels in Arabia Deserta.” By Charles M. Doughty. London: Duckworth & Co. Two Volumes, pp. 300. pp. 207. 20s. net. Persian Women and Their Ways : The Experiences and Impressions of a Long Sojourn Amongst the Women of the Land of the Shah with an Intimate Description of Their Characteristics, Customs and Manner of Living. By C. Colliver Rice. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1923. pp. 112. 21 shillings net. Arab‐Asia : A Geography of Syria, Palestine, Irak, and Arabia. By Mrs. Lanice Paton Dana. Beirut Press, Syria, pp. 170. A Call to Prayer. By Samuel M. Zwetner. Marshall Brothers: London. Pp. 74. 3/6. Island India. By Augusta tie Wit. Yale University Press: New Haven. Pp. 105. Price $3.00. The Truth About Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria. By J. deV. Loder. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. London. 1923. pp. 157. Price 7/6. The Truth About Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria. By J. deV. Loder. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. London. 1923. pp. 157. Price 7/6. “Al Khilafa.” A series of discussions regarding the legalistic, political, social, and reform aspects of the Khalifate. By Muhammad Rashid Rida. Pp. 142. El Koran , das heisst Die Lesung, Die Offenbarungen des Mohammed ibn Abdallah des Propheten Gottes. Zu Schrift gebracht durch Abdelkaaba Abdallah Abu‐Bekr, übertragen durch L. Goldschmidt 8 vol. pp. 651. Berlin. 1922. The Campaign in Mesopotamia. (1914‐1918). Vol. I. By Brig. Gen. F. J. Moberly. H. M. Stationery Office. London. 1923. Price 15s. net. pp. 402. L'Histoire de l'Asie par René Grousset. 3 vols. Paris: 1922. Third edition, pp. v. 308; x. 400; viii. 486. Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages , by deLacy O'Leary, D.D. London. 1923. Kegan Paul. 10/6 net.