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Publication year - 1929
Publication title -
the muslim world
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1478-1913
pISSN - 0027-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1929.tb02413.x
Subject(s) - revelation , philosophy , hebrew , humanities , empire , folklore , art , theology , classics , history , ancient history , literature
The Life and Times of 'All Ibn 'Isa. (The Good Vizier). By Harold Bowen. Cambridge University Press, 1928. Price 25S. The Transit of Egypt. By Col. E. P. Elgood, 1928. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. pp. 342. $7.50 or 18/. Haflx: The Tongue of the Hidden in Rubaiyat. By C. K. Streit. The Viking Press, New York. pp. 96. $2.00. Istituzioni di Diritto musulmano Malichita, con riguardo anche al Sistema Sciaflita , di David Santillana. Vol. I. 8vo xvi, 375 pp. Roma, 1926. La Lotta tra l'Islam e il Manicheismo : un Libro di Ibn al‐Muqaffa contro il Corano confutato da al‐Qasim b. Ibrahim. Testo Arabo publicato con Introduzione, Versione Italiana e Note, da Michelangelo Guidi. Roma, 1927. 8vo xxviii, 129. 55 pp. Revelation and Inspiration. By Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Theological Seminary of Princeton, N. J., 1887–1921. pp. xiii, 456. Oxford University Press. New York (1927). The Empire of the Great Mongol. A Translation of De Laet's “Description of India and Fragment of Indian History.” Translated by J. S. Hoyland, and Annotated by S. N. Banerjee. D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., “Kitab Mahal,” Hornby Road, Bombay, pp. 252, Rs. 5–8. Mogreb‐El‐Acksa. A Journey in Morocco by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. First published by Wm. Heinemann, 1898. Revised edition issued by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1921. Cheap edition, 1928. pp. 300. Price 7/6 Net. Bible Tales In Arab Folklore. By Joseph Meyouhas. Translated from the Hebrew by Victor N. Levi. Alfred A. Knopf, London, 1928. 7/6 net. Persian Wonder‐Tales. Adapted from the Persian by Major C. F. Mackenzie, C.I.E, Price 5/‐ net. pp. 160. Blackie & Son, Ltd., London and Glasgow. Charles EL Robinson. A record of travel and work. By Florence Robinson, with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury, pp. 143. Price 3/6. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Westminster, 1928. Le Monde Musulman dans les Possessions Francaises. By Jules Sicard. Librairie Emile Larose. pp. 236. Price Frs. 14. Der Islam. Von Dr. Joseph Lippl. Die Christlichen Kirchen Des Orienta. Von Dr. Konard Lubeck. pp. 99 and pp. 206. Verlag Joseph Kosel, München, 7 Marks each. Stories from the Boston of Shaykh Sa'di together with Selections from Francis Gladwln's Translation of Sa'dl's Gulistan. The former translated and the latter revised by Reuben Levy, M.A., Lecturer in Persian in the University of Cambridge. With a frontispiece by Cynthia Kent Price 21/‐. pp. 159. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London. The Nationalist Crusade in Syria. By Elizabeth P. MacCallum. pp. 299. Price $2.50. Foreign Policy Association, New York, 1928. Baghdad and Points East. By Robert J. Casey, pp. 300. Hutchinson, London. Price 18 Shillings. Studies In Islam. By The Rev. Canon Sell, D.D., pp. 262. Rs. 4. Diocesan Press, Vepery, Madras, 1928. The One‐Humped Camel. A Treatise on the One‐Humped Camel in Health and Disease. By A. S. Leese. Price 16/‐. pp. 382. Haynes & Son, Lincolnshire. Durch Heiliges Land. Reisebilder aus d. alten Aegypten und d. neuen Palästina. Scharpff, Dr. A. M. 2.‐199 S. The Glory of the Cross. By Samuel M. Zwemer. pp. 128. Marshall Brothers, London. 3/6. Arabia of the Wahhabis. By H. St. P. B. Phllby. 8vo, xv, 422 pp. Constable and Co., London, 1928. 31/6. Kreuz und quer durch die Sahara. By Gerhard Rohlfs. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1928. 158 pp. Persia Old and New. By the Rev. W. Wilson Cash. 72 pp. Church Missionary Society, London, 1929. 1 shilling.