BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article: Illumination in Islamic Mysticism. A Translation, with an Introduction and Notes, based upon a Critical Edition of Abu'l‐Mawāhib al‐Shādhili's Treatise entitled Qawdnin Hikam al‐Ishrāq . By E. J. Jurji. Princeton University Press, 1938. $2.50. Al‐Ghazali's Bock der Liefde. By Dr. H. H. Dingemans. S. C. Van Doesburgh, Leiden, 1938 pp. 163. Bijdragen van de Philosophische en de Theologische Faculteiten der Nederlandsche Jezuiten: Elementen voor Geestelijk Leven in de Islam. By J. J. Houben. Vol. 1, part 2, 1938. Centrale Drukkerij Nijmegen. pp. 394–447. Nadir Shah : A Critical Study baaed mainly upon Contemporary Sources. By L. Lockhart, Ph.D., pp. 343, 11 plates, 8 maps; Luzac & Co., London, 1938. 21s. Influence of Islam on Indian Culture. Tara Chand, M.A., D. Phil. (Oxon.), Principal, Kayastha Pathshala University College, Allahabad. The Indian Press, Ltd., Allahabad, 1936. pp. vi, 327 and 61 illustrations. Some Aspects of Religious Liberty of Nationals in the Near East. A Collection of Documents Compiled by Helen Clarkson Miller Davis. Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1938. pp. 200. In the Home of Revelation. By Muhammed Husain Haikal. In Arabic. Cairo: Matba'at Dar al‐Kutub al‐Misriyya, 1937. pp. 637. 5/‐. Tracts on Listening to Music, being the Dhamm al‐Malāh? of Ibn Abl'd‐Dunyā’and Bawāriq al‐Ilmā’by Majd ad‐Din at‐Tūs? al‐Ghazāl?. Edited with Introduction and Notes by James Robson. London, 1938. Royal Asiatic Society, pp. viii+192. 8vo. The Buildings of Qāytbāy at Described in his Endowment Deed. Edited by L. A. Mayer, Sir Sassoon David Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Fascicle I : Text and Index, 1938. Imperial Byzantium: The Thousand Years of the Eastern Roman Empire. By Bertha Diener. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1938. pp. 382.’$3.50. The Encyclopaedia of Islam. A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples. Prepared by a number of Leading Orientalists; edited by M. Th. Houtsma, A. J. Wensinck, H. A. R. Gibb, W. Heffening and E. Levi‐Provençal. Supplement Number 5, Taghlib —Ziryab. Published by Luzac & Co., London and E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1938. Der Islam im Angriff. By H. G. Corsepius. Missionshandlung und Verlag, Potsdam, 1938. pp. 96. Inside India, by Halidé Edib. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1938. $3.50. Transactions: Years 1936 and 1937. Volume VIII. Edited by The Rev. James Robson, M.A., Recording Secretary, Glasgow University Oriental Society. Civic Press, Ltd., Glasgow, 1938. Annali Lateranensi. Publicazione Del Pontificio Museo Missionario Etnologico. Vol. II. Citta Del Vaticano, Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1939. pp. 421. Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig. Vol. xiii, nos. 3, 4. pp. 21. Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte , Vol. Iv (1936). pp. 19f. Die religiösen Kräfte Asiens. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, 1937. pp. 48. RM. 125.