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## ISLAMICA Father A. S. Marmardji, O. P., has brought out his eagerly expected Textes geographiques arabes sur la Palestine, recueillis, mis en ordre alphabetique et traduits en Franqais (Paris, Gabalda, 1951, pp. xvii + 267). This greatly needed book replaces the long unobtainable book by Guy Le Strange, Palestine under the Moslems, and indeed gives much more than can be found there; it is an absolute necessity for all students of the history and topography of Palestine. Marmardji draws on some 28 Arabic authors, against Le Strange's 24. Richard Hill's A Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Oxford University Press, 1951 [actually 1952], pp. xvi + 392, American price $8.50) contains nearly 2000 short notices of persons connected with the history of the Sudan who died before 1948. It is naturally replete with curious information. Reuben Levy's The Persian Language (New York, Philosophical Library, 1951, pp. vi + 125, American price $5.75) is issued as part of Hutchinson's University Library of Modern Languages. It is a remarkably successful attempt on the part of the author who is professor of Persian at Cambridge University, to make the subject interesting, with ch
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- 1952
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- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)