BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article: The Lebanese Crisis 1958. A Documentary Study. Selected, Edited & Introduced by M. S. Agwani. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1065. pp. 406. No price listed. The Religious Attitude and Life in Islam. By Professor Duncan Black Mac-donald, (Khayats Oriental Reprints No 9) Khayats, Beirut, No. 65. pp xvii, 317- LL. 15. Khal?l Mardam's Diwan. Arab Academy of Damascus, n.d., pp. 440 + 32. Dynamik und Dogma in Islam 3d edition Pp. 118, paper. By Dr. J. Hans, The Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1963. Earliest Civilizations of the Near East. By James Mellaart. Thames and Hudson, London, 1965, pp. 143. Einführung in die Semitischen Sprachen. By Gotthelf Bergstraesser, Max Hu-ber Verlag, Miinchen, 1963, pp. xv, 212. D.M. 20. Spoken Arabic of Baghdad: Part one. By R. J. McCarthy, S.J. and Faraj Raffouli, Librairie Orientate, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964, pp. xxxvi, 548. Politics of the Developing Nations. By Fred R. von der Mehden. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1964; pp. xi, 140, Appendix. $4.50. Slatin Pasha. By Richard Hill. Oxford University Press, London, 1965, pp. x, 164, map, nine illustrations. 25/-. Aspects of Islamic Civilization: As Depicted in the Original Texts. By A. J. Arberry. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1064; pp. 408. 48/- in U.K. Muslim Death and Burial: Arab Customs and Traditions Studied in a Village in Jordan. By Hilma Granqvist. (Societas Scientiarum Fennica Com-mentationes Humanarum Litterarum XXIV. i) Helsinki-Helsingfors 1965, P. 287. The Coinage of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria. By Paul Balog. The American Numismatic Society, New York, 1964. Numismatic Studies, no. 12, pp. 444, plates. Religious Studies. Vol. I, No. 1 - October, 1965. ed. H. D. Lewis, Cambridge University Press.