BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article: The United States and the Arab World by William R. Polk (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1965). The Faith of Other Men. By Wilfred Cantwell Smith. The New American Library, New York, 1965, pp. 128. 60 c. A Chronicle of Damascus 1389–1397. By Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sasrā, translated, edited and annotated by William M. Brinner, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963, 2 vols. Vol. I, pp. xxix, 344; Vol. II, pp. xvii, 265; plus 2 maps in each vol. $18.00. The Course of Empire: The Arabs and their Successors. By Sir John Glubb. Hodder and Stoughton, 1965, pp. 424. Sufferings in Africa: Captain Riley's Narrative. By James Riley, edited and with an introduction by Gordon H. Evans. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1965. Frontispiece portrait, end-paper maps; pp. xx + 316. $6. ‘Aragic’ for Arabic , p. 261; ‘short’ for shore, p. 15, and a few others. But the original edition itself gives us Chapter VI with the title missing, and Timbuktu, now in the new state of Mali, is listed as ‘Tombucioot.’ P 535. Etymological Dictionary of Harari , by Wolf Leslau. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles (Near Eastern Studies Vol. 1), 1963, xv + 240 pages, $5.00. Had?th Literature, its Origin, Development, Special Features and Criticism. By Dr. Muhammad Zubayr Sidd?q?. Calcutta University Press, 1961, pp. xxviii, 211, six plates. Rs. 15.00. The Pelgrim's Companion in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. By Stewart Perowne. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1964, pp. 154 (including plans). 2/6. The Fall of Constantinople 1453. By Steven Runciman. (Cambridge University Press, 1965). Die Grenzen dcs Irak: Historische und rechtliche Aspekte des irakischen An-spruchs auf Kuwait und des irakisch-persischen Streites um den Schatt al-Arab. By Ulrich Gehrke and Gustav Kuhn. (Darstellungen zur Auswartigen Politik, edited by Prof. Dr. Herbert Krüger, Hamburg, vol. 2, I-II.) Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 1963. pp. IX + 352, IV + 112. Nineteenth Century American Schools in the Levant: a Study of Purposes , Rao A. Lindsay, University of Michigan Comparative Education Series, No. 5. American Interest And Policies In The Middle East, 1900—1939. By John A. DeNovo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963. 394 pp. plus bibliography and index.