Books Reviewed in this article: al‐Isbtiqāq. By Fu’ād Hannā Tarazi. No. 50 of Silsilat al‐‘Ulūm al‐Sharqiyya, in the Publications of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. Beirut: Dār al‐Kutub Press, 1968. xii + 390 pp. The La?ā'if al‐Ma‘ārif of Tha ‘lib?.Translated with introduction and notes by C. E. Bosworth. Edinburgh: The University Press, 1968. xiii + 164 pp. £310s. The Kitāb al‐Maghāz? of al‐Wāqid?.Edited by Marsden Jones. London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Printed by Dar al‐Maaref, Cairo, 1964 and 1966. Three Vols., xiii + 46 + 1130 PP. + Indexes. $20.20. History of Egypt.An Extract from Abu L‐Mahasin b. Taghri Birdi's Chronicle entitled Hawadith ad‐Duhur fi Madi l‐Ayyam Wash‐Shuhur (845–854 A.H., A.D. 1441–1450). Translated by William Popper and edited by Walter J. Fischel. New Haven: American Oriental Society, Essay No. 5. 1967. 60 pp. Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt.Edited by P. M. Holt. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. xx plus 400 pp.£3.10s. Educational Problems in Turkey: 1920–1940. By Ilhan Basgöz and Howard E. Wilson. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Publications, 1968. (Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 86), pp. 268, bibliography, index. $7. Turkey and Greece: Closer Unity‐Now! By Reverend Campbell McKinnon. New York: Vantage Press, 1968. 64 pp. $2.95. Women of Algeria; An Essay on Change. By David C. Gordon. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs XIX. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1968. 98 pp. Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914. By Briton Cooper Busch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. pp. xiv plus 432. $8.75. The Middle East Conflict. By Malcolm H. Kerr. New York: The Foreign Policy Association, Headline Series No. 191, October 1968. 63 pp. $0.85. Poetry of Resistance in Occupied Palestine.Translated by Sulāfa Hijjāw?. Baghdad: Directorate of General Culture, Ministry of Culture and Guidance. 1968. 47 pp.
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