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NEW BOOKS IN· REVIEW EPIGRAPH/A INDICA, ARABIC AND PERSIAN SUPPLEMENT, r964, edited by Z.
As the authors of the articles aver, some of the epigraphs were already included long ago in such publications as the Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, but they have now been re-edited in the light of new findings and new interpretations.
The book is wound up by an interesting chapter on cultural activi• ties, including Architecture, Music, Painting and Literature.
Ja'isi's Padmiiuat is not a book on history and it is doubtful if the episode which he describes in such detail and on which he bases' Ala. u'd-din 's expedition to Chittor was based on facts or was the result of the fertile brain of the great Hindi writer.
to pick out the elements of value in Islamic culture and to form a just estimate of Muslim achievements in the fields of religion, literature and state• craft.
Even if that were all, this volume would not have come to Islamic Culture for review.
The Dream in Popular Culture: Arab and Islamic Jean Lecerf 23.
·· The fact that several ultra-scientific analyses of dreams lead to and culminate in these five papers dealing with a particular aspect of Islam suggests that even these researchers in the realms of fancy find much of promise in the study of the more esoteric and spiritual dimensions of a religion whose facade of for• malism is all that has been visible.