Books And Authors Introduction and review

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Yakov lev of l\f oscow entitled La developpement d'une Langue Ecrite N ationale (" The development of a· national written language '') which describes the educational work of the Union of Soviet Republics in respect of the vast agglomeration of nationalities great and small which, in the Soviet voca• bulary, are termed "Oriental Peoples. In another list the title of Navchirvanov's work is translated as " The Death of the Caliphate," and its contents are thus described : " The author rapidly relates the principal moments and the development of the Caliphate and Sul• tanate. THE MAYKHANA* We are indebted to Professor Muhammad Shafi' for a critical edition of the " 11,laykhana" or the " Tavern " of Mulla 'Abdu'n-Nabi Fakhru'z-Zamani of Qazwin, a work so little known, yet so full of genuine information regarding the development of the Persian poetry in India and elsewhere effected particularly during the 16th and 17th centuries of the Christian era. About 1023 or 1024, while he was staying in Ajmere, he began compiling 15 Saqi-namas to which he attached biographical notes of the authors selected. In the second section 20 poets are accounted for, who had written Saqi-narnas and were also alive at the time of the compilation of this work. in the form of an independent composition, which was followed by the writings of a host of later poets, the· accounts of which are given in detail in this work.