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We know little of his education, but Guest enumerates a number of older poets with whose works Ibn ar-Rumi, according to his own state• rnents, was acquainted and from whose poems he no doubt borrowed the names of places in Arabia, the exact position of which he did not know.
A manuscript in the Escurial and another in Istanbul, all three representing different recensions, would furnish as complete a text of the poems of Ibn ar-Rumi as we can expect from any author of that time.
I have made during the many years of studying Arabic poetry index-notes of citations, but as I do not possess the com• plete Diwan of the poet I cannot say how many lines may not be found in the existing manuscripts of the collected poems.
The talented author, who is already well• known in learned circles for her several works on Muslim $ufis, has thus rendered a great service to those who are interested in mystic thought.
H. MUHAMMAD ALI HAZIN, HIS LIFE, TIME AND WORKS, by Sar• ia'l'az Khan Khattak; published by Sh. Mohammad Ashraf, Kashmiri Bazar, Lahore; pp.
HE author of this well-documented monograph, with a lively cover• design, handsome get-up, and neat printing, deserves our praise for giving us an elaborate account of the life of Muhammad 'Ali Hazln, who migrated to India from Iran in the eighteenth century A.