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(Cambridge, 1896-98).

The best Arabic grammar for advanced students. Beginners may prefer to use the abridgment by F. du Pre Thornton, _Elementary Arabic: a Grammar_ (Cambridge University Press, 1905).

3. _Arabic-English Lexicon_, by E. W. Lane, 8 parts (London, 1863-93).

This monumental work is unfortunately incomplete. Among other lexica those of Freytag (Arabic and Latin, 4 vols., Halle, 1830-37), A. de Biberstein Kazimirski (Arabic and French, 2 vols., Paris, 1846-60, and 4 vols., Cairo, 1875), and Dozy's _Supplement aux Dictionnaires arabes_, 2 vols. (Leyden, 1881), deserve special notice. Smaller dictionaries, sufficient for ordinary purposes, have been compiled by Belot (_Dictionnaire arabe-francais_, Beyrout, 1928), and Wortabet and Porter (_Arabic-English Dictionary_, 3rd ed., Beyrout, 1913).

4. _Abhandlungen zur Arabischen Philologie_, by Ignaz Goldziher, Part I (Leyden, 1896).

Contains masterly studies on the origins of Arabic Poetry and other matters connected with literary history.

5. _Die Rhetorik der Araber_, by A. F. Mehren (Copenhagen, 1853).

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GENERAL WORKS ON ARABIAN HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, ETC.

6. _The Encyclopaedia of Islam_ (Leyden, 1913--).

A great number of Orientalists have contributed to this invaluable work, of which the first half (A-L) is now completed.

7. _Chronique de ?abari, traduite sur la version persane de...

_Bel'ami_, by H. Zotenberg, 4 vols. (Paris, 1867-74).

8. The _Muruju 'l-Dhahab_ of Mas'udi (_Macoudi: Les Prairies d'Or_), Arabic text with French translation by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille, 9 vols. (Paris, 1861-77).

The works of ?abari and Mas'udi are the most ancient and celebrated Universal Histories in the Arabic language.

9. _Abulfedae Annales Muslemici arabice et latine_, by J. J. Reiske, 5 vols. (Hafniae, 1789-94).

10. _Der Islam im Morgen- und Abendland_, by August Muller, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1885-87).

11. _Histoire des Arabes_, by C. Huart, 2 vols. (Paris, 1912).

12. _A Short History of the Saracens_, by Syed Ameer Ali (London, 1921).

13. _Essai sur l'histoire de l'Islamisme_, by R. Dozy, translated from the Dutch by Victor Chauvin (Leyden and Paris, 1879).

14. _The Preaching of Islam, a History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith_, by T. W. Arnold (2nd ed., London, 1913).

15. _Sketches from Eastern History_, by Th. Noldeke, translated by J. S. Black (London, 1892).

16. _The Mohammadan Dynasties_, by Stanley Lane-Poole (London, 1894).

Indispensable to the student of Moslem history.

17. _Genealogische Tabellen der Arabischen Stamme und Familien mit historischen und geographischen Bemerkungen in einem alphabetischen Register_, by F. Wustenfeld (Gottingen, 1852-53).

18. _Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary_, translated from the Arabic by Baron MacGuckin de Slane, 4 vols. (Oriental Translation Fund, 1842-71).