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From the Editor 1MELA Annual Meeting 2Islamic Manuscripts in

N. American Libraries, Pt.5 4Reports 10Book Reviews 15Announcements 20Meeting Announcements 21Member News 22Obituary 23Ctontri butors to MELA Notes 25MELA Membership Roster 26

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MELA NOTES

ISSN 0364-2410

MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

Abazar SepehriUniversity of Texas—Austin

President

James W. PollockIndiana University

Vice-presidentProgram Chair

Dona StraleyOhio St,ate University

Secretary-Treasurer

Basima BezirganUniversity of Chicago

Editor

Mela Notts is published three times a year, in winter,spring, and fall. It is distributed to members of theAssociation and to nonmember subscribers. Membership dues of$10.0(1 bring Notes and other mailings. Subscriptions are$10.00 per calendar year, or $3.00 per issue for most backnumbers. Address dues, requests for membership information,or subscriptions to Dona Straley, Secretary-Treasurer MELA,Main Library Rm. 308, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Ohio StateUniversity, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

MELA NOTES 36, Fall, 1985

FROM THE EDITOR

The annual meeting of our organization is around thecorner, our thoughts and preparations are underway. We havethe opportunity to exchange ideas and catch up ondevelopments in our profession, but most of all we have achance to see each other, hear the news and have a goodsocial time. See you all in New Orleans.

Once again my thanks to Palmira Brummett for herassistance in typing and editing this issue of MELA.

Basima BezirganMELA Notes Editor

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MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING 1985Schedule of Events: Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Orleans,Louisiana, November 21-24.

THURSDAY EVENING, 11/21The Middle East Studies Association is meeting in

conjunction with the African Studies Association. AfricansLibrarians and members of MELA are mutually welcome andinvited to attend any of the counterpart group's generalcommittees and business meetings.

FRIDAY MORNING, 11/22MELA Committtee Meetings Burgundy Room A9:00-10:00 am Technical Services Brenda Bickett,

ChairRecess to RefreshmentsMiddle East MicroficheProject John Eilts, ChairMidEast File Prof. Haim Shaked(Shiloah Center, Tel Aviv University,presentation and discussion. Onlinedemonstration will be in the exhibit area)

FRIDAY NOON 12:30-2:00 pm Lunch

10:00-10:30 am10:30-11:15 am

11:15-12:00

FRIDAY AFTERNOON2:00-4:00 pm MELA Business Meeting, Abazar Sepehri

PresidingBurgundy Room A

Library of Congress Overseas OperationsALA-Assn. of College & Research LibrariesALA-Resources & Tech Services DivisionMELA Tech Services CommitteeMiddle East Microforms ProjectMELA Notes EditorSecretary - TreasurerProgram 1985President's Summary Report

Rodney SarleMartha DukasDona Straley

Brenda BickettJohn Eilts

Basima BezirganDona StraleyJames Pollack

Abazar Sepehri

Election of Oficers (Program Chair 1986/Vice President)

4:00-5:45 pm (Elmwood Room)Cataloging Subcommittee —

AFRICANA LIBRARIANSmeets separately.

MELA NOTES 36, Fall, 1985 :

SATURDAY 11/23Africana Librarians Meetings: Elmwood Room

8:00-9:00 am Executive Committee9:00-11:00 am Outreach Program Demonstration: "Teaching

Africa", Meeting with the New OrleansPublic School Board

1:30-3:15 pm Bibliography Subcommittee3:30-5:15 pm Business Meeting

SUNDAY 11/2411:30 am-l:30 pm Librarians Program for 1985:

Elmwood Room(a roundtable meeting held jointly - African & MiddleEast Librarians — Doris Hull and James Pollack, Chrs.Topical contributions with general discussion invited:)

Salwa Ferahian, Me Gill University"Analyses of questions from the reference desk of theIslamic Studies Library"

Eliezer Chammou, University of California at Los Angeles"Near or Middle East, Which Is Proper?"

Jan Weryho, McGill University"What Is Islamic Literature?: a Book Selector'sDilemma"

Ragai Makar, University of Utah"Aspects of Arabism and Islamism in Africa"

Sulayman Nyang, Howard University, Discussant

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MANUSCRIPTS IN NORTH AMERICAN LIBRARIES. PART 5.

Union Theological Seminary Library 3041 Broadway at ReinholdNiebuhr Place New York, New York 10027

Part 1. Contact Person: Seth Kasten Partial Listing inMartin Date of Inventory: August 2-4, 1983

1. Koran.Copied 1175 H/1761-2 A.D. by Isma CI1 ibn Ibrahlm in

medium size naskh hand. The 356 fols. measure 13.2 x 19 cm;written surface measuring 7.5 x 13.5 cm. is gold ruled. 13lines to page. Ornamented cunwan and headings. Catchwords.The light brown paper is somewhat glazed. The leather bindingis gold stamped. Ms. is in protective cover and leathercase. Note on piece of paper in the ms. reads: Ms. of theKoran presented to the Mission Research Library by the Rev.W. S. Nelson, D.D. Tripoli, Syria, May 27, 1930. (Call no.:Arab. /12/).

2. Koran.Copied by Hasan al-Husnl (/) al- 'Ala'1 in 1266 H/

1846-50. 15 lines to page. Beginning missing. Text startswith Q 2:17. The 302 fols. paged in Western charactersmeasure 11.5 x 17.8 cm.; the written surface 5.6 x 11.5 cm.is ruled in gold and blue lines. Last page contains colophonsurrounded by ornamentation. Headings are in white on goldbackground. Verse divisions are in gold, green and blue, andthere are floral ornamentations in the margins. Catchwords.The red leather binding with flap is gilt stamped. In boxlabeled "The Holy Qur'an 1655-6". (Call no.: Arab. 111).

3. Koran.Written about 17th century in calligraphic, rather large

naskh. 414 fols. measuring 13.6 x 22.5 cm.; written surface8 x 16.1 cm. is ruled in several l^nes with blue and goldpredominating. Gold are also the headings and versedivisions. Name of the surat appears on each page in upperright. Text of the Koran was cut out and spliced onto thinpaper. Stamped red leather binding with flap is separatedfrom quires in spine. In box labeled "The Holy Qur'an saec.XVII-XVIII". (Call no.: Arab. /20/).

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4. Koran.Written in large naskh in about the 18th century; fols.

1-10 and end are in a later hand. The 335 fols. paged inWestern characters measure 16.5 x 26 cm.; written surface 12x 21 cm.; 13 lines to page. Catchwords. Red verse divisionsand surat headings. Paper is strong, dirty white, and notglazed. Fols. 1-10 are watermarked. Leather binding with flapis blind stamped. Gift of Tillman C. Towbridge, missionary.The ms. was given to him by Arif Bey, his teacher. (Call no.:Arab.

5. Koran.Written in old small naskh. The fols. paged in Western

characters measure 9 x 13.6 cm.; written surface 6 x 11 cm.;35 lines to page. Red and gold ornamentation, especiallysecond page of surah two, while the usual first two pages arenot ornamented. Leather flap binding is blind stamped.Various recent previous ownerships are given on thefly-leaves. (Call no.: Arab. /9/).

6. Al-BaydawI, :Abd Allah ibn :Umar, d. 1286/7. Anwaral-tanzil wa-asrar al-ta'wil.

Commentary on the Koran v. 1 ending with Q 18:109.Copied about 17th century in small, occasionally vocalizednaskh. The 344 fols. measure 16.7 x 27.8 cm.; writtensurface 10 x 19 cm. Folios partly paged in orientalcharacters. 23 lines to page. Pp. 1-2 of text ruled in blue,gold, and red. Paper is thin, light brown, and lightlyglazed. Leather flap blind stamped, binding with cover isdetached. Holdings of this title are not common. Reference:GAL I 417. Edited and published by H.O. Fleischer asBeidhawii Commentarius in Coranum ex codd . par isiensibus .dresdensibus et lipsiensibus . Leipzig, 1846-8. 2 vols. (Callno. : Arab. /4/) .

7. Al-Suyuti, Jalal al-Din cAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr , d.1505. Tafsir al-Jalalayn.

The Koran commentary of the two Jalals, of which thetafslr of Q 1:1 to 17:111 written by al-Suyutl's teacherJalal al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mahalli, (d. 1459) is notincluded, copied by Yusuf ibn :A1I ai-Marzuqi (/) al-Shafi:on 21 March, 1838. The 200 folios numbered in Westerncharacters measure 11.2 x 17 cm.; the written surface 6.5 x13 cm. is ruled with double red lines. Small naskh, mostlyunvocalized. 23 lines to page. Text in red and dark brown.Paper is yellowish and somewhat glazed. Red leather with flap(detached) is green (?) stamped. Reference: GAL II, 114,145. Text was published several times. (Call no.: Arab./18/).

8. Majmu:at tafsir suwar bacd ayat wa-cawarif al-macarif.


Commentary on selected verses of the Koran by variousauthors. Various papers and paper sizes as well as differenthands. Selected contents:

Fol. 9v starts Q 41:30.Fol. 19 starts Surah 3.Fol. 80v al-Bosnawi, :Abd Allah, d. 1644, Matali: al-nur

al-sani al-munbi' can taharat nasab al-nabl al-'-arabl. (Cf.Princeton. /Mach/ no. 4540.).

Fol. 137r Kitab dhaba'ih. In naskh script, concerning thelegality of eating certain slaughtered animals. Waqf(mortmain) to tekye (the convent) of Merkez Efendi (for whomcf. Gordlevskii, V. A. Izbrannve sochinenia v. 1, Moskva,1960, p. 327, 362, 408, etc.).

Fol. 140v Al-Suhrawardi, 1144-1234. Kitab :awarif al-maarif, a sufi treatise (Reference GAL I 440). Published. Waqfto same convent as above. Ms. ends abruptly. (Call no.: Arab.

9. clyad ibn Musa, 1083-1149. Kitab al-shifa' fl ta:rif huquqal-Mustafa.

Duties of the Muslims towards the prophet Muhammad copiedin medium size, sparingly vocalized naskh 1200 H/1785 A.D.The 336 fols. measure 17 x 24 cm.; written surface 7.5 x 15.5cm.; 21 lines to page, catchwords. The watermarked paper islight brown and glazed. Leather flap binding is blindstamped. Reference GAL I 369; holdings not uncommon.Published repeatedly cf. e.g. LC 72-221159 for recentedition. (Call no.: Arab. /8/).

10. Al-Jazarl, Shams al-DIn abu al-Khayr Muhammad, 1350-1429.Al-hisn al-hasin min kalam sayid al-mursalin.

Collection of prayers copied in medium sized elegant nastallq which is sparingly vowelled, on 17 Shawwal 1109/29 April,1698. 95 fols. numbered in Western characters measure 13 x23.8 cm.; written surface 6.5 x 12.5 cm. Extensivemarginalia; catchwords. 11 lines to page. Headings in red.Fine, off-white paper. Modern binding. Reference GAL II 203.Fols. 94r-95v contain sufi treatise on the Naqshabandiyaorder in naskh by a later hand in Persian, incipit:Waqf to Khanaqah Merkex Efendi (cf . above entry no. 8).Ownership stamp reads Nur al-dln Darwish. (Call no. Arab./15/).

11. Majmucah.Collection of religious tracts copied mostly in naskh hand

in 1-136 H/1723-4 A.D. The 102 fols. numbered in Westerncharacters measure 16 x 21.7 cm.; written surface measures 11x 16 cm. 25 lines to page varies; catchwords. Watermarked,off-white, strong paper is not glazed. Leather binding withold covers pasted on. Waqf to convent of Merkez Efendi.Contents:


Fol. lv Al-Ghazzall, 1059-1111. Minhaj al- :abidln.Treatise on sufi practice and worship GAL I 423 (38).

Fol. 81v Idem. Kitab ayyuha al-walad. Ethic treatise wasedited and translated into German by Hammer-Purgstall,Vienna, 1838.

Fol. 87r Abu Hanifah, 699 or 80-767 or 8. Wasiyah(Testament on the principles of Islam). Reference GAL I 171,(Angepasste Aufl. 170).

Fol. 91v Al-Ghazzall, 1059-1111. Kitab al-kashfwa-al-yaqln. Reference GAL S I 752 (47 1). (Call no.:Arab./21/).

12. Al-Birkawi (Birgili), Muhammad ibn PIr CA1I Muhyi al-Din,1523-1573. Mucaddil al-salat.

On the necessity of prayer, copied 1209/1794-5 by HafizHusain HafizI a student of Mustafa Hamid in medium sizenaskh. Turkish. The 149 folios measure 12.5 x 19.7 cm; thewritten surface measuring 6.5 x 13.5 cm. is ruled with twored lines. 15 lines to the page; catchwords. Small cunwan ingold and blue. Yellow paper of strong texture is glazed.Marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Flap ismissing. Worm and damp stain damage not affecting the text.Reference: GAL II 440 (9). (Call no.: Arab. /19/).

13. Sabit, cAla' al-Din Efendi, d. 1712 (?). Mi^rajiyah.Title from fore-edge. Unverified. Incipit: Account of the

circumstances of Muhammad's ascent to heaven, copied inmedium size naskh. The 44 fols. measure 12 x 18.5 cm; writtensurface 7.5 x 13 cm. is ruled in red and blue. 15 lines tothe page, catchwords. Headings in red. Small triangulararabesque cunwan. Off-white, slightly glazed paper. Clothover cardboard binding with flap. Stamp of Nttr al-DInDarvish. Waqf 1279 H/1862-3 A.D. (Call no.: I).

14. Al-Mulahazah al-intiqadlyah fl al-slrah al-Muhammadiyah.Anonymous observation on the life of Muhammad. Late 19th

or early 20th century manuscript in small, partiallyvocalized ruqac script. The 26 pages measure 20 x 30 cm.;the written surface 15.8 x 23.6 cm. varies. Text is ruled inblack and purple. 44 lines to the page. Western paper of thintexture is off-white but not glazed. Stitched pages infolder. The six chapters deal with the prophet's geneaologyand birth, mission, raids, miracles, death, his ascent intoheaven. Unverified. (Call no.: Arab. /10/).

15. Halabi, Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim,d. 1549. Multaqa al-abhur.

Hanifite law. Written in small, nasta'-liq script. Overallmeasurements 10 x 21.7 cm.; the written surface measuring 4.8x 16.5 cm. is red ruled. 15 lines to the page; catchwords.


Headings are in red. Four fols. are missing between fols.93/4. Some marginalia. Paper is off-white (except fol. 200,which is brown), fine in texture and glazed. The clothbinding with flap is blind stamped. Ref. GAL II, 432; ms.ends as Berl. 4613. (Call no.: Arab. /ll/).

16. Chrysostom, John, Saint, 345-407. Kitab al-durral-muntakhab.

Contains 34 selected sermons, annotated by the owner ofthe ms. Butrus Duwayhi in 1802. Written in rather largenaskh. The 296 fols. numbered in oriental characters measure21.4 x 30.4 cm.; the written surface measures 12.5 x 23.5cm.; 25 lines to the page; catchwords. Headings are large andin black ink. Paper is watermarked with "tre lune" and crown.Fol. 14 shows some worm damage. Ref. Graf I, 341.

Bound with it is:Sermon in karshuni of P. Justinian, the Capuchin held on

the Feast of Peter, the head of the apostles. The author maybe identical with Justinian of Tours, cf. Graf IV, p. 200. 7leaves on paper watermarked tre lune and ZZUOLI. (Call no.:Arab /13/).

17. List of place names in Arabic and translation.Probably ms. notes of Eli Smith for his "Lists of Arabic

Names of Places in Palestine and the Ajacent Regions" aspublished in Biblical Researches in Palestine. Mount Sinaiand Arabia Petraeaa Journal of Travels in the year 1838 by Edward Robinson and

Eli Smith. Boston, 1841 v. 3, /112/-196. 45 fols. with twoinserts. Overall size 11 x 32 cm.; the written surfacemeasures 10 x 31 cm.' but varies. 34 lines to the page.Paper watermarked GIOR. MAGNANI with heraldic sign, butvaries. Cardboard binding. Note attached reads: "List ofPalestine Place-names presumably in the handwriting ofProfessor Edward Robinson of the Union Theological Seminary."But a comparison of the scripts would indicate that thewriting is that of Smith. (Call no.: Arab. /14/).


18. Liturgy of the Dead.Coptic and Arabic written in large, legible naskh. The

text on 104 fols. runs from left to right. Copied 1557 of themartyrs/about 1840 A.D. Overall measurement 10.7 x 14.7 m. ;the written surface measures 8 x 11 cm., but varies. 11-14lines to the page. Headings and uncials in various colors.Unwan. The strong, white paper is somewhat glazed. Binding isgilt stamped. Provenance: Major Henry Arnold, 11/26/41. (Callno.: Arab /5/).

Dr. Miroslav Krek

Note: The editor wishes to apologize for the inadvertentomission of Dr Krek's name from "Islamic Manuscripts in NorthAmerican Libraries, pt. 4" which appeared in the last issue.Those of you who have been receiving the Notes are of coursefamiliar with Dr. Krek's valuable contribution to ourpublication.


REPORTS

MIDDLE EAST TRIP NETS SCARCE PUBLICTIONS FROM ARAB GULFSTATES

A one month visit by Middle East Collection head librarianAbazar Sepehri to four Arab Gulf States, Egypt, and Turkeyhas netted the General Libraries 3,360 volumes from the area.Most of the items are government publications virtuallyunobtainable through normal acquisitions channels. Initiallysuggested by a faculty member in UT Austin's Department ofGovernment, the trip was undertaken in the spring of 1984primarily to acquire current publications from the PersianGulf region for the Middle East Collection. Additionally,Sepehri intended to visit the Cairo field office of theLibrary of Congress (LC) Cooperative Acquisitions Program forthe Middle East and to acquire 3. core reference collection onTurkey. Other objectives of the trip were locating neededretrospective Egyptian imprints surveying first-hand thecurrent publishing situation in each of the countriesvisited, and making contacts for future acquisitions.

Funding for the trip was provided by the University'sCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department ofGovernment, and the General Libraries; and the Institute ofTurkish Studies in Washington D.C., awarded a grant for theTurkish acquisitions.

The first stop on Sepehri's itinerary was Cairo, where hespent five days visiting bookstores, universities, the U.S.Embassy, and the LC field office. Using a want list ofpublications (primarilly pre-1962 Egyptian imprints), Sepehrilocated approximately 360 volumes needed by the library andarranged for their shipment to the United States. Periodicalsubscriptions and their attendant problems, selectionpolicies, and cataloging assistance associated with the LCCooperative Acquisitions Program were discussed with LC fielddirector, Mike Albin (formerly head librarian of the UTAustin Middle East Collection.

Next on the schedule were visits to Saudi Arabia and threeother Arab Gulf States. In a three-week period, Sepehritraveled to Jiddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and to thecapitals of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. (Admittancerestrictions prevented his going to the remaining two states:Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.) Visits were made togovernment agencies, universities, and bookstores. In Riyadh,


in addition to his acquisition activities, Sepehri gave alecture on Middle East Studies and library collections in theUnited States at the Library of King Saud University.

In each of the four Gulf countries visited, Sepehrisurveyed the publishing scene: who was publishing, what theywere publishing, and how one could acquire the publications.Commercial publishing is done to a significant extent only inSaudi Arabia and, to a lesser degree, in Kuwait. Because theLC Cairo field office was at the time collecting SaudiArabian commercial publications which would be shipped to UTas a participant in the Cooperative Acquisitions Program,Sepehri concentrated there on such non-commercial sources asgovernment agencies and universities. In Kuwait heinvestigated both commercial and non-commercial production.In Bahrain he found the principal publishing agency to be theMinistry of Information; in Oman, the Ministry of NationalHeritage and Culture is the major publishing agency.

In all four countries Sepehri found publications of valueto an academic library. He was able to secure copies ofnational development plans and other planning documents,statistical materials (particularly population, housing,foreign trade, commerce), diplomatic studies, and literary

well as materials on banking andpublic

and religious works, aseconomics, , politics,conditions, education,Approximately

administration, socialculture, art and archaeology,

ninty-eight percent of the 2,500 volumesacquired from Arab Gulf States were gifts. Given the lack ofacquisition tools and the absence of a well-developed booktrade for this region, Sepehri plans to continue building onthis now outstanding base of information by keeping in touchwith the contacts established and by making periodic returnvisits.

From Oman, Sepehri flew to Istanbul, Turkey's leadingcommercial publishing center, to purchase basic referencematerials and works on the Turkish language, linguistics,history and social science to support Turkish courses oncemore being offered by UT's Department of Oriental and AfricanLanguages and Literatures. Two days of shopping using thefunds provided by the Institute of Turkish Studies yielded500 volumes.


By the end of the year, virtually all of the materialspromised had arrived in Austin, where they are beingcataloged for the Middle East Collection. With total holdingsof approximately 50,000 volumes, the collection ranks in thetop ten among major U.S. libraries collecting in this field.(JG.AS)

Reprinted from "The University of Texas at Austin Newsletter"no. 25, 1985.

LATEST PRICE SURVEY - BOOKS FROM THE Mil EAST

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ArabicArabicArabicArabicPersianTurkishHebrewWesternEnglishEnglishFrench

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AllAllN.AfricaLebanonGulfIranTurkeyIsraelAllTurkeyIsraelN.Africa

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15.566.4410.02

It is difficult to draw conclusions from this table as itdoes not represent a wide enough participation. Librarieswishing to participate in this project are encouraged towrite to: John A. Eilts, Near East Division, The Universityof Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1205,(313-764-7555).

John A. ExitsUniversity of Michigan Library


REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE MIDDLE EAST COOPERATIVEMICROFORM PROJECT

Held July 7, 1985 at the American Congress Hotel, Chicago.during the annual meeting of the American LibraryAssociation.

Committee members: John Eilts, Chair (U. of Michigan), BasimaBezirgan (U. of Chicago), Brenda Bickett (Georgetown U.),Meryle Gaston (New York U.), Patricia Myers-Hayer (Library ofCongress), Dona Straley (Ohio State U.).

Visitors: Martha Dukas (Boston Public Library), ChristonFilstrup (Library of Congress), Frances Morton (Library ofCongress), Lory Smith (Library of Congress), ElizabethWidenmann (Columbia U.), Julian Witherell (Library ofCongress).

The Committee met to follow up on matters concerning theM.B.C.A.P. that were discussed at the previous meeting onJanuary 8, 1985 at Georgetown (See MELA Notes no. 34, p.7-8). John Eilts distributed the prospectus to members anddiscussed some of his thoughts about the project. He alsoannounced that the name of the project had not yet beendetermined.

The first item discussed was the forming of a subcommitteeto write the by-laws. Brenda Bickett volunteered to form andchair the subcommittee. Julian Witherell and Meryle Gastonboth volunteered to help Brenda. Dona Straley suggested thatMELA should be represented in the bylaws committee.

Group concensus focused on the Center for ResearchLibraries as a possible home for the project and on theUniversity of Chicago library as a possible center for thecataloging and processing of materials.

Among the topics discussed was the dissemination ofmaterial, which would be effected though a contract with CRL.It would take the form of a catalog available (online)through ARLIN and OCLC. Also, periodically, a list ofacquisitions would be published in MELA Notes.

Membership and fee structure were discussed but nodecisions were made. The nature of the Executive Committeefor the project was also discussed: it should be strong andshould deal directly with CRL. Also this committee should bein close contact with the Middle East Studies Association.


John Eilts will send letters to solicit members and willcontact organizations that have an interest in the MiddleEast for donations. The committee will meet again inNovember during the MELA/MESA meetings in New Orleans.

Basima BezirganUniversity of Chicago Library


BOOK REVIEWS

Richard L. Lawless, comp. Algeria. Oxford, England. SantaBarbara, California. CLIO Press, 1980. (Vol. 19 in WorldBibliographical Series) pp. 215. Author, title, and subjectindex.

According to the editors of this series, "the keynote ofthis series is to provide an interpretation of the country,an interpretation that will express its culture, its place inthe world and, and the qualities and background that make itunique." I believe that this bibliography has achieved thisgoal and satisfied that desire.

It is an excellent survey of books and periodicalliterature, which deal with the geography, history, politics,social life, economy, and religion etc. of Algeria. It is theonly one of its kind in both the English and Frenchlanguages. One of the innovative features of thisbibliography is that French titles are followed by Englishtranslations since the bibliography was meant for Englishreaders.

The bibliography contains 742 entries covering 35subjects. It contains a complete index of authors, titles andsubjects and a small map of Algeria. It would have been morehelpful to the user of the bibliography to have a larger andmore detailed map.

The annotations are brief but informative. Thebibliographic information for each book or article iscomplete. Although the introduction is short, it isinformative and up to date. The bibliographer gave specialcare to certain subject categories such as "War ofIndependence" which covers 11 pages with 55 entries,"Politics" which includes forty items and "Foreign Relations"which includes 65 items.

The parts on Language and Religion are thin. The problemof Arabization and the Islamic movements should have beencovered in these two sections. These are two subjects ofimportance to many western readers. Another suggestion wouldbe the addition of a glossary of Algerian Arabic terms. Istrongly recommend this bibliography.

Ragai N. MakarMarriott Library

University of Utah


Dariush Gitisetan. Iran: Politics and Government under thePahlavis: an Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ andLondon: Scarecrow Press, 1985. 201 p.

Intended "to bring together materials related to thepolitics and government in Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty"(p. ix), Gitesan's bibliography lists and annotates some 1160items that are of interest to "scholars, librarians,students, and others engaged in research" on 20th centuryIran. It includes sections on the history, the economic andsocial conditions, and the fall of Pahlavi Iran. The compilerhas culled entries from a wide range of periodicalliterature, from obvious sources such as MERIP Reports, andfrom the not so obvious Southern Quarterly and World'sCarriers. However, most, if not all, of its entries arediscoverable, albeit not as conveniently, by means readilyfound in research libraries. Gitisetan has also annotatedand sorted the contents of various monographic collections ofarticles, full citations for which appear in his finalsection "General and Bibliographic Sources," underappropriate headings.

For the most part the annotations are, as stated in theintroduction, "informative rather than evaluative." Sometimesthey are absent, e.g., p. 5; no. 16 or merely gratuitous,e.g., James A. Thorpe's article "Truman's Ultimatum to Stalinon the 1946 Azerbaijan Crisis: The Making of a Myth" (p. 18;no. 114) the annotator tells us "attempts to disprove theclaim that Harry S. Truman gave Stalin an ultimatum whichforced th Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Azerbaijanin 1946" and Soheil Akhvan's dissertation Economic Planningin Iran, the Fifth and Sixth National Development Plans (p.99; no. 616) is "an analytic study of economic planning inIran with an emphasis on the fifth and sixth plans."Occasionally annotation gives way to capsule biography ofprinciple Pahlavis. The annotation of L.P. Elwell-Sutton'sarticle "Reza Shah the Great" (p. 4; no. 7) consists of aWho's Who entry for the dynasty's founder; Farah Pahlavi'slife is summarized in entry 189 (p. 29); and Mohammad Reza'sin 193 (p. 30). Annotations for entries 40 (p. 8), 313 (p.49), and 323 (p. 51) repeat the fact that Reza Khan was anofficer in the Cossack Brigade, and that Mohammad Reza wasthe son of Reza Shah is mentioned many times. An annotationcan also serve as a brief history lesson: A.H. Hamzavi's"Iran and the Tehran Conference" (p.14; no. 81)

"discusses the significance of the Tehran conference for Iranin which the Allied leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,


Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Prime Minister JosephStalin, agreed in the Tehran Declaration to give economicassistance to Iran after World War II and to respect itsindependence, territorial integrity, and sovereignty."

One wonders whom Gitisetan had in mind when he wrote this.Middle East Specialists7 Students7 Librarians7

Errors are very rare in this bibliography. Item 153 (p.23) contains an innocuous typo, and the annotation to G.Agabekov's OGPU: The Russian Secret Terror (p. 3; no. 1)states that the memoir "reveals the Soviet subservice aims inIran and names of many Persian agents" (subversive7). items19-20 (p. 6) are repeated without cross reference and withslightly different annotations in entries 502-503 (p. 78).While the bibliography includes an author index, an index toall of the names mentioned in titles and annotations wouldhave significantly improved access to the information foundin the work. Under the heading "General and BibliographicalSources, " Index Islamicus. Middle East Abstracts. andEncyclopedia Iranica are conspicuously absent.

The vanity publication of Iran: Politics and Governmentunder the Pahlavis: an Annotated Bibliography raises aquestion that interests bibliographers, the question of thelimits of bibliographic specificity. How specific can abibliography become before its scholarly utility is confinedto a few research projects, which, once completed andpublished, condemn that bibliography to eternal obsolescence7As a spawner of significant research, Gitisetan's work seemsto skirt the limits of usefulness; in reviewing it, I had thesense that the recent publications to which it could verywell have been appended were absent. Be that as is may, manywill find this bibliography a convenient way of reviewing agreat deal of literature on contemporary Iranian history anda useful guide to further reading.

Paul SprachmanUniversity of Chicago Library


TookapI Saravl Muzesi Osmanli Sarav Arsivi Katalogu.Fermanlar. I Fasikul. No. El-12476 Prepared by UlkuAltlndag. Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu, 1985.(T.C. Ataturk, Kultur , Oil ve Tarih Yuksek Kurumu, TurkTarih Kurumu VII dizi, sayl 81.)

This catalog is the first publication in a proposed seriesreclassifying the documents in the Topkapi Saray MuzesiArsivi. The series will classify the documents by type ofdocument (Ferman, Hukum, Berat, Telhis etc.) and by subject(Siyasi, Askeri, Saray, etc.). A list of the proposedclassification entries is given at the beginning of thisvolume, along with introductory statements.

This fasicle lists the fermans included in the TopkapiArsivi evrak documents, nos. El-12475, a total of 1021fermans. These are listed chronologically with physicaldescription and a brief summary of contents. The time periodcovered is 747 to 1338 A.H.

This volume would have benefitted greatly from aperson/place index as well as from an index listing evraknumber/page so that references from other sources could bechecked by number. An indication of the extent of therevision and additions involved in this reclassification isgiven by a comparison of this list with the old standardcatalog: Arsiv Kilavuzu. Istanbul 1938-1940. For the periodof Bayezid II's reign this new Fermanlar catalog lists 22fermans. Of the seven evrak listed in the Arsiv Kilavuzuindex under Bayezid II, fermanlar, only one (evrak 9521) isincluded in the new catalog. The other six are not listed forthe period of Bayezid II's reign. Four of the fermans listedin the new catalog are mentioned in the Arsiv Kilavuzu indexunder other subheadings for Bayezid II: Cemin oglununoldurulmesi hakklnda emirname, mulknameler, Korkut §ehzadeninmektubu ve verdigi beratlar, timar ve sainye beratlar. Underthe new classification many documents have been added whileothers have been reassigned under new dates or new subjectheadings. It remains for researchers to compare theclassifications document by document for errors andomissions. (Here again an evrak number index would have beenuseful).


Although the Arsiv Kilavuzu index includes some very specificdescriptions, many of the documents are indexed only undervery broad categories. The Fermanlar catalog descriptionsinclude addressee and place names. This, combined with thechronological organization of the fermans, should makedocuments relating to specific areas of inquiry much easierto identify.

Palmira BrummettUniversity of Chicago Libraries

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ANNOUNCEMENTS


The General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, hasissued a list of its Arabic and Persian periodicals withtheir holdings information. Copies can be obtained by writingto: Abazar Sepehri, Middle East Collection, MA I 316,University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78713. Cost of each copyis $5.00, payable to: University of Texas at Austin (GeneralLibraries).


MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS

XXXIInd International Congress for Asian and North AfricanStudies 25-30 August 1986

Seminars on library science will be a part of the XXXIIndICANAS, Hamburg 1986. The themes will include bibliography,history of printing in Oriental countries, Orientalmanuscripts, library automation, cataloging, etc.Orientalists, librarians, scholars and students of individualOrientalistic fields are codially invited to contributepapers to these seminars.

For further information please contact: Prof. Dr. A.Wezler, Secretary General, Organizing Committee, C/o Seminarfur Kultur und Geschichte Indiens, Grindelallee 53, D. 2000Hamburg 13, Federal Republic of Germany, tel. 4123 33 85.

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Hamid Mahamedi has been appointed Associate Librarian,Librarian for Islamica Collections, in the CollectionDevelopment and Reference Services Department of the GeneralLibrary of the University of California at Berkeley. Mr.Mahamedi fills the career position whose duties he has beenassisting the department in handling, during an extendedrecruitment period, since the summer of 1983.

Louis Mitler of Translation Services, Washington D.C.:forthcoming book on Contemporary Turkish Writers (Uralic andAltaic Series, Indiana University).

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OBITUARY

Frances Campbell Morton (1931-1985)

Frances Campbell Morton passed away suddenly at her homeover Columbus day weekend. She was a senior descriptivecataloger at the Library of Congress. She is survived by herson, William, and her daughter, Jane.

Frances came to the Library in early 1979 from IndianaUniversity where she had worked as a Near Eastern cataloger.She received her M.L.S. in 1977 and had almost completedcourse work in a master's in Altaic Studies before coming tothe Library of Congress.

Frances entered the library profession later in life andhad spent a considerable amount of time in Iran where sheacquired her interest in Persian. Mostly self-taught inPersian, she took course work in Arabic at Ohio State and inTurkish at Indiana. She was a member of the Middle EastStudies Association, the Middle East Librarians Association,the American Library Association, the Turkish StudiesAssociation, and the Society for Iranian Studies. She wasespecially active in the Middle East Librarians Associationand the American Library Association and served as a liasonbetween the two for a number of years.

She spent her career at LC in the Descriptive CatalogingDivision cataloging Persian and Arabic materials. In the fallof 1984 Frances traveled to three of the Library ofCongress's field offices (in Karachi, New Delhi, and Jakarta)where she provided valuable cataloging assistance.

Frances Morton made many valuable contributions to theLibrary of Congress during her years there. One of her majorattributes was her ability to create a bridge between theLibrary of Congress and other libraries in the cataloging ofNear Eastern materials. She will be remembered for herprofessionalism, her dedication to the Library profession,and her spontaneous sense of humor. Her many friends andcolleagues in the library world will miss her greatly.

Patricia Myers-HayerLibrary of Congress


Frances Campbell Morton

Frances Campbell Morton died quietly of heart failureearly Sunday morning October 13, 1985. Those of us who knewher will remember her energy, her zest for life and her manyachievements. Frances had the gift of living life to thefullest. She enjoyed working hard, traveling and spendingtime with her family and an astonishing number of friends.Like the pearls she was so proud of acquiring, she had aluminous quality which brightened the lives of those aroundher. Frances was unique, she will be missed.

Marsha Hamilton.


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(Total price for the vilayet salnames indicated above, set: $1472.00)

Devlet salnames (central government yearbooks), ministry salnames, and aselection of Ottoman chronicles are also available on fiche.

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