Studies in Islamic history and civilization / edited on behalf of the School of Oriental Studies in the Faculty of Humanities by Uriel Heyd. - Jerusalem : Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1961. - 228 p. ; 25 cm. - Scripta Hierosolymitana ; v. 9 . - Scripta Hierosolymitana v. 9. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Ben-Horin, U. An unknown old Arabic translation of the Syriac romance of Julian the Apostate.--Ashtor, E. Some unpublished sources for the Baḥrī period.--Ayalon, D. Notes on the Furūsiyya exercises and games in the Mamluk sultanate.--Heyd, U. The Ottoman ʻulemā and westernization in the time of Selīm III and Maḥmūd II.--Shinar, P. Ibāḍiyya and orthodox reformism in modern Algeria.--Baer. G. The village shaykh in modern Egypt (1800-1950)--Pines, S. La loi naturelle et la société: la doctrine politico-théologique d'Ibn Zurʻa, philosophe chrétien de Bagdad.--Kopf, L. The treatment of foreign words in mediaeval Arabic lexicology.--Blau, J. The importance of middle Arabic dialects for the history of Arabic.


Added t.p. in Hebrew; one contribution in French.


Islamic civilization
Arabic philology

AS591.J4 / A25 1961