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Literary Intelligence. 



Mowlawy Ahmad 'Alyy has published a lithographed edition of the 

 text of the Mishkat with few and short, but very useful marginal notes, 

 derived chiefly from the Mirqat. The Mishkat with 'Abd al-Haqq 

 Dihlawy's Persian translation and commentary has been published at 

 Calcutta (in type) in four folio volumes, in 1259, and subsequently 

 with an Urdoo translation and commentary (lithographed) at Dilly 

 equally in four volumes. Mowlawy Ahmad Aly has also made a new 

 edition of the Tafsyr Jalalyn, this edition is more correct but not nearly 

 so clear as the Calcutta edition, 1257 folio. The same Mowlawy, who 

 surpasses all his contemporaries in erudition, has completed two thirds 

 of his edition of the traditions of Bokhary, mention of which has once 

 been made Vol. XX. p. 282. He has favoured me with the portion 

 which has been printed. It is a splendid folio 17 inches high, it has 

 710 pages, and contains twenty chapters: ten chapters remain to be 

 printed. Wherever the vowels throw light on the sense they have been 

 carefully fixed, and the text is farther illustrated by admirable glosses on 

 the margin and between the lines, taken from the Fat/a al-Bariy and 

 other celebrated commentaries. 



Mr. Lees of the 42 N. I. is editing under the auspices of the 

 Society in the Bibliotheca Indica the conquests of Syria by the 

 Pseudo-Waqidy, with an English translation. He has two MSS. one 

 belongs to Colonel Rawlinson and the other to a Mowlawy at Cawnpore, 

 both are of considerable antiquity and written with care. In addition 

 to these two MSS. a more authentic book on the conquests of Syria 

 has been discovered. It is one of the most ancient Arabic manu- 

 scripts that I have seen and was probably written in the fifth century 

 of the Hijrah. It is unfortunately imperfect and it has therefore 

 been impossible to ascertain who the author is. The Asnad are not 

 those of the Tabaqat al-Waqidy and but few of the men mentioned in 

 the Asnad can be found in the books on the Asma Alrijal. They were 

 probably heretics and are therefore not mentioned in the biographical 

 works of the orthodox Musalmans. This leads me to suppose that the 

 author is Madayiny (died in A. H. 225.) This MS. will probably be 

 printed as it is, as an appendix of Mr. Lees' edition of the Pseudo- 

 Waqidy. 



Another work of very great importance the publication of which in 

 the Bibliotheca India is in contemplation is the uj^*l cj*l*.3Ua«ei lSUU> 

 by Mowlawy Mohammad A'la b. Shaykh 'Alyy of Saharanpur who 



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