Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:05:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Cairo 
Subject: clm97-26

List97-26
[5 Titles from Syria]
 
1-                    LCN: 96963065
Ghayti, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Mawahib al-Karim al-Mannan fi al-kalam ala
awail Surat al-Dukhan wa-fadail laylat al-nisf min Shaban / li-Muhammad
ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Ghayti al-Sakandari ; itana bi-hi
wa-allaqa alayhi Hasan Ismail Marwah. Dimashq : Dar al-Bashair, [1995?]
$3.50 (U.S.) 154 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references
and indexes. Classic treatise on the beginning of Surat al-Dukhan and the
excellence of the month of Shaban.  Marwah, Hasan Ismail. 
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2-                    LCN: 96964601
Ismat, Riyad, al-Masrah al-Arabi :  suqut al-aqniah al-ijtimaiyah / talif
Riyad Ismat. Dimashq : R.  Ismat, 1995. $8.00 (U.S.) 256 p. ; 22 cm. On
Arabic theater, and the end of social realism. 
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3-                    LCN: 96964511
Attar, Maha Faiq. al-Sirah al-fanniyah fi al-adab al-Arabi hatta awail
al-thamaniniyat / Maha Faiq al-Attar. al-Tabah 1. Dimashq :  M. F.
al-Attar, 1995. $$9.00 (U.S.)  283 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical
references (p.  251-280). The development of Arabic biography up to 1980. 
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4-                    LCN: 96964846
Khidr, Mustafa. al-Hadathah ka-sual huwiyah : bad al-mulahazat hawla
mashru al-hadathah al-Arabiyah / Mustafa Khidr. al-Tabah 1. Dimashq :
Ittihad al-Kuttab al-Arab, 1996.  $6.50 (U.S.) 272 p : 23 cm. Includes
bibliographical references. On the precise nature of the modernist trend
in contemporary Arab literature and criticism. 
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5-                    LCN: 96963657
Kutbi, Zuhayr Muhammad Jamil, Jabir ibn Hayyan / Zuhayr al-Kutbi.
al-Tabah 1. Dimashq : Dar Tilas lil-Dirasat wa-al-Tarjamah wa-al-Nashr,
1996. $7.00 (U.S.) 157 p. : 23 cm. ( Alam al-turath al-ilmi al-Arabi )
Includes bibliographical references. On Jabir ibn Hayyan(d.ca.815) and his
contribution to the field of chemistry.