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Geula Elimelekh | 3 Jun 1999 14:27
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT


ICONOTEXTUAL STUDIES IN THE MUSLIM IDEOLOGY OF UMAYYAD ARCHITECTURE AND
URBANISM/by S. Tamari

This is the second volume of the author's iconotextual trilogy. Based on
Arabic unedited manuscripts, the trilogy in general and the present volume
in particular uncovers for the first time in modern Islamology the Muslim
ideology of Umayyad architecture and urbanism.

Published by Bar Ilan University Press, co-published by Harrasowitz
Verlag.  XX pp. + 175 pp. English.  1996.  Paperback

Price including postage: USD 63.

Orders can be sent to: Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan 52900, ISRAEL,
TEL. 972-3-5318575, Fax: 972-3-5353446, Email: press@...
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Joan C Biella | 3 Jun 1999 15:54
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paper on non-Gregorian dates in MARC

I want to call the group's attention to a recent MARBI discussion
paper on non-Gregorian dates, at

http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp117.html

The paper concerns possible additions or modifications to the MARC21
code to record publication dates in non-Gregorian systems.  Input from
organizations like MELA, which work with material using such systems,
is specifically requested.

Note that the paper erroneously comments that a year in the Jewish
calendar sometimes corresponds to three Gregorian years.  Were they
thinking of the fact  that one Gregorian year sometimes corresponds to
three  Islamic years?  At the very least, we could help them get their
facts straight.

Joan Biella
Library of Congress
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Andras Riedlmayer | 4 Jun 1999 04:02
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LIS History Institute, Monticello, IL (Sept 26-28 1999)

Evidence and Artifacts:
Rethinking Research Methods for Library and Information Science History

The 40th Allerton Park Institute
September 26-28, 1999
Allerton Park and Conference Center
Monticello, Illinois

The final Allerton Park Institute of the 20th century is devoted to 
a reconsideration of research methods for the history of library and
information science (LIS); libraries, archives, and other educational
institutions; and information technologies.

"Evidence and Artifacts: Rethinking Research Methods for LIS History" will
bring together historians, librarians, and archivists to discuss and share
old and new data sources, methodologies, research techniques, and ideas.

The Allerton Park Institute will begin with dinner and a keynote address
by W. Boyd Rayward on Sunday evening.  Featured on Monday and Tuesday
will be panels on oral history, cinema studies, corporate archives,
public records, and architectural history through digitized images.
A special round table discussion on the future of the LIS past 
will be conducted by Donald G. Davis, Jr., Mary Niles Maack, and  
Wayne A. Wiegand.

The Institute will be held at the Conference Center in historic
Allerton Park less than an hour's drive from the campus of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The conference program and information about registration and lodging
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James N. Gentner | 8 Jun 1999 16:13
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No Cooperative Acquisitions Meeting in N.O.

Dear Participants in the Library's Cooperative Acquisitions Programs:

	Due to other commitments and declining interest in this meeting, we will
not be in attendance at ALA in New Orleans. 

	We will continue to attend the area studies meetings throughout the year.

	With best wishes for a successful conference.

James.
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Rachel Simon | 9 Jun 1999 15:57
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Book fot review

I received the following for review in MELA notes:

Obayd Zakani, Collected works. Edited by Mohammad-Ja'far Mahjoub. New
York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1999. 440 p (all Persian)

Please respond directly to me.

Rachel Simon -- rsimon@... -- Princeton University Library
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Rachel Simon | 14 Jun 1999 21:41
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Moukhtar Ani

I was asked to forward this query to the list. Please respond directly
to Philip Miller. 

Rachel Simon -- rsimon@... -- Princeton University Library		
	

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:22:59 -0400
From: Philip E. Miller <pmiller@...>

Thanks again for putting my question to MELA. I got three replies, all useful.

Now I have another question.

I am trying to find out if Moukhtar Ani (note spelling) is still alive. He
taught Arabic at Georgetown during the 1960s. He was, I believe, with the
Syrian diplomatic corps before the Baath takeover. If he is still alive,
he'd be up in years.

I contacted Georgetown, which now has a huge center for Arabic studies,
but, sad to say, no one ever heard of him. I'd write Professor Irfan
Shaheed at Geogetown, but he may be emeritus.
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Andras Riedlmayer | 15 Jun 1999 00:20
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ancient mosque library set ablaze in Prishtina

The library of the 15th-century Emperor's Mosque in Kosovo's capital city
of Prishtina was burning out of control on Sunday after it was reportedly
set on fire by a group of uniformed Serbs using gasoline bombs.

A Reuters photo of the burning library can be seen at 
 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/p/nm/19990613/ts/mdf88842.html

Any information on the library and its collections would be welcome. The
article "Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro)" by M. Zdralovic in World Guide
to Islamic Manuscripts has only two entries for Prishtina -- one for the
regional archives, the other for the university library -- but none for
mosque libraries. 

During more than five centuries of Ottoman rule, Prishtina often served
as the seat of provincial governors and was a center for Islamic learning.
Before the mid-1990s, it still had a dozen historic mosques, a number of
them with madrasas that must have had collections of manuscripts.

Andras Riedlmayer
Harvard University
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Andras Riedlmayer | 15 Jun 1999 02:54
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Arrest of Cuban librarians

This has no direct connection to Middle East studies, but is of importance
to all librarians and others who care about the freedom of information.

Andras Riedlmayer

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:03:19 PDT
From: robert kent <rkent45@...>
Subject: Arrest of Cuban librarians

DEAR COLLEAGUES:  Please spread the message - on listserves and bulletin
boards - about this outrageous violation of freedom of speech, as outlined
in the press release below.  It is not a crime to be a librarian!  Polite
letters of protest can be sent to: Dr. Fidel Castro Ruiz, Presidente de
los Consejos de Estado y Ministros, La Habana, Cuba.

                            PRESS RELEASE

CONTACT:Robert Kent                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(718)340-8494 or rkent45@...       June 8, 1999

            CAMPAIGN TO OPPOSE REPRESSION OF LIBRARIANS IN CUBA

    The Friends of Cuban Libraries, a newly-formed international 
support group, launched a campaign on June 8 to oppose what it terms 
"the systematic intimidation and arrest of independent librarians in Cuba 
and the seizure of their book collections."  Since April, 1998, sixteen
independent libraries, entirely free of government control, have opened 
in the Caribbean nation.  The new libraries, offering collections 
donated by the public, explicitly reject the censorhip to which Cuba's
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gjr | 16 Jun 1999 17:31
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AHMAD KATTOUAH

I have recently come across translations (in the periodical Banipal) of Arabic
poems by someone called "Ahmad Kattouah". Can anyone supply the correct Arabic
spelling of this poet's name?
						Geoffrey Roper

						Islamic Bibliography Unit
						Cambridge University Library
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MazdaPub | 16 Jun 1999 19:37
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Re:New Titles from Mazda Pubs.

Dear MELA Members:
Here is a list of our new titles since January 1999. To order please contact 
your vendor or contact us.
Ahmad Jabbari

1-Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World, by Anthony Shay 
(ISBN:1-56859-083-0).
2- Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan 1919-29, King 
Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama, by Senzil K. Nawid (ISBN:1-56859-072-5).
3- The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete, by George Bournoutian 
(ISBN:1-56859-082-2).
4- Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran, by Habib Levy 
(ISBN:1-56859-086-5).
5- Half the World: The Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722, by 
Stephen P. Blake(ISBN:1-56859-087-3), Islamic Art and Architecture, No. 9.
6- Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan, 1796-1925 by Nikki R. Keddie (ISBN: 
1-56859-084-9). In Europe, please contact I.B. Tauris.
7- Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qisas al-Anbiya, by 
Rachel Milstein, Karin Ruhrdanz, Barbara Schmitz (ISBN:1-56859-064-4), 
Islamic Art and Architecture, No. 8.
8- Radicals at Home and Abroad: Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah, 
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, by Afshin Matin-asgari (ISBN:1-56859-079-2).
9-Abraham of Erevan: History of the Wars 1721-1738 by George A. Bournoutian, 
(ISBN:1-56859-085-7), Armenian Studies Series, No. 3.
10- The Ball and Polo Stick or the Book of Ecstasy by Arifi of Heart, tr. and 
ed. By W.M. Thackston and Hossein Ziai(ISBN:1-56859-090-3), Intellectual 
Traditions Series, No. 3.
11- Az Orshalim ta Orshalim [From Jerusalem to Jerusalem] by Hooshang 
Meshkinpour (ISBN:1-56859-088-1), Persian Language Publications Series, No. 
11.
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