THE SACRED BOOKS AND
EARLY LITERATURE OF
THE EAST
WITH HISTORICAL SURVEYS OF THE CHIEF
WRITINGS OF EACH NATION
Translations, Bibliographies, etc., by the following
Leading Orientalists:
IN AMERICA:
MORRIS JASTROW, LL.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania;JAMES H. BREASTED, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University ofChicago; CHARLES C. TORREY, D.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, YaleUniversity; A. V. W. JACKSON, LL.D., Professor of Indo-Iranian, Columbia University;CHARLES R. LANMAN, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard University;REV. CHARLES F. AIKEN, S.T.D., Dean of the Faculty of Theology, CatholicUniversity; FRIEDRICH HIRTH, LL.D., Professor of Chinese, Columbia University;REV. WILLIAM E. GRIFFIS, D.D., former Professor at the ImperialUniversity, Tokio.
IN EUROPE:
E. A. W. BUDGE, F.S.A., Director of Egyptology in the British Museum; SIRGASTON MASPERO, D.C.L., Member of the Royal Institute of France; REV. A. H.SAYCE, LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University; W.FLINDERS-PETRIE, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University College, London;STEPHEN LANGDON, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, Oxford University; SIRERNEST SATOW, LL.D., G.C.M.G. British Minister to Japan; H. OLDENBERG,LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Kiel University; T. W. RHYS-DAVIDS, LL.D,Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society; ARMINIUS VAMBÉRY, LL.D, Professorof Oriental Languages, University of Budapest.
IN ASIA:
SIR M. COOMARA SWAMY, Legislative Council of Ceylon; ROMESH CHUNDERDUTT, C.I.E, Author of the History of Civilization in Ancient India; DARABD. P. SANJANA, Educational Society of Bombay; VISCOUNT KENCHO SUYEMATSULL.M, Japanese Minister of the Interior; SHEIK FAIZ-ULLAH-BHAI,Head Master of the Schools of Anjuman-i-Islam; RALPH T. GRIFFITH, PresidentBenares College, India; JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI MODI, Fellow of Bombay University,Officier de l'Academie Française.
Under the editorship of a staff of specialists directed by
PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.
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This Volume is one of a complete set of the Sacred Booksand Early Literature of the East, consisting of fourteenvolumes. In Volume I of the series will be found a certificateas to the limitation of the edition and the registerednumber of this set.
Copyright, 1917,
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THE SLAVE GIRL OF ABU ZAYD.
VOLUME VI
MEDIEVAL ARABIC, MOORISH,
AND TURKISH
In Translations by
E. J. W. Gibb of the Royal Asiatic Society; Stanley Lane-Poole,Litt.D., Professor of Arabic, Trinity College, Dublin; Arminius Vambery,