  PART I Constitutional Development CHAPTER I PART II Development of Jurisprudence CHAPTER I INDEX OF NAMES AND ARABIC WORDS The Semitic Series DEVELOPMENT OF By DUNCAN B. MACDONALD, M.A., B.D. SERIES OF HAND-BOOKS IN SEMITICS EDITED BY JAMES ALEXANDER CRAIG PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND Recent scientific research has stimulated an increasing interest in Semitic studies among scholars, students, and the serious reading public generally. It has provided us with a picture of a hitherto unknown civilization, and a history of one of the great branches of the human family. The object of the present Series is to state its results in popularly scientific form. Each work is complete in itself, and the Series, taken as a whole, neglects no phase of the general subject. Each contributor is a specialist in the subject assigned him, and has been chosen from the body of eminent Semitic scholars in Europe and in this country. This Series will be composed of the following volumes: I. Hebrews. History and Government. By Professor J. F. McCurdy, University of Toronto, Canada. II. Hebrews. Ethics and Religion. By Professor Archibald Duff, Airedale College, Bradford, England. [Now Ready. III. Hebrews. The Social Life. By the Rev. Edward Day, Springfield, Mass. [Now Ready. IV. Babylonians and Assyrians, with introductory chapter on the Sumerians. History to the Fall of Babylon. By Dr. Hugo Winckler, University of Berlin. [In Press. V. Babylonians and Assyrians. Religion. By Professor J. A. Craig, University of Michigan. VI. Babylonians and Assyrians. Life and Customs. By Professor A. H. Sayce, University of Oxford, England. [Now Ready. VII. Babylonians and Assyrians. Excavations and Account of Decipherment of Inscriptions. VIII. Syria and Palestine. Early History. By Professor Lewis Bayles Paton, Hartford Theological Seminary. [Now Ready. IX. Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory. By Professor D. B. Macdonald, Hartford Theological Seminary. [Now Ready. The following volumes are to be included in the Series, and others may be added: X. Phoenicia. History and Government, including Colonies, Trade, and Religion. XI. Arabia, Discoveries in, and History and Religion until Muhammad. XII. Arabic Literature and Science since Muhammad. XIII. The Influence of Semitic Art and Mythology on Western Nations. The Semitic Series DEVELOPMENT OF BY SOMETIME SCHOLAR AND FELLOW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Copyright, 1903, BY Published; March, 1903 TROW DIRECTORY MEMORIÆ |
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