Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 47: Second Monograph Series of the New Orient Society of America, Number One; Persia<br><br>July, 1932. Syria-palestine. Edited by Professor A. T. Olmstead, University of Chicago.<br><br>September, 1932. Egypt. Edited by Professor Halford L. Hoskins, Department of History, Tufts College, Massachusetts.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.