Du Ponceau, assailing the doctrine of the "ideographic" character of the Chinese script. It included studies of Arab music, of Persian cuneiform, and of Buddhism in India, and brought to a wide audience the then novel theories of Pierre E. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope of subject matter and the solidity of its scholarship. The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Not only is current scholarship on the subject almost totally ignored, but a number of gratuitous half-truths, totally unfounded in the texts and historically unsound, are offered as Suhrawardī's profoundest insights and supposed to explain the displeasure his doctrine caused with "the orthodox." The present reviewer disagrees also in part with the view expressed by an earlier critic who would simply substitute "the philosophical tradition" for Thackston's "Sufism." It is suggested that any attempt to explain Suhrawardī's initiatory doctrine should rather take the presence of the Ismāʿīlī tradition into serious consideration. In his introduction, Thackston discusses the scientific world-view presupposed by Suhrawardī in some detail, but is superficial when it comes to metaphysics and mysticism. Thackston translates what appear to be his own conjectures of the text without identifying them as such. The translation, while displaying a commendable effort to be literal, is at times seriously misleading, especially where Dr.
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