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1908 · Best.-Nr. 164073 — Calcutta: Office of the Board of Examiners 1908. Second edition of this uncommon work compiled for the higher standard examinations of the British military. WorldCat records nine copies worldwide. The first part contains fables and travel accounts among others including those of Ibn Battuta Sinbad Ibn Jubayr Abu al-Fida and Sadiq Pasha. The second includes extracts from Kitab'l-Wasitah a description of Malta and Kashfu l-Mukhabba an account of European arts and sciences by Ahmad Faris Effendi. Rizq Allah Fathi Azzun d.1911 was an instructor to the board of examiners in Calcutta. As he notes in the preface "this work contains a larger number of colloquialisms and modern words and phrases most of which had not yet found their way into standard dictionaries. It was thought advisable to include in the list all words that were likely to present any difficulty to the student" p. 3. The first edition was published in 1905 as Ar-Rauzatu-z-zakiyah. Selections for the Higher Standard Examination in Arabic. Lieutenant-colonel Douglas Craven Phillott 1806-1930 secretary to the Board of Examiners commissioned this work. Phillott served in the Indian army until his retirement in 1906 after which he held positions in academia including lecturer in Hindustani at Cambridge and Persian Lecturer at Calcutta University. Octavo. Original blue paper covered boards cloth spine lettered in blue with flower details at head and tail front cover lettered in black. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Spine sunned minor loss to spine ends head with neat repair boards rubbed and soiled a couple of patches of wear to corners and rear board foxing to outer leaves fore-edge bumped at centre: a very good copy. Wolfgang Behn Concise Biographical Index to Index Islamicus 2004. hardcover