In the March issue of the Occasional Bulletin we published a masterly article by an American missionary scholar on the relation of non-Christian religious systems to Christian theology. In this issue we are privileged to publish a paper by a Pakistani scholar whose brilliant research on the ethical doctrine of the Qur'an has just come from the press, under the title God of Justice. Dr. Rahbar's father was Chairman of the Department of Persian Studies at the Punjab University in Pakistan and Principal of the Oriental College of that University. Dr. Daud Rahbar took his M.A. degree in Arabia Literature from the Punjab University in 1947. Since then he has continued his studies at Cambridge University and has taught at Cambridge, McGill University in Montreal, Ankara University, and Hartford Theological Seminary where he is at present visiting Professor of Urdu and Pakistan Studies. Dr. Rahbar is a Christian. His paper, “Christian Approach to Non-Christian Faiths,” was read at the Consultation sponsored by the South Asia Committee of the D.F.M., October 31, 1960. It is followed by a review of Dr. Rahbar's new book, written especially for the MRL Occasional Bulletin by Dr. A. Kenneth Cragg, author of The Call of the Minaret, Sandals at the Mosoue, and other books.
Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of the McGill University. Brief Union Catalogue. Montreal, McGill University Libraries, 2005, XX + 210 p. (Fontanus Monograph Series XVII)