This article draws attention to the ways in which Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century Iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the post-9/11 memoirs and novels set in contemporary Iran by women of the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Besides being a novel on Islam and Islamic rule—which makes it much...

Rumoozul Atibba, a rare Urdu book compiled by Hakim Fairozuddin is in two Volumes. It is published by Darul Kutub Rafiqul Atibba, printed in "Rifah-e-Aam press in 1913 at Lahore which contains short biographies of Ayurvedic and Unani physicians. It has been compiled to disclose the tested formulae hidden in the minds of eminent scholars of Ayurveda and Unani with their life sketches. The select...

CHRISTINA BYAM SHAW (ed.), Pigeon holes of memory: the life and times of Dr John Mackenzie (1803-1886), London, Constable, 1988, 8vo, pp. 443, illus., £20.00. John Mackenzie was born in northern Scotland in 1803. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, graduating in 1824. As part of his education he walked the wards of the London Hospital. He practised in the army and in Edinburgh and, after the chol...

E. P. Thompson expressed succinctly the prevailing orthodoxy about the origins of the Independent Labour Party when he wrote, in his homage to Tom Maguire, that "the ILP grew from bottom up". From what little evidence has been available, it has been argued that the ILP was essentially a provincial party, which was created from the fusion of local political groups concentrated mainly on an axis ...

We present a method for discovering abstract event classes in biographies, based on a probabilistic latent-variable model. Taking as input timestamped text, we exploit latent correlations among events to learn a set of event classes (such as BORN, GRADUATES HIGH SCHOOL, and BECOMES CITIZEN), along with the typical times in a person’s life when those events occur. In a quantitative evaluation at...