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Show IV THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MIDDLE EAST CENTER BUILDING 413 (801) 581-6181 TO: Dr. Aziz Atiya FROM: Khosrow Mostofi H**** RE: Dr. Muid Khan's Library This will confirm the information I gave you as to our inability to provide any funds for the acquisition of the late Dr. Muid Khan's personal library. Some of the reasons behind this decision are as follows: 1. The Iranian Studies budget is not as yet prepared, and we do not know whether the University of Tehran will allow any funds for the acquisition of books. 2. Our own budgets, both University and federal, have made no provision for such an expenditure. 3. I have checked the list you sent me, and was suprised at the $3,000 figure. Even the $1,400 you mentioned on the phone seems excessive. (a) The Persian section lists 140 volumes out of which 35 volumes are in Urdu which we do not need, and 15 volumes in Arabic, most of which we probably have (Dr. Wu is checking all titles). (b) Of the 15 manuscripts 2 are in Urdu and 13 in Persian, (c) The English section lists some items more than once and contains several volumes which I know we have in the library. For example, Muid Khan's translation--if it be such--of Ibn Sina's Interpretation of Dreams is listed three times. The Cambridge History of Iran V is in the Middle East Library, as are several of your listed publications. (d) Contrary to the Levy Collection, which presented a scholar's concentrated effort to build a complete library on an important subject, the Muid Khan Collection seems to me to be an example of scholarly "hit and run." Not only are there incomplete titles, but the collection is weak and some items, like the Statistical Abstract of Abu Dhabi, July 1969, are worthless. We have the information in other sources for 1969 and subsequent years. Without passing any judgment on the worth of the manu- December 5, 1975 SALT LAKE CITY 84112 |