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Volume 46 - Issue 2 - June 1983

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Ferdinand-Joseph Abela: Proverbes populaires du Liban sud, Saïda et sesenvirons. Tome I. (Les Littératures populaires de toutes les nations. Nouvelle série, 28.) xxviii, 481 pp. Paris: G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1981.
Farida Abu-Haidar
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24 December 2009, pp. 349-350
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Alma Giese: Waṣf bei Kušāǧim: eine Studie zur beschreibenden Dichtkunst der Abbasidenzeit. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 62.) v300 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1981.
Julia Ashtiany
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24 December 2009, pp. 350-351
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Thomas Philipp: Gurgī Zaidān: his life and thought. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 3.) [ix], 249 pp. Beirut: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, 1979. DM 27.
R. C. Ostle
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24 December 2009, p. 351
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Hans Wehr: A dictionary of modern written Arabic (Arabic-English). (Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and amended by the author.) Edited by J. Milton-Cowan. xvii, 1301 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1979. DM 198.
J. A. Abu-Haidar
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24 December 2009, pp. 351-353
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Albert J. Borg: A study of aspect in Maltese. (Linguistica Extranea, Studia 15.) xvi188 pp. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, Inc., 1981.
B. Ingham
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24 December 2009, pp. 353-354
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Charles Issawi: The Arab world's legacy: essays by Charles Issawi. 378pp. Princeton N.J.: Darwin Press, Inc., 1981.
Roger Owen
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24 December 2009, pp. 354-355
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Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad: Contemporary Islam and the challenge of history. xvii, 257 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1982. $33.50 (paper $10.95).
A. Rippin
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24 December 2009, pp. 355-356
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Ernest Gellner: Muslim society. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology,32.) [xi], 267 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1981. £18.50.
Abbas Kelidar
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24 December 2009, pp. 356-357
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John Wright: Libya: a modern history. 306 pp. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1981 [Pub. 1982]. £13.95.
J. A. Allan
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24 December 2009, p. 357
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Paul Wittek: La formation de l'Empire ottoman. Edited by V. L. Ménage. [x], [350] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1982.
C. J. Heywood
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24 December 2009, pp. 357-358
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R. E. Emmerick and P. O. SkjÆrvø: Studies in the vocabulary of Khotanese, I. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 401. Band. Veröffentlichungen der Iranischen Kommission, Bd. 12.) 133 pp. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1982.
Nicholas Sims-Williams
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24 December 2009, pp. 358-359
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H. W. Bailey: Khotanese Buddhist texts. Revised edition. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 31.) x, 157 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. £27.50.
Nicholas Sims-Williams
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24 December 2009, pp. 359-360
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N. N. Ambraseys and C. P. Melville: A history of Persian earthquakes. (Cambridge Earth Science Series.) xvii, 219 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £35.
C. Vita-Finzi
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24 December 2009, p. 360
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Robert W. Thomson (tr.): Eḷishē: History of Vardan and the Armenian War. (Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies, 5.) [x], 353 pp., map. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1982. £21.
David M. Lang
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24 December 2009, pp. 360-361
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Richard Fox Young: Resistant Hinduism: Sanskrit sources on anti Christian apologetics in early nineteenh-century India. (Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, Vol. VIII.) 200 pp., 2 plates, Vienna: Institut für Indologie der Universität Wien, 1981.
D. H. Killingley
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24 December 2009, p. 362
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C. Shackle: A Gurū Nānak glossary. xxxi, 276 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981. £10.
R. S. Mcgregor
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24 December 2009, p. 363
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Stephen Collins: Selfless persons: imagery and thought in Therauāda Buddhism. ix, 323 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge Univeristy Press, [1982]. £22.50.
Joy Manné Lewis
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24 December 2009, pp. 363-364
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Shereen Ratnagar: Encounters: the westerly trade of the Harappa civilization. xxi, 294 pp., 3 maps. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1981 [pub. 1982]. Rs. 120, £12.
Stuart Piggott
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24 December 2009, pp. 364-365
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Anna Libera Dallapiccola: Die ‘Paithan’ -Malerei: Studie zu ihrer stilistischen Entwicklung und Ikonographie. (Schriftenreihe des SüdasienInstituts der Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 28.) x, 457 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1980. DM 248.
Andrew Topsfield
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24 December 2009, pp. 365-366
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Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib (ed.): The Cambridge economic history of India. Vol. I: c. 1200c. 1750. xvi, 543 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £42.50.
P. Hardy
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24 December 2009, pp. 366-367
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Ferdinand-Joseph Abela: Proverbes populaires du Liban sud, Saïda et sesenvirons. Tome I. (Les Littératures populaires de toutes les nations. Nouvelle série, 28.) xxviii, 481 pp. Paris: G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1981.

Alma Giese: Waṣf bei Kušāǧim: eine Studie zur beschreibenden Dichtkunst der Abbasidenzeit. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 62.) v300 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1981.

Thomas Philipp: Gurgī Zaidān: his life and thought. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 3.) [ix], 249 pp. Beirut: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, 1979. DM 27.

Hans Wehr: A dictionary of modern written Arabic (Arabic-English). (Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and amended by the author.) Edited by J. Milton-Cowan. xvii, 1301 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1979. DM 198.

Albert J. Borg: A study of aspect in Maltese. (Linguistica Extranea, Studia 15.) xvi188 pp. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, Inc., 1981.

Charles Issawi: The Arab world's legacy: essays by Charles Issawi. 378pp. Princeton N.J.: Darwin Press, Inc., 1981.

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad: Contemporary Islam and the challenge of history. xvii, 257 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1982. $33.50 (paper $10.95).

Ernest Gellner: Muslim society. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology,32.) [xi], 267 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1981. £18.50.

John Wright: Libya: a modern history. 306 pp. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1981 [Pub. 1982]. £13.95.

Paul Wittek: La formation de l'Empire ottoman. Edited by V. L. Ménage. [x], [350] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1982.

H. W. Bailey: Khotanese Buddhist texts. Revised edition. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 31.) x, 157 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. £27.50.

N. N. Ambraseys and C. P. Melville: A history of Persian earthquakes. (Cambridge Earth Science Series.) xvii, 219 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £35.

Robert W. Thomson (tr.): Eḷishē: History of Vardan and the Armenian War. (Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies, 5.) [x], 353 pp., map. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1982. £21.

Richard Fox Young: Resistant Hinduism: Sanskrit sources on anti Christian apologetics in early nineteenh-century India. (Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, Vol. VIII.) 200 pp., 2 plates, Vienna: Institut für Indologie der Universität Wien, 1981.

C. Shackle: A Gurū Nānak glossary. xxxi, 276 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981. £10.

Stephen Collins: Selfless persons: imagery and thought in Therauāda Buddhism. ix, 323 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge Univeristy Press, [1982]. £22.50.

Shereen Ratnagar: Encounters: the westerly trade of the Harappa civilization. xxi, 294 pp., 3 maps. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1981 [pub. 1982]. Rs. 120, £12.

Anna Libera Dallapiccola: Die ‘Paithan’ -Malerei: Studie zu ihrer stilistischen Entwicklung und Ikonographie. (Schriftenreihe des SüdasienInstituts der Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 28.) x, 457 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1980. DM 248.

Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib (ed.): The Cambridge economic history of India. Vol. I: c. 1200c. 1750. xvi, 543 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. £42.50.

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