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Volume 36 - Issue 3 - October 1973

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Polly Hill: Rural Hausa: a village and a setting, xvi, 368 pp., 16 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. £7.60.

Alfred Schwartz: Tradition et changements dans la société guéré. (Mémoires ORSTOM, No. 52.) 259 pp., 12 plates. Paris: [Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer], 1971. Fr. 90.

E. E. Evans-Peitchard: The Azande: history and political institutions, xviii, 444 pp., front., 5 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. £4.

P. H. Gulliver: Neighbours and networks: the idiom of kinship in social action among the Ndendeuli of Tanzania, xiii, 366 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1971. $10.(English agents: IBEG Ltd. £5.50.)

J. A. Barnes: Three styles in the study of kinship, xxiv, 318 pp. London: Tavistock Publications, 1971. £3.

Leonard E. Palmer: Descriptive and comparative linguistics: a critical introduction. (Studies in General Linguistics.) 430 pp., plate. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. £6.50.

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J. J. M. Roberts: The earliest Semitic pantheon: a study of the Semitic deities attested in Mesopotamia before Ur III. xvii, 174 pp. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, [1972]. $12. (English agents: IBEGLtd. £5.40.)

Luise Abramowski and Alan E. Goodman (ed. and tr.): A Nestorian collection of Christological texts: Cambridge University Library MS.Oriental 1319. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Nos. 18–19.) 2 vols.: viii, 223, [v] pp.; liv, 143 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. £8.

Mohamed Mostafa (ed.): Die Chronik des Ibn Ijās. Erste Aufl. Zweiter Teil, A.H. 815–872|A.D. 1412–1468. (Bibliotheca Islamica, Bd. 5b.) xi, 476, 12 pp. Wiesbaden: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1972. DM 30.

Şalāḥ 'Abd Al-Şabuūr: Murder in Baghdad (Ma' sāt al-Ḥallāj). Translated by Khalil I. Ṡemaan. (Arabic Translation Series of the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol, 1.) xx, 76 pp. Ledien: E. J. Brill, 1972. Guilders 14.

Sasson Somekh (comp.): The world of Najib Mahfuz: an anthology. 195 pp. Tel Aviv: [Arabic Publishing House], 1972. [In Arabic.]

Ernst Kühnel: Islamische Schriftkunst. 2. Aufl.92 pp. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972 S 680.

Sami A. Hanna (ed.): Medieval and Middle Eastern studies in honor of Aziz Suryal Atiya. vii, 389 pp., front., 23 plates. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972 Guilders 96.

Sophie Ferchiou: Techniques et sociétés: exemple de la fabrication des chéchias en Tunisie. (Université de Paris. Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie, vii.) [vii], 239 pp. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1971. Fr. 45.

Magali Morsy: Les Ahansala: examen du róle historique d'une famille mara-boutique de l'Atlas marocain au xviiie' siècle. (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. Recherches Méditerranéennes. Documents, v.) [iv], vi, 71 pp. Paris, La Haye: Mouton, [1972]. Fr. 18.

Nikki R. Keddie (ed.): Scholars, saints, and Sufis: Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500. xi, 401 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1972. $20. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £7.90.)

Jerome W. Clinton: The divan [sic] of Manūchihrī Dāmghānī: a critical study. (Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, No. 1.) xi, 163 pp. MinneapolisBibliotheca Islamica, 1972.

Edgar Knobloch: Beyond the Oxus: archaeology, art and architecture of Central Asia. 256 pp. London: Ernest Benn Ltd.; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. £2.90.

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