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Priscilla P. Soucek (ed.): Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world. Papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2–4 April 1980. Planned and organized by Carol Manson Bier. [xx], 277 pp., front. University Park, Penn. and London: Pennsylvania State University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1988. $42.50.
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Stefan Sperl: Mannerism in Arabic poetry: a structural analysis of selected texts (3rd century A.H./ 9th century A.D.–5th century A.H./11th century A.D.). (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) viii, 230 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50, $44.50
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James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (tr. ): Ibn Sa‘īd al-Maghribī: The banners of the champions: an anthology of medieval Arabic poetry from Andalusia and beyond, xxxix, 238 pp. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989.
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Anders Bjørkelo: Prelude to the Mahdiyya: peasants and traders in the Shendi region, 1821–1885. (African Studies Series, 62.) xv, 192 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £25, $44.50.
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Richard Lawless (ed.): The Middle Eastern village: changing economic and social relations, ix, 304 pp., 20 plates. London, etc.: Croom Helm, [1987]. £25.
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Ladislav Holy: Kinship, honour and solidarity: cousin marriage in the Middle East. 143 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. £25.
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Gerd Baumann: National integration and local integrity: the Miri of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan, [xiii], 225 pp., 6plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. £25.
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Abdellah Hammoudi: La victime et ses masques: essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade au Maghreb. 252 pp. Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1988. Fr. 149.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 348-349
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M. A. R. Colledge: The Parthian period. (Iconography of Religions [Groningen]. Section XIV: Iran. Fasc. 3.) [xiv], 47 pp., 48 plates. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986. Guilders 84.
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J. Duchesne-Guillemin and others (ed.): A Green Leaf: papers in honour of Professor Jes P. Asmussen. (Acta Iranica, II. Hommages et Opera Minora, vol. XII.) xiii, 547 pp., 24 plates. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988.
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Jamsheed K. Choksy: Purity and pollution in Zoroastrianism: triumph over evil, xxvii, 185 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. $22.50.
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Richard Gramlich: Das Sendschreiben al-Qušayrís über das Sufitum. (Freiburger Islamstudien Bd. XII.) 659 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1989.
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Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega: The Triadic Heart of Śiva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir. (SUNY Series in the Shaiva Traditions of Kashmir.) xii, 330 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989. $49.50 (Paper $14.95).
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Heinz Bechert (ed.) and Klaus Wille (comp.): Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 6. Die Katalognummern 1202–1599. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. x, 6.) [xiii], 243 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989. DM 160. - Reinhold Grünendahl (comp.): A concordance of H. P. Śāstri's Catalogue of the Durbar Library and the microfilms of the Nepal–German Manuscript Preservation Project. [Bound with] Hara Prasad Śāstri: A catalogue of palm-leaf and selected paper MSS belonging to the Durbar Library Nepal, Vol. I and II. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Suppl.-Bd. 31: Publications of the Nepal–German Manuscript Preservation Project, 1.) i–vi, [xi]-cxxix, [iii], 771 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989.
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Harry Falk: Bruderschaft und Würfelspiel: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des vedischen Opfers. 216 pp. Freiburg: Hedwig Falk, 1986.
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Gudrun Bühnemann: Pūjā: a study in smārta ritual. (Publications of the de Nobili Research Library, Vol. xv.) 253 pp., 28 plates. Vienna: Institute for Indology, University of Vienna, 1988.
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Julia Leslie: The perfect wife: the orthodox Hindu woman according to the Strídharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan. (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series.) xiv, 375 pp., 8 plates. Delhi etc.: Oxford University Press, 1989. Rs. 225.
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Brian K. Smith: Reflections on resemblance, ritual, and religion, xiv, 265 pp. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. £25.
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Gauri Shankar: Śivasvāmin’s Kapphinābhyudaya or Exaltation of King Kapphina. With an appendix and romanized version of cantos i-viii and xix by Michael Hahn. (Revised edition.) lxxxviii, 263, xviii, xxxvi, 100 pp. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1989. Rs. 400.
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Yohanan Friedmann: Prophecy continuous: aspects of Ahmadi religious thought and its medieval background. (Comparative Studies on Muslim societies, 8.) xiii, 218 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1989.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 363-364
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