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Volume 59 - Issue 1 - February 1996

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Reviews

Raymond W. Copson: Africa's wars and prospects for peace. xvi, 211 pp. Armonk, Ny: M. E. Sharpe: 1994. $50 (paper $19.95).
Todd J. Moss
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Martin A. Klein (ed.): Breaking the chains: slavery, bondage and emancipation in modern Africa and Asia. xiv, 222 pp. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. $14.95.
John Wright
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05 February 2009, pp. 211-212
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Martin J. Murray: The revolution deferred: the painful birth of postapartheid South Africa. xvi, 272 pp. London: Verso, 1994. £11.95.
Ben Fine
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05 February 2009, p. 213
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R. M. W. Dixon: Ergativity. (Cambridge studies in Linguistics, no. 69.) xxii, 271 pp. Cambridge University Press, 1994. £37.50 (paper £12.95).
Andrew Spencer
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05 February 2009, pp. 213-215
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Serge Lancel: Carthage: a history. Translated by Antonia Nevill. xvii, 474 pp. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. £19.95, $34.95.
J. C. L. Gibson
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05 February 2009, p. 215
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Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Tome ii: Babélyca d'Argos à Dyscolius. 1019 pp., 6 plates. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1994. Fr. 525.
Charles Burnett
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05 February 2009, pp. 215-216
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Alfred Ivry (ed.): Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima. Revised by Muhsin Madhi. 280 pp. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1994. £E19.
Oliver Leaman
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05 February 2009, p. 216
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F. E. Peters: Muhammad and the origins of Islam. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies.) xv, 334 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. $19.95.
A. Rippin
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05 February 2009, pp. 216-217
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Yvonne Yazbek Haddad (ed.): The Muslims of America. (Religion in America Series.) x, 249 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. £11.95. - Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane Idleman Smith (ed.): Muslim communities in North America. (SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies.) xxx, 545 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. $29.95.
J. S. Nielsen
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05 February 2009, p. 217
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R. Vassie (ed.): A classified handlist of Arabic manuscripts acquired since 1912. Vol. ii: Qur'ānic sciences and hadith. (The British Library: Oriental and India Office Collections.) viii, 124 pp. London: The British Library, 1995. £25.
Uri Rubin
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05 February 2009, p. 218
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A. Stoilova and Z. Ivanovna (comp.): The holy Qurān through the centuries. A catalogue of the Exhibition of Manuscripts and Printed Editions Preserved in the SS Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia, February 1995. 66 pp., 2 plates [on inside covers]. Sofia: SS Cyril and Methodius Library, 1995. (Sponsored by al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, London. £32.)
H. T. Norms
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05 February 2009, p. 218
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R. B. Serjeant, R. L. Bidwell and G. Rex Smith (ed.): New Arabian Studies, i. xi, 237 pp. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1993. £20.
A. K. Irvine
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05 February 2009, pp. 218-219
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Marek M. Dziekan (ed.): Plenas Arabian Domos: materialy IV ogólnopolskiey Konferencji Arabistycznej Warszawa, 25–26 Marca 1993. 242 pp. Warsaw: Zaklad Arabistyki, Islamistyki Instytut Orientalistyczny Universytet Warszawski, 1994.
H. T. Norris
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05 February 2009, p. 219
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L. S. Cousins (comp.): Index to the Mahāniddesa. vi, 322 pp. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1995.
J. C. W.
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05 February 2009, pp. 219-220
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Zewdie Abate Water resources development in Ethiopia: an evaluation of present experience and future planning concepts. (Middle East Science Policy Series, Vol.13.) 206 pp. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1994. (Distributed by Garnet Publishing, Reading. £30.)
Tony Allan
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05 February 2009, p. 220
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Anatole-Roger Peltier: La littérature Tai Khoeun. 262 pp. Bangkok: Éditions Duang Kamol for the École Française d'Extrême-Orient and Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, 1987. Baht 220.
Helen Cordell
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05 February 2009, p. 220
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J. D. Pearson (comp.): A guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to Africa. Revised edition. Vol. i: London. Vol. ii: British Isles (excluding London). vii, 375 pp.; x, 566 pp. London: Mansell, 1955. £100, £150 (set £225).
Barbara Turfan
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05 February 2009, pp. 220-221
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C. H. Allen (ed.): Africa bibliography 1992: works on Africa published during 1992. Comp. by Christopher H. Allen with assistance from Katherine Allen in association with the International African Institute. xl, 430 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. £40.
Barbara Turfan
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Friedemann W. Golka: The leopard's spots: biblical and African wisdom in proverbs. 150 pp. Edinburgh: T & T Clark Ltd, 1993.
Theodora Akachi
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05 February 2009, pp. 221-222
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05 February 2009, pp. 223-227
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Reviews

Raymond W. Copson: Africa's wars and prospects for peace. xvi, 211 pp. Armonk, Ny: M. E. Sharpe: 1994. $50 (paper $19.95).

Martin A. Klein (ed.): Breaking the chains: slavery, bondage and emancipation in modern Africa and Asia. xiv, 222 pp. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. $14.95.

Martin J. Murray: The revolution deferred: the painful birth of postapartheid South Africa. xvi, 272 pp. London: Verso, 1994. £11.95.

R. M. W. Dixon: Ergativity. (Cambridge studies in Linguistics, no. 69.) xxii, 271 pp. Cambridge University Press, 1994. £37.50 (paper £12.95).

Short Notices

Serge Lancel: Carthage: a history. Translated by Antonia Nevill. xvii, 474 pp. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. £19.95, $34.95.

Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Tome ii: Babélyca d'Argos à Dyscolius. 1019 pp., 6 plates. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1994. Fr. 525.

Alfred Ivry (ed.): Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima. Revised by Muhsin Madhi. 280 pp. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1994. £E19.

F. E. Peters: Muhammad and the origins of Islam. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies.) xv, 334 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. $19.95.

R. Vassie (ed.): A classified handlist of Arabic manuscripts acquired since 1912. Vol. ii: Qur'ānic sciences and hadith. (The British Library: Oriental and India Office Collections.) viii, 124 pp. London: The British Library, 1995. £25.

R. B. Serjeant, R. L. Bidwell and G. Rex Smith (ed.): New Arabian Studies, i. xi, 237 pp. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1993. £20.

Marek M. Dziekan (ed.): Plenas Arabian Domos: materialy IV ogólnopolskiey Konferencji Arabistycznej Warszawa, 25–26 Marca 1993. 242 pp. Warsaw: Zaklad Arabistyki, Islamistyki Instytut Orientalistyczny Universytet Warszawski, 1994.

L. S. Cousins (comp.): Index to the Mahāniddesa. vi, 322 pp. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1995.

Zewdie Abate Water resources development in Ethiopia: an evaluation of present experience and future planning concepts. (Middle East Science Policy Series, Vol.13.) 206 pp. Reading: Ithaca Press, 1994. (Distributed by Garnet Publishing, Reading. £30.)

Anatole-Roger Peltier: La littérature Tai Khoeun. 262 pp. Bangkok: Éditions Duang Kamol for the École Française d'Extrême-Orient and Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, 1987. Baht 220.

J. D. Pearson (comp.): A guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to Africa. Revised edition. Vol. i: London. Vol. ii: British Isles (excluding London). vii, 375 pp.; x, 566 pp. London: Mansell, 1955. £100, £150 (set £225).

C. H. Allen (ed.): Africa bibliography 1992: works on Africa published during 1992. Comp. by Christopher H. Allen with assistance from Katherine Allen in association with the International African Institute. xl, 430 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. £40.

Friedemann W. Golka: The leopard's spots: biblical and African wisdom in proverbs. 150 pp. Edinburgh: T & T Clark Ltd, 1993.

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