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Annemarie Schimmel: Islamic calligraphy. (Institute of Religious Iconography, State University, Groningen. Iconography of Religions. Section xxii: Islam. Fasc. 1.) xi, 31 pp., 48 plates. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Guilders 32.
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Tilman Nagel: Untersuchungen zur Entstehung des abbasidischen Kalifates. (Bonner Orientalistische Studien, Neue Serie, Bd. 22.) [ii], 198 pp. [Bonn]: Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars der Universitat Bonn, 1972. DM 16.
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Helmut Tollnee: Die türkischen Garden am Kalifenhof von Samarra: ihre Entstehung und Machtergreifung bis zum Kalifat al-Mu'tadids. (Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients, Bd. 21.) [ii], 176 pp. Walldorf-Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde Dr. H. Vorndran, 1971. DM 16.50.
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Barbara Schäfer: Beiträge zur mamlukischen Historiographie nach dem Tode al-Malik an-Nāsirs. Mit einer Teiledition der Chronik Sams ad-Dīn aš-ŠuǦā'īs. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 15.) [ix], 268, 102, [4] pp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1971. DM 28.
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Franz Rosenthal: The herb: hashish versus medieval Muslim society, [v], 212 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. Guilders 64.
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John A. Haywood: Modern Arabic literature, 1800–1970: an introduction, with extracts in translation, xiii, 306 pp. London: Lund Humphries, 1971. £3.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 636-637
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W. E. D. Allen (ed.) and Anthony Mango (tr.): Russian embassies to the Georgian kings (1589–1605). (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Second Series, Nos. CXXXVIII-CXXXIX.) 2 vols.: xxxii, 368 pp., front., 10 plates, 5 maps; ix, 369–640 pp., front., 6 plates, 2 maps. Cambridge: University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1970. £6.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 637-638
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N. A. Jayawickrama (ed. and tr.): The chronicle of the Thūpa and the Thūpavamsa; being a translation and edition of Vācissaratthera's Thūpavamsa. (Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Vol. XXVIII; UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.) xxxiv, 286 pp., front., 5 plates, map. London: Luzac and Co. Ltd., 1971. £6.30.
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Hermann Kulke: Cidambaramāhātmya: eine Untersuchung der religionsgeschichtlichen und historischen Hintergründe für die Entstehung der Tradition einer südindischen Tempelstadt. (Freiburger Beiträge zur Indologie, Bd. 3.) xvi, 243 pp., front., 14 plates. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1970. DM 48.
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Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam (ed. and tr.): Ghalib, 1797–1869. Vol.i: life and letters. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Indian Series.) 404 pp., front. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1969. £3.50.
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Purushottam Singh: Burial practices in ancient India. A study in the eschatological beliefs of early man as revealed by archaeological sources. (Indian Civilisation Series, No. XVII.) xii, 204 pp., 32 plates, 2 maps. Varanasi: Prithivi Prakashan, 1970. Rs. 60.
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B. P. Sinha and Sita Ram Roy: Vaiśālī excavations, 1958–1962. x, 206 pp., front., 97 plates. Patna: Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Bihar, 1969. Rs. 60.
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J. S. Grewal: Muslim rule in India: the assessments of British historians. xvi, 218 pp. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, Indian Branch, 1970. £2.50.
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W. H. Sleeman: Sleeman in Oudh: an abridgement of… A journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1849–50. Edited with an introduction and notes by P. D. Reeves. (The European Understanding of India.) xii, 329 pp., front., 2 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. £6.40.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 644-645
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Mildred Archeb: British drawings in the India Office Library. (Common-wealth Office.) 2 vols.: xvii, 364 pp., front., 56 plates; xiii, 365–712 pp., front., 64 plates. London: H.M.S.O., 1969. £7.
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John Irwin and Katharine B. Brett: Origins of chintz; with a catalogue of Indo-European cotton-paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, viii, 134 pp., 166 plates. London: H.M.S.O., 1970. £5.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 647-648
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Richard F. Gombrich: Precept and practice: traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon, xiv, 366 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. £4.
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D. A. Ol'derogge (ed.): Strany i narody Vostoka. Vyp. x. Srednyaya i tsentral'naya Aziya: geografiya, étnografiya, istoriya. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Geograficheskoye Obshchestvo SSSR. Vostochnaya Komissiya.) 292 pp. + errata sheet. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’, 1971. Rbls. 1.80.
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Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 4. Physics and physical technology. Pt. III: Civil engineering and nautics. lvii, 931 pp., 162 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. £18.
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Ruth Fuller Sasaki and others (tr.): The recorded sayings of layman P'ang: a ninth-century Zen classic. Translated from the Chinese by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya, Dana R. Fraser. 109 pp., front., 5 plates. New York, Tokyo: Weatherhill1971 $5. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 653-654
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