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Ladislav Holy: Religion and custom in a Muslim society: the Berti of Sudan. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, no. 78.) xi, 239 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £30, $49.50.
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Wolf Leslau: Arabic loanwords in Ethiopian Semitic. xvii, 373 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. DM 98.
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Zdeněk Poláček, Mälaku Azzänä, Tamrat Täsfaye (comp.): A concise sociopolitical dictionary: English–Amharic. x, 511 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. Dm 168.
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Osvaldo Raineri (ed. and tr.): Atti di Habta Māryām (†1497) e di lyāsu (†1508), santi monaci etiopici. (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 235.) xviii, 265 pp. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Orientale, 1990.
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Gebru Tareke: Ethiopia: power and protest: peasant revolts in the twentieth century. (African Studies Series, 71.) xxi, 272 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35, $49.50.
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Milan Adamovic: Die Rechtslehre des Imām al-Nasafī in türkischer Bearbeitung vom Jahre 1332. (Abhandlungen fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. XLIX, 3.) [v], 575 pp. Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner, 1990. DM 198.
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Owen Wright: Demetrius Cantemir: The collection of notations. Part 1: Text. Transcribed and annotated by Owen Wright. (SOAS Musicology Series, Vol 1.) xxvii, 734 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992. £60.
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Metin Heper (ed): Strong states and economic interest groups: the post-1980 Turkish experience. [ix], 198 pp. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. DM 115, $54.95.
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Richard Tapper(ed.): Islam in modern Turkey: religion, politics and literature in a secular state. v, 314 pp. London andNew York: I. B. Tauris [and] the Modern Turkish Studies Programme,SOAS, 1991. £35.
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Peter Zieme: Die Stabreimtexte der Uiguren von Turfan und Dunhuang: Studien zur alttiirkischen Dichtung. (Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica XXXIII.) 450 pp. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1991. £24.
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Sheila S. Blair: The monumental inscriptions from early Iran and Transoxiana. (Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture. Supplement to Muqarnas, v.) xv, 306 pp. Leiden, etc.: E. J. Brill, 1992. Guilders 185, $108.75.
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Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola: Corpus of Indus seals and inscriptions. 2: Collections in Pakistan. (Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tom. 240 = Memoirs of the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, Vol. 5.) xxxii, 448 pp. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991. $250.
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R. S. O' Fahey: Enigmatic saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi tradition. xviii, 261 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 1990. £25.
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Leslie Grey: A concordance of Buddhist birth stories. xliii, 268 pp. Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1990. £28.50.
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Edith Nolot: Règies de discipline des nonnes bouddhistes. Le Bhiksunīvinaya de I'école Mahāsāmghikalokottaravādin. Traduction annotée, commentaire, collation du manuscrit. (Institut de Civilisation Indienne, No. LX.) xx, 549 pp. Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1991.
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André Padoux: Vāc: the concept of the Word in selected Hindu tantras. Translated by Jacques Gontier. (SUNY Series in the Shaiva traditions of Kashmir.) xv, 460 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. $18.95.
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Rupert Snell: The eighty-four hymns of Hita Harivamśa: an edition of the Caurāsī Pada. xvi, 360 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass; London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1991. Rs. 375, £15.
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Michael Hutt (ed. and tr.): Himalayan voices: an introduction to modem Nepali literature. (Voices from Asia, 2.) xvii, 333 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1991. $14.95.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Glimpses of Bengal: selected letters. Translated by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson. [New edition.] [viii] 152 pp. London and Basingstoke: Papermac, 1991. - Rabindranath Tagore: My reminiscences. [New edition] [vii], 232 pp. London and Basingstoke: Papermac, 1991. - Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism. [New edition.] [v], 104 pp. London and Basingstoke: Papermac, 1991.
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Enamul Haque: Bengal sculptures: Hindu iconography up to c. 1250 A.D. 584 pp. Dhaka: Bangladesh National Museum, 1992. Taka 750, $40.
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