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Volume 41 - February 1978

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R. M. W. Dixon: A grammar of Yidin. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 19.) xxiii, 563 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £24.

Ann Kumar: Surapati: man and legend. A study of three babad traditions. (Australian National University. Centre of Oriental Studies. Oriental Monograph Series, No. 20.) xiv, 421 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 80.

M. B. Hooker: Legal pluralism: an introduction to colonial and neo-colonial laws. xxii, 601 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £15.

Philippe Jullian: The Orientalists: European painters of Eastern scenes. Translated by Helqa and Dinah Harrison. 210 pp. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977. £29.95.

Theodora Bynon: Historical linguistics. (Cambridge Textbooks ir. Linguistics.) x, 301 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £12.50.

G. F. Pijper: Studiën over de geschiedenis van de Islam in Indonesia, 1900–1950. [v], 160 pp., 8 plates. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. Guilders 28.

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Jacob Neusner: A history of the Mishnaic law of purities. Parts 15–19. (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, Vol.6.) xviii, 183; xviii, 229; xviii, 236; xviii, 218; xxii, 233 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976–1977. Guilders 472.

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Roxanna M. Brown: The ceramics of South-East Asia: their dating and identification. (Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics.) xiv, 84 pp., 63 plates. Kuala Lumpur, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1977. £26.

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Erkki Salonen: Neubabylonische Urkunden verschiedenen Inhalts. ii. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tom. 199.) 134 pp. Helsinki: [Academia Scientiarum Fennica], 1976. Fmk. 65.

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Richard Gray (ed.): The Cambridge history of Africa. Vol. 4. From c. 1600 to c. 1790. xiv, 738 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1975. £15.

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Frank Moore Cross and Shemaryahu Talmon (ed.): Qumran and the history of the Biblical text. [ix], 415 pp. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1975. $16.50, £11.25; $5.95, £4.10 (paper).

Jacob Milgrom: Cult and conscience: the asham and the priestly doctrine of repentance. (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, Vol. 18.) xiii, 173 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 64.

Charles Vial (tr.): Al-Ğāḥẓiḥẓ (m. 255/868): quatre essais. Vol. I. (Textes et Traductions d'Auteurs Orientaux, Tom. VIII/1.) v, 181 pp. [Le Caire]: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1976.

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Joseph P. Smaldone: Warfare in the Sokoto caliphate: historical and sociological perspectives. (African Studies Series, 19.) xii, 228 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £12.50.

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Mehdi Mohaghegh and Toshihiko Izutsu (tr.): The Metaphysics of Sabzavārī. (Wisdom of Persia Series. Texts and Studies published by Tehran Branch, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, x.) x, 235 pp. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1977.

Jutta Schönfeld (ed. and tr.): Über die Steine: das 14. Kapitel aus dem ‘Kitāb al-muršid’ des Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad at-Tamīmī, nach dem Pariser Manuskript. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 38.) [iv], 259 pp. Freiburg [i. Br.]: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1976. DM 38.

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Z. A. Konczacki and J. M. Konczacki (comp. and ed.): An economic history of tropical Africa. Vol. 1.—Vol. 2. xii, 310 pp.; xv, 260 pp. London: Frank Cass, 1977. £9.95, £11.

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Ṭāhā Ḥusain: A passage to France: the third volume of the autobiography. Translated from the Arabic by Kenneth Cragg. (Arabic Translation Series of the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 4.) xv, 165 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 18.

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Sebastian Poulter: Family law and litigation in Basotho society. xxxv, 361 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £12.

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