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William Shepard: The faith of a modern Muslim intellectual: the religious aspects and implications of the writings of Ahmad Amin. [viii], 254 pp. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Islamic Studies [and] Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1982.
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W. van Der Molen: Javaanse Tekstkritiek: een overzicht en een nieuwe benadering geillustreerd aan de Kunjarakarna. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, 102.) ix, 316 pp. Dordrecht and Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris Publications Holland, 1983. Guilders 30.
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Donald Cosentino: Defiant maids and stubborn farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story Performance. (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, 3.) xii, 226 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, [1982]. £19.50.
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Marion Van Offelen: Nomads of Niger. Photographs by Carol Beckwith. 224 pp. London: Collins, 1984. £30.
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Smith 'Umar Al-Zala'ī (ed. and tr.): Bride of the Red Sea: A 10th/16th century account of Jeddah/al-Silūḥ wa’l-‘unddah fĭtārĭkh Bandar Juddah. (Occasional Papers Series, No. 22.) vi, 35, 118 pp. [Arabic text], 4 Plates. Durham: Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Durham, 1984.
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Lambert Bartels: Oromo religion: myths and rites of the western Oromo of Ethiopia: an attempt to understand. (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 8.) 411 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1983. DM 78.
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Gene B. Gragg [with] Terfa Kumsa and others: Oromo dictionary. (Committee on Northeast African Studies. Monograph, No. 12.) xxx, 462 pp. East Lansing African Studies Centre, Michigan State University; Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1982. $21.75.
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D. J. E. Maier Priests and power: the case of the Dente Shrine in nineteenthcentury Ghana. xiii, 258 pp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1983 $22.50, £15.75.
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Johannes Pedersen: The Arabic book. Transl. by Geoffrey French. Edited with an introduction by Robert Hillenbrand. xvii, 175 pp., 32 plates. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984, £19. 50 (paper £8. 70).
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Ernst Hammerschmidt and Veronika Six: Êthiopische Handschriften 1: die Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd xx, 4.) 352 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983. DM 196.
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Waltraud Kronenburg and Andreas Kronenburg: Die Bongo. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 58.) [xiv] 300 pp., 92 plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlage, GmbH, 1981. DM 74.
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Meyer Fortes: Oedipus and Job in west African religion. With an essay by Robin Horton. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthroplology, 48.) ix, 289 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £16.50, $29.95 (Paper £5.95, $9.95).
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Dan O'Meara: Volkskapitalisme: class, capital and ideology in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, 1934-1948. xvi, 281 pp. (African Studies Series, 34.) Cambridge, etc.: Combridge University Press, 1983. £22.50, $44.50.
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Finn Fuglestad: A history of Niger, 1850–1960. (African Studies Series, 41) viii, 275 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Camabridge University Press, 1983. £20.
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Wolf Leslau (ed.): Ethiopians speak: studies in cultural background. Part V: Chaha—Ennemor. (Êthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 16.) xi, 243 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 128.
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J. D. Y. Peel: Ijeshas and Nigerians: the incorporation of a Yoruba kingdom, 1890s–1970s. (African Studies Series, 39.) [xiii], 346 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £27, $57.50.
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J. David Lewis-Williams: The rock art of Southern Africa. (The Imprint of Man.) 68 pp., 65 plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University press, 1983. £12.95, $19.95.
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J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson (ed.): Sahara Desert. (Key Environments.) [x ], 348 pp. Oxford: Pergamon Press[and] International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1984. £14.95, $23.95.
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Michelle Camille Thuriaux: Health problems of Yemen and its populations; a bibliogaphic review. iv, 145 pp. Miami, California: Field Research Projects, 1983.
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B. Z. Fischler (ed.) [and] Michael Riegler (comp.): Hebrew books, articles and doctoral theses on contemporary Hebrew published in Israel (1948005f;1980). (Studies and Research for Teachers of Hebrew as a Second Language, 6.) xiv, 194 pp. Jerusalem: Council on the Teaching of Hebrew, 1984.
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