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Some notes on ‘A text in Old Amharic’ of Roger Cowley
Getatchew Haile
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A few uears ago, Roger Cowley edited an interesting text of the Tamhartä haymanot in older Amharic with an English translation under the title given above. The text is of special value to te study of the history of Amharic: it is relatively lengthy (14 fols., 2 cols., 12 lines to a column and 6–8 characters to a line), in prose, and shows most of the features of archaic Amharic known so far. In spite of the fact that, to use the author's own words.

Richard Pankhurst (ed. and tr.), in collaboration with Germa-Selassie Asfaw: Tax records and inventories of Emperor Téwodros of Ethiopia (1855–1868). 173 pp., map. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978. £7.
Getatchew Haile
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24 December 2009, pp. 140-141
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Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part I. Inscriptions of Ancient Iran. Vol. II. The Babylonian versions of the Achaemenian inscriptions. Texts I. The Bisitun inscription of Darius the Great, Babylonian version, by Elizabeth N. von Voigtlander. xiv, 73 pp., front., 4 plates. London: Lund Humphries, 1978. £20.
D. J. Wiseman
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24 December 2009, pp. 141-142
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Gordon Hannington Luce
D. G. E. Hall
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24 December 2009, pp. 581-588
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Werner Strothmann (ed. and tr.): Johannes von Mosul: Bar Sira. Syrische Texte, Übersetzung und vollständiges Wortverzeichnis. (Göttinger Orientforschungen. I. Reihe: Syriaca, Bd. 19.) 144 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1979.
S. P. Brock
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24 December 2009, pp. 360-361
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Irene Waetzoldt: Zu den osmanischen Verbformen des 16. Jahrhunderts nach dem Mecmū'-i Menāzil des Maṭrāqçī Naṣūḥ. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 48.) xxi, 236 pp. Freiburg: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1978. DM 38.
G. L. Lewis
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24 December 2009, pp. 142-143
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Josef van Ess: Anfänge muslimischer Theologie: zwei antiqadaritische Traktate aus dem, ersten Jahrhundert der Hiǧra. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 14.) xi, 280, 57 pp. Beirut: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1977. DM 48.
J. Wansbrough
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24 December 2009, pp. 361-363
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Michael Heltzer: Goods, prices and the organization of trade in Ugarit. (Marketing and transportation in the eastern Mediterranean in the second half of the II Millennium B.C.E.) xii, 163 pp. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Eeichert Verlag, 1978. DM 60.
John F. Healey
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24 December 2009, p. 589
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A. H. de Groot: The ottoman Empire and the Dutch Republic: a history of the earliest diplomatic relations, 1610–1630. (Publications de l'Institut Historique et Archéologique Néerlandais de Stamboul/Leyde, XLIII.) xiv, 417 pp., front., 12 plates. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1978.
V. L. Ménage
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Josef van Ess: Chiliastische Erwarlungen und die Versuchung der Güttlichkeit. Der Kalif al-Hākim (386–411 H.). (Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosopliisch - historisclie Klasse, Jahrg. 1977, 2. Abh.) 85 pp. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitats-verlag, 1977. DM 52.
J. Wansbrough
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24 December 2009, p. 363
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Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein: Syriac manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: a catalogue. (Harvard Semitic Studies, 23.) 149 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979. $15. - Jean Maurice Fiey: Communautés syriaques en Iran et Irak des origines à 1552. [vii], [382] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1979.
John F. Healey
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Halil İnalcik and Rhoads Murphey (tr.): The history of Mehmed the Conqueror, by Tursun Beg. (American Eesearch Institute in Turkey. Monograph Series, No. 1.) 263 pp., map [on endpapers]. Minneapolis and Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978. $25.
V. L. Ménage
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M. Piamenta: Islam in everday Arabic speech. ix, 279 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979. Guilders 64.
J. Wansbrough
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24 December 2009, pp. 363-364
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Edith Ambkos: Sieben Kapitel des Ŝarḥ Kitāb Sībawaihi von ar-Rummānī in Edition und Übersetzung. (Beihefte zur Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. 9). [iv], 242 pp. Vienna: Verlag des Verbandes der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften österreichs, 1979. ÖS 245.
A. F. L. Beeston
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Hilmar Krüger: Fetwa und Siyar: zur internationalrechtlichen Gutachtenpraxis der osmanischen Şeyh ül-Islâm vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des ‘Behcet ül-Fetâvâ’. (Schriften der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim-Stiftung Ht. 10.) 190 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1978. DM 58.
V. L. Ménage
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Jacob Neusner: Method and meaning in ancient Judaism. (Brown Judaic Studies, 10.) vii, 211 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1980. $13.50 (paper $9.)
J. Wansbrough
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24 December 2009, pp. 591-592
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Ayman Fu'ād Sayyid and Thierry Bianquis (ed.): Tome quarantième de la chronique d'Egypte de Musabbiḥī, 366–420/977–1029. Vol. I, 1. Partie historique. (Textes arabes et études islamiques, Tome XIII, 1.) vii, 152 pp. Paris: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1978.
Michael Brett
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24 December 2009, p. 364
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Remke Kruk (ed.): Aristoteles semiticolatinus: the Arabic version of Aristotle's parts of animals: Books XI–XIV of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān. 96, 156 [in Arabic] pp. Amsterdam, Oxford: North-Holland, 1979. $33.25, Guilders 75.
J. N. Mattock
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Joel Gereboff: Rabbi Tarfon: the tradition, the man and early Rabbinic Judaism. (Brown Judaic Studies, 7.) xxiii, 483 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1980. $16.50 (paper $9).
J. Wansbrough
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Werner Zürrer. Persien zwischen England und Russland, 1918–1925: Grossmachieinflϋsse and nationaler Wiederaufslieg am Beispiel des Iran. 501 pp. Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 1978. Sw.fr. 98.
M.E. Yapp
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Some notes on ‘A text in Old Amharic’ of Roger Cowley

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Richard Pankhurst (ed. and tr.), in collaboration with Germa-Selassie Asfaw: Tax records and inventories of Emperor Téwodros of Ethiopia (1855–1868). 173 pp., map. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978. £7.

Obituary

Gordon Hannington Luce

Reviews

Werner Strothmann (ed. and tr.): Johannes von Mosul: Bar Sira. Syrische Texte, Übersetzung und vollständiges Wortverzeichnis. (Göttinger Orientforschungen. I. Reihe: Syriaca, Bd. 19.) 144 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1979.

Irene Waetzoldt: Zu den osmanischen Verbformen des 16. Jahrhunderts nach dem Mecmū'-i Menāzil des Maṭrāqçī Naṣūḥ. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 48.) xxi, 236 pp. Freiburg: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1978. DM 38.

Josef van Ess: Anfänge muslimischer Theologie: zwei antiqadaritische Traktate aus dem, ersten Jahrhundert der Hiǧra. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 14.) xi, 280, 57 pp. Beirut: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1977. DM 48.

Michael Heltzer: Goods, prices and the organization of trade in Ugarit. (Marketing and transportation in the eastern Mediterranean in the second half of the II Millennium B.C.E.) xii, 163 pp. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Eeichert Verlag, 1978. DM 60.

Josef van Ess: Chiliastische Erwarlungen und die Versuchung der Güttlichkeit. Der Kalif al-Hākim (386–411 H.). (Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosopliisch - historisclie Klasse, Jahrg. 1977, 2. Abh.) 85 pp. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitats-verlag, 1977. DM 52.

Halil İnalcik and Rhoads Murphey (tr.): The history of Mehmed the Conqueror, by Tursun Beg. (American Eesearch Institute in Turkey. Monograph Series, No. 1.) 263 pp., map [on endpapers]. Minneapolis and Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978. $25.

M. Piamenta: Islam in everday Arabic speech. ix, 279 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979. Guilders 64.

Edith Ambkos: Sieben Kapitel des Ŝarḥ Kitāb Sībawaihi von ar-Rummānī in Edition und Übersetzung. (Beihefte zur Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. 9). [iv], 242 pp. Vienna: Verlag des Verbandes der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften österreichs, 1979. ÖS 245.

Jacob Neusner: Method and meaning in ancient Judaism. (Brown Judaic Studies, 10.) vii, 211 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1980. $13.50 (paper $9.)

Ayman Fu'ād Sayyid and Thierry Bianquis (ed.): Tome quarantième de la chronique d'Egypte de Musabbiḥī, 366–420/977–1029. Vol. I, 1. Partie historique. (Textes arabes et études islamiques, Tome XIII, 1.) vii, 152 pp. Paris: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1978.

Remke Kruk (ed.): Aristoteles semiticolatinus: the Arabic version of Aristotle's parts of animals: Books XI–XIV of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān. 96, 156 [in Arabic] pp. Amsterdam, Oxford: North-Holland, 1979. $33.25, Guilders 75.

Joel Gereboff: Rabbi Tarfon: the tradition, the man and early Rabbinic Judaism. (Brown Judaic Studies, 7.) xxiii, 483 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1980. $16.50 (paper $9).

Werner Zürrer. Persien zwischen England und Russland, 1918–1925: Grossmachieinflϋsse and nationaler Wiederaufslieg am Beispiel des Iran. 501 pp. Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 1978. Sw.fr. 98.

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