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Volume 43 - February 1980

Notes and Communications

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.

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.

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Gordon Hannington Luce

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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.

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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