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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Volume 43 - February 1980

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Ludwig W. Adamec (ed.): Mazar-i-Sharif and north-central Afghanistan. (Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan. Vol. 4.) xviii, 148 pp, 45 maps. Graz: Akademische Drucku. Verlagsanstalt, 1979.

Muhammad Asad (tr.): The message of the Qur'ān. Translated and explained by Muhammad Asad. x, 998 pp. Gibraltar: Dar al-Andalus Ltd., 1980. £16.50. (Distributed by E. J. Brill, 41 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LX.)

Donald R. Hill: The book of ingenious devices (Kitāb al-Ḥiyal) by the Banū (sons of) Mūsà bin Shākir. Translated and annotated by Donald R. Hill. x, 267 pp., front. Dordrecht, Boston and London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, [1979]. Guilders 130.

Edward Ingram: The beginning of the Great Game in Asia 1828–1834. xi, 364 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. £11.

Philip Denwood (ed.): Arts of the Eurasian steppelands. A colloquy held 27–29 June 1977. (Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, No. 7.) [vii], 233 pp. [London]: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, [1978]. Price £8.

Oleg Grabar and others: City in the desert: Qaṣr al-Ḥayr East. (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, XXIII/xxiv.) 2 vols. xiii, 215; vii, 296 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, \c1978]. £31.50. (Distributed by Harvard University Press.)

Tilman Nagel: Alexander der Grosse in der frühislamischen Volksliteratur. (Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients, Bd. 28.) 158 pp. Walldorf-Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde Dr. H. Vorndran, 1978.

Braulio Justel Calabozo: La Real Biblioteca de El Escorial y sus manuscritos árabes: sinopsis histórico-descriptiva. 324 pp., 28 pp. [in Arabic], 4 plates. Madrid: Institute HispanoArabe de Cultura, 1978.

Margaret and James Stutley: A dictionary of Hinduism, its mythology, folklore and development, 1500 B.C.— A.D. 1500. xx, 372 pp., map. London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. £12.50.

Wilfred Thesigek: Desert marsh and mountain: the world of a nomad. 304pp. London: Collins, 1979. £9.95.

Wolfhart Heinrichs: The hand of the northwind: opinions on metaphor and the early meaning of isti'āra in Arabic poetics. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XLIV, 2.) vii, 64 pp. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, Kommissions-verlag Franz Steiner GmbH, 1977.

Duncan Haldane: Mamluk painting. xii, 107 pp., front. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1978. £15.

Kenneth E. Bryant: Poems to the child-god: structures and strategies in the poetry of Sūrdās. xiv, 247 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. £9.75.

J. Patrick S.J. Ryan Imale: Yoruba participation in the Muslim tradition: a study of clerical piety. (Harvard Dissertations in Religion, 11.) xii, 332 pp. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979. $9.

Ahmad M. H. Shboul: Al-Mas'ūdī and his world: a Muslim humanist and his interest in non-Muslims, xxviii, 366 pp., map. London: The Ithaca Press, 1979. £12.50.

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