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Martin J. McDermott: The theology of al-Shaikh al-Mufīd (d. 413/1022). (Recherches publiées sous la direction de l'Institut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth. Nouvelle série A, Langue arabe et pensée islamique, Tome x. Persian Studies Series, No. 9.) xvi, 426 pp. Beyrouth: Dar el-Machreq Editeurs, 1978. (Distributed by Librairie Orientale, Beyrouth.)
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Gerhard Böwebing: The mystical vision existence in classical Islam: Qur'ānic hermeneutics of the Ṣūfī Sahl At-Tustarī (d. 283/896). (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur des islamīschen Orients. N.F., Bd. 9. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift ‘Der Islam’.) x, 286 pp. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1980. DM 134.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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Edward Ingram: The beginning of the Great Game in Asia 1828–1834. xi, 364 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. £11.
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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.
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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.)
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F. H. El Masri (ed. and tr.): 'Uthmān ibn Fūdī: Bayān wujūb al-hijra 'ala 'l-‘ibād. (Union Académique Internationale. Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica, I.) [iv], 147 pp. [Arabic text], [xi], 194 pp. Khartoum: University of Khartoum Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. £15.
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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.
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Carl Cappellee: Kleine Schriften und Sanskrit-Gedichte. Hrsg. von Siegfried Lienhard. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 14.) xi, 434 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1977. DM 64. - Paul Hackee: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Lambert Schmithausen. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 15.) xxiii, 916 pp. + 2 pp. errata. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1978. DM 96. - Rudolf Otto Feanke: Klein Schriften. Hrsg. von Oskar v. Hinüber. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 17.) 2 vols.: xvi, 768 pp.: [iv], 769–1547 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1978. DM 134.
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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.
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Wilfred Thesigek: Desert marsh and mountain: the world of a nomad. 304pp. London: Collins, 1979. £9.95.
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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.
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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.
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Duncan Haldane: Mamluk painting. xii, 107 pp., front. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1978. £15.
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E. van Donzel: Foreign relations of Ethiopia 1642–1700: documents relating to the journeys of Khodja Murād. (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, Vol. XLVI.) [xiii], 305 pp. 11 plates, 2 maps [in end-pocket]. Leiden: Nederlands Historisch-archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 1979. Guilders 58.
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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.
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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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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.
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