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Extremist Shi'ites: The Ghulat Sects, Matti Moosa Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988, xxiii + 580 pp., including notes, bibliography, index.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 66-69
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Panj Vaqf-nāmah, by Mahmud Afshar Yazdi, (Five Endowment Deeds), Tehran Foundation for Mahmud Afshar Yazdi's Endowments, 1363/1984. Iraj Afshar and Karim Isfahaniyan, eds., Nāmvārah-yi Doktor Maḥmūd Afshār Yazdī (Mahmud Afshar Yazdi's Festschrift), 4 vols., Tehran: Foundation for Mahmud Afshar Yazdi's Endowments, 1364/1985–1367/1988.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 100-102
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Kalila wa Dimna: An Animal Alleqory of the Mongol Court: The Istanbul University Album, Jill Sanchia Cowen. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, xiii + 176 pp. + index, 16 color plates and some 75 black‐and‐white illustrations. $40.00.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 133-135
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Authority and Political Culture in Shī˓ism, Said Amir Arjomand ed., Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988, 393 pp., index. $19.95, paperback. $49.50, cloth.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 69-71
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Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism, Julian Baldick, London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 1989. viii+208 pages. £24.95 hardback, £7.95 paper.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 102-104
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Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World, Priscilla Soucek, ed., University Park & London: Pennsylvania State University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1988, 277 pp., 223 black‐and‐white‐photographs; hardcover, $42.50
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 135-136
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A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and her Poetry, Michael C. Hillmann Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press and Mage Publishers, 1987, 181 pp.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 72-73
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Bulles et Sceaux sassanides de diverses collections, by Philippe Gignoux and Rika Gyselen, Paris: Studia Iranica, Cahier 4, Association Pour l'avancement des études iraniennes, 1987, 306 pp, 23 plates.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 104-106
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The History of al‐Ṭabarī: Ta'rīkh al‐rusul wa'l‐mulūk, an Annotated Translation, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al‐Ṭabarī, General editor, Ehsan Yar‐Shater, various translators, vols. II, IV, VII, XVIII, XXVII, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXVIII, New York: State University of New York Press, 1985‐, SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies (ed. Said Amir Arjomand): Bibliotheca Persica (ed. Ehsan Yar‐Shater).
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 137-141
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The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan, Lisa Golombek and Donald Wilber Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988; Vol. 1: 510 pp. of text; Vol. 2: 16 color plates, 481 black‐and‐white photographs, 8 maps, 162 plans and sections. $130. - Timurid Architecture in Khurasan, Bernard O'Kane Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1987, 418 pp., numerous figures and plates. $49.95.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 74-76
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Iranian Immigrants in the United States: A Case Study of Dual Marginality, Abdolmaboud Ansari Millwood, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1988, xii + 148 pp.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 77-79
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Iran and Iraq at War, by Shahram Chubin and Charles Tripp, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 106-108
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Iran: The Crisis of Democracy 1941–1953, Fakhreddin Azimi, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, xi + 344 pp., notes to p. 404, bibliography to p. 422, index to p. 422. $39.95.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 142-143
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Aux Sources de la Nouvelle Persane, Christophe Balay and Michel Cuypers Paris: Institut Français d'Iranologie de Teheran, 1983, 222 pp., bibiography, indexes of proper names, books and journals. 124 Fr. paperback.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 79-81
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The Vanished Imam: Musa al‐Sadr and the Shi'a of Lebanon, Fouad Ajami, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1986, 228 pp., $17.95.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 143-145
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The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam, from the Persian National Epic, the Shahnameh of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi, translated by Jerome W. Clinton, Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1988, xxv + 190 pages, $25.00 cloth $12.50 paper.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 108-111
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Persian Carpets, by Michael Craig Hillmann, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984, 98 pp. index to p. 112.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 111-112
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Freedom from the Self: Sufism, Meditation, andPsychotherapy, Mohammad Shafii, New York: Human Sciences Press, 1985, 261 pp.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 145-148
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Medieval Tomb Towers of Iran: An Iconographical Study, Abbas Daneshvari Islamic Art and Architecture, vol. 2. Lexington, Kentucky: Mazda Publishers in Association with Undena Publishers, 1986, 94 pp., 23 plates, appendix, bibiography. $17.95.
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 81-83
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A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry, with Susan Nemazee. 240 pp., 76 color plates, b&w illus. - An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry and Milo Cleveland Beach with Roya Marefat and Wheeler M. Thackston 448 pp., 456 b&w illus. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and University of Washington Press, Washington, D.C. and Seattle, 1989, 2 volume set, $125.00
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- 01 January 2022, pp. 148-149
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