Volume 122 - Issue 2 - April 1990
Reviews of Books
Catalogo dei manoscritti Persiani conservati nelle biblioteche d'Italia. By Angelo Michele Piemontese. p. xxxiii, 443, illus. Rome, Ministero per i Bene Culturali ed Ambientali, Rome, 1989.
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Islam and Modernism: the Iranian revolution of 1906. By Vanessa Martin, pp. ix, 245. London, I. B. Tauris & Co., 1989. £29.50.
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Iran: the crisis of democracy, 1941–1953. By Fakhreddin Azimi. pp. xi, 433. London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1989. £29.50.
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Her eyes. By Bozorg Alavi, translated by John O'Kane. (Bibliotheca Persica, Modern Persian Literature Series, No. 9.) pp. vi, 215. Lanham, Maryland etc., University Press of America, 1989. US $28.50.
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Giovanni di Pian di Carpini. Storia dei Mongoli. Edited by P. Daffinà, C. Leonardo, M. C. Lungarotti, E. Menestò and L. Petech. (Bibliotheca del “Centro per il Collegamento degli studi medievale e umanistici nell'Università di Perugia”, 1.) pp. viii, 522, 20 pl. Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1989.
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The rise and rule of Tamerlane. By Beatrice Forbes Manz. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.) pp. xi, 227, 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £25.00.
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The Vedic origins of karma: cosmos as man in ancient Indian myth and ritual. By Herman W. Tull. (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies.) pp. x, 181, Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1989.
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The iconography and ritual of Śiva at Elephanta. By Charles Dillard Collins, pp. xvi, 331, 90 figs., map. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1988. US $49.50 (cloth), US $19.95 (paperback).
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Gadyarāja: a fourteenth century Marathi version of the Kṛṣṇa legend. Translated from the Marathi with annotations by Ian Raeside. pp. xxxv, 312. Bombay, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd; London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989. £20.00.
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The ideas and meditative practices of early Buddhism. By Tilmann Vetter. pp. xix, 110. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1988. Guilders 42.50, US $21.25.
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Udānavarga de Subaši. Édition critique du manuscrit Sanskrit sur bois provenant de Subaši. Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris fonds Pelliot. Tome I: texte et fac-similés. Tome II: planches. By H. Nakatani. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, Série in-8, Fascicules 53, 54.) Tome I: pp. 109. Tome II: 21 pl. Paris, Collège de France, Institut de Civilisation Indienne. Édition-Diffusion de Boccard, 1987.
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Studies in the literature of the great vehicle: three Mahāyāna Buddhist texts. Edited by Luis O. Gómez and Jonathan A. Silk. (Michigan Studies in Buddhist Literature, 1.) pp. xv, 240 + errata slip. Ann Arbor, Michigan, Collegiate Institute for the Study of Buddhist Literature and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1989. US $16.95 (paperback).
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Songs of the saints of India. Texts and notes by John Stratton Hawley translations by J. S. Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer. pp. xii, 244, illus. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988. £24.00.
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Slaves of the lord: the path of the Tamil saints. By Vidya Dehejia. pp. xi, 206, 89 illus. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1988. Rs. 300.
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Scenic splendours: India through the printed image. by Pheroza Godrej and Pauline Rohatgi. pp. 167, 32 col., 82 bl. and wh. illus. London, The British Library; Bangalore etc., Arnold Publishers, 1989. £25.00.
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Two views of Slam on the eve of the Chakri reformation: comments by Robert Laurie Morant and Prince Pritsdang. Edited and introduced by Nigel Brailey. pp. xii, 163, front., 4 illus. Arran, Scotland, Kiscadale Publications, 1989. £14.00.
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Thai and Cambodian sculpture from the 6th to the 14th centuries. by Wolfgang Felten and Martin Lerner with photographs by Hugo Stiegler. pp. 253, 101 col. illus., 4 bl. and wh. illus. 2 maps. London, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1989. £70.00.
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Chroniques royales du Cambodge (de Bañā Yat à la prise de Laṅvaek) (de 1417 à 1595). Translation, comparison of different versions and introduction by Khin Sok. (Collection de Textes et Documents sur l'Indochine, XIII.) pp. 471, map. Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1988.
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Annam-Tonkin 1885–1896: lettrés et paysans vietnamiens face à la conquête coloniale. By Charles Fourniau. (Travaux du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisations de la Péninsule Indochinoise, Collections Recherches Asiatiques.) pp. 294. Paris, Editions L'Harmattan, 1989.
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Perfecting spelling: spelling discussions and reforms in Indonesia and Malaysia 1900–1972. With an appendix on old Malay spelling and phonology. By Lars S. Vikor. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 133.) pp. x, 98. Dordrecht-Holland/Providence-USA, Foris Publications, 1988, Dfl. 30.
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