Volume 6 - Issue 3 - November 1996
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Book Review
The Topkapi scroll – geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture. Topkapi Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956. By Gülru Necipoǧlu, with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al-Asad. (Sketchbooks and Albums.) pp. xiii, 397, 61 col., 277 bl. and wh. illus. Santa Monica, Calif., Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995. US $160.00.
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Études safavides. Edited by Jean Calmard. (Bibliothèque Iranienne, 39.) pp. xiv, 383, illus., maps. Paris and Tahran, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1993. Distributed by Éditions Peeters, Louvain.
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Confluence of cultures: French contributions to Indo-Persian studies. Edited by Françoise “Nalini” Delvoye. pp. xviii, 256, 9 col. pl., 35 bl. & wh. pl., 10 figs. New Delhi, Centre for Human Sciences; Tehran, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1994. Distributed by Manohar, New Delhi, Rs 300.
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Women and the political process in twentieth-century Iran. By Parvin Paidar. (Cambridge Middle East Studies, 1.) pp. xvi, 401. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1995. £35.00.
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Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II. Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of Eastern Iran and Centrel Asia. Vol. V. Saka. Saka documents text volume III: the St Petersburg collections. By Ronald E. Emmerick and Margarita I. Vorob'ëva-Desjatovskaja, with contributions by H. Kumamoto, P. O. Skjærvø and Zhang Guangda. pp. 256, 39 pl. (160–98). London. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1995. £53.00.
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Die Felsbildstation Oshibat. By Martin Bemman and Ditte König, with contributions from Gérard Fussman, Oskar von Hinüber and Nicholas Sims-Williams. (Materialien zur Archäologie der Nordgebiete Pakistans, Band 1.) pp. x, 159, 63 pl., 1 col., 1 bl. & wh. illus., 4 maps, 16 pp. Urdu summary. Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1994. DM 168.
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Merchants and faith. Muslim commerce and culture in the Indian Ocean. By Patricia Risso. (New Perspectives in Asian History.) pp. xi, 152, 10 maps, errata slip. Boulder, Colorado etc., Westview Press, 1995. £35.95 (cloth), £10.95 (paperback).
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The Ruhela chieftaincies. The rise and fall of Ruhela in India in the eighteenth century. By Iqbal Husain. pp. xii, 253, 3 maps, errata slip. Aligarh, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University; Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1994. Rs. 250, £12.95.
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Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah papers. Pakistan in the making, 3 June–30 June 1947. First series. Vol. II. Edited by Z. H. Zaidi. (Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project) pp. cxii, 992, front., 4 pl., 6 maps; Islamabad, National Archives of Pakistan, 1994. Distributed by Oxford University Press, Pakistan. £70.00
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The Ilberts in India 1882–1886. An imperial miniature. By Mary Bennett, pp. xii, 204, front., 26 illus., 2 maps, London, British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 1995. £9.00.
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Suhṛdyamaṅgalam. Studies in honour of Siegfried Lienhard on his 70th birthday. Edited by Mirja Juntunen, William L. Smith and Carl Suneson. pp. vi, 406, front., Stockholm, Association of Oriental Studies, 1995. SEK 450.
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Vom Mokṣopāya-Śāstra zum Yogavāsiṣṭha-Mahārāmāyaṇa. Philologische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungs- und Überlieferungsgeschichte eines indischen Lehrwerks mit Anspruch auf Heilsrelevanz. By Walter Slaje. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Kl., Sitzungsberichte, 609. Band. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Sprachen und Kulturen Südasiens, Nr. 27.) pp. 338, 1 folded diagram in col. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1994. ÖS 865, DM 124. - Bhāskarakaṇṭhas Mokṣopāya-ṭīkā. Ein Kommentar in der Tradition der kaschmirischen Yogavāsiṣṭha-Überlieferung. Die Fragmente des 3. (Utpatti-) Prakaraṇa. Edited by Walter Slaje. (Materialien für eine kritische Ausgabe des Mokṣopāya. 2.) pp. 269. Graz, EWS-Fachverlag, 1995. ÖS 617.
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The Bodhisattvapiṭaka: its doctrines, practices and their position in Mahāyāna literature. By Ulrich Pagel. (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua V.) pp. xvi, 478. Tring, Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1995.
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Tamil love poetry and poetics. By Takanobu Takahashi. (Brill's Indological Library, Vol. 9.) pp. xiii, 255. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1995. NLG 120, US $68.75.
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British drawings in the India Office Library. vol. III. By Patricia Kattenhorn. (Oriental and India Office Collections.) pp. xiv, 385, 64 pl. London, The British Library, 1994. £60.00.
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Punjab. By Darshan Singh Tatla and Ian Talbot. (World Bibliographical Series, 180.) pp. xlix, 325, 2 maps. Oxford, etc., Clio Press, 1995. £56.75.
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Kings and political leaders of the Gorkhali empire 1768–1814. By Mahesh C. Regmi. pp. x, 83, map. London, Sangam Books by arrangement with Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1995. £5.95.
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Nepal: a guide to the art and architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. By Michael Hutt, with contributions by David N. Gellner, Axel Michaels, Greta Rana and Govinda Tandan. pp. 240, 16 col. pl., 263 bl. & wh. photos, 11 figs, 22 maps and plans. Gartmore, Stirling, Paul Strachan. Kiscadale, 1994. £25.00.
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Sesquicentennial commemorative volume of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka 1845–1995. Edited by G. P. S. H. de Silva and C. G. Uragoda. pp. vii, 590, illus., in col. and bl. and wh., maps, corrigenda slip. Colombo, Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, 1995.
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The invention of politics in colonial Malaya. Contesting nationalism and the expansion of the public sphere. By Anthony Milner. pp. vii, 328, map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £35.00.
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