Volume 120 - January 1988
Reviews of Books
Slaves, spices & ivory in Zanzibar: integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770–1873. By Abdul Sheriff, pp. xx, 297, front., 34 sepia illustrations, 10 maps, 3 graphs, 23 tables. London, James Currey, with Heinemann Nairobi, Tanzania Publishing House, Dar es Salaam, and Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1987. £25.00 (cloth), £9.95 (paper).
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Men of modest substance: house owners and house property in seventeenth-century Ankara and Kayseri. By Suraiya Faroqhi. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.) pp. xxi, 268, 10 illus., 13 figs. and maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1987. £27.50.
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Kleine schriften. Vols 1 and 2. Von Friedrich Weller, hrsg. von Wilhelm Rau. (Glasenapp-Stiftung Bd. 26, 1 + 2.) 1: pp. xii, 705 + corrigenda slip; 2: pp. vi, 706–1618. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. DM 196.
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The Yezidis: a study in survival. By John S. Guest. pp. xviii, 299, 32 pl., 2 maps. (on end papers.) London and New York, KPI, Distributed by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
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Bulletin of the Asian Institute. New series: Vol. 1. Inaugural issue. Edited by Carol Altman Bromberg, Richard N. Frye, Bernard Goldman and George Masterton. pp. 152, 90 illus. Detroit, Michigan, Wayne State University Press, 1987.
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Hinduismus und Buddhismus: Festschrift für Ulrich Schneider. Hrsg. von Harry Falk. pp. 414, front., 8 pl., Freiburg, Hedwig Falk, 1987. DM 84.
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Mimāṃsā Literature. By Jean-Marie Verpoorten. (A History of Indian Literature, edit, by Jan Gonda, Vol. VI, Fasc. 5.) pp. ix, 71, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. DM 58.
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Stone plastic art of Azerbaijan. By Rasim Shamil Oglu Efendiev. pp. 72, illus. inn col. and b. and w. Baku, Ishyg Publishing, 1986. Roubles 10.80.
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Rice and barley offerings in the Veda. By J. Gonda. (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina 31.) pp. ix, 235, Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1987, Guilders 84, U.S. $38.25.
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Alttūrkische Handschriften. Teil 2 Das Goldglanzsūtra und der buddhistische Legendenzyklus Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā, Depositum der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin). Beschrieben von Gerhard Ehlers. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Band XIII, 10.) pp. ix, 170, 40 pl. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. DM 128.
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Das chwaresmische Verbum. von Mahlagha Samadi. pp. xvi, 335. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1986. DM78.
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Sanskrit indices and text of the Brahmapurāṇa. by Peter Schreiner and Renate Söhnen. (Purāṇa Research Publications, Tübingen, 1.) pp. xxiii, 826 and 26 microfiches. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. DM 146.
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Kleinere Sanskrit-Texte Heft V. Bruchstücke des Āṭānāṭikasūtra aus dem zentralasiatischen Sanskritkanon der Buddhisten. Von Helmut Hoffmann. Nachträge Zu “Kleinere Sanskrit-Texte Hefte III-V”. Von Lore Sander. (Monographien Zur Indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie. Hrsg. von Herbert Härtel. Band 3.) pp. 212 (new numbering). Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. DM 72.
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Returns to Kashgar: Central Asian memories in the present. By Gunnar Jarring, translated from the Swedish by Eva Klaeson. (Central Asia Book Series.) pp. xi, 249, illus, map. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1986. £29.75.
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The religions of the Hindukush. Vol. 1. The religion of the Kafirs: the pre-Islamic hertitage of Afghan Nuristan. By Karl Jettmar, translated from the German by Adam Nayyar with contributions from Schuyler Jones and Max Klimburg and with a Glossary by Peter S. C. Parkers. pp. ix, 172, 11 pl. 12 photographs, 2 maps. Warminster, Aris ' Phillips Ltd., 1986. £18.00.
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Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophies. Vol. IV. Sāṃkhya: A dualist tradition in Indian philosophy. Edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya. pp. xiv, 674, Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass and Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1987, Rs 300, $47.10.
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Rationality and mind in early Buddhism. by Frank J. Hoffman, pp. xii, 126. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. Rs. 75.
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Recent archaeological discoveries in India. By B. K. Thapar. pp. xiv, 159, 12 pl. 7 maps + errata slip. Paris and Tokyo, UNESCO and Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, The Toyo Bunko, 1985. FFr 110, ¥2,500 or $17.50.
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Bruderschaft und Würfelspeil, Untersuchungen zur Entwicklunsgeschichte des vedischen Opfers. Von Harry Falk. pp. 216. Freiburg, Hedwig Falk, 1986.
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Perception, knowledge and disbelief: A study of Jayarāśi's scepticism. by Eli Franco. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, hrsg. von Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 35.) pp. 584. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987, DM 58.
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