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The Near and Middle East
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FARĪDU'DĪN ‘ATTĀR; translated by PETER AVERY: The speech of the birds, concerning migration to the real: the Mantiqu't-tair. xxii, 560 pp. Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society, 1998. £45.00, £19.95 (paper). WHEELER M. THACKSTON (ed. and tr.): The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, emperor of India. xxv, 502 pp., frontispiece. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (in association with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery), 1999. $65.00, £50.00.
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South Asia
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DIETER CONRAD: Zwischen den Traditionen. Probleme des Verfassungsrechts und der Rechtskultur in Indien und Pakistan. Gesammelte Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1970–1990. Herausgegeben von Jürgen Lütt und Mahendra P. Singh. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Band 184.) xviii, 499 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. DM 162.
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General
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LEIF MANGER (ed.): Muslim diversity: local Islam in global contexts. [vi], 260 pp. (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, no. 26.) Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. £40.00. DAVID WESTERLUND and INGVAR SVANBERG (ed.): Islam outside the Arab world. xii, 476 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999.
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DARIUS COOPER: The cinema of Satyajit Ray: between tradition and modernity. (Cambridge Studies in Film.) xii, 260 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £14.95.
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Africa
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JEFFREY HERBST. States and power in Africa: comparative lessons in authority and control. (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.) x, 280 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. £35, £11.50 (paper).
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BRUNO NOVELLI: Karimojong traditional religion: a contribution. lxxxvii, 396 pp.Verona: Comboni Missionaries Kampala, 1999. No price.
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JAMES FERGUSON: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt. (Perspectives on Southern Africa 57.) xvii, 326 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1999. $45, $17.95 (paper).
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TARIQ RAHMAN: Language, education, and culture. xvi, 318 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press (and Sustainable Policy Development Institute, Islamabad), 1999. £10.00.
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Short Notices
JACKIE ASSAYAG (ed.): The resources of history: tradition, narration and nation in South Asia. (Études thématiques 8.) xvii, 374 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, Institut français de Pondichéry, 1999.
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RICHARD SALOMON: Indian epigraphy: a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages. xxi, 378 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. £45.
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JOHN RENARD (ed.): Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life. xxii, 431 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998. $55, $22 (paper); £40, £15.95 (paper).
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SUSHIL CHAUDHURY: The prelude to empire: Plassey revolution of 1757. 192 pp. New Delhi: Manohar, 2000. Rs. 375.
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Central Asia
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MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKY: History of Ukraine-Rus'. Volume 7. The Cossack age to 1625. Translated by Bohdan Struminski. Edited by Serhii Plokhy, Consulting Editor, and Frank E. Sysyn, Editor-in-Chief, with the assistance of Uliana M. Pasiczynk. lvi, 548 pp., 2 maps. Edmonton and Toronto: Candian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1999. $119.95.
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ANNE BULLEY: The Bombay country ships, 1790–1833. xvi, 288 pp. 6 maps, 12 plates. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £40.00.
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The ancient world
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A. G. MCDOWELL: Village life in Ancient Egypt: laundry lists and love songs. xvii, 279 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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CARMEN BLACKER: The Catalpa Bow: a study of shamanistic practices in Japan. 384 pp. (Third edition.) Richmond: Curzon, 1999. £16.99.
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DAVID BROWN: Mesopotamian planetary astronomy-astrology. (Cuneiform Monographs, no. 18). xii, 322 pp. Groningen: Styx Publications, 2000. HFL. 180.
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South Asia
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WINANT M. CALLEWAERT in collaboration with SWAPNA SHARMA (ed.): The hagiographies of Anantadās: the bhakti poets of North India. [iv], 414 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.00.
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Central Asia
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DAVID J. MATTHEWS and RAVIL BUKHARAEV (ed. and tr.): Historical anthology of Kazan Tatar verse: voices of eternity. xix, 209pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £35. RAVIL BUKHARAEV: Islam in Russia: the four seasons. xiv, 334 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £40.
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East Asia
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ELIZABETH J. PERRY and MARK SELDEN (ed.): Chinese society: change, conflict and resistance. (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations.) xi, 241 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. £16.99 (paper).
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