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Volume 53 - Issue 3 - October 1990

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John Wright: Libya, Chad and the Central Sahara, vii, 168 pp. London: Hurst and Co., 1989. £23.

William C. Chittick: The Sufi path of knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination, xxii, 478 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989. $74.50 (paper $24.50).

Fritz Meier: Bahā'-i Walad: Grundzüge seines Lebens und seiner Mystik. (Acta Iranica. Troisième série. Textes et Mémoires, volume XIV.) viii, 484 pp. + errata slip. [Leiden]: Centre Nationale d'Etudes Indo-Iraniennes, 1989. (Distributed by E. J. Brill.)

Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 11: Anāmaka—Āṯār al-Wozarā. 912 pp. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.

Jerome W. Clinton (tr.): The tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám: from the Persian national epic, the Shahname of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi. (Publications of the Near East, no. 3) XXV, 190 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1987. $25 (paper $12.50).

Lois Beck: The Qashqa'i of Iran. xvi, 384 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £30.

Abbas Amanat: Resurrection and renewal: the making of the Babi movement in Iran, 1844–1850. xvi, 461 pp. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. $38.45.

Tamara Dragadze: Rural families in Soviet Georgia: a case study in Ratcha Province. (International Library of Anthropology.) xii, 226 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. £35.

Serge Veuve: Fouilles d' Aï Khanoum. VI. Le gymnase: architecture, céramique, sculpture, xvi, 127 pp., Pl. 53 and XIII large plans in end-pocket. Paris: Diffusion De Boccard, 1987.

Sajida Sultana Alvi (ed. and tr.): Advice on the art of government: Mau‘izah-i Jahāngīrī of Muḥammad Bāqir Najm-i sani: an Indo-Islamic Mirror for princes, x, 215 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989. $44.50 (paper, $14.95).

Sumitra Mangesh Katre (ed. and tr.): The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini in romanised transliteration. (Texas linguistic series.) xlvi, 1330 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. $100.

J. Gonda: Mantra interpretation in the Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa. (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, Vol. 32.) x, 285 pp. Leiden, etc.: E. J. Brill, 1988. - M. S. Bhat: Vedic tantrism: a study of Ṛgvidhāna of Śaunaka with text and translation, viii, 437 pp. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, [1987].

Manfred Mayrhofer: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, 1, Lieferungen 1-6. (Indogermanische Bibliothek, II. Reihe: Wörterbücher.) [iii], 1–76; 77–156; 157–236; 237–316; 317–396; 397–476. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1988, 1989, 1989.

John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan: The Tamil Veda: Pillaṇ's interpretation of the Tiruvāymoḻi. xviii, 322 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. £39.95, $57.50 (paper £15.95, $22.95).

Thomas Malten: Reduplizierte Verbstämme im Tamil. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung [Heidelberg], 127.) ix, 283 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. DM 58.

David L. Haberman: Acting as a way of salvation: a study of rāgānugā bhakti sādhana. xiv, 211 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 [pub. 1989]. £24.

T. N. Madam: Non-renunciation: themes and interpretations of Hindu culture, xiii, 184 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1987 [pub. 1988]. £10.95.

Sherry B. Ortner: High religion: a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism. (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History.) xxiii, 245 pp., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. $35 (paper $12.95)

Alf Hiltebeitel (ed.): Criminal gods and demon devotees: essays on the guardians of popular Hinduism, xii, 491 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989. $74.50 (paper $24.50).

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