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Volume 36 - February 1973

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Peter Antes: Zur Theologie der Schi'a: eine Untersuchung des Ğāmi' al-asrār wa-manba' al-anwār von Sayyid Ḥaidar Āmolī. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 16.) [vii], 142 pp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1971. DM 18.

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Polly Hill: Rural Hausa: a village and a setting, xvi, 368 pp., 16 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. £7.60.

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Lois Anita Giffen: Theory of profane love among the Arabs: the development of the genre. (New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization, No. 3.) [ii], xvii, 167 pp. New York: New York University Press; London: University of London Press Ltd., 1971. $12.50. (English edition 1972. £5.80.)

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Alfred Schwartz: Tradition et changements dans la société guéré. (Mémoires ORSTOM, No. 52.) 259 pp., 12 plates. Paris: [Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer], 1971. Fr. 90.

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William L. Cleveland: The making of an Arab nationalist: Ottomanism and Arabism in the life and thought of Sati' al-Husri.(Princeton Studies on the Near East.) xvi, 211pp. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1971. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £4.)

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E. E. Evans-Peitchard: The Azande: history and political institutions, xviii, 444 pp., front., 5 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. £4.

P. H. Gulliver: Neighbours and networks: the idiom of kinship in social action among the Ndendeuli of Tanzania, xiii, 366 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1971. $10.(English agents: IBEG Ltd. £5.50.)

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Heidrun Wurm: Der osmanische Historiker Hüseyn b. Ğa'fer, genannt Hezārfenn, und die Istanbuler Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 13.) [ii], 214 pp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1971.

Philippe Gignoux: Glossaire des inscriptions pehlevies et parthes. (Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Supplementary Series, Vol. I.) [v], 68 pp. London: Lund Humphries, 1972. £4.50.

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J. A. Barnes: Three styles in the study of kinship, xxiv, 318 pp. London: Tavistock Publications, 1971. £3.

Leonard E. Palmer: Descriptive and comparative linguistics: a critical introduction. (Studies in General Linguistics.) 430 pp., plate. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. £6.50.

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J. Ensink and P. Gaeffke (ed.): India maior: congratulatory volume presented to J. Gonda. xiv, 257 pp., plate. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. Guilders 84.

J. J. M. Roberts: The earliest Semitic pantheon: a study of the Semitic deities attested in Mesopotamia before Ur III. xvii, 174 pp. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, [1972]. $12. (English agents: IBEGLtd. £5.40.)

Thomas R. Trautmann: Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra: a statistical investigation of the authorship and evolution of the text, xviii, 227 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. Guilders 42.

J. M. van Boetzelaer (tr.): Sureśvara's Taittīrlyopaniṣadbhāṣyavārtikam. (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, Vol. XIII.) viii, 211 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. Guilders 36.

Luise Abramowski and Alan E. Goodman (ed. and tr.): A Nestorian collection of Christological texts: Cambridge University Library MS.Oriental 1319. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Nos. 18–19.) 2 vols.: viii, 223, [v] pp.; liv, 143 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. £8.

S. Hussamuddin Rashdi and Muhammad Sabir (ed.): Dīwān of Bayram Khan. (Texts Series, No. 2.) [ix], 20, 83, [7] pp., front. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, 1971. Rs. 15.

Mohamed Mostafa (ed.): Die Chronik des Ibn Ijās. Erste Aufl. Zweiter Teil, A.H. 815–872|A.D. 1412–1468. (Bibliotheca Islamica, Bd. 5b.) xi, 476, 12 pp. Wiesbaden: in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1972. DM 30.

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