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Volume 39 - February 1976

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J. Binet: Sociétés de danse chez les Fang du Gabon. (Travaux et Documents de l'ORSTOM, No. 17.) 170 pp. [Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, 1972.] Fr. 45.

Josef Franz Thiel: La situation religieuse des Mbiem. (Centre d'Études Ethnologiques, Bandundu, République du Zaïre. Publications, Sér. II, Vol. 1.) 207 pp., 16 plates, [Bandundu: Centre d'Études Ethnologiques], [c1972]. (Distributed by Steyler Verlag, 5205 St. Augustin, Germany. DM 18.)

J. H. M. Beattie and R. G. Lienhardt (ed.): Studies in social anthropology: essays in memory of E. E. Evans-Pritchard by his former Oxford colleagues, xi, 394 pp., front., 3 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. £5.

Ann Patricia Caplan: Choice and constraint in a Swahili community: property, hierarchy, and cognatic descent on the East African coast, xix, 162 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1975. £6.80.

Renate Lukas: Nicht-islamische Eihnien im südlichen Tschadraum. (Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Bd. 4.) [xiv], 565 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1973. DM 38.

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David Noel Freedman and others: The published works of William Fox-well Albright: a comprehensive bibliography, prepared by David Noel Freedman, with the assistance of Robert B. MacDonald and Daniel L. Mattson. xvi, 226 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1975. $10.

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Bennetta Jules-Rosette: African apostles: ritual and conversion in the church of John Maranke. (Symbol, Myth, and Ritual.) 302 pp. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. $17.50. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £12.25.)

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Rudi Paret (ed.): Der Koran. (Wegeder Forschung, Bd. cccxxvi.) xxv, 449 pp. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellscliaft, 1975. DM 79.

Amsalu Aklilu and G. P. Mosback: English-Amharic dictionary, [v, xii], 299 pp. Addis Ababa, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1973. £2.

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Christine Oppong: Growing up in Dagbon. xii, 13–79 pp., 8 plates. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1973.

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Ernst August Gruber: Verdienst und Rang: die Faḍā'il als literarisches und gesellschaftliches Problem im Islam. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 35.) [ii], 117 pp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1975. DM22.

Stefan Strelcyn: Catalogue of Ethiopic manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, xii, 116 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, [1975]. £4.95.

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Menahem Milson (tr.): A Sufi rule for novices: Kitāb ādāb al-murīdīn of Abū al-Najīb al-Suhrawardī. (Harvard Middle Eastern Studies, 17.) ix, 93 pp. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1975. $9, £4.95.

Yohanan Elihai: Dictionnaire de l'arabe parlé palestinien. Français-arabe. Cover-title, [iii], 419 pp. [Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1974.] Fr. 48.

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M. A. K. Halliday: Learning how to mean: explorations in the development of language. (Explorations in Language Study.) [xii], 164 pp. London: Edward Arnold, 1975. £2.75.

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Muhammad Zafrulla Khan (tr.): Gardens of the righteous: Riyadh as-salihin of Imam Nawawi. xiv, 332 pp. London: Curzon Press; Totowa: Bowman and Littlefield, 1975. £4.50.

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