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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Volume 122 - Issue 1 - January 1990

Reviews of Books

Nine essays of al-Jahiz. Translated by William M. Hutchins. (American University Studies, Series VII: Theology and Religion, 53.) pp. [viii], 273. New York etc., Peter Lang, 1989. US $39.95.

Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: a structural analysis of selected texts (3rd century AH/9th century AD – 5th century AH/11th century AD). By Stefan Sperl. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) pp. viii, 230. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50.

A Muslim philosopher on the soul and its fate: al-'Āmirī's Kitāb al-Amad 'alā l-abad. By Everett K. Rowson. (American Oriental Series, Volume 70.) pp. vi, 375. New Haven, Connecticut, American Oriental Society, 1988.

Kléber en Égypte 1798–1800: Kléber et Bonaparte – 1798–1799. 2 Vols. Étude historique, présentation et notes par Henry Laurens. (Voyageurs occidentaux en Egypte, 25.) pp. viii, 579, 7 pl., 4 maps (in end pockets). Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1988.

Popular narrative ballads of modern Egypt. By Pierre Cachia. pp. xviii, 365. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989. £40.00.

Kitab-i Bahriye. By Pirî Reis. pp. 455, 214 pp. of reproductions, 7 maps. Ankara, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish Republic. Prepared for publication by the Historical Research Publishing Unit, Istanbul Research Centre, 1988.

Iznik, the pottery of Ottoman Turkey. By Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby. pp. 784, 991 illus. including 303 in colour. London, Alexandra Press, under the auspices of the Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University and the patronage of the Türk Ekonomi Bankasi, Istanbul, 1989. £120.00.

The Armenians in History and the Armenian question. By Esat Uras. An English translation of the revised and expanded second edition. pp. xiv, 1048. Ankara, Documentary Publications, 1988.

Frahang I Pahlavīk. Edited, with transliteration, transcription and commentary from the posthumous papers of Henrik Samuel Nyberg by Bo Utas, with the collaboration of Christopher Toll. pp. xviii, 175, 2 pl. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1988. DM 74.

Bahā' al-Dīn al-'Āmilī and his Literary Anthologies. By C. E. Bosworth. (Journal of Semitic Studies, Monograph No. 10.) pp. ix, 128. Manchester, University of Manchester, 1989.

Aus dem Leben eines jungen Balutschen: von ihm selbst erzählt. By Georg Buddruss (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Band XLVIII, 4.) pp. 87. Stuttgart, Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner Wiesbaden GmbH for Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1989. DM 46.

The devil's horsemen: the Mongol invasion of Europe. By James Chambers. pp. [x], 214, front., illus., 4 maps. London, Cassell, 1988. First published 1979. £14.95.

Prajāpati's relations with Brahman, Bṛhaspati and Brahmā. By J. Gonda. (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 138.) pp. 78, Amsterdam etc., North–Holland Publishing Company, 1989.

The System of nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European. By A. M. Lubotsky (Memoirs of the Kern Institute, No. 4.) pp. xix 196. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1988. Guilders 92, US $46.00.

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