Volume 122 - Issue 1 - January 1990
Reviews of Books
The History of al-Ṭabarī (Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa'l-mulūk). Vol. II: prophets and patriarchs. Translated and annotated by William M. Brinner. Vol. IV: the ancient kingdoms. Translated and annotated by Moshe Perlmann, annotations of Iranian names and terms by Shaul Shaked. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies.) Vol. II: pp. xii, 207. Vol. IV: pp. xiii, 205, Albany, NY, State University of New York Press for Bibliotheca Persica, 1987 US $34.50 and 39.50.
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The History of al-Ṭabarī (Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa'l-mulūk). Vol. XXXII: the reunification of the ‘Abbāsid caliphate. Translated and annotated by C. E. Bosworth. Vol. XXXVII: the 'Abbāsid recovery. Translated by Philip M. Fields, annotated by Jacob Lassner. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies, Bibliotheca Persica.) Vol. XXXII: pp. xvii, 281. Vol. XXXVII: pp. xv, 195. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1987. US $32.50 and 34.50.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Popular narrative ballads of modern Egypt. By Pierre Cachia. pp. xviii, 365. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989. £40.00.
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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.
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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.
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- 15 March 2011, pp. 162-164
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Studia Caucasologica I: Proceedings of the Third Caucasian Colloquium, Oslo, July 1986. Edited by Fridrik Thordarson. (Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Serie B: Skrifter, LXXV.) pp. 321. Oslo, Norwegian University Press and Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1988. - Studia Caucasologica II. Hans Vogt: Linguistique caucasienne et arménienne. Edited by Even Hovdhaugen and Fridrik Thordarson. (Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Serie B: Skrifter, LXXVI.) pp. 536. Oslo, Norwegian University Press and Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1988.
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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.
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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.
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Corpus Inscriptionnum Iranicarum, part iv. Persian inscriptions down to the early Safavid period, vol. xlvii. India: State of Haryana. Haryana i: the column of Fīrūz Shāh and other Islamic inscriptions from the district of Hisar. By Mehrdad Shokoohy. pp. 42, 90 pi., 4 figs. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1988. £60.00.
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Zur Problematik einiger handschriftlicher Quellen des neupersischen Namenbuches. By Nostratollah Rastegar. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophischhistorische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, Band 525. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik, Nr. 23.) pp. 48. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989. ÖS 140.
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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.
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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.
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A Jeweler's eye: Islamic arts of the book from the Vever collection. By Glenn D. Lowry with Susan Nemazee. pp. 240, 100 col., 28 bl. and wh. illus., map. Washington, DC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1988. US $50.00 (cloth), US $26.95 (paperback).
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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.
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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.
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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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- 15 March 2011, pp. 178-181
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