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Volume 3 - Issue 2 - July 1993

Book Review

Story-telling techniques in the Arabian Nights. By David Pinault. (Studies in Arabic Literature, Vol. xv.) pp. xi, 262. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1992. Dfl. 115, US $65.75.

The sources for early Bābī doctrine and history: a survey. By Denis MacEoin. pp. ix, 274, 7 reproductions of manuscript pages. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1992. Dfl. 125, US $71.50.

Iran and the Cold War: the Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. By Louise L'Edtramge Fawcett. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 26.) pp. xii, 227. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £32. 50.

Ruba'ryat of Omar Khayyam. Translated and annotated by Ahmad Saidi, preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. pp. xxiv, 277. Berkeley, Calif., Asian Humanities Press, 1991. US $60.00 (cloth), US $20.00 (paperback).

Muqarnas: an annual on Islamic art and architecture. vol.8K. A. C. Creswell and his legacy. Edited by Oleg Grabar. pp. vi, 138, front., illus. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1991. Dfl. 90, US $51. 43.

Zum Vokalismus nichterster Silben in altosmanischen Originaltexten By Gerhard Doerfer. (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission Bd. xxvu.) pp. 128. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. DM 48.

Der Beginn des Schrift und FRühe Schriftlichkeit in Indien By Oskar v. Hinöber. (Abhandlungen des Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klass; Jahrgang 1989. Nr. 11.) pp.75. Mainz, Akademie des Wissenschaften und der Literatur; Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1990. DM 34.

Nyāyakandalī – being a commentary on Praśastapādabhāṣya, with three sub-commentaries. Edited by J. S. Jetly and Vasant G. Parikh. (Gaekwad's Oriental Series, No. 174.) pp. xiii, 721. Vadodara, Oriental Institute, 1991.

La notion de saṃskāra dans l'lnde brahmanique et bouddhique. Tome I. By Lakshmi Kapani. (Collège de France, Publications de l'lnstitut de Civilisation Indienne. Série in-8°, Fasc. 59,1.) pp. 314. Paris, Édition-Diffusion de Boccard, 1992.

Littératures médiévales de l'Inde du Nord. Contributions de Charlotte Vaudeville et de ses élèves. Edited by Françoise Mallison. (Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. CLXV.) pp. 211. Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1991.

The eighty-four hymns of Hita Harivaṃśa: an edition of the Caurāsī Pada. By Rupert Snell. pp. xvi, 360. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass; London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1991. Rs. 375.

Songs of the harsh devotee: the TēVāram of Cuntaramūrttināyaṉār. Translated and annotated by David Dean Shulman. (University of Pennsylvania, Studies on South Asia, Vol. 6.) pp. lxiv, 633. Philadelphia, Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.

Indian art and archaeology. Edited by Ellen M. Raven and Karel R. van Kooij. (Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Kern Institute, Leiden, 23–29 August, 1987. Vol. x.) pp. vi, 135, 63 illus. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1992. Dfl. 120.

Mission to Tashkent. By F. M. Bailey, introduced by Peter Hopkirk. pp. 314, 3 maps. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. First pub. 1946. £6.99.

Journey through Burma in 1936: a view of the culture, history and institutions. By Prince Damrong Rajanubhab. pp. 247, 154 illus., 4 maps. Bangkok, River Books, 1991.

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