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Volume 116 - April 1984

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Textiles in Yemen: Historical References to Trade and Commerce in Textiles in Yemen from Antiquity to Modern Times. By John Baldry. (British Museum Occasional Paper No. 27, Department of Ethnography.) [iii], 107 pp. London, British Museum, 1982. £6.50.

Der Weise Narr Buhlūl. By Ulrich Marzolph. (Abhandlungen fūr die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. XLVI, 4.) pp. ix, 88. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 29.

Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860–1920. By Philip S. Khoury. (Cambridge Middle East Library), pp. xi, 153. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1983. £18.50.

Marchands D'étoffes Du Fayyoum Au IIIe/IXe Siècle D'après Leurs Archives (Actes Et Lettres). 1. Les Actes Des Banū ‘Abd Al-Mu'min. By Yūsuf Rāghib. (Supplément aux Annales Islamologiques, Cahier No. 2). pp. xxi, 47, front., 12 pl. Le Caire, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1982.

Crusader Art in the Twelfth Century. Edited by Jaroslav Folda. (B[ritish] A[rchaeological] R[eports], International Series, 152.) pp. xii, 269. Oxford, BAR, 1982. £18.

Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia. Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520–1650. By Suraīya Faroqhi. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation), pp. xiv, 425. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £32.50.

Letters from Barbary, 1576–1774: Arabic Documents in the Public Record Office. Translated and annotated by J. F. P. Hopkins. (Oriental Documents, VI.) pp. xviii, 112, front. Oxford, etc., Oxford University Press for the British Academy, [1982]. £16.

The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 3., Pts I and III. The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. 2 vol.: pp. lxxv, 624, 48 pl.; pp. xix, 625–1488, 100 pl. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1983. £75.00.

Budha-Kauśika's Rāmarakṣāstotra. A Contribution to the Study of Sanskrit Devotional Poetry. By Gudrun Bühnemann. (Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, Vol. X.) pp. 127. Vienna, De Nobili Research Library, 1983. AS 280.

Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Vol. 1. pp. ix, 209, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1983. £24.50.

The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550–1650. By. I. Metin Kunt. (The Modern Middle East Series, No. 14.) pp. xxv, 181, New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. $42.50.

Viṣṇudharmāḥ: Precepts for the Worship of Viṣṇu. Part 1: Adhyāyas 1–43. Edited by Reinhold Grünendahl. xi, 250 pp. + errata slip. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 42.

The Mythology of Brahmā. By Greg Bailey, pp. xvi, 256. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £12.00.

The Ottoman Slave Trade and its Suppression: 1840–1890. By Ehud R. Toledano. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) pp. xix, 307, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [c1982]. £24.70.

Kleine Schriften. Mit Ergänzungen Aus Seinem Nachlass Hrsg. Von Joachim Friedrich Sprockhoff. By Friedrich Otto Schrader. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 19). pp. xxiii, 522. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 88.

The Illicit Adventure: The Story of Political and Military Intelligence in the Middle East from 1898 to 1926. By H. V. F. Winstone. pp. xv, 528, 8 pl. London, Jonathan Cape, 1982. £16.50.

Catalogue of the Pāli Printed Books in the India Office Library. Edited by T. C. H. Raper, revised by M. J. C. O'Keefe. pp. iv, 80. London, The British Library, 1983. £12.00.

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