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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

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Volume 118 - January 1986

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Late Babyonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum. By G. J. P. McEwan. (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, Vol. X.) pp. ix, 126 including 88 plates in line. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984. £20.00.

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Translated by R. O. Faulkner. edited by Carol Andrews. pp. 192, illus. in colour and black and white. London, British Museum Publications for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1985. (Revised edition, first pub. 1972.) £15.00.

Amulets and magic bowls: Aramic incantations of late antiuity. By Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked. pp. 293, 40 pl. Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1985. (Distributed by E. J. Brill, Leiden.) $28.00.

Introduction to Qur'anic Script. By Syed Barakat Ahmad. pp. xii, 172, London, Curzon Press, 1985. £10.50.

Studies in the grammar of early Arabic based upon papyri datable to before 300 A.H./912 A.D.. By Simon Hopkins. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London Oriental Series, Vol. 37.) pp. xlvii, 309Oxford etc., Oxford University Press, 1984. £28.00.

Islamic Theology and Philosophy: Studies in Honour of George F. Hourani. Edited by Michael E. Marmura. pp. viii, 339, Albany, N. Y., State University of New York Press, 1984.

An introduction to the history of modern Arabic literature in Egypt. By J. Brugman. (Studies in Arabic Literature, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. X.) pp. xvi, 439. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1984, Guilders 136.

Al-Farabi on the Perfect State: Abū Naṣr Al-Fārābī's Mabādi' Ārā Ahl al-Madīna al-Fāḍila. A revised text with introduction, translation and commentary by Richard Walzer. pp. viii, 569, oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985. £45.00.

Catalogue des monnaies musulmanes de la Bibliothèque Nationale: Asie pré-mongole, les Salğuqs et leurs successeurs. Par Gilles Hennequin. pp. xi, 932, 50 pl. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1985, Fr. 1500.

Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology. Edited by Bruce B. Lawrence. (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. XL.) pp. viii, 136Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1984. Guilders 44.

Economic survey of Syria during the tenth and eleventh centuries. By Muhsin D. Yusuf. pp. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen. Band 114.) x, 312, 18 maps. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1985.

Egypt and Palestine: A Millennium of Association (868–1948). Edited by Amnon Cohen and Gabriel Baer. pp. 390. Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1984.

Qat in Yemen: consumption and social change. By Shelagh Weir pp. 191, 30 illus. 1 map, front. London, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1985. £15.00

Islam in Iran By I. P. Petrushevsky Translated from the Russian by Hubert Evans, pp. viii, 400. London, The Athlone Press, 1985. £32.00

Provincial leaderships in Syria, 1575–1650. By Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn. pp. x, 220, 2 maps. Beirut, American University of Beirut, 1985. (Distributed in the USA by Syracuse University Press.) $25.00.

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