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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Volume 121 - January 1989

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The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Trevor Mostyn and Albert Hourani. pp. 504, illus. in colour and bl. & wh., maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1988. £30.00.

La profession de foi d'Abū Isḥāq al-Šīrqzī. Édition et présentation par Marie Bernand. (Supplément aux Annales Islamologiques, Cahier No. 11.) pp. vii, 75, 5 pi. + corrigenda. Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1987.

The making of the modern Near East 1792–1923. By M. E. Yapp. (A History of the Near East.) pp. xii, 404, 9 maps. London and New York, Longman, 1987. £22.50 (cloth), £12.00

Jerusalem pilgrimage. 1099–1185. Edited by John Wilkinson with Joyce Hill and W. F. Ryan. (Hakluyt Society. Second Series, No. 167.) pp. xi, 372, 24 maps and plans. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1988. £16.00.

The diversity of the Muslim community: anthropological essays in memory of Peter Lienhardt. Edited by Ahmed Al-Shahi. (Brismes Series No. 2.) pp. vi, 161, front. London, Ithaca Press for the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 1987. £15.00.

The political language of Islam. By Bernard Lewis, pp. ix, 168. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1988. £11.95.

A house of many mansions: the history of the Lebanon reconsidered. By Kamal Salibi. pp. vii, 247, map. London, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1988. £17.50.

The Syrian coastal town of Jabala: its history and present situation. By Sato Tsugitaka. (Studia Culturae Islamicae, 35.) pp. 89 (English), 121 (Arabic), 25 pi., 4 maps. Tokyo, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1988.

Europe and the mystique of Islam. By Maxime Rodinson, translated by Roger Veinus. pp. xv, 163. London, I.B. Tauris & Co, 1988. £6.95.

Against the devil's current: the life and times of Cyrus Hamlin. By Marcia and Malcolm Stevens, pp. 516, 44 illus. Lanham, Maryland, University of America Press, 1988. US $35.00.

Muḥammad's Mecca: history in the Qur'an. By Montgomery W. Watt. (Islamic Surveys.) pp. vii, 113. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1988. £19.50.

Culture, performance and communication in Turkey. By Metin And. (Symbolism and World View in Asia and Africa. Performance in Culture No. 4.) pp. xii, 221. Tokyo, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1987.

Adelard of Bath: an English scientist and Arabist of the early twelfth century. Edited by Charles Burnett. (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, XIV). pp. viii, 208, front, llus. London, The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1987. £12.00.

William of Tyre: historian of the Latin East. By Peter W. Edbury and John Gordon Rowe. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth Series, 8.) pp. x, 187. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1988. £22.50.

The formation of Islamic art. By Oleg Grabar. Revised and enlarged edition, pp. xix, 232, 77 pl., map. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1987. (First pub. 1973.) £40.00 (cloth), £14.95 (paperback).

Over the rim of the world: selected letters. By Freya Stark, edited by Caroline Moorehead. pp. 404, 3 maps. London, John Murray in association with Michael Russell, London, 1988. £19.95.

Egypte vue par les arméniens. By Angèle Kapoian-Kouymjian. pp. 93, 8 pl. Paris, Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1988. FF 110.

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