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Volume 121 - January 1989

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The two Zions: reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia. By Edward Ullendorff. pp. 249. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. £19.50.

Outsiders in the lands of Islam: Mamlūks, mongols and eunuchs. By David Ayalon. (Collected Studies Series, CS 269.) pp. xii, 316. London, Variorum Reprints, 1988. £32.00.

Qur᾽āns of the Mamluks. By David James, pp. 270, 80 col., 90 bl. and wh. illus., map. London, Alexandria Press in assoc. with Thames and Hudson, 1988. £35.00.

The Swahili coast, 2nd to 19th centuries: Islam, commerce and Christianity in eastern Africa. By G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. (Collected Studies CS 275.) pp. xvi, 268, 9 illus, 4 maps. London: Variorum Reprints, 1988. £32.00.

The evolution of a Sufi institution in Mamluk Egypt: The Khanqah. By Leonor Fernandes. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 134.) pp. ix, 205, 14 illus. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1988.

De l'Indus aux Balkans. Recueil à la mémoire de Jean Deshayes. Edited by J.-L. Huot, M. Yon and Y. Calvet. pp. 478, front., illus., maps + errata slip. Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1985. FF230.

Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 2: Anāmaka – Āṯār al-Wozarā᾿. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. pp. xxxi, 912, illus., maps. London etc., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. £225.00.

An introduction to religious foundations in the Ottoman empire. By John R. Barnes, pp. xii, 184. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1986. Guilders 64, US $32.00.

Éléments de grammaire élamite. Par Françoise Grillot-Susini avec la collaboration de Claude Roche. (Études Élamites, “Synthèse” no. 29.) pp. 79. Paris, Éditions Recherches sur les Civilisations, A.D.P.F., 1987. FF 76.

Bulles et sceaux sassanides de diverses collections. Par Philippe Gignoux et Rika Gyselen avec la collaboration de A. D. H. Bivar. (Studia Iranica – Cahier 4.) pp. 307, 23 pl + corrigenda. Paris, Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 1987. FB 1500.

Murder, mayhem, pillage and plunder: the history of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th centuries. By Mikhāyil Mishāqa, translated from the Arabic by Wheeler M. ThackstonJr pp. xix, 309, illus., map. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1988. US $49.50 (cloth), US $16.95 (paperback).

Edward Lear in the Levant. Travels in Albania, Greece and Turkey in Europe, 1848–1849. Compiled and edited by Susan Hyman. pp. 168, front., map, illus. in col. and bl. & wh. London, John Murray, 1988. £15.95.

Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam and the Egyptian working class, 1882–1954. By Joel Beinin and Zachary Lockman. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) pp. xix, 488, 3 maps. London, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 1988. £49.50.

Musaddiq, Iranian nationalism and oil. Edited by James A. Bill and Wm. Roger Louis, pp. x, 358. London, I. B. Tauris, 1988. £24.50.

Persian literature. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies, No. 3.) pp. xi, 562. New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1988. Distributed by State University of New York Press. US $49.50 (cloth), $19.50 (paperback).

Matériel funéraire de la Bactriane méridionale de l'âge du bronze. By Marie-Hélène Pottier. Illustrated by Guy Samoun. (Mémoire No. 36.) pp. 232, 45 figs., 45 pl., 2 maps. Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1984. FF. 106.

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