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Volume 1 - July 1991

Book Review

Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other collections in the Netherlands. Fascicule 5. By J. J. Witkam. (Bibliotheca Universitatis Leidensis, Codices Manuscripti XXI) pp. 121, 27 pl. Leiden, E.J. Brill/Leiden University Press, 1989. Dfl. 64.

Gazetteer of historical North-West Yemen in the Islamic period to 1650. By Robert T. O. Wilson, with a foreword By R. B. Serjeant (Arabistische Texte und Studien, Band 3.) pp. xii, 374, 5 maps. Hildesheim etc., Georg Olms, 1989. DM 39.80.

The history of Aleppo, known as ad-Durr al Muntakhab by Ibn ash-Shihna. By Keiko Ohta. (Studia Culturae Islamicae 40). pp. 422 +errata slip. Tokyo, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1990.

Monarchy and lordship in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099–1291. By Steven Tibble. pp. xviii, 203, 7 maps. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989. £25.00.

The Arab conquest of Spain, 710–797. By Roger Collins. (A History of Spain, Vol. III.) pp. xii, 239. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1989.

State and society in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt. By Ehud R. Toledano. (Cambridge Middle East Library: 22.) pp. xiv, 319, 10 illus. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1990. £32.50.

Livre d’al-Durra al-Muṣāna dans aẖbār al-Kināna. By Aḥmed Katẖoda ‘Azbān al-Demerdāšī. Annotated edition by ‘Abd al-Raḥīm ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ‘Abd al-raḥīm. pp. xxxv, 306, 11 pl. Cairo, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1989.

Die Doxographie des Pseudo-Ammonios: ein Beitrag zur neuplatonischen Überlieferung im Islam. By Ulrich Rudolph. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XLIX, i). pp. 284. Stuttgart, Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner Wiesbaden GmbH for Deutsche Morgenlāndische Gesellschaft, 1989. DM 128.

The Druze. By Robert Brenton Betts. pp. xiv, 161, 12 pl., 5 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. £14.95.

Cimetières et inscriptions du Ḥawrān et du Ğabal al-Durūz. By Solange Ory. pp. 75, 45 pl. Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1989. 145.02F.

AllĀh transcendent: studies in the structure and semiotics of Islamic philosophy, theology and cosmology. By Ian Richard Netton. (Exeter Arabic and Islamic Series, 5.). pp. xiii, 383. London and New York, Routledge, 1989. £45.00.

Les Kurdes et le Kurdistan: bibliographie critique 1977–1986. By Joyce Blau. and collaborators. (Abstracta Iranica; volumes hors série 5.). pp. xvii, 147. Tehran and Paris, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1989.

Ibn Al-'Arabi's metaphysics of imagination: the Sufi path of knowledge. By William C. Chittick. pp. xxii, 478. Albany N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1989.

Ērbedestān: an Avesta-Pahlavi text. Edited and Translated by Helmut Humbach in cooperation with Josef Elfenbein. (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 15, Neue Folge.) pp. 127. Munich, R. Kitzinger, 1990.

Islamic Spain. By Godfrey Goodwin. (Architectural Guides for Travellers.) pp. x, 150, front., illus., plans, map. London, etc., Penguin Books, 1990..£8.99.

‘Abbasid bellies-letters. Edited by Julia Ashtiany, T. M. Johnstone, J.D. Latham, R. B. Serjeant and G. Rex Smith. (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature.) pp. xv, 517, map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1990. £55.00.

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