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David Pearl: A texbook on Muslim law. [xii], 317 pp. London: Croom Helm, 1979. £14.95 (paper £95).
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G. M. Wickens: Arabic grammar: a first workbook. viii, 171 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1980. £12.50 (paper £5.95).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 154-159
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Michael Zwettler: The oral tradition of classical Arabic poetry: its character and implications. xii, 310 pp. Columbia: Ohio State University Press, [1978]. &25.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 159-161
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Schéhérazade Qassim Hassan: Les instruments de musique en Irak et leur r6ie dans la société traditionelle. (Cahiers de I‘Homme, n.s., XXI). 258 pp., 15 Plates. Paris: Éditions de I‘École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, 1980.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 161-162
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H. T. Norris: The adventures of Antar. (Approaches to Arabic Literature, No.3). x, 254 pp., 10 Plates. Warmister: Aris and Phillips Ltd., 1980. £12.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 162-163
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Daniel Pipes: Slave soldiers and Islam: the genesis of a military system. xxx, 246 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. £15.75.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 163-165
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Tanzil-Ur-Rahman: A code of Muslin personal law. Vol. I. xi, 775 pp. Karachi: Hamdard Academy, 1978. (Distributed by Oxford University Press. £22.50.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 165-166
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M. Peled: Two stages in Taymūr's short story. (Literary Studies and Texts, No.1.) [5], 95 pp. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University and the Arabic Publishing House, 1977. [In Arabic.]
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- 24 December 2009, p. 166
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Air Chief Marshal SirDavid Lee: Flight from the Middle East: a history of the Royal Air Force in the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent territories 1945–72. (Ministry of Defence: Air Historical Branch, RAF.) xvi, 339 pp., front., 9 maps. London: HMso, 1980. £9.75.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 166-167
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Géza Fehérvári and Yasin H. Safadi: 1400 years of Islamic Art: a descriptive catalogue. 247 pp., front., map. London: Khalili Gallery, 1981. £30 (paper £20).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 167-168
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Z.H. Hour: The history of Aden, 1839–1972. x, 240 pp. London. Frank Cass, 1981. £15.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 168-169
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Qasim Al-Samarrai (ed.): Abû Manṣûr ‘Abd al-Malik al-Tha‘âlibî, Kitâb laṭâ’ if al-ẓurafâ’ min ṭabaqât al-fuḍalâ’: edited in facsimile from the Leiden Manuscript with introduction and annotations. xi, 146 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. Guilders 40.
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Fawzeya and Kamel Rizqallah: La préparation du pain dans un village du delta égyptien (province de Charqia). (Bibliothéque d'Étude, Vol.Lxxvi.) x, 53 pp., 18 plates. Le Caire: Institut Français d' Archéologe Orientale du Caire, 1978.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 169-171
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Francesco Gabrieli and Umberto Scerrato (ed.): Gli Arabi in Ltalia: cultura, contatti e tradizioni. Saggi di P.Balog, A.Bausani, E. Guidoni, A.M. piemontese, A.Ragona. (Antica Madre, a cura di G. Pugliesi Carratelli.) [780] pp., front., maps. Milan: Published by Libri Scheiwiller for the Credito Italiano, Rome, 1979.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 171-172
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Ulrich BraukÄmper: Geschichte der Hadiya Süd-Äthiopiens: von den Anfängen bis zur Revolution 1874. (Studien Zur Kulturkunde, Vol.50.) xv, 463 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1980. DM87.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 172-173
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Arnold H. Green: The Tunisian Ulama, 1873–1915: social structure and response to ideological currents. (Social, Economic and political Studies of the Middle East, Vol.xxii.) viii, 324 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 173-174
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J. E. P. Hopkins and N. Levtzion (ed.).: Corpus of early Arabic sources For West African history. Translated by J.F.P.Hopkins. Edited by J.F.P. Hopkins and N.Levtzion. (Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Arabica iv.) xx, 492 pp., map. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1981. £35.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 174-176
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Aboubacar Adamou: Agadez et sa région: contribution ā l'étude du Sahel et du Sahara nigériens. (Études Nigériennes,no.44.) 358 pp., 2 maps [in back pocket]. Paris: CNRS;Niger: IFAN, 1979.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 176-177
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John R. Perry: Karim Khan Zand: a history of Iran, 1747–1779. (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, No. 12.) [xi], 340 pp., map [on endpapers]. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. $15.65. £8.75.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 177-178
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Elie Kedourie and Sylvia G. Haim (ed.): Towards a modern Iran: studies in thought, politics and society. x, 262 pp. London: Frank Cass, 1980. £.13.50.
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- 24 December 2009, p. 178
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