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ANTHONY KIRK-GREENE (ed.): Glimpses of empire: a Corona anthology. xxvii, 302 pp. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. £24.50.
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VIRGINIA YIP and STEPHEN MATTHEWS: Intermediate Cantonese:a grammar and workbook. xiv, 200 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. £13.99.
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DONALD CRUMMEY: Land and society in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia: from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. xvii, 373 pp. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. $60.
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MICHAEL W. MYERS: Brahman: a comparative theology. ix, 268 pp. Richmond: Curzon, 2001.
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G. J. VAN GELDER: Of dishes and discourse; classical Arabic literary representations of food. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000.
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WOLFGANG KUBIN (ed.): Symbols of anguish: in search of melancholy in China. (Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft/Société Suisse-Asie, Monographie 38.) 490 pp. Bern: Peter Lang, 2001. £40.
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MARIA JASCHOK and SHUI JINGJUN: The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam: a mosque of their own. xx, 361 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000.
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MAI GHOUSSOUB and EMMA SINCLAIR-WEBB (ed.): Imagined masculinities: male identities and culture in the modern Middle East. 294 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2000. £25.00, £14.95 paperback.
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GERHARD EHLERS: Indische Handschriften. Teil 13. Die Sammlung Ms. Or. Fol. der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. II, 13.) 200 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. HEINZ BECHERT (ed.): Sanskrit-Handschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 8. Die Katalognummern 1800Ð1999. Beschrieben von Klaus Wille. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. x, 8.) 289 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000.
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NICHOLAS SUTTON: Religious doctrines in the Mahābhārata. xxii, 477 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000. Rs. 250.
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MICHAEL COOK: Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought. xvii, 702 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £54.95.
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DAVID LEE SCHOENBRUN: A green place, a good place: agrarian change, gender, and social identity in the Great Lakes region to the 15th century. (Social History of Africa.) xiv, 302 pp. Oxford: James Currey, 1998. £15.95.
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NICO KAPTEIN: The Muhimmât al-nafâ'is: a bilingual Meccan fatwa collection for Indonesian Muslims from the end of the nineteenth century. (Seri INIS, XXXII.) xiv, 219 pp. Jakarta: Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS), 1997.
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PADMANABH S. JAINI (ed.): Subodhālan˙kāra Porāna-tīkā (Mahāsāmi-tīkā) by San˙gharakkhita Mahāsāmi. Abhinava-tīkā (Nissaya) (anonymous). xix, 315 pp. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 2000.
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DELIA CORTESE: Ismaili and other Arabic manuscripts: a descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. xviii, 170 pp. London and New York: I. B.Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2000. £39.50. WILFRED MADELUNG and PAUL E. WALKER (ed. and trans.): The advent of the Fatimids: a contemporary Shi‘i witness: an edition and translation of Ibn-al-Haytham's Kitāb al-Munā[zdotu]arāt. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Ismaili Texts and Translations Series, 1.) xiv, 192 pp. (trans.), 134 pp. (text). London and New York: I. B. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2000. £29.50. HEINZ HALM: The Fatimids and their traditions of learning. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Ismaili Heritage Series, 2.) xv, 112 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 1997.
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STELLA SANDAHL: A Hindi reference grammar. x, 156 pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2000.
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MARJORIE DRYBURGH: North China and Japanese expansion, 1933–1937: regional power and the national interest. viii, 249 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.
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SVANTE E. CORNELL: Small nations and great powers: a study of ethnopolitical conflict in the Caucasus. 480 pp. Richmond: Curzon Caucasus World, 2001. £50.
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DIPAK BHATTACHARYA (ed.): The Paippalāda-samhitā of the Atharvaveda. Critically edited from palmleaf manuscripts in the Oriya script discovered by Durgamohan Bhattacharya and one Śāradā manuscript. Vol. I. Consisting of the first fifteen Kāndas. (Bibl. Ind., 318.) lx, 840 pp. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1997. Rs. 1200.
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ROBERT WARDY: Aristotle in China: language, categories and translation. (Needham Research Institute Studies, 2.) xii, 170 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £35.
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