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Volume 48 - Issue 3 - October 1985

Short Notices

William Shepard: The faith of a modern Muslim intellectual: the religious aspects and implications of the writings of Ahmad Amin. [viii], 254 pp. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Islamic Studies [and] Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1982.

Johannes Pedersen: The Arabic book. Transl. by Geoffrey French. Edited with an introduction by Robert Hillenbrand. xvii, 175 pp., 32 plates. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984, £19. 50 (paper £8. 70).

Ernst Hammerschmidt and Veronika Six: Êthiopische Handschriften 1: die Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd xx, 4.) 352 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983. DM 196.

Wolf Leslau (ed.): Ethiopians speak: studies in cultural background. Part V: Chaha—Ennemor. (Êthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 16.) xi, 243 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 128.

J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson (ed.): Sahara Desert. (Key Environments.) [x ], 348 pp. Oxford: Pergamon Press[and] International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1984. £14.95, $23.95.

Michelle Camille Thuriaux: Health problems of Yemen and its populations; a bibliogaphic review. iv, 145 pp. Miami, California: Field Research Projects, 1983.

A. D. Alderson and Fahir lz: The Oxford Turkish-English dictionary. Türkçe-Ingilizce sözlük. H. C. Honey and Fahir Iz. Third edition. [xviii], 526 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. £25.

Leszek Dzięgiel: Rural community of contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan facing modernization. (Studia i Materialy [Kraków], Nr. 7.) 208 pp. Krakow: Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Forestry, Agricultural Academy in Krakow, 1981. Zł 20.

Georg Hazai and Peter Zieme (ed.): Faksimiles zu den Text-Editionen von Albert August von Le Coq [and five others]. (Opuscula, hrsg. von Werner Peek. III: Sprachwissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Turfan Forschung, Bd. 4.) 16 pp., 195 plates. Berlin: Klaus Schwartz Verlag1983.

Shaul Bakhash: The reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic revolution. x, 282 pp. London: I. B. Tauris and Co. Ltd., 1985. £13.95.

Joyce Blau: Mémoire du Kurdistan: recueil de la tradition littéraire orale et écrite. 221 pp. Paris: Éditions Findakly, 1984. Frs. 60.

Jadunath Sarkar: A history of jaipur, c. 1503-1938. Reuised and edited, by Raghubir Sinh. xvi, 416 pp. 8 plates. Hyderabad, etc.:Orient Longman, 1984. (Distributed by Sangam Books Ltd., 36 Molyneux Street, London W1H 6DS. £17.95.)

C. E. Godakumbura [and] U Tin Lwin: Catalogue of Cambodian and Burmese Pāli manuscripts. With contributions by Heinz Bechert and Heinz Braun. (Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections, Vol. 2, part 1.) xxvii, 153 pp., 12 plates. Copenhagen: The Royal Library1983.

Göran Aijmer (ed.): Leadership on the china coast. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Studies on Asiaaan Topics, No. 8.) [x], 170 PP. London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1984.

Göran Aijmer (ed.): Leadership on the china coast. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Studies on Asian Topics, No.8.) [x], 170 PP. London and Malmö: Curzon Press, 1984.

Jacques A. Theuws: Word and world: Luba thought and literature. (Studia Instituti Anthropos, 32.)[vii], 198 PP. St. Augustin: Verlag des Anthropos Instituts, 1983. DM 58.

Chong-un Kim: Postwar Korean short stories: an anthology. Second edition. xxxviii, 237 pp. Secoul: National University Press: Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Centre for Korean Studies, 1983. $18.

Wilma Meier (ed): Bibliography of African languages. lxxi, 888 pp. Wiesbaden: Ottok Harrassowitz, 1984. DM 140.

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