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Volume 29 - Issue 2 - June 1966

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Peter Ladefoged: A phonetic study of West African languages: an auditory- instrumental survey. (West African Language Monograph Series, 1.) xix, 74 pp., 16 plates. Cambridge: University Press in association with the West African Languages Survey, 1964. 18s.

I. Schapera (ed. and tr.): Praisepoems of Tswana chiefs. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) vi, 255 pp., map. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. 45s.

G. S. P. Freejian-Grenville: The French at Kilwa island: an episode in eighteenth-century East African history. xvi, 243 pp., front. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. 42s.

A. B. Theobald: 'Alī Dīnār, last sultan of Darfur, 1898–1916. ix, 243 pp. London: Longmans, 1965. 42s.

I. M. Lewis: The modern history of Somaliland: from nation to state. (The Weidenfeld and Nicolson Asia- Africa Series.) xi, 234 pp., 16 plates. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1965]. 36s.

Robert I. Rotberg: Christian missionaries and the creation of Northern Rhodesia, 1880–1924. xvi, 240 pp., 8 plates. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. 52s.)

Jan Vansina: Oral tradition: a study in historical methodology. Translated by H. M. Wright. xiv, 226 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 30s.

J. H. G. Lebon: Land use in Sudan. (The World Land Use Survey. Kegional Monograph No. 4.) xiii, 191 pp., 20 plates. Bude: Geographical Publications Ltd., 1965. 50s.

James L. Gibbs, Jr. (ed.): Peoples of Africa, xiv, 594 pp. New York, etc.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., [1965].

Robert F. Gray And P. H. Gulliver (ed.): The family estate in Africa: studies in the role of property in family structure and lineage continuity, v, 265 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. 30s.

Paul Spencer: The Samburu: a study of gerontocracy in a nomadic tribe. xxv, 341 pp., 4 plates. London: Koutledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 40s.

Short Notices

Otto A. Jäger: Antiquities of north Ethiopia: a guide. 130 pp., 12 plates.Stuttgart: F. A. Brockhaus Komm. Gesch. GmbH, Abt. Antiquarium; London:Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubnerand Co., 1965. 30s.

Günther Krahl: Deutsch-arabisches Worterbuch. xxiii, 480, [xxvii] pp. Leipzig: VEB Verlag Enzyklöpädie, 1964. DM30.

Geoffrey Parrinder: Jesus in the Qur'ān. 187 pp. London: Faber and Faber, 1965. 32s. 6d.

Hans Kindermann (tr.): Über die guten Sitten beim Essen und Trinken: das ist das 11. Buch von al- Ghazzālī's Hauptwerk. Übersetzung und Bearbeitungals ein Beitrag zur Geschickte unserer Tischsitten. xxix, 330 pp. +addendum slip. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964. Guilders 45.

Helga Brentjes: Die Imamatslehren im Islam nach der Darstellung des Asch'arī. (Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaftenzu Leipzig. Philologisch-historische Klasse, Bd. 54, Ht. 5.) 60 pp. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1964.DM 8.1

Stanley Lane-Poole: Saladin and the fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem. (Khayats Oriental Reprints, No. 8.)[ii], xix, 416 pp., map. Beirut: Khayats, 1964. L.L.12, 30s.

J. J. Saunders: A history of medieval Islam. xv, 219 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 32s.

Mahmud Y. Zayid: Egypt's struggle for independence. x, 258 pp., map. Beirut: Khayats, 1965. L.L. 18, $6.

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