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Volume 34 - Issue 1 - February 1971

Book Review

F. E. Peters: Aristotle and the Arabs: the Aristotelian tradition in Islam. (New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization, No. 1.) xxiv, 304 pp. New York: New York University Press; London: University of London Press Ltd., 1968. $9.50, £3.85.

Clifford Edmund Boswokth: Sīstān under the Arabs, from the Islamic conquest to the rise of the Saffārids (30–250/651–864). (Istituto' Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro Studi e Seavi Archeologici in Asia. Reports and Memoirs, Vol. xi.) xi, 145 pp. Rome: IsMEO, 1968. L 6,000.

[Lucie ], Lady Duff Gordon: Letters from Egypt (1862–1869). Enlarged centenary edition with introduction by Gordon Waterfield. (Travellers and Explorers.) xiv, 385 pp., 28 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 60s.

Muddathir 'Abd Al-Raḥīm: Imperialism and nationalism in the Sudan: a study in constitutional and political development, 1899–1956. xviii, 275 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 63s.

Claude Cahen: Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history, c. 1071–1330. Translated from the French by J. Jones-Williams. xxi, 458 pp. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1968. 70s.

Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr: Recherches sur les actes des règnes des Sultans Osman, Orkhan et Mured I. (Societas Academica Dacoromana. Acta Historica, Tom. VII.) 280 pp. München: Rumänische Akademische Gesellschaft, 1967.

Nicolaas H. Biegman: The Turco-Ragusan relationship according to the firmāns of Murād III (1575–1595) extant in the State Archives of Dubrovnik. [iv], 204 pp., map. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1967. Guilders 45.

Alan W. Fisher: The Russian annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783. xvi, 180 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £2.75.

Albert Mugrdich Wolohojian (tr.): The romance of Alexander the Great, by Pseudo-Callisthenes, translated from the Armenian version. (Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies, No. LXXXII.) [xi], 196 pp. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1969. $8.50, 76s.

Bernfried Schlebrath: Awesta-Wörterbuch. Vorarbeiten II. Konkordanz. xv, 199 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1968. DM 46.

Ernst Herzfeld: The Persian Empire: studies in geography and ethnography of the ancient Near East. Edited from the posthumous papers by Gerold Walser. xxiii, 392 pp., map. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1968. DM 100.

K. Kailasapathy: Tamil heroic poetry. xv, 282 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. 65s.

K. Parameswara Aithal (ed.): Stotrasamuccaya: a collection of rare and unpublished stotra-s. (The Adyar Library Series, Vol. 99.) 2 vols.: xvi, 309 pp.; xix, 386 pp. Madras: Adyar Library and Research Centre, [1969].

Sukumari Bhattacharji: The Indian theogony: a comparative study of Indian mythology from the Vedas to the Purāṇas. xiv, 397 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £7.

S. B. P. Nigam: Nobility under the sultans of Delhi, A.D. 1206–1398. xv, 223 pp. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968. Rs. 25.

Garland Cannon (ed.): The letters of Sir William Jones. 2 vols.: xlix, 452 pp., front., 5 plates; [iv], 453–977 pp., 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. £12.50.

Heinz Bechert: Singhalesische Handschriften. Teil 1. Unter Mitarbeit von Maria Bidoli. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. XXII, 1.) xxiii, 146 pp., 4 plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1969. DM 52.

Luther G. Jerstad: Mani-rimdu: Sherpa dance-drama, xvi, 192 pp., 12 plates. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, [1969]. $6.95, 66s.

Stephen E. Koss: John Morley at the India Office, 1905–1910. ix, 231 pp., front. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969. $8.50, 76s.

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