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Volume 37 - June 1974

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Harald Löschner: Die dogmatischen Grundlagen des šī‘itischen Rechts: eine Untersuchung zur modernen imāmitischen Rechtsquellenlehre. (Erlanger Juristische Abhandlungen, Bd. 9.) 240 pp. Köln, etc.: Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, 1971. DM 39.

Riazul Islam: The Shāmlū letters: a new source of Iranian diplomatic correspondence. (Texts Series, No. 1.) [xii], 37, [7] pp., 5 plates, 92 facsims. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, 1971. Rs. 15.

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George Eaton Simpson: Melville J. Herskovits. (Leaders of Modern Anthropology Series.) ix, 200 pp. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1973. $10, £3.

J. A. Atanda: The new Ọyọ empire: indirect rule and change in western Nigeria, 1894–1934. (Ibadan History Series.) xvii, 334 pp., 4 plates. London: Longman, 1973. £4.50.

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S. J. Falk: Qajar paintings: Persian oil paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries. 63 pp., 48 plates. London: Faber and Faber Ltd. in association with Sotheby Parke-Bernet Publications, 1972. £10.

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Francis Korn: Elementary structures reconsidered: Lévi-Strauss on kinship. xv, 168 pp. London: Tavistock Publications, 1973. £2.90.

P. N. Davies: The trade makers: Elder Dempster in West Africa, 1852–1972. 526 pp., 32 plates, 3 maps [on end-papers]. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1973. £8.50.

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David Barrett: Catalogue of the Wardrop Collection and of other Georgian books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. xvii, 354 pp. London: Oxford University Press for the Marjory Wardrop Fund, 1973. £15.

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Bruce L. Derwing: Transformational grammar as a theory of language acquisition: a study in the empirical, conceptual and methodological foundations of contemporary linguistics. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 10.) xii, 346 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1973. £6.60.

Michael Wright: Buganda in the heroic age. xvi, 244 pp. Nairobi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1971. £1.70.

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Emil Schürer: The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.–A.D. 135). A new English version revised and edited, by Geza Vermes and Fergus Millar. Vol. I. xvii, 614 pp., front. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark Ltd., 1973. £10.

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Eric J. Sharpe and John R. Hinnells (ed.): Man and his salvation: studies in memory of S. G. F. Brandon, x, 338 pp., front., 2 plates. Manchester: Manchester University Press; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, [1973]. £5.40.

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M. Gonçalves da Costa (ed.): P.eJerónimo Lobo: Itinerário e outros escritos inéditos. (Biblioteca Histórica de Portugal e Brasil. Série Ultra-marina.) xxviii, 832 pp., front., 16 plates. [Barcelos]: Livraria Civilização, [1971].

J. H. Hospeks (ed.): A basic bibliography for the study of the Semitic languages. Vol. I. XXV, 401 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. Guilders 56.

Udo Steinbach: Ḏᾱt al-Himma: kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu einem arabischen Volksroman. (Freiburger Islamstudien, Bd. IV.) 151 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1972. DM 46.

Richard E. Whitaker: A concordance of the Ugaritic literature, vii, 660 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £15.)

B. Rintchen (ed.): Folklore mongol. Livre cinquième. (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 30.) vii, 218 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1972. DM 58.

Yahya Haqqi: The saint's lamp, and oilier stories. Translated… by M. M. Badawi. (Arabic Translation Series of the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 2.) xiii, 90 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. Guilders 16.

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