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Salih J. Altoma: The problem of diglossia in Arabic: a comparative study of Classical and Iraqi Arabic. (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, xxi.) ix, 167 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1969. (Distributed by Harvard University Press. Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. 34s.)
T. M. Johnstone
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24 December 2009, pp. 619-620
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The so-called injunctive
J. C. Wright
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24 December 2009, pp. 184-199
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The view expressed by J. Avery in 1885 that the Vedic ‘unaugmented verb-forms’, commonly styled ‘injunctives’, could be used in a present sense, as well as the preterite and modal senses confirmed by later usage, has had serious consequences. Firstly, the standard translations of the Rgveda and Avestan Gathas make use of this licence with a degree of arbitrariness and uncertainty which recalls the hit-or-miss tactics of Sanskrit and Pahlavi commentators with regard to verbal forms in general. Secondly, the description of the Vedic verbal system has become unmercifully complicated by the consequent imputation to the IE parent language and then to Vedic and Gathic themselves of a twofold verbal system embodying both tense–mood paradigms and paradigms which are at most faintly aspectual. A key role in the development of this theory, which postulates a grammatical structure and an impotence to convey specific meaning virtually without parallel, fell to L. Renou whose article ‘Les formes dites d'injonctif dans le Rgveda ‘(Étrennes de linguistique offertes far quelques amis à Émile Benveniste, Paris, 1928, 63–80, referred to below as R.), is still quoted with approval at the present day. I propose here to show that this article can no longer be considered to offer any confirmation of the view that the unaugmented verb-forms can fulfil the role of a present tense and must therefore be indifferent as regards tense.

Elena Cassin: La splendeur divine: introduction à l'étude de la mentalité mésopotamienne. (École Pratique des Hautes Études—Sorbonne. Sixiéme Section: Sciences Économiques et Sociales. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Civilisations et Sociétés, 8.) ix, 155 pp. Paris, La Haye: Mouton & Co., 1968.
D. J. Wiseman
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24 December 2009, pp. 385-386
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Hermann Von Wissmann: Zur Archäologie und antiken Geographie von Südarabien: Hadramaut, Qatabān und das ‘Aden-Gebiet in der Antike. (Uitgaven van het Nederlands HistorischArchaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, xxiv.) viii, 119 pp., 4 plates, 3 maps. Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten, 1968.
A. K. Irvine
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24 December 2009, pp. 386-387
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E. J. Van Donzel (ed. and tr.): ‘Ĕnbaqom: Anqasa Amin (La porte de la foi), apologie éthiopienne du Christianisme contre lἰIslam à partir du Coran. xviii, 303 pp., front., map. Leiden:E. J. Brill, 1969. Guilders 86.
Edward Ullendorff
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24 December 2009, pp. 200-201
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Hilmi M. Aboul-Fetouh: A morphological study of Egyptian colloquial Arabic. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 33.) 150 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1969. Guilders 42. - Abdelghany A. Khalafallah: A descriptive grammar of Sa'i:di Egyptian colloquial Arabic. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 32.) 124 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1969. Guilders 36.
T. M. Johnstone
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24 December 2009, pp. 620-621
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J. Innes Miller: The spice trade of the Roman Empire, 29 B.C. to A.D. 641. xxiii, 294pp., 2 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 84s.
A. K. Irvine
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Maria Tsiapera A descriptive analysis of Cypriot Maronite Arabic. (Janua Linguarum. Series Praotica, 66.) 69 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1969. Guilders 18.
T. M. Johnstone
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Emmanuel Sivan: L'Islam et la Croisade: idéologic et propagande dans les réactions musulmanes aux Croisades. 222 pp. Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1968. Fr. 46.80.
P. M. Holt
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24 December 2009, pp. 621-623
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Mordechai Abir: Ethiopia: the era of the princes. The challenge of Islam and the re-unification of the Christian empire, 1769–1855. xxvi, 208 pp., 8 plates. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1968. 45 s.
A. K. Irvine
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24 December 2009, pp. 388-389
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Noel J. Coulson: Conflicts and tensions in Islamic jurisprudence. (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, No. 5.) viii, 118 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $4, 36s.
Y. Meron
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24 December 2009, pp. 623-626
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Vincent Monteil (tr.): Ibn Khaldûn: Discours sur I'histoire universelle (al-Muqaddima). Tom. II.—Tom. III. (Collection Unesco d'Oeuvres Représentatives, Série Arabe.) [ii], 477–928 pp., 8 plates; [iv], 929–1434 pp., front., 9 plates. Beyrouth: Commission Internationale pour la Traduction des Chefs-d'Oeuvre, 1968. (Distributed by Librairie Orientale, Beyrouth.)
C. F. Buckingham
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24 December 2009, pp. 202-203
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Asaf A. A. Fyzee: Compendium of Fatimid law. 1, 160 pp. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1969. Rs. 25, 60s.
D. Hinchcliffe
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Friedrun E. Müller: Untersuchungen zur Reimprosa im Koran. (Bonner Orientalistische Studien, Neue Serie, Bd. 20.) [in], xi, 153 pp. [Bonn]: Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars der Universitat Bonn, 1969.
J. Wansbrough
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24 December 2009, pp. 389-391
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H. T. Norris (ed. and tr.): Shinqītī folk literature and song. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) xiv, 200 pp., front., plate. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. 63s.
Mervyn Hiskett
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24 December 2009, pp. 203-206
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A. J. Arbeery (tr.): A Sufi martyr: the apologia of 'Ain al-Qudāt alHamadhānī. 101 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1969. 28s.
H. T. Norris
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Jean-Claude Vadet: L'esprit courtois en Orient dans les cinq permiers siècles de l'Hégire. 490 pp. Paris: Éditions G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1968. Fr.56.
J. Wansbrough
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P. J. Vatikiotis: The modern history of Egypt. (Asia-Africa Series of Modern Histories.) 512 pp., 16 plates. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1969]. 55s.
Gabriel Baer
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Frederick P. Bargebuhr: The Alhatnbra: a cycle of studies on the eleventh century in Moorish Spain. xvi, 438 pp., front. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968. DM 124.
J. Wansbrough
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R. E. Emmerick (ed. and tr.): Book of Zambasta: a Khotanese poem on Buddhism. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. London Oriental Series, Vol. 21.) xxii, 455 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1968. £7 7s.
Arnold Kunst
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E. J. Van Donzel (ed. and tr.): ‘Ĕnbaqom: Anqasa Amin (La porte de la foi), apologie éthiopienne du Christianisme contre lἰIslam à partir du Coran. xviii, 303 pp., front., map. Leiden:E. J. Brill, 1969. Guilders 86.

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J. Innes Miller: The spice trade of the Roman Empire, 29 B.C. to A.D. 641. xxiii, 294pp., 2 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 84s.

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Maria Tsiapera A descriptive analysis of Cypriot Maronite Arabic. (Janua Linguarum. Series Praotica, 66.) 69 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1969. Guilders 18.

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Emmanuel Sivan: L'Islam et la Croisade: idéologic et propagande dans les réactions musulmanes aux Croisades. 222 pp. Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1968. Fr. 46.80.

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Mordechai Abir: Ethiopia: the era of the princes. The challenge of Islam and the re-unification of the Christian empire, 1769–1855. xxvi, 208 pp., 8 plates. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1968. 45 s.

Book Reviews

Noel J. Coulson: Conflicts and tensions in Islamic jurisprudence. (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, No. 5.) viii, 118 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $4, 36s.

Reviews and Short Notices

Book Reviews

Asaf A. A. Fyzee: Compendium of Fatimid law. 1, 160 pp. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1969. Rs. 25, 60s.

Reviews

Friedrun E. Müller: Untersuchungen zur Reimprosa im Koran. (Bonner Orientalistische Studien, Neue Serie, Bd. 20.) [in], xi, 153 pp. [Bonn]: Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars der Universitat Bonn, 1969.

Reviews and Short Notices

H. T. Norris (ed. and tr.): Shinqītī folk literature and song. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) xiv, 200 pp., front., plate. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. 63s.

Reviews

A. J. Arbeery (tr.): A Sufi martyr: the apologia of 'Ain al-Qudāt alHamadhānī. 101 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1969. 28s.

Reviews and Short Notices

Jean-Claude Vadet: L'esprit courtois en Orient dans les cinq permiers siècles de l'Hégire. 490 pp. Paris: Éditions G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1968. Fr.56.

Book Reviews

P. J. Vatikiotis: The modern history of Egypt. (Asia-Africa Series of Modern Histories.) 512 pp., 16 plates. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1969]. 55s.

Reviews and Short Notices

Frederick P. Bargebuhr: The Alhatnbra: a cycle of studies on the eleventh century in Moorish Spain. xvi, 438 pp., front. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968. DM 124.

Book Reviews

R. E. Emmerick (ed. and tr.): Book of Zambasta: a Khotanese poem on Buddhism. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. London Oriental Series, Vol. 21.) xxii, 455 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1968. £7 7s.

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