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Volume 47 - February 1984

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Edith Ambros: Candid penstrokes: the lyrics of Me’ālī, an Ottoman poet of the 16th century. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 66). xxii, 520 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag: 1982.

Suraiya Faroqhi Der Bektaschiorden in Anatolien (vom späten fünfzehnten Jahrhundert bis 1826.) (Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlands. Sonderband II [WZKMS 2]). viii, 192, 5 maps. WienVerlag des Instituts Für Orientalistik der Universität, 1981. DM 64.

S. Jaini Padmanabh(ed.): Paññāsajātaka or Zimmè Paṇṇāsa (in the Burmese recension). Vol. II [Kātakas 26-50]. xliii, 309–584 pp. London: Pali Text Society, 1983. £22.50. (Distributed by Routledge and Kegan Paul PLC, London.)

Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis (ed.): Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire. 2 vols, I: The central lands. II: The Arabic-speaking lands. ix, 449 pp.; ix, 248 pp. New York and London: Holmes and Meier, inc., 1982. $85.

C. Shackle (comp.): An introduction to the sacred language of the Sikhs. [xi], 207 pp. London: Schools of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1983. £6.

Alice Boner and others: Vāstusũtra Upaniṣad: the essence of form in sacred art. Sanskrit text, English translation and notes. [xxiv], 192 pp. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982. Rs. 150.

Norah M. Titley: Miniatures from Turkish manuscript: a catalogue and subject index of paintings in the British Library and the british Museum. xii, 144 pp., 48 plates. London: The British Museum, 1981. £45.

Hamid Algar (ed. and tr.): The Path of God’s bondsmen from origin to return (Mersād al-‘ebād men al-mabdā’ elā' l-ma'ād). A Sufi Compendium by Najm al-ī Rāzi known as Dāya. (Persian Heritage Series, No. 35.) xi, 531 pp. Delmar, N. Y.: Caravan Books, 1982.

Johanna Narten: Die Am∂ša Sp∂ṇtas im Avesta. xii, 155. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1982. DM 68.x

Mark Zebrowski: Deccani Painting. xxiv, 296 pp. London: Philip Wilson for Sotheby Publications; Berkeley and los Angeles: University of California Press, [1983]. £37.50.

C. Adle (ed): Art et société dane le monde iranien. (Institut français d'iranologie de Téhéran. Bibliothéque iranienne, No. 26. Synthèse, No. 9.)380, [10] pp. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1982.

Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encylopaedia Iranica. Vol, I, Fascicle I: ĀB–'ABD-AL-ḤAMĪD. 112 PP. London,etc.: Routledge and Kehan Paul, [1982]. £18.

G. Morrison (ed.): History of Persian literature from the beginning of the Islamic period to the present day. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, 4. Bd., 2. Abschn., 2. Lief.) vi, 226 pp. Leiden-Köln: E. J. Brill, Guilders 128.

Larry Peters: Ecstasy and healing in Nepal: and ethnopsychiatric study of Tamang shamanism. (Other Realities, Vol. 4.) viii, 179 pp. Malibu, California: Undena Publications, 1981.

Roger Savory: Iran under the Safavids. x, 277 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1980. £15.

Philippe Gignoux and Rika Gyselen: Sceaux saaasanides de diverses collections privées. 208 PP., 30 Plates. Leuven: Editions Peeters, 1981. BFR. 1500.

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