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Volume 34 - February 1971

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Polly Hill: Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa. (African Studies Series, 2.) xxiii, 173 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £3.50.

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M. H. Goshen-Gottstein: A Syriac-English glossary, with etymological notes. Based on Brockelmann's Syriac chrestomathy. x, 95 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1970. DM 28.

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Yuen Ren Chao: Languages and symbolic systems. xv, 240 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1968. £30s.

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Wahib Atallah (ed. and tr.): Les idoles de Hichām ibn al-Kalbī. lx, [115] pp. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1969.

Simo Parpola: Letters from Assyrian scholars to the kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. Part I: texts. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 5/1.) xxi, 341 pp. Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon und Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehungsvereins, 1970. DM 72.

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'Abd al-'azīz al-Khuwaiṭir: 'U thmān b. Bishr, Manhaju-hu wa-maṣādiru-hu. 100 pp. Al-Riyāḍ: Mu'assasat al-Jazīrah Press, 1970.

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A. Ben Shemesh (tr.): Taxation in Islām. Vol. III. Abū Yū's Kitāb al-kharāj.. vii, 155 pp., London: Luzac and Co. Ltd., 1969. 85s.

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A. D. H. Bivar: Catalogue of the western Asiatic seals in the British Museum. Stamp seals. II: the Sassanian dynasty, vii, 147 pp., 32 plates. London: British Museum, 1969. 90s.

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P. R. Ackroyd and C. F. Evans (ed.): The Cambridge history of the Bible. Vol. 1. From the beginnings to Jerome. x, 649 pp., 24 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. £4.50.

Stanford J. Shaw (ed. and tr.): The budget of Ottoman Egypt, 1005–1006/1596–1597 (Publications in Near and Middle East Studies, Columbia University, Series A, XII.) viii, 234 pp. The Hague Paris: Mouton, 1968. Guilders 72.

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Mojtaba Minovi and Iraj Afshar (ed.): Yād-nāme-ye īrānī-ye Minorsky. (Publications of Tehran University, No. 1241; Ganjīne-ye Tahqīqat-e Īrānī, No. 57.) [iii], xxxi, 255, 255, [13], 8 pp., 3 plates. Tehran: [University of Tehran], 1969.

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Salman H. al-Ani: Arabic phonology: an acoustical and physiological investigation. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 61.) 104 pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1970. Guilders 35.

Mohibbul Hasan (ed.): Waqai-i manazil-i Rum: diary of a journey to Constantinople. By Khwaja Abdul Qadir. [ix], 99, 169, [5] pp., 3 maps. London: Asia Publishing House for the Dept. of History, Aligarh Muslim University, [1969].

G. E. von Grunebaum: Classical Islam: a history, 600–1258. Translated by Kaikerine Watson. 243 pp., 15 plates. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1970. £3.

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Anouar Louca: Voyageurs et écrivains égyptiens en France au xixe siècle. (Études de Littérature Étrangère et Comparée, 61.) 362 pp. Paris: Didier, 1970.

Ira M. Lapidus (ed.): Middle Eastern cities: a symposium on ancient, Islamic, and contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism. xiii, 206 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. $6. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. 57s.)

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Monika Jordan-Horstmann: Sadani: a Bhojpuri dialect spoken in Chotanagpur. (Indologia Berolinensis, Bd. 1.) xvi, 196 pp., 8 maps + errata sheet. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1969, DM 22.

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Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.): Current trends in linguistics. Vol. 5. Linguistics in South Asia. xviii, 814, 169, pp. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1969. Guilders 540.

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