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Volume 6 - Issue 2 - July 1996

Book Review

Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state. By Cemal Kafadar. pp. 221. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1995. US $48.00, £32.00.

Palestinian peasants and Ottoman Officials. Rural administration around sixteenth century Jerusalem. By Amy Singer. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) pp. xviii, 201, 3 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £35.00 (cloth), £17.95 (paperback).

Européens en Orient au XVIIIe siècle. Edited by Jean Aubin and Jacqueline Calmard. (Moyen Orient et Ocèan Indien XVIe–XIXe s.) pp. iv, 202. Paris, Sociètè d'Histoire de l'Orient; Éditions l'Harmattan, 1994.

Islamic tiles. By Venetia Porter, pp. 128, 32 col. illus., 72 bl. and wh. illus., 2 maps. London, The British Museum, 1995. £10.99.

Persian literature: a bio-bibliographical survey begun by the late C. A. Storey. Vol. V. Part 2. Poetry CA. a.d. 1100–1225. By François de Blois. pp. 241–584. London, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1994. £18.50.

Religious traditions at Vijayanagara as revealed through its monuments. By Anila Verghese. (Vijayanagara Research Project Monograph Series, Vol. 4.) pp. xiii, 285, 59 pl., 21 figs., 25 maps. New Delhi, Manohar and the American Institute of Indian Studies, 1995. Rs 750.

Episodes in the life of Akbar. Contemporary records and reminiscences. Translated and edited by Shireen Moosvi. pp. xv, 133, 7 col., 1 bl. and wh. illus. New Delhi, National Book Trust, India, 1994. Rs. 45.00.

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier 1204–1760. By Richard M. Eaton. (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 17.) pp. xxvii, 359, 24 figs, 6 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1993. $50.00.

The military in British India: the development of British land forces in South Asia 1600–1947. By T. A. Heathcote. (Manchester History of the British Army.) pp. xvi, 288. Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1995.

Les Nātha-Yogin Et Les Upaniṣads. étude d'histoire de la littérature hindoue. By Christian Bouy. (Collége de France, Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne. Série in-8°, Fasc. 62.) pp. 146. Paris, Collège de France, Édition-Diffusion de Boccard, 1994.

Pilgrimage studies. Sacred places, sacred traditions. Edited by D. P. Dubey. (Pilgrimage Studies, 3.) pp. 274, figs., maps. Allahabad, The Society of Pilgrimage Studies, 1994. Rs 350, US $50.00.

The Cilappatikāram of Iḷankō Aṭikaḷ. Translated with an introduction and postscript by R. Parthasarathy. (Translations from the Asian Classics.) pp. xix, 419, front., 3 figs. New York and Oxford, Columbia University Press, 1993. US $17.50.

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