Volume 122 - April 1990
Contents
Reviews of Books
Catalogo dei manoscritti Persiani conservati nelle biblioteche d'Italia. By Angelo Michele Piemontese. p. xxxiii, 443, illus. Rome, Ministero per i Bene Culturali ed Ambientali, Rome, 1989.
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The History of al-Ṭabarī (Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa'l-mulūk). Vol. II: prophets and patriarchs. Translated and annotated by William M. Brinner. Vol. IV: the ancient kingdoms. Translated and annotated by Moshe Perlmann, annotations of Iranian names and terms by Shaul Shaked. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies.) Vol. II: pp. xii, 207. Vol. IV: pp. xiii, 205, Albany, NY, State University of New York Press for Bibliotheca Persica, 1987 US $34.50 and 39.50.
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The History of al-Ṭabarī (Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa'l-mulūk). Vol. XXXII: the reunification of the ‘Abbāsid caliphate. Translated and annotated by C. E. Bosworth. Vol. XXXVII: the 'Abbāsid recovery. Translated by Philip M. Fields, annotated by Jacob Lassner. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies, Bibliotheca Persica.) Vol. XXXII: pp. xvii, 281. Vol. XXXVII: pp. xv, 195. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1987. US $32.50 and 34.50.
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Islam and Modernism: the Iranian revolution of 1906. By Vanessa Martin, pp. ix, 245. London, I. B. Tauris & Co., 1989. £29.50.
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Iran: the crisis of democracy, 1941–1953. By Fakhreddin Azimi. pp. xi, 433. London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1989. £29.50.
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Nine essays of al-Jahiz. Translated by William M. Hutchins. (American University Studies, Series VII: Theology and Religion, 53.) pp. [viii], 273. New York etc., Peter Lang, 1989. US $39.95.
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Her eyes. By Bozorg Alavi, translated by John O'Kane. (Bibliotheca Persica, Modern Persian Literature Series, No. 9.) pp. vi, 215. Lanham, Maryland etc., University Press of America, 1989. US $28.50.
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Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: a structural analysis of selected texts (3rd century AH/9th century AD – 5th century AH/11th century AD). By Stefan Sperl. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) pp. viii, 230. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50.
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Giovanni di Pian di Carpini. Storia dei Mongoli. Edited by P. Daffinà, C. Leonardo, M. C. Lungarotti, E. Menestò and L. Petech. (Bibliotheca del “Centro per il Collegamento degli studi medievale e umanistici nell'Università di Perugia”, 1.) pp. viii, 522, 20 pl. Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1989.
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A Muslim philosopher on the soul and its fate: al-'Āmirī's Kitāb al-Amad 'alā l-abad. By Everett K. Rowson. (American Oriental Series, Volume 70.) pp. vi, 375. New Haven, Connecticut, American Oriental Society, 1988.
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Kléber en Égypte 1798–1800: Kléber et Bonaparte – 1798–1799. 2 Vols. Étude historique, présentation et notes par Henry Laurens. (Voyageurs occidentaux en Egypte, 25.) pp. viii, 579, 7 pl., 4 maps (in end pockets). Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1988.
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The rise and rule of Tamerlane. By Beatrice Forbes Manz. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.) pp. xi, 227, 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £25.00.
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The Vedic origins of karma: cosmos as man in ancient Indian myth and ritual. By Herman W. Tull. (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies.) pp. x, 181, Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1989.
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Popular narrative ballads of modern Egypt. By Pierre Cachia. pp. xviii, 365. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989. £40.00.
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The iconography and ritual of Śiva at Elephanta. By Charles Dillard Collins, pp. xvi, 331, 90 figs., map. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1988. US $49.50 (cloth), US $19.95 (paperback).
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Kitab-i Bahriye. By Pirî Reis. pp. 455, 214 pp. of reproductions, 7 maps. Ankara, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish Republic. Prepared for publication by the Historical Research Publishing Unit, Istanbul Research Centre, 1988.
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Gadyarāja: a fourteenth century Marathi version of the Kṛṣṇa legend. Translated from the Marathi with annotations by Ian Raeside. pp. xxxv, 312. Bombay, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd; London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989. £20.00.
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Iznik, the pottery of Ottoman Turkey. By Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby. pp. 784, 991 illus. including 303 in colour. London, Alexandra Press, under the auspices of the Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University and the patronage of the Türk Ekonomi Bankasi, Istanbul, 1989. £120.00.
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The ideas and meditative practices of early Buddhism. By Tilmann Vetter. pp. xix, 110. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1988. Guilders 42.50, US $21.25.
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Studia Caucasologica I: Proceedings of the Third Caucasian Colloquium, Oslo, July 1986. Edited by Fridrik Thordarson. (Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Serie B: Skrifter, LXXV.) pp. 321. Oslo, Norwegian University Press and Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1988. - Studia Caucasologica II. Hans Vogt: Linguistique caucasienne et arménienne. Edited by Even Hovdhaugen and Fridrik Thordarson. (Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Serie B: Skrifter, LXXVI.) pp. 536. Oslo, Norwegian University Press and Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1988.
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