Last updated 10th July 2024: Online ordering is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We apologise for any delays responding to customers while we resolve this. For further updates please visit our website https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Other actions
- Information
- - Add bookmark
  - Add alert
  - RSS Feed
  - Share

Published on behalf of the Royal Asiatic Society

Journal Home

Only show content I have access to (4)

Over 3 years (132)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

EISSN: 1474-0591

URL: /core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 113 - April 1981

Reviews of Books

Islam: past influence and present challenge. In honour of William Montgomery Watt. Edited By Alford T. Welch and Pierre Cachia. pp. xvi, 359. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1979. £15.

Modern Ethiopia from the accession of Menilek II to the present. Proceedings of the fifth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Nice, 19–22 December 1977. Edited by Joseph Tubiana. pp. xvii, 556. Rotterdam, A. A. Balkema, 1980. Guilders 85.

Geschichte des Islamischen Kultus: rechtshistorische und Ḥadīṯkritische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung und Systematik der 'Ibādat. Bd. I/1: das Ramadan-fasten. By Klaus Lech. pp. xviii, 352. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1979. DM 156.

Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Ethiopian Studies. Session B, April 13–16, 1978, Chicago, U.S.A. Edited by Robert L. Hess. pp. 831. [Chicago, Office of Publications Services, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1979.] $21.50.

Society and the Sexes in medieval Islam. Edited by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot. (Sixth Giorgio Levi Delia Vida Biennial Conference.) pp. [vii], 149. Malibu, California, Undena Publications, 1979. $18.50.

Ethiopia and the Red Sea: the rise and decline of the Solomonic dynasty and muslim-European rivalry in the region. By Mordechai Abir. pp. xx, 251. London, Frank Cass, 1980. £13.50.

Life and Adventures in Abyssinia. By Nathaniel Pearce. With a new introduction by Richard Pankhurst. 2 vols: pp. xlix, ix, 348; [iv], viii, 349. London, Sasor Publisher, 1980.

Kitāb Ādāb al-murīdīn, Abū al-Najīb 'Abd al-Qāhir al-Suhrawardī (d. 563 h.) Edited by Menahem Milson. (Max Schloessinger Memorial Series, Texts, 2.) pp. [5], 43, 112, [6]. Jerusalem, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University, 1978. $8.

The Mombasa Rising Against the Portuguese, 1631, from Sworn Evidence. Edited and translated by G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Varia, I.) pp. lvii, 166, 4 pl. London, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1980. £32.50.

Arabische Inschriften aus Syrien. By Heinz Gaube. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. XVII.) pp. xxi, 201, 19 pl. Beirut, Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgen-ländischen Gesellschaft in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1978. DM 48.

Middle East studies and libraries: A felicitation volume for Professor J. D. Pearson. Edited by B. C. Bloomfield. pp. xi, 231. London, Mansell, 1980. £21.50.

The epistle on singing-girls of Jāhiẓ. Edited with translation and commentary by A. F. L. Beeston. (Approaches to Arabic Literature, No. 2.) pp. [v], 67, 29. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1980]. £7.50.

Les monnaies de Bālis. By Gilles Hennequin and Abu-l-Faraj al-'Ush. pp. 116, 11 pl. Damascus, Institut Français de Damas, 1978.

The Shaping of 'Abbāsid Rule. By Jacob Lassner. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) pp. xvii, 328. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1980]. £13.90.

Slaves on horses: the evolution of the Islamic polity. By Patricia Crone, pp. x, 302. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1980. £17.50.

Baibars the First: his endeavours and achievements. By Abdul-Aziz Khowaiter. pp. xiv, 210. London, Green Mountain Press, 1978. £6.50.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 113 - April 1981

Reviews of Books