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Volume 120 - Issue 2 - April 1988

Reviews of Books

Eastern Turkey: an architectural and archaeological survey. Vol. I. By T. A. Sinclair. pp. xiii, 454, 64 pl., line drawings, plans, 4 maps. London, The Pindar Press, 1987.

The kingdom of Armenia. By M. Chahin. pp. xviii, 332; 16 pl. 4 maps. London etc., Croom Helm, 1987. £35.00.

Some legendary kings of Armenia: can they be linked to authentic history? By M. Chahin. (Society for Armenian Studies Occasional Papers No. 5.) pp. 47 + xx. Cambridge, Mass., Society for Armenian Studies, 2nd revised Edition, 1986.

Nāṣer-e Khosraw's book of travels (Safarnāma). Translated by W. M. ThackstonJr (Persian Heritage Series, No. 36.) pp. xii, 135, New York, Bibliotheca Persica, 1986.

Qajar Persia: eleven studies. By A. K. S. Lambton. pp. xviii, 341. London, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1987. £24.50.

Animal symbolism in Warqa wa Gulshāh. By Abbas Daneshvari. (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, II.) pp. 92, front., 51 figs. Oxford, Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1986.

Muqarnas: an annual on Islamic art and architecture. Vol. 4. Edited by Oleg Grabar. pp. 197, illus. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1987. Guilders 98.

Charles Masson of Afghanistan: explorer, archaeologist, numismatist and intelligence agent. By Gordon Whitteridge. (Central Asian Studies.) pp. ix, 181, 4 col. pl., 16 b. and w. illus., 3 maps + errata slip. Warminster, Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1986.

Kleine schriften. Vols 1 and 2. Von Friedrich Weller, hrsg. von Wilhelm Rau. (Glasenapp-Stiftung Bd. 26, 1 + 2.) 1: pp. xii, 705 + corrigenda slip; 2: pp. vi, 706–1618. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987. DM 196.

Hinduismus und Buddhismus: Festschrift für Ulrich Schneider. Hrsg. von Harry Falk. pp. 414, front., 8 pl., Freiburg, Hedwig Falk, 1987. DM 84.

Mimāṃsā Literature. By Jean-Marie Verpoorten. (A History of Indian Literature, edit, by Jan Gonda, Vol. VI, Fasc. 5.) pp. ix, 71, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. DM 58.

Rice and barley offerings in the Veda. By J. Gonda. (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina 31.) pp. ix, 235, Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1987, Guilders 84, U.S. $38.25.

Sanskrit indices and text of the Brahmapurāṇa. by Peter Schreiner and Renate Söhnen. (Purāṇa Research Publications, Tübingen, 1.) pp. xxiii, 826 and 26 microfiches. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. DM 146.

Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophies. Vol. IV. Sāṃkhya: A dualist tradition in Indian philosophy. Edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya. pp. xiv, 674, Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass and Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1987, Rs 300, $47.10.

Rationality and mind in early Buddhism. by Frank J. Hoffman, pp. xii, 126. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. Rs. 75.

Perception, knowledge and disbelief: A study of Jayarāśi's scepticism. by Eli Franco. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, hrsg. von Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 35.) pp. 584. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987, DM 58.

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