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Volume 42 - Issue 1 - February 1979

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Kamal S. Salibi: Syria under Islam: empire on trial, 634–1097. [viii], 193 pp. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1977.

P. M. Holt (ed.): The eastern Mediterranaean lands in the period of the Crusades, xii, 112 pp. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1978]. £5.95.

Lucette Valensi: Fellahs tunisiens: l'économie rurale et la vie des campagnes aux 18e et 19e siécles. (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Civilisations et Sociétés, 45.) 421 pp. Paris, La Haye: Mouton, [1977].

Armin Schopen: Das Qāt: Geschichte und Gebrauch des Genussmittels Catha edulis Forsk. in der Arabischen Republik Jemen. (Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Bd. 8.) [iv], 290 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1978. DM 28.

Robeet Underhill: Turkish grammar. xix, 474 pp. Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, [1976]. $20, £14.

B. W. Robinson (ed.): Islamic painting and the arts of the book. [By] B. W. Robinson, Ernst J. Grube, G. M. Meredith-Owens, R. W. Skelton. (The Keir Collection.) 322 pp., 201 plates. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1976. £60.

B. W. Robinson (ed.): Islamic fainting and the arts of the book. [By] B. W. Robinson, Ernst J. Grube, G. M. Meredith-Owens, R. W. Skelton. (The Keir Collection.) 322 pp., 201 plates. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1976. £50.

Marie-Rose Séguy: The miraculous journey of Mahomet: Mirâj nâmeh, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Manuscrit Supplément Turc 190) … translated by Richard Pevear. 158 pp. + addenda sheet. London: Scolar Press, 1977. £25.

Mary Boyce: A Persian stronghold of Zoroastrianism: based on the Ratanbai Katrak lectures, 1975. xv, 284 pp., 8 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. £8.50.

Eugène Denis: La Lokapaññatti et les idées cosmologiques du bouddhisme ancien. 2 vols.: [iv], 229, lxxvii, 191; [iii], iv, xliv, 329 pp. Lille: Atelier Reproduction des Thèses, Université de Lille III; Paris: Honoré Champion, 1977. Fr. 100.

C. H. Philips (ed.): The correspondence of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India, 1828–1835. (School of Oriental and African Studies.). 2 vols.: xlix, 740; [iv], 741–1483 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. £55.

Nik Douglas and Meryl White (comp.): Karmapa: the Black Hat lama of Tibet, xvi, 248 pp., front., 16 plates, 2 maps. London: Luzac and Co. Ltd., 1976. £8.50.

Hans-Rainer Kämpfe (ed.): Ñi ma'i 'od zer / Naran-u gerel. Die Biographie des 2. Pekinger IČaṅ skya-Qutuqtu Rol pa'i rdo rǰe (1717–1786). (Monumenta Tibetica Historica. Abt. ii: Vitae, Bd. 1.) [v], 111 pp. + 181 pp. facsims. St. Augustin: VGH Wissensohaftsverlag, 1976.

Gombojab Hangin (ed.): Köke sudur nova (Injannasi's manuscript of the expanded version of his Blue chronicle). Part I. (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 58.) xxxiii pp. + 239 pp. facsims. Wiesbaden; Otto Harrassowitz, 1978. DM 68.

Henry Henne and others: A handbook on Chinese language structure, by Henry Henne, Ole Bjorn Rongen, Lars Jul Hansen.(Scandinavian University Books.) [xiv], 293 pp. Oslo, etc.: Universitetsforlaget, [C1977]. (Distributed in G.B. by Global Book Resources, London, W.C.I. £11.)

Martina Deuchler: Confucian gentlemen and barbarian envoys: the opening of Korea, 1875–1885. xiv, 310 pp., 4 plates, map [on endpapers]. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, [c1977], £12.25.

Trevor Leggett: Zen and the Ways. xiii, 258 pp. London, etc.: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. £5.95.

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