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Sidi Mohamed Mahibou and Jean-Louis Triaud: Voilà ce qui estarrivè: Bayân mâ waqa‘a d’ al-Hâgg ‘Umar al-Fûtî. Plaidoyeur pour une guerre sainte en Afrique de l’Ouest au XIX siècle. (Fontes Historiae Africanae. Series Arabica VIII. Union Académique Internationale.) 261 pp., 57 pp. [facsimile]. Paris: Éditions CNRS, 1983.
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Claude Cahen: Orient et occident au temps des Croisades. (Collection Historique.) 302 pp. Paris: Éditions Aubier Montaigne, 1983.
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Elias N. Saad: Social history of Timbuktu: the role of Muslim scholars and notables, 1400–1900. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) viii, 324 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £25.
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Tilman Seidensticker (ed. and tr.): Die gedichte des Šamardal ibn Šarīk. Neuedition, Übersetzung, Kommentar. ix, 221 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 54.
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A. F. L. Beeston and three others: The Cambridge history of Arabic literature: Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period. xviii, 547 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £37.50 ($75).
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J. T. P. De Bruijn: Of piety and poetry: the interaction of religion and literature in the life and works of Hakīm Sanū‘ī of Ghazna. (Publications of the ‘De Goeje Fund’, No.xxv.) xvii, 300 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1983. Guilders 168.
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Marilyn Jenkins (ed.): Islamic art in the Kuwait National Museum: the al-Sabah collection. 157 pp. London: Philip Wilson Publishers for Sotheby Publication, [1983]. £19.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 139-140
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Oleg Grabar (ed.): Muqarnas, an annual on Islamic art and architecture. Vol I. ix, 209 pp., New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. £24.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 140-141
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Walter Dostal: Ethnographic atlas of ‘Asīr. Co-operation project between the Department for Archaeology, University of Riyād and the Institut für Völkerkunde, University of Vienna: Preliminary reoirt. (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Phill. hist. Kl. Sitzungsberichete, 406). 144 pp., 11 plates. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983. ÖS 280.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 141-143
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Eric Davis: Challenging colonialism:Bank Misr and Egyptian industrialization. (Princeton Studies in the Near East). xv, 232 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. £20.30.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 143-144
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R. L. Bidwell and G.R |Smith(ed.): Arbian and Islamic studies: articles presented to R.B. Serjeant on the occasion of his retirement from the Sir Thomas Adams's chair of Arabic at the Universtiy of Cambridge. [viii], 282, [iii] pp. London and New York: Longman, 1983. £19.95.
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Michael Gilsenan: Recognizing Islam: an anthropoloiogist's introduction.287 pp. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1982. £13.95.
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Haggai Erlich: Ethiopia and Eritrea during the scramble for Africa: a policical biography of Rās Aluā, 1875-1897. (Committee on Northeast African Studies. Ethiopian Series, Monograph no.11.) x, 221 pp. East Lansing, Mich.: African studies Centre, Michigan State University; Tel-Aviv University, Sheloah Center for Middle Eastern and Afican Studies, 1982.
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Roger W. Cowley: The traditional interpretation of the Apocalypse of St. John in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 33.) xvi, 417 pp. cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £35, $69.50.
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Gέza Dávid: A Simontornyai szandsák a 16. Században. 342 pp., Map [in end pocket]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1982. 1 Ft. 44.
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Klaus Rõhrborn and Wolfgang veenker(ed.): Sprachen des Buddhismus in Zentralisien. Vorträge des Hambruger Symposions vom 2. Juli bis 5. Juli 1981. (Verõffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica. Bd. 16.) vi [142] pp. Wiesbaden: In Kommission bei Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 84.
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Georg Krotkoff: A Neo-Aramaic dialect of Kurdistran: texts, grammar, and vocabulary. (American Oriental Series, Vol. 64.) viii, 172 pp. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1982. $21.
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Richard Tapper(ed.): The conflict of tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan. [xx], 463 pp. London and Canberra: Croom Helm; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. £19.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 150-151
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Richard Tapper(ed.): The conflict of tribe and state in Iran and Afghanistan. [xx], 463 pp. London and Canberra: Croom Helm; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. £19.95.
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Friedhelm Hardy: Viarha-bhakti: the early history of Krsna devotion in South India. xxi, 692 pp. Delhi, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 152-153
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