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Martin J. McDermott: The theology of al-Shaikh al-Mufīd (d. 413/1022). (Recherches publiées sous la direction de l'Institut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth. Nouvelle série A, Langue arabe et pensée islamique, Tome x. Persian Studies Series, No. 9.) xvi, 426 pp. Beyrouth: Dar el-Machreq Editeurs, 1978. (Distributed by Librairie Orientale, Beyrouth.)
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Donald R. Hill: The book of ingenious devices (Kitāb al-Ḥiyal) by the Banū (sons of) Mūsà bin Shākir. Translated and annotated by Donald R. Hill. x, 267 pp., front. Dordrecht, Boston and London: D. Reidel Publishing Company, [1979]. Guilders 130.
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Oleg Grabar and others: City in the desert: Qaṣr al-Ḥayr East. (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, XXIII/xxiv.) 2 vols. xiii, 215; vii, 296 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, \c1978]. £31.50. (Distributed by Harvard University Press.)
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Braulio Justel Calabozo: La Real Biblioteca de El Escorial y sus manuscritos árabes: sinopsis histórico-descriptiva. 324 pp., 28 pp. [in Arabic], 4 plates. Madrid: Institute HispanoArabe de Cultura, 1978.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 371-373
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Wolfhart Heinrichs: The hand of the northwind: opinions on metaphor and the early meaning of isti'āra in Arabic poetics. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XLIV, 2.) vii, 64 pp. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, Kommissions-verlag Franz Steiner GmbH, 1977.
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Duncan Haldane: Mamluk painting. xii, 107 pp., front. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1978. £15.
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Ahmad M. H. Shboul: Al-Mas'ūdī and his world: a Muslim humanist and his interest in non-Muslims, xxviii, 366 pp., map. London: The Ithaca Press, 1979. £12.50.
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Andrew C. Hess: The forgotten frontier: a history of the sixteenth-century Ibero-African frontier. (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,No. 10.) xiv, 278 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1978. £16.80, $30.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 376-377
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F. de Jong: Ṱuruq and ṱuruq-linked institutions in nineteenth centurỵ Egỵpt:a historical study in organizational dimensions of Islamic mysticism, xvi, 255 pp., 6 plates, 2 maps. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. Guilders 68.
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E. Kedourie: England and the Middle East: the destruction of the Ottoman Empire 1914–1921. 236 pp. Has-socks, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1956, [reprinted] 1978. £10.
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Daniel Clarke Waugh: The Great Turkes defiance. On the history of the apocryphal correspondence of the Ottoman Sultan in its Muscovite and Russian variants. ix, 354pp. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers Inc., 1979. &18.95.
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Stuart Cary Welch: Wonders of the age: masterpieces of early Safavid painting, 1501-1576. With contributions by Sheila R. Canby and Norah Titley. 223 pp., front. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1979.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 381-384
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Basil Gray: The world history of Rashid al-Din: a study of the Royal Asiatic Society manuscript. 40 pp., front, (colour), 37 plates. London: Faber and Faber, 1978. £15.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 384-385
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Daniel Schlumberger and Janine Sourdel-Thomine: Lashkari Bazar: une résidence royale ghaznévide et ghoride. A. L'architecture, par Daniel Schlumberger.—B. Le décor nonfiguratif et les inscriptions, par Janine Sourdel-Thomine.— Planches. (Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologieque Française en Afghanistan, Tom. XVIII, 1.) 3 fascs.: xii, 110 pp.; [iv], 77 pp.; xxiii, 152 plates. Paris: Diffusion De Boccard, 1978.
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T. Burrow: The problem of shwa in Sanskrit, x, 130 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. £8. - Jerzy Kuryłowicz: Problèmes de linguistique indo-européenne. (Polska Akademia Nauk: Komitet Językoznawstwa. Prace Językoznawcze, 90.) 247 pp. Wroclaw, etc.: Polska Akademia Nauk, 1977. Zł. 90.
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Wilhelm Rau (ed.): Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya: die Mūlakārikās nach den Handschriften herausgegeben und miteinem Pāda-Index versehen. (Abh. für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XLII, 4.) xxii, 338 pp. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner, 1977. DM 90. - K. A. Subramania Iyer (tr.): The Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari, Kāṇḍa II. English translation with exegetical notes, li, 207 pp. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. Rs. 40.
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Ulrich Schneider: Die grossen Felsen-Edikte Aśokas: kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Analyse der Texte. (Freiburger Beiträge zur Indologie, Bd. 11.) 198pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1978. DM 112.
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J. Gonda: The medium in the Ṛgveda. (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, 24.) [v], 202pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979. Guilders 80.
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Albrecht Wezler: Die wahren ‘Speiseresteesser’ (Skt. vighasāśin). (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, [Mainz]. Abh. der Geistesund Sozialwissenschaftlichen Kl., Jg. 1978, Nr. 5.) 141 pp. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag Gmb H, [in Kommission], 1978. DM42.
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George Michell: The Hindu temple: an introduction to its meaning and forms. 192 pp. London: Paul Elek, 1977. £10.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 391-392
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