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K. Abu Deeb: Al-Jurjāni's theory of poetic imagery. (Approaches to Arabic Literature, no. 1.) x, 341 pp. Warminster, Wilts.: Aris and Phillips, 1979. £14.75. (Distributed in North America by International Scholarly Book Services Inc.)
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Heinz Gaube: Arabische Inschriften aus Syrien. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 17). xxi, 201 pp., 19 plates. Beirut: Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenlāndischen Gesellschaft in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1978. DM45.
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J. R. L. Carter: Leading merchant families of Saudi Arabia190 pp. London: Scorpion Publications, 1979, £22.50.
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R. S. O' Fahey: State and society in Dār Fūr. xii, 210 pp., 3 maps. London: C. Hurst and Company, 1980. £12.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 370-372
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Sheila A. Scoville: Gazetteer of Arabia: a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula. Vol. I: A–B. vii, 733 pp., Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1979. ÖS 980.
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Yusuf Bedri and Peter Hogg (ed. and tr.): The memoirs of Babikr Bedri. Vol. 2. vi, 379 pp., front., map [on end-pages]. London: Ithaca Press, 1980. £11.50.
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A. F. L. Beeston (ed. and tr.): The epistle on singing-girls by Jāḥiẓ (Risālat al-qiyān). (Approaches to Arabic Literature, no. 2.) [V], 67, 29 [Arabic text] pp. Warminster, Wilts.: Aris and Phillips Ltd, 1980. £10 (paper £5).
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Robert Elgood(ed.): Islamic arms and armour, xii, 252 pp. London: Scolar Press, 1979. £75.
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Michael Brett: The Moors: Islam in the West. Photographs by Werner Forman. (Echoes of the Ancient World.) 128 pages, map [on end-papers]. London: Orbis Publishing, 1980, £7.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 375-376
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Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Wilfried Günther(ed. and tr.): Sultan Sa'idu Bi Hayatu tells the story of his and his father's life. (Abhandlungen der Marburger Gelehrten Gesellschaft, Jg. 1977, Nr.2.) [47] pp. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1978. DM16.
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Salma Khadra Jayyusi: Trends movements in modern Arabic poetry. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. vi.) 2 vols. xiv, 360; vi, 361–877pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. Guilders 88.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 377-378
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Arne Ambeos: Semitic: Damascus Arabic. (Afroasiatic Dialects, Vol. 3.) [ii], vii, 123 pp. Malibu: Undena Publications, 1977. $13.
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J. B. Kelly: Arabia, the Gulf and the West, ix, 530 pp., maps. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980. £15.
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B. C. Bloomfield (ed.): Middle East studies and libraries: a felicitation volume for Professor J. D. Pearson. xi, 231 pp., front. London: Mansell, 1980. £21.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 379-381
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Reidulf Knut Molvaer: Tradition and change in Ethiopia: social and cultural life as reflected in Amharic fictional literature ca. 1930-1974. xi, 268 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980. Guilders 84.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 381-382
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Andreas Tietze (ed. and tr.): Muṣṭafā 'Ālī's Counsel for Sultans of 1581. Part 1. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophischhistorishie Klasse. Denkschriften, 137. Bd. Forschungen zur islamischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte, Bd. vi.) 188 pp., 72 plates. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979. DM 74.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 382-384
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Gunnar Jarring: Literary texts from Kashghar edited and translated with notes and glossary. (Acta Eegiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis. Skrifter utgiva av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund, LXXIV.) 156 pp. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1980.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 384-385
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Carter V. Findley: Bureaucratic reform in the Ottoman Empire: the Sublime Porte 1789–1922. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) xxxiii, 455 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. £13.90.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 385-386
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Galal H. El-Nahal: The judicial administration of Ottoman Egypt in the seventeenth century. (Studies in Middle Eastern History, No. 4) ix, 109pp. Minneapolis and Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1979.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 386-387
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Karl K. Barbir: Ottoman rule in Damascus 1708–1758. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) xix, 216 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. £11.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 387-388
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