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Volume 59 - Issue 3 - October 1996

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Yaser Suleiman (ed.): Arabic sociolinguistics: issues and perspectives. xv, 273 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1994. £35.
Malcolm Edwards
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Abdel Rahim Omran: Family planning in the legacy of Islam. (United Nations Population Fund.) xxi, 284 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £40.
Ghada Karmi
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05 February 2009, p. 564
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Andrew Wheatcroft: Life and times of Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, ruler of Bahrain 1942–1961. 232 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995. £35.
Robert L. Jarman
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05 February 2009, pp. 564-566
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Jill Crystal: Oil and politics in the Gulf: rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar. Updated edition. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 24.) xiv, 240 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £15.95.
Lawrence G. Potter
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05 February 2009, pp. 566-567
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Amos Oz: Under this blazing light. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. xii, 205 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £13.95.
Natasha Lehrer
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05 February 2009, pp. 567-568
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C. A. E. Lea: On trek in Kordofan: the diaries of a British District Officer in the Sudan, 1931–1933. Ed. by M. W. Daly, ix, 304 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1994. £35.
Gabriel Warburg
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05 February 2009, pp. 568-569
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Colin Heywood and Colin Imber (ed.): Studies in Ottoman history in honour of Professor V. L. Ménage. xix, 397 pp. Istanbul: Isis Press, 1994. $60.
Caroline Finkel
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05 February 2009, pp. 569-570
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Donald Rayfield: The literature of Georgia: a history. xvi, 360 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. £35.
George Hewitt
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05 February 2009, pp. 570-572
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Hugh Poulton: Who are the Macedonians? xvii, 218 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 1995. £25 (paper £12.50).
H. T. Norris
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John Renard: All the king's falcons: Rumi on prophets and revelation. xviii, 216 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. $16.95.
Ian Richard Netton
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05 February 2009, p. 573
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Leonard Lewisohn: Beyond faith and infidelity: the Sufi poetry and teaching of Mahmud Shabistari. (Curzon Sufi Series.) viii, 344 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1995. £14.99.
John Renard
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05 February 2009, pp. 574-575
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Karin Preisendanz: Studien zu Nyāyasūtra III.I mit dem Nyāyatattvāloka Vācaspati Miśras II. 2 vols. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, hrsg. vom Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets an der Universität Hamburg, 46, 1, 2.) liii, 161 pp; 163–858 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. DM 188.
Birgit Kellner
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05 February 2009, pp. 575-576
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Rosalind Lefeber (ed. and tr.): [The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: an epic of ancient India. Gen. ed. Robert P. Goldman.] Vol. IV: Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa. xvi, 397 pp., front. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. £55.
John D. Smith
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05 February 2009, pp. 576-577
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Martin Baumann: Deutsche Buddhisten: Geschichte und Gemeinschaften. 2nd rev. ed. 465 pp. Marburg: Diagonal-Verlag, 1995. DM 58.
Karel Werner
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05 February 2009, pp. 577-578
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Patrick Olivelle (ed. and tr.): Rules and regulations of Brahmanical asceticism: Yatidharmasamuccaya of Yādava Prakāsa. (SUNY Series in Religion.) x, 458 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. £18.95.
Karel Werner
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05 February 2009, p. 578
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William W. Sax (ed.): The gods at play: līlā in South Asia. viii, 239 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. £32.50 (paper £12.99).
Heidi R. M. Pauwels
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05 February 2009, pp. 579-580
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Peter Masefield (tr.): The Udāna Commentary (Paramatthadīpanī nāma Udānaṭṭhakathā) by Dhammapāla. 2 vols. (Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Vols. XLIII, XLV.) xvi, 566 pp.; [v], 567–1170 pp. Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1994–1995.
L. S. Cousins
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05 February 2009, pp. 580-581
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Bożena Śliwczyńska: The Gītagovinda of Jayadeva and the Kṛṣṇa-yātrā: an interaction between folk and classical culture in Bengal. (Orientalia Varsoviensia, 6.) 166 pp. Warsaw: Oriental Institute, Warsaw University [© 1994].
William Radice
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05 February 2009, pp. 581-582
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Karel Werner: A popular dictionary of Hinduism. 185 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1994. £9.99.
Isabelle Glover
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05 February 2009, pp. 582-583
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†Alan W. Entwistle and Françoise Mallison (ed.): Studies in South Asian devotional literature: research papers, 1988–1991, presented at the fifth Conference on Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan languages, held at Paris- Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 9–12 July 1991. xiv, 585 pp. New Delhi: Manohar; Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1994. Rs. 600.
Ludmila Rosenstein
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05 February 2009, pp. 583-584
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Yaser Suleiman (ed.): Arabic sociolinguistics: issues and perspectives. xv, 273 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1994. £35.

Abdel Rahim Omran: Family planning in the legacy of Islam. (United Nations Population Fund.) xxi, 284 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £40.

Andrew Wheatcroft: Life and times of Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, ruler of Bahrain 1942–1961. 232 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995. £35.

Jill Crystal: Oil and politics in the Gulf: rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar. Updated edition. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 24.) xiv, 240 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £15.95.

Amos Oz: Under this blazing light. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. xii, 205 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £13.95.

C. A. E. Lea: On trek in Kordofan: the diaries of a British District Officer in the Sudan, 1931–1933. Ed. by M. W. Daly, ix, 304 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1994. £35.

Colin Heywood and Colin Imber (ed.): Studies in Ottoman history in honour of Professor V. L. Ménage. xix, 397 pp. Istanbul: Isis Press, 1994. $60.

Donald Rayfield: The literature of Georgia: a history. xvi, 360 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. £35.

Hugh Poulton: Who are the Macedonians? xvii, 218 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 1995. £25 (paper £12.50).

John Renard: All the king's falcons: Rumi on prophets and revelation. xviii, 216 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. $16.95.

Leonard Lewisohn: Beyond faith and infidelity: the Sufi poetry and teaching of Mahmud Shabistari. (Curzon Sufi Series.) viii, 344 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1995. £14.99.

Rosalind Lefeber (ed. and tr.): [The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: an epic of ancient India. Gen. ed. Robert P. Goldman.] Vol. IV: Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa. xvi, 397 pp., front. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. £55.

Martin Baumann: Deutsche Buddhisten: Geschichte und Gemeinschaften. 2nd rev. ed. 465 pp. Marburg: Diagonal-Verlag, 1995. DM 58.

Patrick Olivelle (ed. and tr.): Rules and regulations of Brahmanical asceticism: Yatidharmasamuccaya of Yādava Prakāsa. (SUNY Series in Religion.) x, 458 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. £18.95.

William W. Sax (ed.): The gods at play: līlā in South Asia. viii, 239 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. £32.50 (paper £12.99).

Peter Masefield (tr.): The Udāna Commentary (Paramatthadīpanī nāma Udānaṭṭhakathā) by Dhammapāla. 2 vols. (Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Vols. XLIII, XLV.) xvi, 566 pp.; [v], 567–1170 pp. Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1994–1995.

Bożena Śliwczyńska: The Gītagovinda of Jayadeva and the Kṛṣṇa-yātrā: an interaction between folk and classical culture in Bengal. (Orientalia Varsoviensia, 6.) 166 pp. Warsaw: Oriental Institute, Warsaw University [© 1994].

Karel Werner: A popular dictionary of Hinduism. 185 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1994. £9.99.

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