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Bulletin of SOAS
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Volume 42 - June 1979

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Ruth Finnegan: Oral poetry: its nature, significance and social contextxiii, 299 pp., 4 plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £7.50.

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Kathleen M. Kenyon: The Bible and recent archaeology. 105 pp. London: British Museum Publications Ltd., 1978. £5.50 (£3.25 limp).

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Ruth Finnegan (ed.): The Penguin book of oral poetry, xxii, 548 pp. London: Allen Lane, 1978. £6.50.

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Reinhard Weipert: Studien zum Diwan des Rā'ī. (Islamkundliche Untersuohungen, Bd. 44.) [ii], 178 pp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1977. DM 28.

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Richard C. Steiner: The case for fricative-laterals in Proto-Semitic. (American Oriental Series, Vol. 59.) xi, 202 pp. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1977. $8.

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Eliyahu Ashtor: The medical Near East: social and economic history. Collected studies. [vi], ii, [343] 2, 8 pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1978.

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Albert Kirk Grayson (tr.): Assyrian royal inscriptions. Part 2. From Tiglath-pileser I to Ashur-nasir-apli II. (Records of the Ancient Near East, Vol. II.) xix, 213 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976. DM 84.

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G. R. Smith and M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (ed. and tr.): The book of the superiority of dogs over many of those who wear clothes, by Ibn al-Marzubān. xxxvii, 38 pp. [English], iii, 77 pp. [Arabic], 4 plates. War-minster: Axis and Phillips, 1978. £6.50

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Ramón Lourido Díaz: Marruecos en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. Vida interna: politica, social y religiosa durante el sultanato de Sīdī Muḥammad b. 'Abd Allāh, 1757–1790. 386 pp., 2 maps. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura, [1978].

Vladimir Minorsky: The Turks, Iran and the Caucasus in the Middle Ages. [viii], ii, [354], 6 pp., front. London: Variorum Reprints, [1978].

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Imtiyāẓ ʻAlī ʻArshī (comp.): Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in Raza Library, Rampur. Vols. 4–6. (Raza Library Publication Series, Nos. 16–18.) vi, 615; vi, 623; vi, 269 pp. + errata slip. Rampur: Raza Library Trust, 1971, 1975, 1977. Rs. 30, 40, 20.

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John Andrew Boyle (tr.): The Itāhīnāma or book of God of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works; Persian Heritage Series.) xxii, 392pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, [1977]. £9.95.

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Claude Cahen: Les peuples musulmans dans l'histoire médiévale. xxvii, 496 pp. Damas: Institut Français de Damas, 1977. - Claude Cahen: Makhzūmiyyāt: études sur l'histoire économique el financière de l'Égypte médiévale. viii, 225 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. Guilders 78.

Shah Morad Elham (ed. and tr.): Kitbuġā und Lāğīn: Studien zur Mamluken-Geschichte nach Baibars al-Manṣūrī und an-Nuwairī. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 46.) [vi], 290, 88, [2] pp. Freiburg i. Br.: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1977. DM 48.

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Lin Shuen-fu: The transformation of the Chinese lyrical tradition: Chiang K'uei and Southern Sung tz'u poetry. xii 249 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1978]. £10.10.

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J. J. Saunders: Muslims and Mongols: essays on medieval Asia. Edited by G. W. Rice. (University of Canterbury Publication No. 24.) 143 pp. Christchurch, N.Z.: Whitcoulls Ltd. for the University of Canterbury, [c1977].

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Michael S. Duke: Lu You. (Twayne's World Authors Series, 427.) 160 pp. Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1977]. $9.50.

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Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (ed.): Studies in memory of Gaston Wiet. xiii, 479 pp., front., 24 plates + errata slip. Jerusalem: Institute of Asian and African Studies, 1977.

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