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Volume 50 - October 1987

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'Ali Dashti: Twenty three years: a study of the prophetic career of Mohammed. Translated from the persian by F. R. C. Bagley. xviii, 228 pp. LondonGeorge Allen and unwin, 1985. £15.95.

Morris Silver: Economic structures of the ancient Near East [xi] 211 pp. London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985.£22.50.

Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot: Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali. (Cambridge Middle East Library.) x, 300 pp. cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1984. [25, $49.50 (paper {9.95, $17.95).

Robert L. Tignor: State, private enterprise, and economic change in Egypt, 1918-1952. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) xvi, 317 pp. Princeton, N.J.:Princeton, University Press,[1984]. £37.

Richard Walzer: Al-Faradi on the Perfect State: Abū Nasr al-Fārābī’s Mabādi’ ārā ahi al-madīna al-fādila: a revisedf text with introduction, translation and commentary. vii, 571 pp. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985. £45.

Gilbert Grandguillaume: Arabisation et polittque linguistique au Magherb. (Islam d’Hier et’ Aujored’hui, 19.) 214pp. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, [1983]. Fr. 62.

Richard Hill (ed.): The sudan memoirs of Cari Christian Giegler pasha 1873─1883. Transl. by Thirza küpper. (Fontes historiar afri canae. Series varia, II.) xxxii, 231 pp., 6 Plates, 3 maps. oxford: Oxford University Press For the British Academy, london, 1984. £ 7.18.

Franz Amadeus Dombrowski: Tānāsee 106: eine Chronik der Herrscher Äthiopiens. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 12, Teile A, B.) 2 vols. 134, 135–374 pp., map [on endpapers]. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983 DM 128.

Hugh Kennedy: The Prophet and the age of the caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century. (History of the Near East.) xii, 424 pp. London and New York: Longman, 1986. £22 (paper £12).

Sa'ad Bin 'Abd Al-Azīz Al-Rāshid: al-Rabadhah: a portrait of early Islamc civilisation in saudi Arabia. xxvi, 166 pp. London: Longman Group Ltd. for King Saud University, Riyadh, 1986.

Nejla M. Abu-Izzeddin: The Druzes: a new siudy of their history, faith and society. xii, 259Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. Guilders 50.

Mouloud Mammeri: L'ahellil du Gourara. (Publications du Centre d'Etude et Recherches Amazigh (CERAM), No. 1.) 446 pp. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984.

Muhsin Mahdi (ed.): The Thousand and one Nights (Alf Layla waLayla) from the earliest known sources. 2 vols. I: Arabic text. II: Critical apparatus; Description of manuscripts. xii, 704 pp; viii, 309 pp. III plates. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1984. Guilders 440.

Pieter Smoor: Kings and bedouins in the palace of Aleppo as reflected in Ma'rris's works. (Journal of Semitic Studies. Monograph, No. 8) XI, 225 pp. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1985.

Martin Strohmeier: Seldschukische Geschichte und türkische Geschichtswissenschaft: die Seldschuken im Urteil moderner türkischer Historiker. (Islamkundliche Undtersuchungen Bd. 97.) [x], 273 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 1984.

Gerd Winkelhane and Klaus Schwarz: Der osmanische statthalter lskender pascha(gest.1571) und seine Stiftungen in Agypten und am Bosporus. (Islamwissen-schaftliche Quellen und texte aus deutschen Bibliotheken. Bd. 1.) iv, 361 pp. Bamberg: Verlag aku Gmbh, 1985.

P. W. Edbury (ed.): Crusade and settlement: Papers read at the First Confernce of the Society for the Study of the Cursades and the Latin East and presented to R. C. Smail. x, 281 pp. Cardiff: University College Cardiff Press, 1985.

Makonnen Argaw: Matériaux pour létude de la prononciation traditionnelle du guéze. (Etudes Ethiopiennes. Mémoire no.44.) 312 pp. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1984. fr.210.

Haim Gerber: Ottoman rule in Jerusalem 1890–1914. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Bd. 101.) vii, 343 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1985.

Doris Behrens-Abouseif: Azbakiyya and its environs, from Azbak to Ismā'īl 1476–1879. (Suppléments aux Annales Islamologiques. Cahiers, no.6.) [xiii] 129 pp., 23 plates. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1985.

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