Volume 117 - Issue 1 - January 1985
Reviews of Books
The Sudan memoirs of Carl Christian Giegler Pasha, 1873–1883. Edited by Richard Hill, translated by Thirza Küpper. (Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia 11). pp. xxxii, 231. 12 pl. 3 maps. London, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1984. £18.00
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The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo. Translated by Donald M. Lockhart from the Portuguese text edited by M. G. da Costa with introduction and notes by C. F. Beckingham. pp. xxxvi, 417. front., 10 plates, 4 maps. London, Hakluyt Society, 1984. £15.
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The Development of Islam in West Africa. By Mervyn Hiskett. (Longman Studies in African History.) pp. xi, 353, maps, diagrams. London and New York, Longman, 1984.
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Islam in local contexts. Edited by Richard C. Marin. (Contributions to Asian Studies, Vol. 17.) pp. xi, 118. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1982. Guilders 68.
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Of piety and poetry: the interaction of religion and literature in the life and works of Ḥakīm Sanā'ī of Ghazna. By J. T. P. de Bruijn. (Publication of the “De Goeje Fund” No. XXV.) pp. xvii, 300, front. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1983. Guilders 168.
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Uredenje Bosanskog Ejaleta od 1789 do 1878: codine. By Aličić S. Ahmed. (Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu, Posebna Izdanja XI.) pp. 199 + errata slip. Sarajevo, Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu, 1983.
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The origin and development of the Turkish novel. By Ahmet O. Evin. pp. 220. Minneapolis, University of Minneapolis Press, 1983.
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Islamic art in the Kuwait National Museum: The al-Sabah collection. Edited by Marilyn Jenkins, pp. 147, colour plates. London, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., for Sotheby Publications, 1983. £19.95
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Palais et maisons du Caire II: Époque Ottomane (XVIe-XVIIe Siècles). By B. Maury, A. Raymond, J. Revault, M. Zakariya. (Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le Proche-Orient, Université de Provence.) pp. 409, 21 engravings and drawings, 91 maps and plans, 187 plates + errata slips. Ouvrage publié avec la collaboration de la Direction Générate des Relations Culturelles, Scientifiques et Techniques du Ministère des Relations Extérieures. Paris, Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983. Fr. 490.
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Traditional Houses in Baghdad. By J. Warren and I. Fethi. pp. 220, illustrated. Horsham, The Coach Publishing House Ltd., 1982.
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Living with the desert: working buildings of the Iranian plateau. By Elisabeth Beazley and Michael Harverson with a contribution by Susan Roaf. pp. xi, 120, illustrated, 2 maps. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1982]. (Distributed by La Haule Books Ltd., La Haule, Jersey, C.I.; Humanities Press Inc., Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 07716, USA.) £18.00
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Ancient Indian cosmogony. By F. B. J. Kuiper. Essays selected and translated by John Irwin. pp. v, 272 + pp. 3 errata. New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1983. Rs. 145
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Reh inscription of menander and the Indo-Greek invasion of the Gaṅgā Valley. By G. R. Sharma. pp. xii, 114, 13 pl. (numbered I–X, XIA, XIB, IXB). Allahabad, Abinash Prakashan for the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Ancient History, University of Allahabad, 1980. Rs 95.00 or $15.
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Fatḥnāmah-i Sind, being the original record of the Arab conquest of Sind: Persian text. Edited, with introduction, notes and commentary by N. A. Baloch. (Original Sources of Indo-Muslim History, Volume I, Pt. 1.) pp. xii, 158 (English), xxv, 284 (Persian), plate, two maps. Islamabad, Institute of Islamic History, Culture and Civilisation, Islamic University, 1403/1983. Rs. 160, U.S. $15.00
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Kabīr-Vanī: Recension Occidentale/Western Recension. By Charlotte Vaudeville. (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Indologie, No. 64) pp. xxv, 462. Pondichéry, Institut Français d'Indologie, 1982.
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From Lisbon to Goa, 1500–1750: studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise. By C. R. Boxer. (Collected Studies Series, 194.) pp. ii, [290] 5, illustr. London, Variorum Reprints, 1984. £26.
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The Tā'rīkh-I-Bangāla-I-Mahābatjangī (an eyewitness account of Nawāb 'Alīvardī Khān of Bengal and his times) of Yūsuf 'Alī Khān. English translation by Abdus Subhan. (Bibliotheca Indica, unnumbered.) pp. xv, 147. Calcutta, The Asiatic Society, 1982. Rs. 85.00, £5.00
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Orientalism, poetry, and the millennium: the checkered life of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed 1751–1830. By Rosane Rocher. pp. vii, 354, 10 plates. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. (Distributed by Motilal Books (U.K.), Wheatley, Oxford OX9 1UL) £30.00.
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Cheap lives and dear lambs: the British transformation of the Bengal criminal law 1769–1817. By Jörg Fisch. (Beiträge Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 79.) pp. vii, 154. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983. DM 32
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Indology and Law: Studies in honour of Professor J. Duncan M. Derrett. Edited by Günther-Dietz Sontheimer and Parameswara Kota Aithal. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 77.) pp. xi, 463. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 72
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