Volume 117 - April 1985
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Reviews of Books
The memoirs of a Syrian prince. Abu ʻL-Fidā', Sultan of Ḥamāh (672–732/1273–1331). Translated with an introduction by P. M. Holt. (Freiburger Islamstudien, Band IX). pp. xi, 99, 1 map. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 72.
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Aramaic texts from North Saqqâra (with some fragments in Phoenician). By J. B. Segal (with contributions by H. S. Smith), pp. xix, 217, 38 plates. London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1983. £120.
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The traditional interpretation of the Apocalypse of St. John in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. By Roger W. Cowley. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 33.) pp. xvi, 417, 1 microfiche. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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Bride of the Red Sea: a 10th/16th century account of Jeddah, al-Silāḥ wa-'L-'uddah fī tārīkh bandar Juddah. Edited, translated and annotated by G. Rex Smith and Ahmad 'Umar al-Zayla ʻĪ. (Occasional Papers Series No. 22, 1984.) pp. vi, 35, 4 pls. and Arabic text. Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, 1984.
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Voyages en Égypte, 1549–1552. Jean Chesneau, André Thevet. Présentation et notes de Frank Lestringant. (Collection des voyageurs occidentaux en Egypte, tom. 24.) pp. iii, 311, illus. Paris, Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1984.
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Middle Iranian Studies: Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from the 17th to the 20th of May 1982. Edited by W. Skalmowski and A. van Tongerloo. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 16). pp. xiii, 336. Leuven. Uitgeverij Peeters, 1984. 2400 FB.
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History and culture in the medieval Muslim world. By S. M. Stern, with a foreword by F. M. Zimmermann. (Collected Studies Series, CS200) pp. 344. London, Variorum Reprints, 1984. £28.00.
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Bibliothèque Nationale. Département des Manuscrits. Catalogue des manuscrits arabes. Deuxiéme partie. Manuscrits Musulmans. Tome I, 1. Les Manuscrits du Coran. Aux origines de la calligraphie coranique. By François Déroche. pp. 169, 24 plates. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1983. Fr. 160
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Die Gedichte Des Šamardal ibn Šarīk: Neuedition, Übersetzung, Kommentar. By Tilman Seidensticker. pp. xi, 221. Wiesbaden, Otto Hārrassowitz, 1983. DM 54
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Word of God in the Qurʼān. By Thomas J. O'Shaughnessy S. J. (Biblica et Orientalia — lla), pp. vii, 55. Rome, Biblical Institute Press, 1984, US $8.00.
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Der Dīwān des Abū Nuwās. Teil IV. Edited by Gregor Schoeler. (Bibliotheca Islamica, 20 d.) pp. xix, 412, [16]. Wiesbaden, im Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 126
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Cours d'histoire des termes philosophiques arabes (du 25 novembre 1912 au 24 avril 1913). By Louis Massignon. Edited by Zeinab Mahmoud El-Khodeiry. (Textes Arabes et Études Islamiques, Tome XXII.) pp. vii, 252, Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1983.
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Kitāb al-mawt (The Book of Death) and Kitāb al-qubūr (The Book of Graves). By Ibn Abīd-Dunyā, (died 280/892). Reconstructed with an introduction by Leah Kinberg. (Al-Karmil Publications Series No. 2) pp. V, 122. Acre, Suruji Press, 1983.
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Words of ecstasy in Sufism. By Carl W. Ernst. (SUNY Series in Islam.) pp. xi, 184, Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1985. $34.50 Cloth, $12.95 Paper.
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Calligraphy and Islamic culture. By Annemarie Schimmel (Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization) pp. xiv, 264. New York and London, New York University, 1984. $52.00.
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Soziolinguistische und stilistische Aspekte des Gesprochenen Arabisch der Gebildeten (educated spoken Arabic) in Āgypten und der Levante. By T. F. Mitchell. (Sitzungsberichte der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-historische Klasse, Band 123. Heft 6). pp. 24. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1984. DM 4
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Medieval Historical Writing in the Christian and Islamic Worlds. Edited by D. O. Morgan, pp. vi, 160. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1982. £5.00.
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Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. vol. 2. The Art of the Mamluks. Edited by Oleg Grabar. pp. x, 181, 140 pls., 33 figs. New Haven etc, Yale University Press, 1984, £35.00
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An Urban History of Būlāq in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. By Nelly Hanna. (Supplément aux Annales Islamologiques, Cahier No. 3.) pp. ix, 112, 10 pls. [Le Caire], Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1983.
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Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali. By Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot. (Cambridge Middle East Library), pp. x, 300. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £25.00
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