Volume 119 - April 1987
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Reviews of Books
Teach yourself Arabic. By J. R. Smart. (Teach Yourself Books.) pp. vii, 298 [ + pp. 14 of vocabulary, Unnumbered]. Sevenoaks, Kent, Hodder & Stoughton, 1986, £4.40. Cassette also available, £6. 04 + VAT.
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Archives and libraries in the city of Assur. A survey of the material from the German excavations. Part 1. By Olof Pedersén. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 6.) pp. 125, 6 fig. Uppsala, 1985.
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History of Ethiopian towns from the middle ages to the early nineteenth century, and History of Ethiopian towns from the mid-nineteenth century to 1935. By Richard Pankhurst. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, ed. E. Hammerschmidt, Bd. 8 and Bd. 17.) pp. 344, map. and pp. 392. map. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982 and 1985. DM 118 and 126.
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Funktionsanalyse von Kāna Yaf‘alu: Ein Beitrag zur Verbalsyntax des Althocharabischen, Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tempus und Asoektproblematik. Von Norbert Nebes. (Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Band 1.) pp. xiv + errats slip. Hildesheim etc., George Olms Verlag, 1982, DM 34.80.
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The spoken Arabic of Khābūra on the Bāṭina of Oman. By A. A. Brockett. (Journal of Semitic Studies, Monograph No. 7.) pp. vii, 240, 9 pl., 2 maps. Manchester Journal of Semitic Studies, University of Manchester, 1985.
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A vocabulary of [the] Beni Amer dialect of Tigré. By Aki'o Nakano. (and Yoichi Tsuge. collaborator). (African Languages and Ethnography XVI.) pp. vi, 159. Tokyo, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). 1982 [distributed 1986].
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Catalogue des manuscrits arabes. Deuxième partie. Manuscrits musulmans. Tome 1. 2. Les manuscrits du Coran: du Maghreb a l'Insulinde. By Francois Déroche. (Bibliothèque Nationale. Département des Manuscrits.) pp. 159, 31. pl. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. 1985.
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Atlas du mondu arabo-islamique à l'èpoque classique, ixe-xe siècles. Par Georgette Cornu. Répertoires des toponymes. pp. xiv, 213 Cartes xvi-xx. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1985, Guilders 140, US $59.00.
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Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Volume Two. By Adam Gacek. pp. xx, 254. 5 col pl. London, Islamic Publications Ltd., 1985. £15.95 (cloth), £11.95 (paper).
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Das Sendschreiben des ‛Abdalḥamīd B. Yạḥ‛ya (Gest, 132/750) an den Kronprinzen ‛Abdallāh b. Marwān II. Von Hannelore Schönig (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur — Mainz: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission Bd. XXXVII) pp. vii, 154, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985, DM. 28.
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Cypriot Arabic: (a historical and comparative investigation into the phonology and morphology of the Arabic vernacular spoken by the Maronites of Kormakiti village in the Kyrenia district of North-Western Cyprus). By Alexander Borg. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes hrsg. von der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Band XLVII, 4.) pp. xii, 204. map. Stuttgart, Deutsche Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Kommisionsverlag Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden Gmbh, 1985. DM 68.
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Tome Quarantième de la Chronique D'Égypte de Musabbiḥī (Le Prince al-Muḫtār ῾Izz al-Mulk Muḥammad Ibn ῾Ubayd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad) 336–420/977–1029, Al-juz᾿ al-arba ūn Akhbār Miṣr. 2. Partie Littéraire, 2, al-qism al-adabī. Edited and presented by Ḥusayn Naṣṣār. (Textes Arabes et Études Islamiques, Tome XIII/2, 1984.) pp. vii, 64 + 148pp. Arabic text. Le Caire, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1984.
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Constructing the social context of communication. Terms of address in Egyptian Arabic. By Dilworth B. Parkinson. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 41.) pp. x, 239. Berlin etc., Mouton de Gruyter, 1985. DM 78.
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God's Caliph: religious authority in the first centuries of Islam. By Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds, (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications No. 37.) pp. v, 157, Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1986, £22.50.
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The History of al-Ṭabarī (Ta῾rīkh al-rusul wa῾l-mulūk). Vol. XXVII. The Abbāsid revolution. Translated and anotated by George Saliba. Vol. XXXVIII. The return of the Caliphate to Baghdad. Translated and annoted by Franz Rosenthal. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Bibliotheca Persica.) Vol. XXVII; pp. xiv, 233; Vol. XXXV; pp. xii, 187; Vol. XXXVIII; pp. xxiii, 239. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1985. US $ 29.50, 29.50.
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Islamic legends: histories of the heroes, saints and prophets of Islam. 2 Vols. By Jan Knappert. illustrations by Liesje Knappert. (Religious Texts Translation Series, nisaba. Volume Fifteen, 1 & 2). pp. xi, 312; pp vii, 313–481. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985. Vol. 1: guilders 96, Vol. 2; guilders 56.
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The Tibyān. Memoirs of ῾Abd Allāh B. Buluggīn, Last Zīrid Amīr of Granada. Translation, introduction, annotation and commentary by Amin T. Tibi. (Medieval Iberian Peninsula, Texts and Studies. Vol. V.) pp. xii 291; 2 maps, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1986. Guilders 90.
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Early Mahdism: politics and religion in the formative period of Islam. By Jan-Olaf Blichfeldt. (Studia Orientalia Lundensia, Vol. 2.) pp. xi, 136. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985.
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The adventures of Ibn Battuta: a Muslim traveler of the 14th century. By Ross E. Dunn. pp. xvi 357; 12 maps, London, Croom Helm, 1986. £22.50.
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Approaches to Islam in religious studies. Edited by Richard C. Martin. pp. xiii, 243. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1985. US$18.95.
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