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Bulletin of SOAS
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Volume 42 - February 1979

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Hans Eberhaed Mayer: Bistümer, Klöster und Stifle im Königreich Jerusalem. (Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Bd. 26.) xxvii, 438 pp. Stuttgart: Antone Hiersemann, 1977. DM 130.

Kamal S. Salibi: Syria under Islam: empire on trial, 634–1097. [viii], 193 pp. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1977.

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Norah M. Titley: Miniatures from Persian manuscripts: a catalogue and subject index of paintings from Persia, India and Turkey in the British Library and the British Museum, xii, 358 pp., 41 plates. London: British Museum Publications Ltd., for the British Library, [1978]. £45.

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Francesco Aspesi: La distinzione dei generi nel nome antico-egiziano e semitico. (Pubblicazioni della Facoltā di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universitá di Milano, LXXX. Sezione a cura dell'Istituto di Glottologia, 3.) ix, 76 pp. Firenze: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1977. L5.500.

P. M. Holt (ed.): The eastern Mediterranaean lands in the period of the Crusades, xii, 112 pp. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1978]. £5.95.

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David Stronach: Pasargadae: a report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. xiv, 326 pp., 192 pl. and 8 foldout diagrams. Oxford: Clarendon press, [1978] £25.

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J. C. Wilkinson: Water and tribal settlement in south-east Arabia: a study of the aflāj of Oman. (Oxford Research Studies in Geography.) xvi, 276 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. £12.50.

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Simon Hopkins: A miscellany of literary pieces from the Cambridge Genizah collections: a catalogue and selection of texts in the Taylor–Schechter collection, Old Series, Box A45. (Cambridge University Library Genizah series, 3.) x, 110 pp. Cambridge: University Library, 1978. £16.

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Robert W. Thomson (tr. and comm.): Moses Khorenats'i: History of the Armenians. (Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies, 4.) x, 411 pp., map. Cambridge, Mass and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. £15.75.

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Lucette Valensi: Fellahs tunisiens: l'économie rurale et la vie des campagnes aux 18e et 19e siécles. (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Centre de Recherches Historiques. Civilisations et Sociétés, 45.) 421 pp. Paris, La Haye: Mouton, [1977].

Armin Schopen: Das Qāt: Geschichte und Gebrauch des Genussmittels Catha edulis Forsk. in der Arabischen Republik Jemen. (Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Bd. 8.) [iv], 290 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1978. DM 28.

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Karl H. Potter (ed.): Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies. Indian metaphysics and epistemology: the tradition of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika up to Gangeśa. xv, 744 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1977]. £22.40.

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty and J. Duncan M. Derrett (ed.): The concept of duty in South Asia, xxii, 240 pp. London: Vikas Publishing House Pvt [and] School of Oriental and African Studies, [1978]. £3.50.

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Ismail K. Poonawala: Biobibliography of Ismā'īlī literature. (Studies in Near Eastern Culture and Society, [Vol. 1].) xix, 533 pp. Malibu, Calif.: Undena Publications, [1977]. $40.

Robeet Underhill: Turkish grammar. xix, 474 pp. Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, [1976]. $20, £14.

B. W. Robinson (ed.): Islamic painting and the arts of the book. [By] B. W. Robinson, Ernst J. Grube, G. M. Meredith-Owens, R. W. Skelton. (The Keir Collection.) 322 pp., 201 plates. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1976. £60.

Muhammad Khalid Masud: Islamic legal philosophy: a study of Abū Isḥāq al-Shāṭibī's life and thought. (Publications of the Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad (Pakistan), No. 36.) [iv], xi, 357 pp. Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, 1977. Rs. 50.

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