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Bulletin of SOAS
ISSN: 0041-977X

EISSN: 1474-0699

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Volume 42 - February 1979

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Walter Liebenthal (tr.): Wu-men Hui-k'ai: Ch'an-tsung wu-men kuan, Zutritt nur durch die Wand. (Sammlung Weltliteratur.) 142 pp., 2 plates. Heidelberg: Verlag Lambert Schneider, 1977. DM 34.

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Jacob M. Landau: Abdul-Hamid's Palestine: rare century-old photographs from the private collection of the Ottoman sultan now published for the first time. 144 pp. Jerusalem: Carta, 1979.

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Robert H. Eisenman: Islamic law in Palestine and Israel: a history of the survival of tanzimat and sharī'a in the British mandate and the Jewish state. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol. XXVI.) xiv, 291 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. Guilders 96.

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Ryoichi Hayashi: The Silk Road and the Shoso-in. Translated by Robert Ricketts. (The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Vol. 6.) 181 pp. New York: Weatherhill; Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1975. $12.50. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press. £8.50.)

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Ernst Hammerschmidt: Äthiopische Handschriften vom Ṭānāsee 2: die Handschriften von Dabra Māryām und von Rēmā. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. xx, 2.) 207 pp., map. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. DM 94.

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M. C. Ricklefs: Modern Javanese historical tradition: a study of an original Kartasura chronicle and related materials. xi, 281 pp., 3 maps. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1978. £10.

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Bairu Tafla (ed. and tr.): A chronicle of Emperor Yoḥannes IV (1872–89). (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 1.) 199 pp., 5 tables. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. DM 88.

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Sarasin Viraphol: Tribute and -profit: Sino—Siainese trade, 1652–1853. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 76.) xx, 419 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1977. (Distributed by Harvard University Press. $15, £10.50.)

Claudine Salmon and Dbnys Lombard: Les Chinois de Jakarta: temples et vie collective. (Cahier d'Archipel 6 S.E.C.M.I.) [iv], lxxii, 368 pp. [Paris: Association Archipel], 1977. F130.

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M. B. Piotrovskiy: Predanie o khimyaritskom tsare As'ade al-Kamile. (Institut Vostokovedeniya.) 159 pp. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’, 1977. Rbls. 0.95.

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B. J. Terwiel: Monks and magic: an analysis of religious ceremonies in central Thailand. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 24.) [ii], viii, 296 pp. Lund: Studentlitteratur; London: Curzon Press Ltd., 1975. £4.

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Terence Walz: Trade between Egypt and bilād as-Sūdān 1700–1820. XVII, 297 pp. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire, 1978.

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Rainer Carle: Rendras Gedichtsammlungen (1957–1972): ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der zeitgenössischen indonesischen Literatur. (Veröffentlichungen des Seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 11.) [i], iv, 385 pp. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1977. DM 29.

Ahmed Al-Shahi and F. C. T. Moore (tr. and intr.): Wisdom from the Nile: a collection of folk-stories from Northern and Central Sudan. (Oxford Library of African Literature.) XII, 256 pp., map. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. £10.

Stefan Strelcyn: Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1877. XVI, 183 pp., 16 plates. London: British. Museum Publications Ltd. for the British Library, [1978]. £35.

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W. Norman Brown: India and Indology: selected articles. Edited by Rosane Rocher. XXXVII, 305 pp., front., 54 plates. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (for American Institute of Indian Studies), 1978. Es. 190.

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