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Priscilla P. Soucek (ed.): Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world. Papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2–4 April 1980. Planned and organized by Carol Manson Bier. [xx], 277 pp., front. University Park, Penn. and London: Pennsylvania State University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1988. $42.50.
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Peter Thorau: Sultan Baibars I. von Ägypten: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Vorderen Orients im 13. Jahrhundert. (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B, Nr. 63.) 336 pp. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1987. DM 128.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 135-136
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John Wright: Libya, Chad and the Central Sahara, vii, 168 pp. London: Hurst and Co., 1989. £23.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 519-520
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R. B. Serjeant and Ronald Lewcock (ed.): Ṣan‘ā’ an Arabian Islamic city. 631 pp. London: World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 136-138
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William C. Chittick: The Sufi path of knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination, xxii, 478 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989. $74.50 (paper $24.50).
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Stefan Sperl: Mannerism in Arabic poetry: a structural analysis of selected texts (3rd century A.H./ 9th century A.D.–5th century A.H./11th century A.D.). (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) viii, 230 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50, $44.50
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James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner (tr. ): Ibn Sa‘īd al-Maghribī: The banners of the champions: an anthology of medieval Arabic poetry from Andalusia and beyond, xxxix, 238 pp. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989.
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John C. Wilkinson: The Imamate tradition of Oman. (Cambridge Middle East Library.) xii, 415 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £35, $59.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 138-139
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Fritz Meier: Bahā'-i Walad: Grundzüge seines Lebens und seiner Mystik. (Acta Iranica. Troisième série. Textes et Mémoires, volume XIV.) viii, 484 pp. + errata slip. [Leiden]: Centre Nationale d'Etudes Indo-Iraniennes, 1989. (Distributed by E. J. Brill.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 521-522
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Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 11: Anāmaka—Āṯār al-Wozarā. 912 pp. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 522-524
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Anders Bjørkelo: Prelude to the Mahdiyya: peasants and traders in the Shendi region, 1821–1885. (African Studies Series, 62.) xv, 192 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £25, $44.50.
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L. N. Gumilev: Searches for an imaginary kingdom: the legend of the kingdom of Prester John. Transl. by R. E. F. Smith. (Past and Present Publications.) xix, 403 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £37.50.
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Richard Lawless (ed.): The Middle Eastern village: changing economic and social relations, ix, 304 pp., 20 plates. London, etc.: Croom Helm, [1987]. £25.
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Jerome W. Clinton (tr.): The tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám: from the Persian national epic, the Shahname of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi. (Publications of the Near East, no. 3) XXV, 190 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1987. $25 (paper $12.50).
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Charles Issawi: The Fertile Crescent 1800–1914: a documentary economic history. (Studies in Middle Eastern History.) xv, 502 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. £29.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 140-141
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Ladislav Holy: Kinship, honour and solidarity: cousin marriage in the Middle East. 143 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. £25.
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Lois Beck: The Qashqa'i of Iran. xvi, 384 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £30.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 525-527
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Mercedes García-Arenal and María J. Viguera (ed.): Relaciones de la Peninsula Ibérica con el Magreb (siglos xm-xvi). (Actas del Coloquio.) xi, 678 pp., 2 figs. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Arabede Cultura, 1988.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 141-142
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Soraya al Torki and Camilla Fawzi el-Solh (ed.): Arab women in the field: studying your own society.(Modern Arab Studies.) xii, 184 pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 1988 $27.95 (paper $14.95).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 142-143
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Gerd Baumann: National integration and local integrity: the Miri of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan, [xiii], 225 pp., 6plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. £25.
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