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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 19 - Issue 1 - July 1985

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Islamic Bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Duncan Haldane. 205 pages, many color illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index. World of Islam Festival Trust in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London1983. £30.00.

Jibbāli Lexicon, edited by T. M. Johnstone. Oxford University Press, Oxford1981. $65.00/£25.00.

Muslim Tradition: Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Ḥadīth, by G. H. A. Juynboll. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) 264 pages, appendixes, bibliography, index. Cambridge University Press, London and New York1983. $54.50/£29.50.

A Concordance of the Qur’an, by Hanna E. Kassis, xxxix + 1444 pages. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles1982. $95.00.

A Contrastive Analysis of the Use of Verb Forms in English and Arabic, by Nayef Kharma. (Studies in Descriptive Linguistics 10.) 137 pages, notes, appendix, bibliography. Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg1983. DM 36.—.

Avrupa Müzerlerinde Nadir Osmanli Madeni Paralari (Rare Ottoman coins at European museums), by Cüneyt Ölçer. 96 pages, 8-page English summary, 15 plates, many line drawings. Istanbul1984. Available from Numismata Orientalia, PO. Box 212, Tenafly, NJ 07670. $13.45 pp.

Theodicy in Islamic Thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazālī’s “Best of All Possible Worlds,” by Eric L. Ormsby. 308 pages. Princeton University Press, Princeton1984. $30.00.

The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli, by Hayat Salam-Liebich. 250 pages, 193 plans and photos, bibliography, index. The Aga Khan Program for Architecture at Harvard University and MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 1983.

Persian Miniature Painting and Its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India, by Norah Titley. 272 pages, two indexes, select bibliography, 45 color plates, 83 black-and-white figures, 1 map. The British Library Reference Division, London1983. £25.00.

1948 and After: Aspects of Israeli Fiction, by Leon I. Yudkin. vii + 182 pages. Manchester1984.

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Introduction to Qur’anic Script, by Syed Barakat Ahmad. 168 pages. Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Macmillan India Ltd., New Delhi1984.

Islamic Book Review Index, compiled by Wolfgang H. Behn. Adiyok, Berlin, West Germany1982– (annual). DM 60 a volume.

Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East, edited by Metin Heper and Raphael Israeli. 130 pages, index. St. Martin’s Press, New York1984.

An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn “al-Afghānī,” by Nikki R. Keddie. New edition. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles1983.

Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1967–1983, edited by Yehuda Lukas. Cambridge University Press, London and New York1984. 247 pages. $29.95.

Contemporary Yemen: Politics and Historical Background, edited by B. R. Pridham. St. Martin’s Press, New York1984.

Dictionary of the Middle Ages 3. Cabala-Crimea, edited by Joseph R. Strayer et al. xiv + 680 pages, maps, illustrations. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York1983. $70.00.

The Arab World: An International Statistical Directory, by Rodney Wilson. 189 pages. Westview Press, Boulder1984. $42.50.

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