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Geoffrey Jones: The history of the British Bank of the Middle East. 2 vols. I: Banking and empire in Iran. II: Banking and oil. xxiv, 418 pp.; xxi, 359 pp., 32 plates. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 1987. £40, $75; £40, $75.
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Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi: A sociointellectual history of the Isnā ‘Asharī Shi‘is in India. 2 vols. i: (7th to 16th century A.D.) with an analysis of early Shi‘ism. n: (16th to 19th century A.D.) [xi], 455 pp., front.; [xiv] 480 pp. New Delhi: Manoharlal Publishers; Canberra: Ma'rifat Publishing House, 1986. Rs. 500.
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Alexandre Bennigsen and S.Enders Wimbush: Muslims of the Soviet empire: a guide, xvi, 294 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co. [1986]. £18.50.
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Gordon Whitteridge: Charles Masson of Afghanistan: explorer, archaeologist, numismatist and intelligence agent, x, 181pp. + errata slip. Warminster, Wiltshire: Aris and Philips, 1986. £18.
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Gudrun Bühnemann and Michael Hahn: Der grosse Legendenkranz {Mahajjādtakamādlā): eine mittelalterliche buddhistische Legendensammlung aus Nepal. (Asiatische Forschungen [Bonn], Bd. 88.) 760 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1985. DM 120.
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G. M. Bongard-Levin and M. I. Vorob'Eva-Desjatovskaja: Pamjatniki indijskoj pis'mennosti iz central'noj Azii. Vypusk I. Izdanie tekstov, issledoyanie i kommentarij. (Pamjatniki pis'mennosti vostoka, LXXIII, 1; Bibliotheca Buddhica xxxiii.) 285 pp. Moscow: Izdatel'- stvo ‘Nauka’, Glavnaja redakcija vostoĉnoj literatury, 1985. - G. M. Bongard-Levin: New Sanskrit fragments of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvānasütra. (Studia philologica buddhica, Occasional paper Series vi.) xxii, 46pp., 12 plates. Tōkyō: International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1986.
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Caren Dreyer (ed.): Das Kāthaka-Grhya-Sūtra mit Vivarana des Ādityadarśana, Bhāsya des Devāpala, Grhyapañcikā des Brāhmanabala. Teil I: 1. Kaṇḍikā und Sandhyopāsanamantrabhāṣsya des Devapāla. (Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien [Hamburg], 30). xxxv, 185 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986.DM48.
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Paul J. Griffiths: On being mindless: Buddhist meditation and the mindbody problem, xxii, 220 pp. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1986.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 579-580
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Hajime Nakamura: A comparative history of Ideas. [Second, revised edition.] xi, 572 pp. London: Kegan Paul International, 1986. £25.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 580-581
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Jean-Claude Galey (ed.): L'espace du temple. 2 vols. i: Espaces, itinéraires, méditations, n: Les sanctuaires dans le royaume. (Collection Puruṣārtha, nos. 8, 10.) 195; 192 pp. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1986.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 581-582
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Friedrich Seltmann: Schattenspiel in Kerala: Sakrales Theater in Süd- Indien. 134 pp. 44 plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986.
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Antonio Sorrentino (ed.): Il Tirukkural: Le massime di Tiruvalluvar. (Serie tre, 2.) ix, 227 pp. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientate, 1986.
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Abdus Subhan (ed.): The khudnawisht sawanih hayat-i-Nassakh (autobiography of Abdul Ghafur Nassakh) [Urdu text]. (Bibliotheca Indica, 314.) xx, 212 pp., 4 plates. Calcutta:, The Asiatic Society, 1986. Rs. 60.
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Khalid Hasan Qadiri: Hasrat Mohani. (IAD Oriental (original) Series, no. 29.) [vii], 450 pp. Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1985. Rs. 250.
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Hugh Van Skyhawk (ed.): ‘Minorities’ on themselves. (South Asian Digest of Regional Writing, Vol. 11, 1985.) xiv, 212 pp. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg, South Asia Institute; Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, [1987], DM44.
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Hemalata C. Dandekar: Men to Bombay, women at home: urban influence on Sugao village, Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1942–1982. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia.) xix, 325 pp. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1986.
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Arnold P. Kaminsky: The India Office, 1880–1910. xv, 294 pp. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1986. £40.
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Peter Collister: Bhutan and the British, [xiv], 210 pp., 32 plates. London: Serindia Publications with Belitha Press, 1987. £16.50.
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Gombojab Hangin and four others: A modern Mongolian–English dictionary. (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 150.) xxi, 900pp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1986.
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Weldon South Coblin: A sinologist's handlist of Sino-Tibetan lexical comparisons. (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, 18.) 184 pp. Nettetal: Steuler Verlag, 1986.DM80.
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