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Bulletin of SOAS
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EISSN: 1474-0699

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Volume 51 - Issue 2 - June 1988

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Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds: God's Caliph: religious authority in the first centuries of Islam. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, No. 37.) v, 157 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £22.50 ($39.50).

Emmanuel Sivan: Interpretations of Islam, past and present, x, 255 pp. Princeton, N. J.: Darwin Press, 1985 [pub. 1986]. $19.95.

A. Popovic and G. Veinstein (ed.): Les ordres mystiques dans l’Islam: cheminements et situation actuelle. 324 pp. Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. Fr. 190.

Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan and Donald R. Hill: Islamic technology: an illustrated history, xvi, 304 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Unesco, 1986. £25.

David Wasserstein: The rise and fall of the Party-Kings: politics and society in Islamic Spain 1002–1086. xiii, 338 pp., 4 maps. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1985. £37.50.

Michael Johnson: Class and client in Beirut: the Sunni Muslim community and the Lebanese State 1840–1985. xvii, 243 pp. London and Atlantic Highlands: Ithaca Press, 1986, [pub. 1987]. £18, $29.95.

Bruce Ingham: Bedouin of northern Arabia: traditions of Al-Dhafir. xvi, 136pp., 8 plates. London, New York and Sydney: Kegan Paul International, 1986.

Edward Ingram (ed.): National and international politics in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of Elie Kedourie. xviii, 284 pp. London: Frank Cass, 1986. £25.

B. L. Carter: The Copts in Egyptian politics, [xii], 328 pp. London, Sydney and Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm, 1986. £25.

Rainer Oβwald: Die Handelsstädte der Westsahara: die Entwicklung der arabisch-maurischen Kultur von Šinqīt, Wādān, Tīsīt und Walāta. (Marburger Studien Zur Afrika Und Asienkunde. Serie A: Afrika. Bd. 39.) [vi], 594 pp., chart. Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1986. DM78.

Dale F. Eickelman: Knowledge and power in Morocco: the education of a twentieth-century notable. (Princeton Studies on the Near East.) xviii, 202 pp. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1985. £35.20

H. T. Norris: The Arab conquest of the western Sahara: studies of the historical events, religious beliefs and social customs which made the remotest Sahara part of the Arab world. (Arab Background Series.) xxvi, 309 pp., Harlow: Longman; Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1986.

Edward Ullendorff: A Tigrinya (T∂gr∂ňňa) chrestomathy. (Äthiopistische Forschungen Bd. 19.) 242 pp., plate. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. DM86.

Gilbert Dagron and Haralambie Mihăescu (ed. and tr.): Le traité sur la guérilla (De velitatione) de I'empereur Nicephore Phocas (963–969). (Le Monde Byzantin.) 358 pp., map, chart. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1986.

Ali Uğur: The Ottoman ‘ulemā in the mid-17th century: an analysis of the Vakāi’ ‘ü 'l-fużalā of Mehmed Şeyḫi Ėf. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 131.) cxv, 630 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1986.

Ahmet Uğur: The reign of Sultan Selīm I in the light of the Seīlm-nāme literature. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 109.) [xiv], 403 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1985.

Roy Mottahedeh: The mantle of the Prophet: learning and power in modern Iran. 416 pp. 1986. Chatto and Windus, London: £12.95.

Donald S. Whitcomb: Before the roses and the nightingales: excavations at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, old Shiraz. 270 pp. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.

Oleg Grabar: The illustrations of the Māqāmat. (Chicago Visual Library Text-fiche Series, no. 45.) ix, 195, 9 microfiches [in end-pocket]. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

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