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Volume 51 - Issue 2 - June 1988

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Landeg White: Magomero; portrait of an African village, xii, 271 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £19.50, $29.95.
Richard Rathbone
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24 December 2009, pp. 397-398
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Helmuth Stoecker (ed.): German imperialism in Africa: from the beginnings until the Second World War. Transl. from the German by Bernd Zöllner. 446 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, [1987]. £17.50.
David Anderson
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24 December 2009, pp. 398-399
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Wyatt MacGaffey: Religion and society in Central Africa: the BaKongo of lower Zaire, xi, 295 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. £38.25 (paper £14.50).
Louis Brenner
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24 December 2009, p. 399
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Ladislav Holy: Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society: descent, succession and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 38.) vii, 233 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £22.50.
Johan Pottier
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24 December 2009, pp. 399-400
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Rudolf Mach and Eric L. Ormsby: Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (new series) in the Princeton University Library, xiv, 402 pp. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987. £53.50.
David Eisenberg
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24 December 2009, p. 401
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René-Joseph Bret: Vie du Sultan Mohamed Bakhit, 1856–1916: la pénétration française au Dar Sila, Tchad. (Contributions à la connaissance des élites africaines, fasc. v.) [xvi], 258 pp. Paris: CNRS, 1987. Fr. 80.
H. T. N
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Tor Andrae: In the Garden of Myrtles: studies in early Islmic mysticism. V Translated [from the Swedish] by Birgitta Sharpe. (SUNY Series in Muslim Spirituality in South Asia.) xxiii, 157 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1987. $29.50 (paper $9.95).
H. T. N.
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Juan R. I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie (eds.): Shi'ism and social protest, x, 321 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £35 (paper £9.95).
D. O. Morgan
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John W. Limbert: Iran: at war with history, xviii, 186 pp. Boulder, Colorado; Westview Press; London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1987. £25.
D. O. Morgan
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Donald P. Little: History and historiography of the Mamlūks. (Collected Studies.) [x], [318] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986.
D. O. Morgan
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Donald P. Little: History and historiography of the Mamliiks. (Collected Studies.) [x], [318] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986.
D. O. Morgan
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Champa Jarmal and John D. Murphy: Nepali newspaper reader, x, 274 pp. Kensington,. Maryland: Dunwoody Press, 1984. - Mumtaz Ahmad: Urdu newspaper reader, vxiv, 322 pp. Kensington, Maryland: Dunwoody Press, 1985.
D. J. Matthews
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Yuvaraj Deva Prasad: The Indian Muslims and World War I: a phase of disillusionment with British rule, 1914–1918. xi, 202 pp. New Delhi and Patna: Janaki Prakashan. 1985.
M. E. Yapp
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24 December 2009, pp. 404-405
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Priya Mookerjee: Pathway icons: the wayside art of India. 80 pp., front. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. £6.95.
John D. Smith
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24 December 2009, p. 405
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A. R. Desai (ed.): Violation of democratic rights in India. Vol. I. . xxxi, 624 pp. London: Sangam Books, 1986. £34.95.
W. F. Menski
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24 December 2009, p. 405
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William F. Powell (tr.): The record of Tung-shan. (Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism.)xii, 100 pp., one map. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. £7.25.
T. H. Barrett
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Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kuo-Chen, S. J. (tr.) and Edward J. Malatesta, S.J. (ed.): Matteo Ricci, S.J.: The true meaning of the Lord of Heaven (T‘ien-chu shih-i). (The Institute of Jesuit Sources, Series I, Jesuit Primary Sources, in English Translation, No. 6; Varietes Sinologiques, N.S., No. 72) xiv, 486 pp. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources; Taipei: Ricci Institute for Chinese Studies, 1985.
T. H. Barrett
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Pa Chou : Pa Chou wen-ts‘un,. 518 pp. Taipei: Hsinwen-feng, 1985.
T. H. Barrett
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George Bryan Souza: The survival of empire: Portuguese trade and society in China and the South China Sea, 1630–1754. xx, 282 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £27.50, $44.50.
Christopher Howe
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Frank Joseph Shulman: Burma: an annotated bibliographical guide to international doctoral dissertation research, 1898–1985. xvii, 247 pp. Lanham Md.: University Press of America, 1986. $34 (paper $23.75).
Helen Cordell
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Landeg White: Magomero; portrait of an African village, xii, 271 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1987. £19.50, $29.95.

Helmuth Stoecker (ed.): German imperialism in Africa: from the beginnings until the Second World War. Transl. from the German by Bernd Zöllner. 446 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, [1987]. £17.50.

Wyatt MacGaffey: Religion and society in Central Africa: the BaKongo of lower Zaire, xi, 295 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. £38.25 (paper £14.50).

Ladislav Holy: Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society: descent, succession and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 38.) vii, 233 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £22.50.

Short Notices

Rudolf Mach and Eric L. Ormsby: Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (new series) in the Princeton University Library, xiv, 402 pp. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987. £53.50.

René-Joseph Bret: Vie du Sultan Mohamed Bakhit, 1856–1916: la pénétration française au Dar Sila, Tchad. (Contributions à la connaissance des élites africaines, fasc. v.) [xvi], 258 pp. Paris: CNRS, 1987. Fr. 80.

Tor Andrae: In the Garden of Myrtles: studies in early Islmic mysticism. V Translated [from the Swedish] by Birgitta Sharpe. (SUNY Series in Muslim Spirituality in South Asia.) xxiii, 157 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1987. $29.50 (paper $9.95).

Juan R. I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie (eds.): Shi'ism and social protest, x, 321 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £35 (paper £9.95).

John W. Limbert: Iran: at war with history, xviii, 186 pp. Boulder, Colorado; Westview Press; London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1987. £25.

Donald P. Little: History and historiography of the Mamlūks. (Collected Studies.) [x], [318] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986.

Donald P. Little: History and historiography of the Mamliiks. (Collected Studies.) [x], [318] pp. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986.

Champa Jarmal and John D. Murphy: Nepali newspaper reader, x, 274 pp. Kensington,. Maryland: Dunwoody Press, 1984. - Mumtaz Ahmad: Urdu newspaper reader, vxiv, 322 pp. Kensington, Maryland: Dunwoody Press, 1985.

Yuvaraj Deva Prasad: The Indian Muslims and World War I: a phase of disillusionment with British rule, 1914–1918. xi, 202 pp. New Delhi and Patna: Janaki Prakashan. 1985.

Priya Mookerjee: Pathway icons: the wayside art of India. 80 pp., front. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. £6.95.

A. R. Desai (ed.): Violation of democratic rights in India. Vol. I. . xxxi, 624 pp. London: Sangam Books, 1986. £34.95.

William F. Powell (tr.): The record of Tung-shan. (Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism.)xii, 100 pp., one map. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. £7.25.

Pa Chou : Pa Chou wen-ts‘un,. 518 pp. Taipei: Hsinwen-feng, 1985.

George Bryan Souza: The survival of empire: Portuguese trade and society in China and the South China Sea, 1630–1754. xx, 282 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. £27.50, $44.50.

Frank Joseph Shulman: Burma: an annotated bibliographical guide to international doctoral dissertation research, 1898–1985. xvii, 247 pp. Lanham Md.: University Press of America, 1986. $34 (paper $23.75).

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