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The Near and Middle East
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VAHE BALADOUNI and MARGARET MAKEPEACE (ed.): Armenian merchants of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: English East India Company sources. xxxvii, 294 pp. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1998. $22.
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N. M. SWERDLOW (ed.): Ancient astronomy and celestial divination. (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) x, 378 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2000. £33.50.
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FARĪDU'DĪN ‘ATTĀR; translated by PETER AVERY: The speech of the birds, concerning migration to the real: the Mantiqu't-tair. xxii, 560 pp. Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society, 1998. £45.00, £19.95 (paper). WHEELER M. THACKSTON (ed. and tr.): The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, emperor of India. xxv, 502 pp., frontispiece. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (in association with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery), 1999. $65.00, £50.00.
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STEPHANIE DALLEY (ed.): The legacy of Mesopotamia. xviii, 227 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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DAURIL ALDEN, assisted by JAMES M. CUMMINS and MICHAEL COOPER: Charles R. Boxer: an uncommon life. 616 pp. Lisbon: Fundacão Oriente, 2001.
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DIETER CONRAD: Zwischen den Traditionen. Probleme des Verfassungsrechts und der Rechtskultur in Indien und Pakistan. Gesammelte Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1970–1990. Herausgegeben von Jürgen Lütt und Mahendra P. Singh. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Band 184.) xviii, 499 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. DM 162.
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ABBAS AMANAT: Pivot of the universe, Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian monarchy 1831–1896. xxiv, 536 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997. £25.
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LEIF MANGER (ed.): Muslim diversity: local Islam in global contexts. [vi], 260 pp. (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, no. 26.) Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. £40.00. DAVID WESTERLUND and INGVAR SVANBERG (ed.): Islam outside the Arab world. xii, 476 pp. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999.
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The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete (Patmut'iwn of Kat'oghikos Abraham Kretats'i). Annotated translation from the Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary by George A. Bournoutian. (Armenian Studies Series, 1.) 190 pp. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1999.
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Africa
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DERYCK SCARR: Seychelles since 1770: history of a slave and post-slavery society. xiv, 232 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2000. £16.50 (paper).
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DARIUS COOPER: The cinema of Satyajit Ray: between tradition and modernity. (Cambridge Studies in Film.) xii, 260 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £14.95.
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EIVIND KAHRS: Indian semantic analysis: the ‘nirvacana’ tradition. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 55.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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JEFFREY HERBST. States and power in Africa: comparative lessons in authority and control. (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.) x, 280 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. £35, £11.50 (paper).
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MICHAEL LOEWE and EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY (ed.): The Cambridge history of ancient China: from the origins of civilization to 221B.C. xxxii, 1148 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $130.00.
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ZHOU XUN: Chinese perceptions of the ‘Jews’ and Judaism: a history of the Youtai. v, 202 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £40.
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TUDOR PARFITT (ed.): Israel and Ishmael: studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. xii, 249 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45.
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BRUNO NOVELLI: Karimojong traditional religion: a contribution. lxxxvii, 396 pp.Verona: Comboni Missionaries Kampala, 1999. No price.
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PAUL E. LOSENSKY: Welcoming Fighānī: imitation and poetic individuality in the Safavid-Mughal ghazal. xii, 393 pp., 2 pl. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1998.
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HARIVANSH RAI BACHCHAN: In the afternoon of time: an autobiography. Edited and translated from the Hindi by Rupert Snell. 498 pp. Delhi: Viking, 1998. Rs 595.
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JAMES FERGUSON: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt. (Perspectives on Southern Africa 57.) xvii, 326 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1999. $45, $17.95 (paper).
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