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BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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JOHN RYLAN1* UNIVERSITY: LIBRARY OH MANCHESTER

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AETICLES AND NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS PAGE C. R. BAWDEN : A note on the inscriptions on two Chinese rugs in the Victoria and Albert Museum ...... 586 A. F. L. BEESTON : Notes on a Middle-Arabic ' Joseph ' poem . 287 S. P. BROCK : A letter attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem on the re- building of the Temple . 267 JOHN BROUGH : The Arapacana syllabary in the old Lalita-vistara . 85 GIDEON GOLDENBERG : The Semitic languages of Ethiopia and their classification ...... 461 J. GONDA : Religious thought and practice in Vaikhanasa Visnuism 550 JONAS C. GREENFIELD : The prepositions 'ad/'al in Aramaic and Hebrew 371 e JAMES HAMILTON : Nasales instables en turc khotanais du x siecle . 508 PADMANABH S. JAINI : Jina Rsabha as an avatdra of Visnu . . 321 R. G. KHOURY : Quelques remarques supplementaires concernant le papyrus de Wahb b. Munabbih ...... 15 M. J. KISTER : On the papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih : an addendum 125 G. H. LUCE : Two Sino-Tibeto-Burmese notes .... 127 BERNARD HUNG-KAY LUK : A study of Giulio Aleni's Ghih-fang wai <*»*#*£ 58 D. 0. MORGAN: Cassiodorus and Rashid al-Dln on barbarian rule in Italy and Persia 302 DIDIER MORIN : Le nom en Afar du sud ..... 354 LUDVIG MUNTHE : La tradition ecrite arabico-malgache: un apercu sur les manuscrits existants ...... 96 R. S. O'FAHEY : The office of qddl in Dar Fur: a preliminary inquiry 110 RICHARD PANKHURST : The history of Dabra Tabor (Ethiopia) . 235 SHLOMO PINES and TUVIA GELBLUM : Al-Biruni's Arabic version of Patafijali's Yogasutra: a translation of the second chapter and a comparison with related texts ...... 522 D. S. RICHARDS : A Mamluk petition and a report from the Dlwdn al-Jaysh ...... 1 HENRY SERRUYS : Five documents regarding salt production in Ordos 338 HENRY SERRUYS : Mourning regulations in Ordos, 1909 . . . 580 HENRY SERRUYS : On border guards in Otoy (Ordos) . . . 581 C. SHACKLE : ' South-Western' elements in the language of the 4di Grantk 36 A. SHAPUR SHAHBAZI : The ' traditional date of Zoroaster ' explained 25 H. L. SHORTO : Proto-Austronesian *taq&n: an anomaly removed . 128 WALTER SIMON : Alternation of final vowel with final dental nasal or plosive in Tibetan ...... 51 EDWARD ULLENDORFF : Writing without letters .... 572 MAHMOUD AZIZ F. YASSIN: Bi-polar terms of address in Kuwaiti Arabic 297

OBITUARIES Sir Reader William Bullard 130 Viscount Radcliffe 591

EEVIEWS AND SHOKT NOTICES PAGE Akbar S. Ahmed: Millennium and charisma among Pathans. By M. E. YAPP . . . 173 N. J. Allen : Sketch of Thulung grammar. By JOHN OKELL ...... 679 'Izz al-Din al-Amin: Qaryat Kutrdnj wa-atharuhd 'l-'Umifi 'l-Suddn. By P. M. HOLT . 455 Norman Anderson: Law reform in the Muslim, world. By DAVID PEARL . . . 404 A. Z. Arabadzhyan (ed.): Iran: ocherki noveyshey istorii. By M. E. YAPP . . . 401 Terence Armstrong (ed.): Yermak's campaign in Siberia ...... 224 J. 0. Asamani: Index Africanus. By R. C. STEVENSON ...... 197 M. M. Badawi: A critical introduction to modern Arabic poetry. By R. C. OSTLE . . 615 Leonzio Bano: Mezzo secolo di storia Sudanese, 1842-1898, datt'archivio parrocchiale di Khartum. By P. M. HOLT 455 Richard Barker and Lawrence Smith: Netsuke. By P. G. O'NEILL .... 426 Michael Baumer: Noms vernaculaires soudanais utiles a I'icologiste. By T. M. JOHNSTONE 670 W. G. Beasley (ed.): Modern Japan. By CABMEN BLACKER ..... 453 A. F. L. Beeston: Warfare in ancient South Arabia. By A. K. IBVTNE .... 609 Maurice Bloch (ed.): Political language and oratory in traditional society. By ESTHER GOODY 208 H. W. Bodewitz: The daily evening and morning offerings (agnihotra) according to the Brdhmanas. By T. BUBROW ...... 447 J. Boulbet: Paysans de la forgt. By P. A. STOTT 194 Mary Boyce: A history of Zoroastrianism. Vol. 1. By J. C. WRIGHT .... 632 Mary Boyce: A reader in Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian. By A. TAFAZZOLI . 630 Raymond Boyd: fitude comparative dans le groupe adamawa. By MICHAEL MANN . . 454 L. F. Brakel and others: Literaturen. Abschnittl. By N. G. PHILLIPS . . . 453 Kenneth L. Brown : People of Sale 671 L.Carl Brown: The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-18SS. ByMICHAEL BRETT . . . 152 Briton Cooper Busch : Mudros to Lausanne: Britain's frontier in west Asia, 1918—1923. By M. S. ANDEBSON ...... 397 James and Theodora Bynon (ed.): Hamito-Semitica. By R. J. HAYWAED . . . 429 GastonCanu: La langue mb :re. By F. D. D. WINSTON 682 Alex Carmel: Geschichte Haifas in der turkischen Zeit, 1516-1918 444 Joseph Cassar-Pullicino: Studies in Maltese folklore ...... 670 K. C. Chang: Early Chinese civilization: anthropological perspectives .... 449 Peter J. Chelkowski (ed.): Studies in art and literature of the Near East in honor of Richard Ettinghausen. By GEZA FEHERVARI 172 Chi-yun Chen: Hsiln Yileh (A.D. 148-209). By D. C. LAU 641 Li-li Ch'en (tr.): Master Tung's Western chamber romance. By D. E. POLLARD . . 644 D. G. Chibbett and others: A descriptive catalogue of the pre-1868 Japanese books, manuscripts and prints in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies. By P. G. O'NEILL 225 Julia Ching: To acquire wisdom: the way of Wang Yang-ming. By ROGER T. AMES . 419 M. A. Chlenov: Naseleniye Molukkskikh ostrovov. By N. G. PHILLIPS .... 679 Han-sheng Chuan and Richard A. Kraus: Mid-Ch'ing rice markets and trade. By CHRISTOPHER HOWE ...... 224 David Cohen: Leparler arabe des juifs de Tunis. Tom. n. By T. M. JOHNSTONE . . 669 Myron L. Cohen: House united, house divided: the Chinese family in Taiwan. By HUGH D. R. BAKER 424 Paul A. Cohen and John E. Schrecker (ed.): Reform in nineteenth-century China. By W. J. F. JENNER 651 Dominique Collon: The seal impressions from Tell Atchana)Alalakh. By D. J. WISEMAN 373 David Corcos: Studies in the history of the Jews of Morocco. By J. WANSBROTJGH . . 398 Corpus inscriptionum iranicarum. Part n. Vol. n. Plates, i. By NICHOLAS SIMS- WnlXAMS ...... 217 L. Cousins and others (ed.): Buddhist studies in honour of 1. B. Horner. By J. C. WRIGHT 219 C. D. Cowan and O. W. Wolters (ed.): Southeast Asian history and historiography. By H. L. SHOBTO 681 Andrzej Czapkiewicz : The verb in modern Arabic dialects as an exponent of the development processes occurring in them. By BRUCE INGHAM ...... 145 Hans Daiber (ed. and tr.): Bin Kompendium der aristotelischen Meteorologie in der Fassung des Hunain ibn Ishdq. By J. N. MATTOCK .J ...... 212 M. D. David: History of Bombay, 1661-1708. By MARY BOYCE 222 Francois Decret: Mani et la tradition manicheenne. By MARY BOYCE .... 162 Jean Derive: Collecte et traduction des littiratures orales. By G. INNES .... 436 J. Duncan M. Derrett (ed. and tr.): Bhdruci's commentary on the Manusmrti. By J. C. WRIGHT 220 J. Duncan M. Derrett: Essays in classical and modern Hindulaw. Vol.1. ByJ. C.WRIGHT 221 John C. Dewdney (ed.): Tlemcen 216 Werner Diem : Hochsprache und Dialeld im Arabischen. By T. M. JOHNSTONE . . 144 Albert Dietrich (ed.): Alden des m. Kongresses fur Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft . 445 Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz: Die Elfenbeininschriften und S-Texte aus Vgarit. By SANDRA L. LPTTMAN ...... 599

PAGE Susanne Diwald: Arabische Philosophic und Wissenschaft in der Enzyklopddie Kitab Ihwdn as-safa' (in). By J. N. MATTOCK ...... 670 Friedrich Erich Dobberahn (ed. and tr.): Filnf athiopische Zauberrollen. By S. STBELCYN 606 Ernest S. Dodge: Islands and empires: Western impact on the Pacific and East Asia. By C. R. BAWDEN 428 Gerhard Doerfer: Turkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen. Bd. i v. By T. GANDJEI - 627 Toshio Doi: The study of language in Japan .-* a historical survey. By P. 6. O'NEILL . 425 William Dolby: A history of Chinese drama. By D. E. POLLARD ..... 647 Fred W. Drake : China charts the world. By CHRISTOPHER CULLEN .... 189 R. Y. Ebied and M. J. L. Young (ed. and tr.): Some Arabic legal documents of the Ottoman period from the Leeds manuscript collection ...... 213 P. H. L. Eggermont: Alexander's campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan and the siege of the Brahmin town of Harmatelia. By A. D. H. BIVAR ...... 407 Eckart Ehlers: TraditioneUe und moderne Formen der Landwirtschaft in Iran. By ANN K. S. LAMBTON 166 Wilhelm Eilers (ed.): Die Mundart von Chunsar. By D. N. MACKENZIE . ... 400 Samuel H. Elbert: Puluwat dictionary.—Samuel H. Elbert: Puluwat grammar. By H. L. SHOBTO 681 lUtudes d'histoire et de litte'rature chinoises offertes a Professeur Jaroslav Pruiek. . . 674 John King Fairbank and others (ed.): The I.G. in Peking: letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907. By W. G. BEASLEY 422 Anthony Farrington: The records of the East India College, Haileybury, and other institutions: 10R J-K. By SIMON DIOBY 180 Geza Fehervari: Islamic metalwork of the eighth to the fifteenth century in the Keir collection. By EVA BAER 171 Loren R. Fisher (ed.): Has Shamra parallels: the texts from Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible. Vol. u. By EDWARD TJLLENDORIT 380 Henri Fleisch: liitudes d'arabe dialectal. By T. M. JOHNSTONE 212 Barbara Flemming (ed.): Fahris Husrev u Sirin. By VANESSA SHEPHERD . . . 154 Anthony Forge (ed.): Primitive art and society . By ABNER COHEN .... 667 Meyer Fortes and Sheila Patterson (ed.): Studies in African social anthropology. By PATH, SPENCER...... 207 Clive Foss: Byzantine and Turkish Sardis...... 671 Hans H. Frankel: The flowering plum and the palace lady. By TAO TAO SANDERS . 674 G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville: A modern atlas of African history. By HUMPHREY J. FISHER 664 Edward Friedman: Backward toward revolution. By C. A. CUBWEN .... 676 C. J. Fuller: The Nayars today. By ADRIAN C. MAYER 638 Christoph von Ftirer-Haimendorf: Return to the naked Nagas ..... 673 Zewde Gabre-Sellassie: Yohannes IV of Ethiopia. By ABRAHAM DEMOZ . . . 383 Robert Garfias: Music of a thousand autumns ...... 678 Ganesh Gaur (comp.): Catalogue of Punjabi printed books added to the India Office Library, 1902-1964. By C. SHACKLE 178 Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz: Kinship in Bali. By MARK HOBABT . . . 195 Dilip Kumar Ghose: Kashmir in transition, 1885-1893. By SIMON DIGBY . . . 222 John C. L. Gibson: Textbook of Syrian Semitic inscriptions. Vol. n. By J. B. SEGAL . 375 Moshe Gil (ed. and tr.): Documents of the Jewish pious foundations from the Cairo Oeniza. By J. WANSBROUGH 612 J. Gonda: Selected studies. By J. C. WRIGHT 177 L. Carrington Goodrich and Chaoying Fang (ed.): Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368— 1644. By W. S. ATWELL 421 Jaok Goody (ed.): The character of kinship. By ABNER COHEN ..... 667 Surendra Gopal: Commerce and crafts in Gujarat, 16th and 17th centuries. By SIMON DIGBY 408 H. J. deGraaf: Islamic states in Java, 1500-1700. By P. B. R. CAREY . . . 190 Oleg Grabar: Studies in nudieval Islamic art. By EVA BAER ..... 445 John Graoe: Domestic slavery in West Africa. By HUMPHREY J. FISHER . . . 203 Jacques Grand'henry: Les parlers arabes de la region du Mzab. By T. M. JOHNSTONE . 669 A. K. Grayson (ed. and tr.): Babylonian historical-literary texts. By D. J. WISEMAN . 373 Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green: The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Near East . 441 Jean-Pierre Greenlaw: The coral buildings of Suakin. By R. B. SERJEANT . . . 204 Gustave E. von Grunebaum: Islam and medieval Hellenism. By J. WANSBROUGH . 395 A. L. Gryunberg and I. M. Steblin-Kamenskiy: Tazyki vostochnogo Qindukusha. Vakhanskiy yazyk. By NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS ...... 635 Kwame Gyekye (ed.): Ibn al-Tayyib's commentary on Porphyry's Eisagoge. By J. N. MATTOCK 212 Amir Abbas Haidari (ed.): Modern Persian reader. By J. D. GURNEY .... 164 Robert Hamerton-Kelly and Robin Scroggs (ed.): Jews, Greeks and Christians: religious cultures in late antiquity. By J. WANSBROUGH ...... 603 Jiirgen Hampel (ed. and tr.): Die Kopenhagener Handschrift cod. 27. By MARY BOYCE . 160

PAGE E. S. Harcourt and Fakhir Hussain (tr.): Lucknow. By C. SHACKLE .... 223 J. Harmatta and G. Komoroczy (ed.): Wirtschaft und Gesettschaft im alien Vorderasien 440 Axel Havemann: Bi'asa und qadd'. By P. M. HOLT ...... 391 John R. Hayes (ed.): The genius of Arab civilization. By C. F. BECKINGHAM . . . 149 Walther Heissig (ed.): Altaica collecta. By C. R. BAWDEN 181 Walther Heissig and others (ed.): Tractata altaica Denis Sinor sexagenario optime de rebus altaicis merito dedicata. By C. R. BAWDEN ...... 410 Derek Hill: Islamic architecture in North Africa. By GEZA FEHERVARI . . . 150 John R. Hinnells (ed.): Mithraic studies. By JOHN F. HANSMAN 160 Marshall G. S. Hodgson: The verdure of Islam. By J. WANSBROUGH . . . .169 M. B. Hooker: The personal laws of Malaysia. By M. C. RICKLEI'S .... 454 M. P. Hornik (ed.): Collected studies in honour of Amirico Castro's eightieth year. Second edition. By C. F. BECKINGHAM ...... 444 George F. Hourani (ed.): Essays on Islamic philosophy and science. By J. N. MATTOCK 214 Oliver Impey: Chinoiserie. By C. R. BAWDEN ...... 648 Gordon Innes (ed. and tr.): Kaabu and Fuladu: historical narratives of the Gambian Mandinka. By HUMPHREY J. FISHER ...... 658 Stanley Jerome Isser: The Dositheans. By J. WANSBBOTTGH ..... 604 Heidi Jacobi: Grammatik des Thumischen Neuaramdisch ...... 668 Klaus L. Janert and N. Narasimhan Poti: Indische und nepalische Handschriften. Teil 4. By J. C. WRIGHT 219 B. Jongeling and others (ed. and tr.): Aramaic texts from Qumran. By S. P. BROCK . 211 Journal of Mithraic Studies. Vol. 1, No. 1. By JOHN F. HANSMAN .... 446 Noriko Kamachi and others: Japanese studies of modern China since 1953. By C. A. CITRWEN ...... 677 A. Kammenhuber: Materialien zu einem hethitischen Thesaurus. Lief. 1—4. By J. D. HAWKINS ...... 135 Thomas Leiper Kane: Ethiopian literature in Amharic. By EDWARD ULLENDORJT . 381 Oe. H. Kapita: Masyarakat Sumba dan adat istiadatnya. By ROY F. ELLEN . . . 680 Oe. H. Kapita: Sumba di dalam jangkauan jaman. By ROY F. ELLEN . . . . 679 Stephen A. Kaufman: The Akkadian influences on Aramaic. By D. J. WISEMAN . 144 Elie Kedourie: In the Anglo-Arab labyrinth. By R. M. BUBRELL. .... 396 Gaioz [Keratishvili] (oomp. and ed.): Sak'art'velos eklesiis kalendari 1976 dslisat'vis. By D. M. LANG 218 Datta Shankarrao Kharbas: Maharashtra and the Marathas. By I. M. P. RAESIDB . 179 Issa H. Khayar: Le refus de V&cole. By R. S. O'FAHEY 665 David R. Kneehtges: The Han rhapsody: a study of the fu of Yang Hsiung. By TAO TAO SANDERS. 418 Bernard Koechlin: Les Vezo du sud-ouest de Madagascar. By JOHN MIDDLETON . . 440 E. F. K. Koerner (ed.): The transformational-generative paradigm and modern linguistic theory. By RUTH M. KEMPSON 209 Etan Kohl berg (ed.): Jawami' dddb al-sufiyya and 'Uyub al-nafs wa-muddwatuhd, by Abu 'Abd al-Bahman al-Sulami. By J. WANSBROTJGH 390 David Kornhauser: Urban Japan. By JOHN SARGENT ...... 452 G. S. van Krieken : Khayr al-Din et la Tunisie (1850-1881). By MICHAEL BRETT. . 618 Paul Kunitzsch (ed. and tr.): Ibn as-8aldh: Zur Kritik der Koordinatenuberlieferung im Sternkatalog des Almagest. By G. R. TIBBETTS ...... 146 E. Y. Kutscher: Studies in Galilean Aramaic 443 Renate Lachmann (tr.): Memoiren eines Janitscharen. By V. L. MENAGE . . . 155 John Lamphear: The traditional history of the Jie of Uganda. By A. D. ROBERTS . . 662 Berthold Laufer: Kleinere Schriften. Teil 1 449 Hava Lazarus-Yafeh: Studies in al-GhazzaM. By J. WANSBROUGH .... 396 Jean-Paul Lebeuf: iStudes kotoko. By JOHN MIDDLETON ...... 666 Wolf Leslau: Concise Amharic dictionary. By A. K. IRVINE ..... 668 Michael Levey: The world of Ottoman art. By JULIAN RABY ..... 625 Charlton M. Lewis: Prologue to the Chinese revolution. By W. J. F. JENNER . . . 675 Gilbert Lewis: Knowledge of illness in a Sepik society: a study of the Gnau, New Guinea. By G. B. MTLNEB 652 Lincoln Li: The Japanese army in North China, 1937-1941. By W. G. BEASLEY . . 225 Gosta Liebert (comp.): Iconographic dictionary of the Indian religions: Hinduism—• Buddhism—-Jainism. By J. C. WRIGHT ...... 407 Herbert J. Liebesny: The law of the Near and Middle East...... 215 H. Limet (ed. and tr.): Textes sumiriens de la III' dynastie d'Ur. By W. G. LAMBERT . 595 Linguistics and Philosophy. Vol. 1, No. 1. By R. H. ROBINS...... 684 Donald P. Little (ed.): Essays on Islamic civilization presented to Niyazi Berkes. By C. F. BECKINGHAM 445 James J. Y. Liu: Chinese theories of literature. By TAO TAO SANDERS . . . 417 Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (ed.): Sunflower splendor: three thousand years of Chinese poetry ...... 449

PAGE Oscar Lofgren and Renato Traini: Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Vol. i. By R. B. SERJEANT ...... 147 Andre Louis: Tunisie du Sud. By JAMES BYNON ...... 620 John E. Mack: A prince of our disorder: the life of T. E. Lawrence. By R. M. BUBRELL 617 D. N. MacKenzie (ed.): The Buddhist Sogdian texts of the British Library. By WERNER STJNDERMANN ...... 634 W. H. McLeod: The evolution of the Sikh community. By C. SHACKLE .... 222 William F. Macomber: A catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library, CoUegevMe. Vol. l. By EDWARD ULLENDORIT .... 382 Rudolf Macuch: Oeschichte der spat- und neusyrischen Literatur. By S. P. BROCK . . 605 Rudolf Macuch: Zur Sprache und Literatur der Mandder ...... 442 Gabriel Manessy: Les langues Oti-Volia. By F. D. D. WINSTON 682 John Marney: Liang Ohien-wen ti. By TAO TAO SANDERS ...... 643 P. J. Marshall: East Indian fortunes: the British in Bengal in the eighteenth century. By M. E. YAPP 637 Samuel E. Martin: A reference grammar of Japanese. By P. G. O'NEILL . . . 190 Richard B. Mather (tr.): Shih-shuo hsin-yii. By TAO TAO SANDERS .... 642 Noel Matthews and M. Doreen Wainwright (comp.): A guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to the Far East . . . 678 Josef Matuz: Krimtatarische Urkunden im Reichsarchiv zu Kopenhagen. By C. J. HEYWOOD 399 Joan Maw and John Kelly: Intonation in Swahili. By R. J. HAYWARD .... 654 Margaret Medley: The Chinese potter. By JOHN SWEETMAN ..... 647 Margaret Medley (ed.): Chinese painting and the decorative style. By JOHN SWEETMAN . 186 W. N. Medlicott and others (ed.): The Italo-Ethiopian dispute, March 21, 1934-October 3, 1935. By EDWARD ULLENDOBIT 389 Gustav Meiseles: Oral literary Arabic ...... 215 Donald A. Messerschmidt: The Ourungs of Nepal. By N. J. AT.T.IT.IJ .... 409 Konstantin Mihailovic: Memoirs of a janissary. By V. L. MENAGE . . . .155 J. T. Milik (ed.): The books of Enoch: Aramaic fragments ofQumrdn Cave 4. By EDWARD ULLENDORW—MICHAEL KNIBB ...... 601 Joseph C. Miller: Kings and kinsmen: early Mbundu states in Angola. By A. D. ROBERTS 438 Andr6 Miquel: La giographie humaine du monde musulman jusgu'au milieu du 11' siecle. [//.] By R. B. SERJEANT 148 Richard H. Mitchell: Thought control in prewar Japan. By R. L. SIMS .... 652 T.F.Mitchell: Principles of Firthian linguistics. By T. M. JOHNSTONE . . . . 443 Ichisada Miyazaki: China's examination hell. By GEORGE WEYS ..... 450 Guy Monnot: Penseurs musulmans et religions iraniennes. By MARY BOYCE . . .162 Theodore Monod (ed.): Pastoralism in tropical Africa. By PHILIP BURNHAM . . . 206 David S. Moyer: The logic of the laws: a structural analysis of Malay language legal codes from Bengkulu. By M. C. RICKLEFS ...... 194 Jean-Claude Muller: Chez les Rukuba. By JOHN MIDDLETON ..... 665 J. Forbes Munro : Colonial rule and the Kamba. By RICHARD RATHBONE . . . 663 B. Natarajan: The city of the cosmic dance: Chidambaram. By J. R. MARR . . . 448 Andrew J. Nathan: Peking politics, 1918-1923. By W. J. F. JENNER .... 676 Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5. Ft. m. By MICHAEL LOEWE 187 V. Nersessian: An index of articles on Armenian studies in Western journals. By D. M. LANG 218 Jacob Neusner: A history of the Mishnaic law of purities. Parts 6-11. By Louis JACOBS 137 Jacob Neusner: A historyi of the Mishnaic law of purities. Parts 12-14. By Louis JACOBS 442 Jacob Neusner: Talmudic Judaism in Sasanian Babylon. By Louis JACOBS . . . 210 Paul Newman: The Kanakuru language. By D. W. ARNOTT ...... 655 Nguyln Phii Phong: Le syntagme verbal en vietnamien. By JEREMY DAVIDSON . . 226 Guy Nicolas: Dynamigue sociale et apprehension du monde au sein d'une societe hausa. By JOHN MIDDLETON ...... 439 Philip O. Nsugbe: Ohaffia: a matrilineal Ibo people. By ABNER COHEN . . . 683 Pierre Oberling: The Qashqd'i nomads of Fdrs. By RICHARD TAPPER . . . .165 Roland Oliver and Brian M. Fagan: Africa in the Iron Age. By P. S. GABLAKE . . 202 Robert W. Olson: The siege of Mosul and Ottoman-Persian relations, 1718-1743. By A. K. S. LAMBTON 447 Milton Osborne: River road to China: the Mekong river expedition, 1866-1873. By JUDITH M. JACOB 193 R. C. Ostle (ed.): Studies in modem Arabic literature. By G. R. SMITH . . .215 Daniel L. Overmyer: Folk Buddhist religion ...... 677 Stephen Owen: The poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yii. By TAO TAO SANDERS . . 184 Hasan Ozdemir: Die aUosmanischen Ghroniken als Quelle zur turkischen Volkskunde . 216 Pratapaditya Pal: Nepal. By SIMON DIGBY . • ...... 179 James B. Palais: Politics and policy in traditional Korea. By W. E. SKILLEND . . 224 Herbert H. Paper (ed.): Language and texts. By EDWARD ULLENDORFP . . . 378

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NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS M. J. KISTER : On the papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih: an addendum 125 G. H. LUCE : Two Sino-Tibeto-Burmese notes .... 127 H. L. SHORTO : Proto-Austronesian *taqm: an anomaly removed . 128

OBITUARY Sir Reader William Bullard 130

REVIEWS A. Kammenhuber: Maierialien zu einem hethitischen Thesaurus. Lief. 1-4. By J. D. HAWKINS ...... 135 John F. A. Sawyer : A modern introduction to Biblical Hebrew. By D. J. KAMHI . . 136 Jacob Neusner: A history oj the Mishnaic law of purities. Parts 6—11. By Louis JACOBS 137 Lawrence H. Schiffman : The halakhah at Qumran. By J. WANSBROUGH . . . 137 Stanisiav Segert: Atiaramdische Qrammatik. By S. A. HOPKINS ..... 139 Stephen A. Kaufman: The Akkadian influences on Aramaic. By D. J. WISEMAN . . 144 Werner Diem : Hochsprache und Dialekt im Arabischen. By T. M. JOHNSTONS . . 144 Andrzej Czapkiewicz: The verb in modern Arabic dialects as an exponent of the development processes occurring in them. By BRUCE INOEAM ...... 145 Paul Kunitzsch (ed. and tr.): Ibn as-Sold^ : Zur Kritik der Koordinatenuberlieferung im Sternkatalog des Almagest. By G. R. TIBBETTS 146 Oscar Lofgren and Renato Traini: Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Vol. i. By R. B. SERJEANT ...... 147 Andre Miquel: La giogra/phie humaine du monde musulman jusqu'au milieu du 11' siecle. [n.] By R. B. SERJEANT 148 John R. Hayes (ed.): The genius of Arab civilization. By C. F. BECKINOHAM . . 149 Derek Hill: Islamic architecture in North Africa. By GEZA FEHERVARI . . . 150 Karl-G. Prasse (ed. and tr.): Ohoubeid Alqjaly : Histoire des Kel-Denneg avant Varrivee des Francais. By H. T. NORRIS 161 L. Carl Brown: The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-1855. By MICHAEL BRETT . . 152 Donald M. Reid: The odyssey of Farah Antun. By SHMUEL MOREH .... 153 Barbara Flemming (ed.): Fahris Husrev u Sirin. By VANESSA SHEPHERD . . .154 Konstantin Mihailovic : Memoirs of a janissary.—Renate Laehmann (tr.): Memoiren eines Janitscharen. By V. L. MENAGE ...... 155 Jflrgen Hampel (ed. and tr.): Die Kopenhagener Handschrift Cod. 27. By MART BOYCE 160

PAGE John R. Hinnells (ed.): Mithraic studies. By JOHN F. HANSMAN .... 160 Guy Monnot: Penseurs musulmans et religions iraniennes. By MAHY BOYCB . . 162 Francis Decret: Mani et la tradition manicheenne. By MARY BOYCB . . . .162 6. M. Wickens (tr.): Morals pointed and tales adorned : the Bustdn of Sa'di. By JOHN A. BOYLE 163 Amir Abbas Haidari (ed.): Modern Persian reader. By J. D. GUBNBY .... 164 Pierre Oberling: The Qashqd'i nomads of Fars. By RICHARD TAPPER . . . .165 Eckart Ehlers: TraditioneUe und moderne Formen der Landwirtschaft in Iran. By ANN K. S. LAMBTON 166 R. M. Savory (ed.): Introduction to Islamic civilisation. By C. F. BECKINGHAM . . 168 Marshall G. S. Hodgson: The venture of Islam. By J. WANSBROUGH . . . .169 Annemarie Schiinmel: Mystical dimensions of Islam. By J. WANSBROUGH . . 170 Geza Fehervari: Islamic metalwork of the eighth to the fifteenth century in the Keir collection. By EVA BAEK 171 Peter J. Chelkowski (ed.): Studies in art and literature of the Near East in honor of Richard Ettinghausen. By GEZA FEHERVARI 172 Akbar S. Ahmed: Millennium and charisma among Pathans. By M. B. YAPP . . 173 R. L. Turner: Collected papers, 1912-1973. By T. BURROW 175 J. Gonda: Selected studies. By J. C. WEIGHT 177 Ganesh Gaur (oomp.): Catalogue of Punjabi printed books added to the India Office Library, 1902-1964. By C. SHACKLE 178 Datta Shankarrao Kharbas: Maharashtra and the Marathas. By I. M. P. RAESIDS . 179 Pratapaditya Pal: Nepal. By SIMON DIGBY ...... 179 Anthony Farrington: The records of the East India College, HaiUybury, and other institutions : IOR J-K. By SIMON DIGBY 180 Walther Heissig (ed.): Altaica collecta. By C. R. BAWDEN 181 S. Rasidondug and Veronika Veit (tr.): Petitions of grievances submitted by the people. By C. R. BAWDEN 182 Stephen Owen: The poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yti. By TAO TAO SANDERS . . 184 Harrie A. Vanderstappen (ed.): The T. L. Yuan bibliography of Western writings on Chinese art and archaeology. By MARGARET MEDLEY ...... 185 Margaret Medley (ed.): Chinese painting and the decorative style. By JOHN SWEETMAN . 186 Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5. Pt. in. By MICHAEL LOEWE 187 Fred W. Drake: China charts the world. By CHRISTOPHER CULLEN . . . .189 Samuel E. Martin: A reference grammar of Japanese. By P. G. O'NEILL . . .190 H. J. de Graaf: Islamic states in Java, 1500-1700. By P. B. R. CAREY . . .190 M. O. Woelders : Het sultanaat Palembang, 1811-1825. By RUSSELL JONES . . .192 Milton Osborne: River road to China : the Mekong river expedition, 1866—1873. By JUDITH M. JACOB 193 David S. Moyer: The logic of the laws : a structural analysis of Malay language legal codes from Bengkulu. By M. C. RICKLEFS ...... 194 J. Boulbet: Paysans de la for it. By P. A. STOTT 194 Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz : Kinship in Bali. By MARK HOBART . . .195 J. O. Asamani: Index Africanus. By R. C. STEVENSON ...... 197 Andrzej Zaborski: Studies in Hamito-Semitic. I. By F. R. PALMER .... 198 Roland Oliver and Brian M. Fagan : Africa in the Iron Age. By P. S. GARLAKE . . 202 John Grace: Domestic slavery in West Africa. By HUMPHREY J. FISHER . . . 203 Jean-Pierre Greenlaw: The coral buildings of Suakin. By R. B. SERJEANT . . . 204 Theodore Monod (ed.): Pastoralism in tropical Africa. By PHILIP BURNHAM . . 206 Meyer Fortes and Sheila Patterson (ed.): Studies in African social anthropology. By PAUL SPENCER ...... 207 Maurice Bloch (ed.): Political language and oratory in traditional society. By ESTHER GOODY .208 E. F. K. Koerner (ed.): The transformational-generative paradigm and modern linguistic theory. By RUTH M. REMPSON ...... 209

SHORT NOTICES Jacob Neusner: Talmudic Judaism in Sasanian Babylon. By Louis JACOBS . . 210 Frank Ephraim Talmage: David Kimhi. By D. J. KAMHI 211 B. Jongeling and others (ed. and tr.): Aramaic texts from Qumran. By S. P. BROCK . 211 Henri Fleisch: Etudes d'arabe dialectal. By T. M. JOHNSTONE . . . . .212 Kwame Gyekye (ed.): Ibn al-Tayyib's commentary on Porphyry's Eisagoge.—Hans Daiber (ed. and tr.): Ein Kompendium der aristotdischen Meteorologie in der Fassung des Hunain ibn Ishdq. By J. N. MATTOCK ...... 212 J. Martin Plumley: The scrolls of Bishop Timotheos. By C. F. BECKINGHAM . . 213 R. Y. Ebied and M. J. L. Young (ed. and tr.): Some Arabic legal documents of the Ottoman period from the Leeds manuscript collection ...... 213 Fazlur Rahman: The philosophy of Mulld Sadrd ...... 213 George F. Hourani (ed.): Essays on Islamic philosophy and science. By J. N. MATTOCK . 214

PAGE Gustav Meiseles: Oral literary Arabic ...... 215 R. C. Ostle (ed.): Studies in modern Arabic literature. By G. R. SMITH . . . 215 Herbert J. Liebesny: The law of the Near and Middle East 215 John C. Dewdney (ed.): Tlemcen 216 Hasan Ozdemir: Die atiosmanischen Chroniken als QueUe zur turkischen Volkskunde . 216 Andreas Tietze (ed.): Turkologischer Anzeiger ...... 216 Corpus inscriptionumiranicarum. Partn. Vol.n. Plates, i. By NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS 217 Leo Triimpelmann: Das sasanidische Felsrelief von Sar Mai had. By MARY BOYOK . 217 V. Nersessian : An index of articles on Armenian studies in Western journals. By D. M. LANG ' 218 Gaioz [KeratishviliJ (oomp. and ed.): Sak'art'velos ehlesiis kalendari 1976 dslisat'vis. By D. M. LANG 218 L. Cousins and others (ed.): Buddhist studies in honour of I. B. Horner. ByJ. C.WRIGHT 219 Klaus L. Janert and N. Narasimhan Poti: Indische und nepcUische Handschriften. Teil 4. By J. C. WRIGHT 219 Chandrabhal Tripathi: Catalogue of the Jaina manuscripts at Strasbourg. ByJ. C.WRIGHT 219 J. Duncan M. Derrett (ed. and tr.): Bhdruci's commentary on the Manusmrti. By J. C. WRIGHT 220 J. Duncan M. Derrett: Essays in classical and modern Hindu law. Vol.1. ByJ. C.WRIGHT 221 B. N. S. Yadava: Society and culture in northern India in the twelfth century. By SIMON DIGBY 221 W. H. McLeod: The evolution of the Sikh community. By C. SHACKLE .... 222 M. D.David: History of Bombay, 1661-1708. By MARY BOYCE 222 Surendra Nath Sinha (tr.): The mid-Oangetic region in the eighteenth century . . . 222 Dilip Kumar Ghose: Kashmir in transition, 1885-1893. By SIMON DIGBY . . . 222 E. 8. Haroourt and Fakhir Hussain (tr.): Lucknow. By C. SHACKLE .... 223 Donald Rayfield: The dream of Lhasa 223 Terence Armstrong (ed.): Yermak's campaign in Siberia ...... 224 Han-sheng Chuan and Richard A. Kraus: Mid-Ch'ing rice markets and trade. By CHRISTOPHER HOWE ...... 224 James B. Palais: Politics and policy in traditional Korea. By W. E. SKILLEND . . 224 D. G. Chibbett and others : A descriptive catalogue of the pre-1868 Japanese books, manuscripts and prints in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies. By P. G. O'NEILL 225 Lincoln Li: The Japanese army in North China, 1937-1941. By W. G. BBASLEY . . 225 Nguyin Phii Phong: Le syntagme verbal en vietnamien. By JEREMY DAVIDSON . . 226 S. A. Wurm and B. Wilson: English finderlist of reconstructions in Austronesian languages (post-Brandstetter). By H. L. SHORTO 226 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW . . . .227

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