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PAGE R. B. SERJEANT : Mihrab 439 R. B. SERJEANT : Ukhdud 572 R. B. SERJEANT : Saint Sergius 574 R. B. SERJEANT and EWALD WAGNER : A sixteenth-century reference to Shahri dialect at Zufar 128 S. M. STERN : The Oxford manuscript of Ibn Taymiyya's anti- Christian polemics ...... 124 A. S. TRITTON : Siege of Constantinople, A.D. 714-16 . . . 350 A. S. TRITTON : Ma'arij al-quds 353 R. L. TURNER : Transference of aspiration in European Gypsy . . 491 E. YARSHATER: The dialect of Shahrud (Khalkhal) . ... 52

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES 'Abd al-Majid 'Abidin and Ihsan 'Abbas (ed.) : Fasl al-maqal fi shark Kitdb al-amthal. By R. B. SERJEANT . . . . 612 J. Alazard and others : Initiation a VAlgerie. By J. F. P. HOPKINS .... 403 Robert Austerlitz : Ob-Ugric metrics; the metrical structure of Ostyak and Vogul folk- poetry. By D. SWOB ...... 616 H, W. Bailey (ed.) : Indo-Scythian studies ; being Khotanese texts, Vol. III. By M. J. DRESDEN ...... 371 Peter Berton and others : Japanese training and research in the Russian field. By H. SETON-WATSON ...... 175 G. H. Bhatt (ed.) : The Valmiki-Ramayana. Vol.l,Fasc.l 191 Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya : Ollari : a Dravidian speech. By T. BTTRROW . . . 617 Ugo Bianchi : Zaman i Ohrmazd: lo zoroastrismo nelle sue origini e nella sua essenza. By R. C. ZAEHNBB 366 Bibliography of recent Soviet source material on Soviet Central Asia and the borderlands. No. 1, 1957.—[No. 2, 1957.] By D. M. LANG 190 Eric F. F. Bishop and Mohamed Kaddal (tr.) : Chrestomathia Baidawiana. ' The light of inspiration and secret of interpretation '. By W. 'ABAPAT ..... 402 E. W. Bovill: The golden trade of the Moors. By D. H. JONES 395 W. Norman Brown (ed. and tr.) : The Saundaryalahari or flood of beauty, traditionally ascribed to Sankaracarya. By T. BIJBBOW ...... 617 Werner Burmeister (ed.) : Democratic institutions in the world today. By W. H. MOBBIS- JONES ...... 186 Chao Kuo-chfln : Agrarian policies of mainland China : a documentary study (1949-1956). By JOHN GRAY 410 Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen : A Middle Indo-Aryan reader. Revised edition 405 Haraprasad Chattopadhyaya : The sepoy mutiny, 1857. By K. A. BALLHATCHET . . 620 Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri: Civil rebellion in the Indian mutinies (1857-1859). By K. A. BALLHATCHET ...... 620 R. D. Choksey (ed.) : Select documents from the Ratnagiri Collector's files (Peshwa Daftar). By KENNETH BALLHATCHET 407 J. Desmond Clark and Sonia Cole (ed.) : Third Pan-African Congress on Prehistory, Livingstone, 1955. By ANTHONY CHBISTIE 400 Bjorn Collinder: Survey of the Uralic languages. ByD. SINOB ..... 590 Edward Conze : Buddhist meditation. By D. FRIEDMAN ...... 374 A. E. Coope : A guide to Malay conversation. Revised and enlarged fourth edition . . 197 Henry Corbin and Moh. Mo'in (ed.) : Commentaire de la qasida ismaelienne d'AbU'l- Haitham Jorjdni attribue d Mohammad ibn Sorkh de Nishapour. By S. M. STEBN . 585 Henry Corbin and Moh. Mo'in (ed.) : RHzbehdn Baqli Shlr&zi (522/1128-606/1209): Le jasmin des fideles d'amour. By R. C. ZAEHNER . 588 William S. Cornyn (ed.) : Burmese chrestomathy.—William S. Cornyn and John K. Musgrave : Burmese glossary. By ANNA J. ALLOTT ...... 601

PAGE Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part III. By ILYA GEKSHKVITCH .... 188 David Cowan : An introduction to modern literary Arabic. By A. F. L. BEESTON . . 147 O. G. S. Crawford (ed.) : Ethiopian itineraries circa 1400-1524 411 Asutos Das (ed.) : Dvij Ramadev : Abhayamangal. By T. W. CLARK .... 594 Charu Chandra Das Gupta : The development of the Kharosthi script. By J. BROCGH . . 593 Surendranath Dasgupta : A history of Indian philosophy. Vol. V . . . . . 406 K. G. Davies : The Royal African Company. By D. H. JONES 396 Sushil Kumar De (ed.) : The Megha-duta of Kaliddsa 405 Isaac 0. Delano : Atum(> ede Yoruba. By E. C. ROWLANDS 181 Emmanuel-Karim Delly : La theologie d'Mie bar-Se'naya. By J. B. SEGAL . . . 187 Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo : History ofJaina monachism from inscriptions and literature. By R. WILLIAMS 373 J. Duncan M. Derrett: The Hoysalas. By A. L. BASHAM ...... 165 D. T. Devendra : Classical Sinhalese sculpture, c. 300 B.C. to AD. 1000. By F. K. ALLCHIN 408 Djambatan : A world on the move. By C. D. COWAN ...... 198 J. Duchesne-Guillemin : The Western response to Zoroaster. By ILYA GEKSHEVITCH . . 154 Dumbarton Oaks Papers. No. 11. By D. M. LANG 189 Dumbarton Oaks Papers. No. 12. By D. M. LANG 404 C. J. Dunn and S. Yanada : Teach yourself Japanese. By E. B. CEADEL . . . . 385 Otto Eissfeldt: Enno Littmann. By C. J. GADD 402 Mircea Eliade : Patterns in comparative religion. By R. C. ZAEHNER .... 185 Earle Ernst (ed.) : Three Japanese plays from the traditional theatre .... 623 J. D. Fage : An atlas of African history. By G. W. B. HUNTINGFORD .... 180 Gordon H. Fairbanks and Earl W. Stevick : Spoken East Armenian.—Gordon H. Fair- banks : Spoken West Armenian. By C. J. F. DOWSETT ...... 592 Alfonsa Ferrari (ed. and tr.) : mK'yen brtse's guide to the holy places of central Tibet. By D. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY ...... 195 Daniel J. Finn : Archaeological finds on Lamma Island (fafa jg ^|) -near Hong Kong. By W. WATSON 621 Sir Godfrey Fisher : Barbary legend : war, trade and piracy in North Africa, 1415-1830. By V. J. PARRY 404 Hans H. Frankel (comp.) : Catalogue of translations from the Chinese dynastic histories for the period 220-960. By MICHAEL LOEWE ...... 378 Maurice Freedman : Chinese family and marriage in Singapore. By HENRY MOALEAVY 173 Maurice Freedman : Lineage organization in southeastern China. By C. VON FUBER- HAIMENDORF ...... 597 D. C. Ganguly (ed.) : Select documents of the British period of Indian history (in the collection of the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta). By K. A. BALLHATCHET ..... 621 J.-C. Gardin : Ceramiques de Bactres. By F. R. ALLCHIN ...... 594 Karl Friedrich Geldner (tr.) : Der Rig-veda. Vierter Teil 191 H. A. R. Gibb (tr.): The travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354. Vol. I. By R. B. SERJEANT 145 Lionel Giles : Descriptive catalogue of the Chinese 'manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum. By E. G. PULLEYBLANK ...... 409 Kristof Glamann : Dutch-Asiatic trade, 1620-1740. By D. G. E. HALL . . . .178 S. D. Goitein and A. Ben Shemesh : Muslim law in Israel. By S. M. STERN . . . 149 • J. Gonda: Some observations on the relations between ' gods ' and ' powers ' in the Veda a propos of the phrase sunuh sahasah . . . • . • • • .193 A. B. Griswold : Dated Buddha images of northern Siam. By ANTHONY CHRISTIE . . 392 Gustave E. von Grunebaum (ed.) : Unity and variety in Muslim civilization . . . 614 J. M. Gullick: Indigenous political systems of western Malaya. By C. VON FUKER- HAIMENDORF ...... 624 Gfilsehrl: Mantiku'l-tayr 190 J. D. Hargreaves : A life of Sir Samuel Lewis. By A. N. ALLOTT ..... 198 George L. Harris and others : Jordan.—George L. Harris and others : Iraq . . . 613 H. R. van Heekeren : The Stone Age of Indonesia.—H. R. van Heekeren : The Bronze- Iron Age of Indonesia. By ANTHONY CHRISTIE ...... 394 J. C. Heesterman : The ancient Indian royal consecration ...... 194 J. H. Hilders and J. C. D. Lawrance : An English-Ateso and Ateso-English vocabulary. By A. N. TUCKER 625

PAGE P. M. Holt: The Mahdist state in the Sudan, 1881-1898. By R. B. SERJEANT . . .146 Donald Holzman : Japanese religion and philosophy : a guide to Japanese reference and research materials. By F. J. DANIELS ...... 622 S. H. Hooke (ed.) : Myth, ritual, and kingship : essays on the theory and practice of kingship in the ancient Near East and in Israel. By C. J. GADD ...... 361 C. Edward Hopen : The pastoral Fulbe family in Gwandu. By D. W. ARNOTT . . . 397 Ambrosio Huici Miranda : Las grandes batallas de la Eeconquista durante las invasiones africanas. By J. F. P. HOPKINS ...... 403 Ambrosio Huici Miranda : Historia politica del imperio almohade. II. By J. F. P. HOPKINS 403 Ibn Khaldun : Histoire des Berberes. Nouvelle edition. Tome quatrieme. By J. F. P. HOPKINS 403 Nobutaka Ike : Japanese, politics : an introductory survey ...... 410 The Indonesian tou-n : studies in urban sociology. By ADRIAN C. MAYER .... 604 Farid Jabre : La notion de la ma'rifa chez Ghazali. By F. RAHMAN ..... 362 E. O. James : Myth and ritual in the ancient Near East. By C. J. GADD . . 142 E. O. James : Prehistoric religion : a study in prehistoric archaeology. By ANTHONY CHBISTIE ...... 400 • F. C. Jones : Hokkaido. By W. G. BEASLEY 196 Heinrich F. J. Junker : Koreanische Studien. By W. E. SKILLEND ..... 195 Wadie Jwaideh (tr.) : The introductory chapters of Yaqufs Alu'jam al-buldan. By R. B. SERJEANT ...... 583 Murad Kamil (ed. and tr.) : Amharische Kaiserlieder. By F. R. PALMER .... 142 Pandurang Vaman Kane : History of dharmasastra (ancient and mediaeval religious and civil law in India). Vol. Y,Pt.l 618 K. M. Kapadia : Marriage and family in India. Second edition. By J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT 169 Mustafa Awad al-Karim (ed.) : Ibn Dihya : al-Mutrib fi ash'ar ahl al-maghrib. By J. F. P. HOPKINS 403 Peter Kawerau : Amerika und die orientalischen Kirchen. By D. M. LANG . . . 367 Fritz Kern : Asoka, Kaiser und Missionar. By A. L. BASHAM ..... 194 A. H. M. Kirk-Greene : Adamawa past and present. By D. W. ARNOTT .... 398 Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi: An introduction to the study of Indian history. By F. R. ALLCHIN 374 Heinz Kronasser : Vergleichende Laut- und Formenlehre des Hethitischen. By JENS HOLT 359 Eberhard Kuhnt: Syrisch-arabischer Sprachfilhrer. By R. B. SERJEANT .... 612 David Marshall Lang : The wisdom of Balahvar : a Christian legend of the Buddha. By S. M. STERN 149 R.-Y. Lefebvre d'Argence : Les ce'ramiques a base chocolate'e au Muse'e Louis-Finot de riUcole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient a Hanoi. By ANTHONY CHRISTIE . . . 603 Wolf Leslau : Ethiopic and South Arabic contributions to the Hebrew lexicon. By F. R. PALMER ...... 577 Wolf Leslau: The verb in Harari (South Ethiopic). ByF.R. PALMER . . . .359 Liu Mau-Tsai: Die chinesischen Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Ost-Turken (T'u-kile). By E. G. PULLEYBLANK 381 Johannes Reinoud Abraham Loman (ed. and tr.) : The Padmaprabhrtakam. By T. BURROW 193 G. H. Luce and Pe Maung Tin (ed.) : Inscriptions of Burma. Portfolio IV.—Portfolio V. By HLA PE 177 Ernest N. McCarus : A Kurdish grammar : descriptive analysis of the Kurdish of Sulai- maniya, Iraq. By D. N. MacKenzie ...... 591 T. V. Mahalingam : South Indian polity. By A. L. BASHAM ...... 162 I. Mahmud : Muslim law of succession and administration. By J. N. D. ANDERSON . . 614 John Brown Mason and H. Carroll Parish : Thailand bibliography. By E. H. S. SIMMONDS 196 Yale Candee Maxon : Control of Japanese foreign policy : a study of civil-military rivalry, 1930-1945. By W. G. BEASLEY 176 R. 0. Meisezahl: Die tibetischen Handschriften und Drucke des Linden-Museums in Stuttgart. By D. L. SNELLGROVE ...... 621 Kenneth Mellanby : The birth of Nigeria's university ...... 625 G. C. Mendis (ed.) : The Colebrooke-Cameron papers. By KENNETH BALLHATOHET . . 408 Eva L. R. Meyerowitz : The Akan of Ghana : their ancient beliefs. By D. H. JONES . . 605 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 20:25:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00068646 CONTENTS JX

PAGE John Middleton and David Tait (ed.) : Tribes without rulers : studies irv African segmentary systems. By W. H. WHITELEY 608 Lennox A. Mills : Malaya: a political and economic appraisal. By D. G. E. HALL . . 624 V. Minorsky : A history ofSharvan and Darband in the lOth-llth centuries. ByD. M.LANG 369 T.F.Mitchell: An introduction to Egyptian colloquial Arabic. By J. F. P. HOPKINS . . 611 A. K. Narain : The Indo-Greeks. By F. R. ALLCHIN 376 Nehcu 'l-feradis. I. By Sir GERAKD CLAUSON ...... 153 Leon Nemoy (comp.) : Arabic manuscripts in the Yale University Library . . . 613 Paul Nwyia (ed.) : Ibn 'Abbdd de Bonda (1333-1390) : Lettres de direction spirituelle. By F. RAHMAN 584 P. G. O'Neill: Early no drama : its background, character and development 1300-1450. By C. J. DUNN 598 Cornelius Osgood : Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain. By JOHN AYEES .... 384 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: The evolution of India. By KENNETH BALLHATCHET . . . 407 Rudi Paret: Symbolik des Islam. By R. C. ZAEHNEE ... . • . . . 614 J. D. Pearson (comp.) : Index Islamicus, 1906-1955. By A. F. L. BEESTON . . . 585 Luciano Petech : Mediaeval history of Nepal. By D. L. SNELLGKOVE .... 378 J. J. Poortman : Ochema. II. By J. F. STAAL ...... 167 William Popper (tr.) : History of Egypt, 1382-1469 A.D. Parts III, IV.—William Popper : Egypt and Syria under the Circassian sultans, 1382-1468 A.D. (continued). By J. F. P. HOPKINS 402 Karl H. Potter (ed. and tr.) : The Padarthatattvanirupanam of Raghunatha Siromani. By J. BROUGH 161 Puisi Melayu: sha'ir, pantun, seloka dan Iain-lain ...... 411 Punyavijayaji (ed.) : Angavijja. By R. WILLIAMS ...... 372 Baij Nath Puri: India in the time of Patanjali. By A. L. BASHAM ..... 595 Fahim I. Qubain : The reconstruction of Iraq : 1950-1957 612 Munibur Rahman (comp.) : An anthology of modern Persian poetry. Vol. I. Bv R. M. SAVORY * . . 615 Ernest Edmondson Ramsaur, Jr. : The Young Turks. By V. J. PARRY .... 404 Sunil Chandra Ray : Early history and culture of Kashmir. By A. L. BASHAM . . . 619 Louis Renou : iStudes vediques et panine'ennes. Tom. I-IV ...... 191 Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie, 1 ...... 410 Erroll F. Rhodes : An annotated list of Armenian New Testament manuscripts. By C. J. F. DOWSETT ...... 616 Hellmut Ritter : Das Meer der Seele : Mensch, Welt und Gott in den Geschichten des Fariduddln 'Attar. By R. M. SAVORY 615 Hans Robert Roemer (tr.) : Sams al-Husn : eine Chronik vom Tode Timurs bis zum Jahre 1409, von Tag as-Salmdni . ' 190 Georges de Roerich : Le parler de VAmdo : etude d'un dialecte archa'ique du Tibet. By D. L. SNELLGROVE ...... 621 Walter Ruben : Kalidasa : ttie human meaning of his works ...... 405 Walter Ruben (tr.) : Beginn der Philosophie in Indien. Aus den Veden .... 407 Syedah Fatima Sadeque : Baybars I of Egypt. By P. M. HOLT ..... 143 George Sansom : A history of Japan to 1334. By W. G. BEASLE Y ..... 600 G. W. Sargent: Ihara Saikaku : The Japanese family storehouse, or The millionaires' gospel modernised ...... 623 S. Subrahmanya Sastri (ed.) : The Vedanta Kaumudl of Ramadvuyacharya . . . 406 Paul Schebesta : Die Negrito Asiens. II. Band, 2. Halbband. By C. VON FIJRER- HAIMENDORF ...... 179 B. Schindler (ed.) : Gaster centenary publication. By J. B. SEGAL ..... 187 Dieter Schlingloff (ed.) : Chandoviciti 192 Hanns-Peter Schmidt: Vedisch vratd und awestisch urvuta ...... 618 Wilhelm Schmidt: Der Ursprung der Gottesidee. Bd. XI.—Bd. XII. By C. VON FURER- HAIHENDOEF ...... 736 Johannes Schubert and Ulrich Schneider (ed.) : Asiatica : Festschrift Friedrich Welter. By D. FRIEDMAN ...... 157 Josef Franz Sehiitte : Valignanos Missionsgrundsdtze fur Japan. I. Bd., II. Teil. Bv C. R. BOXER " ".386

PAGE Charles David Sheldon : The rise of the merchant class in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868. By W. G. BEASLEY 388 Liliane Silburn (ed. and tr.) : Le Paramdrthasdra ...... 191 Nils Simonsson : Indo-tibetische Studien. I ...... 192 G. William Skinner: Chinese society in Thailand: an analytical history.—G. William Skinner : Leadership and power in the Chinese community of Thailand. By E. H. S. SIMMONDS ...... 390 G. J. Somayaji (ed.) : Telugu documents ; being petitions, etc., in Telugu preserved in the Oriental collection at the National Archives of India. ByJ. R. MASK. . . . 620 G. Brian Stapleton : The wealth of Nigeria. By A. N. ALLOTT ..... 197 State of the Union : economic, financial and statistical year-book for the Union of South Africa, 1958 197 Th. Stcherbatsky: Buddhist logic 619 R. A. Stein (ed. and tr.) : Vepopee tibe'taine de Gesar dans sa version lamaique de Ling. By D. L. SNELLGROVE ...... 596 Richard Storry : The double patriots : a study of Japanese nationalism. By W. G. BEASLEY 176 Studies in linguistic analysis. Special volume of the Philological Society. By C. E. BAZELL 182 Claude Stunner: £tude experimental^ de Vamharique moderne. Seconde edition. By F. R. PALMER 577 Irene B. Taeuber : The population of Japan. By SHTGETO TSURTJ . .... 389 Felix Tauer (tr.) : Kniha tisice ajedne nod. 1-11. By D. M. LANG ..... 615 F. W. Taylor : A practical Hausa grammar. Second edition ...... 625 Victor A. Tcherikover and Alexander Fuks (ed.) : Corpus papyrorum jvdaicarum. Vol. I. By RAPHAEL LOEWE ...... 578 Anantalal Thakur (ed.) : Ratnakirti-nibandhavali ...... 618 Jonas Thaliath : The Synod of Diamper. By J. R. MASK 619 Paul Thieme : Milra and Aryaman. By ILYA GERSHEVITCH ...... 154 Ulrich Thilo : Pie Ortsnamen in der altarabischen Poesie. By R. B. SERJEANT . . . 612 Benjamin K. Thomas : Trade routes of Algeria and the Sahara. ByD. H.JONES . . 395 Laurence G. Thompson (tr.) : Ta t'ung shu : the one-world philosophy of K'ang Yu-wei. By JOHN GRAY 409 K. G. Tregonning : Under Chartered Company rule (North Borneo, 1881-1946). By C. D. COWAN 604 J. Spencer Trimingham : Islam in West Africa. By R. B. SERJEANT .... 607 Kita Tschenkeli: Einfuhrung in die georgische Sprache. By D. M. LANG .... 368 Ryusaku Tsunoda and others (comp.) : Sources of the Japanese tradition. By F. J. DANIELS 598 Giuseppe Tucei: Preliminary report on two scientific expeditions in Nepal. By D. L. SNELLGROVE ...... 377 Turk Dil Kurumu : XIII. yuzyildan gunumuze kadar kitaplardan toplanmis tamklariyle tarama sozliigu, IV. By Sir GERARD CLATTSON ...... 152 M. H. van der Valk : Conservatism in modern Chinese family law ..... 194 George Vernadsky : The origins of Russia. By D. M. LANO ...... 371 Ewald Wagner (ed.) : Der Diwandes AbuNuwas. Teill. By R. B. SERJEANT . . . 611 Ernst Waldschmidt (ed.) : Das Catusparisatsutra. Ted I.—Teilll 191 John Walker : A catalogue of the Arab-Byzantine and post-reform Umaiyad coins. [A catalogue of the Muhammadan coins in the British Museum, Vol. II.] By D. M. LANG 364 Burton Watson : Ssu-ma GVien, grand historian of China. By E. G. PULLEYBLANK . . 379 Hans Wehr (ed.) : Arabisches Worterbuch filr die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart. Dritte, unverdnderte Aufiage.—Hans Wehr: Supplement zum Arabischen Worterbuch. By R. B. SERJEANT 582 Hans Wehr (ed.) : Das Buch der wunderbaren Erzahlungen und seltsamen Geschichten. By R. B. SERJEANT 188 W. H. Whiteley : A short description of item categories in Iraqw. By A. N. TUCKER . . 626 D. J. Wijayaratne : History of the Sinhalese noun. By C. H. B. REYNOLDS . . .172 Donald N. Wilber : Iran past and present. Fourth edition. By A. K. S. LAMBTON . . 589 T. S. Willan : Studies in Elizabethan foreign trade 613 William Willetts : Chinese art. By MICHAEL SULLIVAN ...... 173 Frederick Victor Winnett (ed. and tr.) : Safaitic inscriptions from Jordan. By MAHMUD 'ALI GHUL 579

PAGE Freda Wolfson (comp.) : Pageant of Ghana. By A. N. ALLOTT 198 Joseph K. Yamagiwa : Japanese literature of the Showa period : a guide to Japanese reference and research materials. By F. J. DANIELS ...... 622 John Young: The location of Yamatai. By W. G. BEASLEY ...... 196 Erwin von Zach (tr.) : Die Chinesische Anthologie. By ARTHUR WALEY . . . . 383 R. C. Zaehner : At sundry times : an essay in the comparison of religions. By T. GELBLUM 609 Ananiasz Zaj^czkowski: Vocabulaire arabe-kiptchak de Ve'poque de I'Stat Mamelouk. 1-ere partie. Lenom. By T. BANGTJO6LU ...... 581 ~ Farhat J. Ziadeh and R. Bayly Winder : An introduction to modern Arabic. By R. B. SERJEANT 582

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