BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 12:45:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00040350 Volume XL 1977 BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Published by THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 12:45:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00040350 I School of Oriental and African Studies University of London UK ISSN 0041—977X JOHN RYLAN1* UNIVERSITY: LIBRARY OH MANCHESTER Printed in England by Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., Caxton Hill, Hertford Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 12:45:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00040350 CONTENTS 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 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 12:45:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00040350 VI CONTENTS 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, manu- scripts 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 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 12:45:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00040350 CONTENTS Vll 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.