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Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism, Said Amir Arjomand, ed., Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988, 393 pp., index. $19.95, paperback. $49.50, cloth.

A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and her Poetry, Michael C. Hillmann, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press and Mage Publishers, 1987, 181 pp.

The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan, Lisa Golombek and Donald Wilber, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988; Vol. 1: 510 pp. of text; Vol. 2: 16 color plates, 481 black‐and‐white photographs, 8 maps, 162 plans and sections. $130.

Timurid Architecture in Khurasan, Bernard O'Kane, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1987, 418 pp., numerous figures and plates. $49.95.

Iranian Immigrants in the United States: A Case Study of Dual Marginality, Abdolmaboud Ansari, Millwood, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1988, xii + 148 pp.

Aux Sources de la Nouvelle Persane, Christophe Balay and Michel Cuypers, Paris: Institut Français d'Iranologie de Teheran, 1983, 222 pp., bibiography, indexes of proper names, books and journals. 124 Fr. paperback.

Post‐Revolutionary Iran, Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manoucher Parvin, eds., Boulder: Westview Press, 1988, 262 pp. $39.50.

Islamic Art and Spirituality, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987, 213 pp., 10 monochrome plates. $75.00.

Nishapur: Some Early Islamic Buildings and Their Decoration, Charles J. Wilkinson, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986, 328 pp., num. ill., 29 col. pl. $75.00.

The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic, Mohsen M. Milani, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988, xiv + 361.

The Poet Sa'di: A Persian Humanist, John D. Yohannan, (Persian Studies Series, No. 11) Lanham, Md.: University Press of America; Bibliotheca Persica, 1987, 149 pp.

The Destiny of a King, Georges Dum´ezil (translated by Alf Hiltebeitel), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 155 pp. $11.95.

Revolutionary Iran, R.K. Ramazani, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, xvi + 254 pp., appendix to p. 282, notes to p. 294, bibliography to p. 302, index to p. 311. $27.50.

A Bibliography of the Iran‐Iraq Borderland, Keith MacLachlan and Richard Schofield, Cambridge, U.K.: Middle East and North African Press, 1987, 383 pp.

Tales from Luristan (Matalya Lurissu): Tales, Fables and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala‐Gariva, Sekandar Amanolahi and W.M. Thackston, transcribed and translated with notes on the phonology, the grammar of Luri and Luri‐English vocabulary. Harvard Iranian Series, Vol. 4, 1986, XIII + 250 pp. $19.95 paperback.

Shi'ism and Social Protest, Juan R. I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie, eds., New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986, x + 321 pp.

My Memories of Baha'u'llah, Ustad Muhammad‐'Aliy‐i‐Salmani, the Barber, translated from the original Persian by Marzieh Gail, Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982, 122 pp., appendices, short biographies of Baha'is mentioned in the text, as well as notes, selected bibliography and selected love poems of Ustad Muhammad‐'Aliy‐i‐Salmani.

Agricultural Change and Rural Society in Southern Iran, C. Salmanzadeh, Cambridgeshire, England: MENAS Press Ltd., 1980, 275 pp. £17.00 hardback, £10.50 paperback.

Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy‐State Relations in the Pahlavi Period, Shahrough Akhavi, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1980, xx + 255 pp.

Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution, Michael M.J. Fischer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1980, xviii + 314 pp.     

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Flößereiin Deutschland,
HANS-WALTER KEWELOH (Ed.)
Auf den Spuren der Flößer—Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte eines Gewerbes, HANS-WALTER KEWELOH (Ed.)
Medieval fish, fisheries and fishponds in England, MICHAEL ASTON (Ed.)
Les galèriens, vies et destins de 60,000 forçats sur les galères de France 1680–1748, ANDRÉ ZYSBERG
Pacific sail ROGER MORRIS     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Dark Age Naval Power—a Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity. JOHN HAYWOOD
Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (Tuscon, Arizona 1990). TONIL.CARRELL(Ed.)
Building the Trireme. FRANK WELSH
Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail—the Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650–1815. BRIAN TUNSTALL (NICHOLAS TRACY, Ed.)
Agatharchides of Cnidus—On the Erythraean Sea. STANLEY M. BURSTEIN (Ed. and translation)
Pandora —an Archaeological Perspective. PETER GESNER
L'Art de Batir les Vaisseaux. PIETER VAN DER MERWE     

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Le maÎtre-gabarit, la tablette et le trébuchet. Essai sur la conception non-graphique des carènes du Moyen-Age au XXe siècle ÉRIC RIETH (Preface; M. Mollat de Jourdin)
Maritime Archaeology in Sri Lanka–the Galle Harbour Project 1992. JEREMY GREEN and SOMASIRI DEVENDRA (Eds)
Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant. Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC. W. VIVIAN DAVIES and LOUISE SCHOFIELD (Eds)
Ships of the Port of London–12th to 17th centuries AD (English Heritage Archaeological Report No. 5) . PETER MARSDEN
Technichgeschichte des industriellen Schiffbaus in Deutschland Vol. 2. UWE SCHNALL (Ed.)
The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade. MARIA EUGENIA AUBET (translated by Mary Turton)
Vestiges archéologiques: la conservation in situ .     

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Excavations at Carthage: The British Mission, Volume II, 1: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Site and Finds Other Than Pottery H. R. HURST 335 pp., many illustrations Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1994, £75, ISBN 0-17-727003-4 Excavations at Carthage, The British Mission Volume II, 2: The Circular Harbour, North Side: The Pottery (BA Monographs in Archaeology No. 5) M. G. FULFORD and D. P. S. PEACOCK with contributions from Henry Hurst, Kathryn Knowles and Jane Timby 124 pp., 39 line-drawings, 1 half-tone illustration British Academy and Oxford University Press, 1995, £30, ISBN 0-19-727004-2 Saint-Blaise/Bains des Dames 1: palynologie d'un site néolithique et histoire de la végetation des derniers 16,000 ans (Archéologie Neuchâteloise 18) PHILIPPE HADORN 121 pp.+ 50 pp., illustrated (colour plates) Musée Cantonal d'Archéologie, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1994, Sw.Fr. 70 The History of English Sea Ordnance 1523–1715, Volume I: 1523–1715, The Age of Evolution ADRIAN B. CARUANA 237 pp., illustrated Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, Sussex TN6 3QX, UK, 1994, £50 The Sea-Gunner (1691) JOHN SELLER 258 pp + xiv, 3 plates Facsimile reprint with an Introduction by Adrian B. Caruana Jean Boudriot Publications, Rotherfield, 1994, £37 (cloth bound), £60 (leather bound), ISBN 0-948864-25-7 or ISBN 0-948864-26-5 (respectively) Die Reise nach Batavia, Deutsche Abenteurer in Ostasien, 1609 bis 1695 PETER KIRSCH 440 PP. Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg, 1994, D.mk.49.80 ISBN 3-8225-0297 La Grotte Cosquer—Peintures et Gravures de la Caverne engloutie JEAN CLOTTES and JEAN COURTIN 189 pp., illustrated Editions du Seuil. Paris. 1994, F.fr 390, ISBN 2-020-198207 La Grotte Cosquer: Plongée dans la Prehistoire HENRI COSQUER 119 pp., 119 photographs + 2 plans in colour (all) Solar, Spain, 1992, F.fr. 150, ISBN 2-263-01943-X A History of Working Watercraft of the Western World (2nd edition) THOMAS C. GILLMER 276 pp., illustrated International Marine, P.O. Box 220, Camden, Maine, 04843, USA, 1994. £17.95 or $25.95, ISBN 0-07-023616-X The New Maritime History of Devon vol. II—from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day M. DUFFY, S. FISHER, B. GREENHILL, D. STARKEY and JOYCE YOUINGS 272 pp., illustrated University of Exeter & Conway Maritime Press, London, 1994, £35, ISBN 0-85177-6337     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Shipwreck Index of the British Isles: Volume 1 — Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset (Edition limited to 1000 of 10-volume series) RICHARD & BRIDGET LARN
Old Ironsides—The Rise, Decline & Resurrection of the USS Constitution THOMAS C. GILLMER; illustrations WILLIAM GILKERSON
The Sailing Navy List: all the Ships of the Royal Navy Built, Purchased and Captured, 1688–1860 DAVID LYON
Captain Cook's Endeavour (Conway's Anatomy of the Ship series) KARL HEINZ MARQUARDT
Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500–1860 JAN GLETE
Östersjöns Sjunkna Skepp. En Marinarkeologisk Tidsresa JOHAN RÖNNBY and JONATHAN ADAMS
Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models RON MCCARTHY
The Foundry: Excavations on Poole Waterfront 1986/7 DAVID R. WATKINS
Versunken in der Ostsee—Schiffe und Schätze auf dem Meeresgrund GÜNTER LANITZKI     

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The Economy of Islamic Iran: Between State and Market , Thierry Coville, ed., Tehran: Institut Français de Rechere en Iran, 1994, 275 pp.

A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran , Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, vol. 2, John Foran, ed., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994, 263 pp., incl. Select Bibliography, Index, $19.95 (paper).

Sutra and Other Stories , Simin Daneshvar, trans. Hasan Javadi and Amin Neshati, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1994, 189 pp.

The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles , Hamid Naficy, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, 283 pp., $44.95 (hard), $18.95 (paper).

Nomads in Archaeology , Roger Cribb, New Studies in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiv + 253 pp., $69.95 (originally $54.50).

Twenty‐Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad ,^cAli Dashti, trans. F. R. C. Bagley, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1994, xviii + 228 pp. (first published London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985 in hardcover).

Politische und kulturelle Auswirkungen des Auslandstudiums auf die iranische Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Unter Berücksichtigung der iranischen Stipendiaten in Westeuropa (1812–1857) , Farideh Jeddi, Frankfurt a/M‐New York, 1992, 276 pp.

Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution , Mansoor Moaddel, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, x + 346 pp.

Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ^cA'isha bint Abi Bakr , D. A. Spellberg, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi^cite Islam: Abū Ja^cfar ibn Qiba al‐Razi and his Contribution to Imamite Shi^cite Thought , Hossein Modarressi, Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1993, vii‐viii + 280 pp., incl. Bibliography, $35.00 (hardcover).

Persian Studies in North America: Studies in Honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery , Mehdi Marashi, ed., Bethesda, Md.: Iranbooks, 1994, xx + 422 + 107 pp.

Fihrist‐i asnad‐i qadim‐i vizarat‐i umūr‐i kharijah: dawran‐i Qajariyah, 1124–1316 , Tehran: Institute for Political and International Studies, 1371 Sh./1992, xiii + 598 pp., 4,500 rials.

Islamic Development Policy: The Agrarian Question in Iran , Asghar Schi‐razi, trans. P. J. Ziess‐Lawrence, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993.

Politische Parteien und Bevölkerung in Iran: die Hezb‐e Demokrat‐e Iran und ihr Führer Qavamo s‐Saltana , Ralph Kauz, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1995, III + 322 pp.

A History of the Armenian People , vol. 2: 1500 to the Present , George A. Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1994, xviii + 237 pp.

The History of al‐Tabari (Ta'rikh al‐msul wa³l‐mulūk), vol. XXXI: The War between Brothers , Bibliotheca Persica, trans, and annot. Michael Fish‐bein, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1992.     

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“MUST WE LOSE AFRICA?” by Colin Legum. (Allen, London) pp. 264: 16/ stg.

ANCIENT FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMICS IN INDIA, by K. T. Shah, Bombay, 1954. Pp. 175.

THE PROSPECTS FOR COMMUNIST CHINA, by W. W. Rostov, in collaboration with Richard W. Hatch, Frank A. Kierman, jun., and Alexander Eckstein. Technology Press and John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1955. Pp. xx plus 379. $5.00.     

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The Elements of Archaeological Conservation, JANEY CRONYN (contributions on Marine Material by W. S . Robinson)
Tropis I: 1st International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Proceedings HARRY TZALAS (Ed.)
Landscape with lake dwellings-the crannogs of Scotland IAN MORRISON
Norrlandsleden I CHRISTER WESTERDAHL
The Harbours of Caesarea Maritima: Results of the Caesarea Ancient Harbour Project, 198C1985. Vol. I: The Site and the Excavation, Parts I and II JOHN PETER OLESON and AVNER RABAN
Bonhomme Richard 1779 JEAN BOUDRIOT (translated by David Roberts)
Amphora Romaine et histoire Cconomique: dix ans de recherche M. LENOIR, D. MANACORDA and
Schepen voor Zwammerdam, M. D. de WEERD
The Royal Dockyards 1690–1850 JONATHON G. COAD
The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars ROGER MORRISS
The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes: the Complete Record COLIN SHEAF and RICHARD KILBURN
The Royal Yacht Caroline 1749 SERGIO BELLABARBA and GIORGIO OSCULATI
Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy (2nd edition) EDWARD C. HARRIS
The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588 FELIPE FERN A NDEZ-A RM ESTO
Diving for the Griffin CHARLES DAGGETT with KRlS SHAFFER
Wet Site Archaeology BARBARA A. PURDY (Ed.)     

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G arry W. T rompf : The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought from Antiquity to the Reformation.
J ames T hrower : The Alternative Tradition: Religion and the Rejection of Religion in the Ancient World.
A listair F ox : Thomas More's History and Providence. Oxford, Basil Blackwell
R ichard M. G olden : The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Cures and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662. Chapel Hill
I. J. G entles & W. J. S heils : Confiscation and Restoration: The Archbishopric Estates and the Civil War (Borthwick Papers No. 39)
P eter C. K ent : The Pope and the Duce: The International Impact of the Lateran Agreements.
A ndrew L emon : The Young Man From Home: James Balfour, 1830-1913. Melbourne University Press.
H ans M ol: The Fixed and the Fickle: Religion and Identity in New Zealand. Waterloo, Ontario     

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Book reviewed in this article:
W. E. G regory F loyd : Clement of Alexandria's Treatment of the Problem of Evil .
J ohn M eyendroff : Byzantine Theology: Historic Trends and Doctrinal Themes .
D. F. W right (trans. and ed.): Common Places of Martin Bucer (The Courtenay Library of Reformation Classics, 4).
J ohn W. P acker : The Transformation of Anglicanism, 1643–1660 .
P. J. M arshall (ed.): The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century .
J ohn M c M anners : The French Revolution and the Church (Church History Outlines, 4).
G raeme K ent : Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas .
P aul Y ounger : Introduction to Indian Religious Thought .
M arvin H enry H arper : Gurus, Swamis, and Avataras: Spiritual Masters and their American Disciples .
R ichard P. D avis : Irish Issues in New Zealand Politics 1868–1922 .