Reviews: The ancient Near East
Martin Worthington: Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story. (The Ancient World.) xxxii, 489 pp. London: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978 1 138 38892 5.
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- 16 May 2022, pp. 113-114
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Mary E. Buck: The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels. (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant.) xiii, 376 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. ISBN 978 90 04 41510 2.
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- 09 March 2023, pp. 495-496
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Sophus Helle: Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic. xxx, 286 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. $25. ISBN 978 0 300 25118 0.
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- 19 May 2022, pp. 115-116
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Louise Quillien: Histoire des textiles en Babylonie, 626–484 av. J.-C. Production, circulations et usages. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 126.) xvi, 742 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2022. €139. ISBN 978 90 04 46392 9.
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- 24 August 2022, pp. 307-308
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S. Herbordt, R. Mattila, B. Parker (†), J.N. Postgate and D.J. Wiseman (†): Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel. (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud VI.) viii, 340 pp., plates i–vi, 1–44. London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2019. £45. ISBN 978 0 90347234 0.
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- 10 June 2022, pp. 116-118
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Christin Möllenbeck: Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Südmesopotamien während der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1500 v. Chr.). (Altorientalische Publikationen / Publications on the Ancient Near East. dubsar 23.) xii, 450 pp. Münster: Zaphon, 2021. ISBN 978 3 96327 166 3.
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- 22 August 2022, pp. 309-310
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Chen Fei: Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. (Cuneiform Monographs 51.) xviii, 249 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €143. ISBN 978 90 04 43091 4.
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- 09 March 2023, pp. 497-498
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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
William Granara: Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. (Makers of the Muslim World.) 176 pp. Oxford: Oneworld Academic, 2021. ISBN 978 178607846 9.
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- 13 June 2022, pp. 118-120
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Christian Mauder: In the Sultan's Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols). 1302 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2021. ISBN 978 90 04 44421 8.
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- 20 April 2023, pp. 499-501
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Hannah-Lena Hagemann: The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) xii, 328 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. £85. ISBN 978 1 4744 5088 1.
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- 23 August 2022, pp. 310-312
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Abū L-Muṭahhar Al-Azdī, Emily Selove and Geert Jan van Gelder (ed. and trans.): The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. 486 pp. London: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2021. £90. ISBN 978 19 1360404 2.
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- 26 August 2022, pp. 312-314
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George Warner: The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq and the Development of Twelver Shīʿī Hadith Literature. 227 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. ISBN 978 1 8386 0560 5.
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- 20 April 2023, pp. 501-503
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Matthew B. Ingalls: The Anonymity of a Commentator: Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī and the Rhetoric of Muslim Commentaries. (SUNY Series in Islam.) xvi, 268 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. $95. ISBN 978 1 4384 8519 5.
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- 08 June 2022, pp. 120-122
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Fanny Bessard: Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700–950). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) xxviii, 360 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. £90. ISBN 978 0 19 885582 8.
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- 10 June 2022, pp. 122-123
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LETIZIA OSTI: History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature. (Early and Medieval Islamic World.) x, 183 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. £85. ISBN 978 1 7883 9232 2.
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- 27 March 2023, pp. 503-505
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Enrico Boccaccini: Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th–13th Century). (Islamic History and Civilization.) xi, 314 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. ISBN 978 90 04 9874 7.
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- 23 August 2022, pp. 314-316
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Anna McSweeney: From Granada to Berlin: the Alhambra Cupola. (Connecting Art Histories in the Museum.) 196 pp. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2020. €34. ISBN 978 3 86206 831 9.
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- 24 August 2022, pp. 316-318
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Mathieu Tillier: L'invention du cadi: La justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l'Islam. 704 pp. Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2017. ISBN 979 1 03510000 1.
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- 10 March 2023, pp. 505-506
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Yasin Dutton: Early Islam in Medina. Mālik and His Muwaṭṭa’. viii, 153 pp. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. £85. ISBN 978 1 3502 6186 0.
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- 07 June 2022, pp. 124-125
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Wafi A. Momin (ed.): Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond. xv, 481 pp. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2022.
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- 07 March 2023, pp. 506-508
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