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Volume 75 - October 2012

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Joann Scurlock: Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia. (Ancient Magic and Divination III.) xi, 788 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill/Styx, 2006. €231. ISBN 90 04 12397 0.

Wasserman Nathan: Most Probably: Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian. (Languages of the Ancient Near East.) xiv, 245 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2012. $49.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 198 6.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

T. Muraoka: A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 38.) xiv, 285 pp. Leuven: Peeters, 2011. €70. ISBN 978 90 429 2559 5.

Jeremiah Peterson: Sumerian Literary Fragments in the University Museum, Philadelphia. (Biblioteca del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, 9.) 372 pp., 68 plates. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2011. ISBN 978 84 00 09314 3.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Reviews: The Ancient Near East

Selim Ferruh Adali: The Scourge of God: The Umman-manda and Its Significance in the First Millennium bc. (State Archives of Assyria Studies.) xvi, 220 pp. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2011. $62. ISBN 978 952 10 1335 5.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Emilie Savage-Smith: A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Volume I: Medicine. xxxvi, 896 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £150. ISBN 978 0 19 951358 1.

Carmela Baffioni: On Logic: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 10–14. (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity.) xxv, 201 pp. (English), 204 pp. (Arabic). Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2010. ISBN 978 0 19 958652 3.

François de Blois: Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. xxxiv, 259 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £47.50. ISBN 978 1 84885 764 3.

Reza Pourjavady: Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies.) xi, 224 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2011. €96. ISBN 978 90 04 19173 0.

Greg Fisher: Between Empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity. (Oxford Classical Monographs.) xvi, 254 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 0 19 959927 1.

Anna Contadini: A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Naʿt al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshūʿ Tradition. xiii, 209 pp., 56 plates. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 20100 2.

Muhammad Ali Aziz: Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam: Theology and Sufism in Yemen. xiii, 282 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. ISBN 978 1 84885 450 5.

Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev (eds): Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift “Der Islam”. Neue Folge Band 22.) xvi, 413 pp. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. €99.95. ISBN 978 3 11 020946 4.

M.E. McMillan: The Meaning of Mecca: The Politics of Pilgrimage in Early Islam. 196 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2011. £25. ISBN 978 0 86356 437 6.

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi: The Spirituality of Shiʿi Islam. xxii, 585 pp. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011. £39.50. ISBN 978 1 84511 738 2.

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Reviews: The Ancient Near East

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