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Reviews: The ancient Near East
Lori khatchadourian : Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires. xxxviii, 288 pp. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. $34.95. ISBN 978 0 520 29052 5.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 376-377
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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Carl Wurtzel (trans.), Robert G. Hoyland (ed.): Khalifa ibn Khayyat's History on the Umayyad Dynasty (660–750). (Translated Texts for Historians.) xiii, 332 pp. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. £25. ISBN 978 1 78138 175 5.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 134-135
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Nadia Maria El Cheikh : Women, Islam and Abbasid Identity. vii, 160 pp. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 73636 8.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 136-137
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Ali Ahmad Hussein : The Rhetorical Fabric of the Traditional Arabic Qaṣīda in Its Formative Stages: A Comparative Study of the Rhetoric in Two Traditional Poems by ʿAlqama l-Faḥl and Bashshār b. Burd. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 98.) xv, 292 pp. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft – Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. €78. ISBN 978 3 447 10467 8.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 377-379
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Benjamin Z. Kedar : Crusaders and Franks: Studies in the History of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) xii, 354 pp. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. £95. ISBN 978 1 472 47696 8.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 581-583
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Sabine Schmidtke (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. xi, 815 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ₤95. ISBN 978 0 19 969670 3.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 138-139
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Paul E. Walker , Ismail K. Poonawala , David Simonowitz and Godefroid De Callataÿ : Sciences of the Soul and Intellect. Part 1. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 32–36. (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity.) xxiii, 270, and ٢٠٢ pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015. £55. ISBN 978 0 19 875828 0.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 583-585
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Helen Blatherwick : Prophets, Gods and Kings in Sirat Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan: An Intertextual Reading of an Egyptian Popular Epic. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures.) x, 335 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978 90 04 31479 5.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 379-381
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Karen Bauer : Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’ān: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xi, 308 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £64.99. ISBN 978 1 107 04152 3.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 381-382
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Mairaj U. Syed : Coercion and Responsibility in Islam: A Study in Ethics and Law. (Oxford Islamic Legal Studies.) xiii, 259 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. £60. ISBN 978 0 19 878877 5.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 585-587
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Shawkat M. Toorawa (ed.): Ibn al-Sāʿī, Consorts of the Caliphs. Women and the Court of Baghdad. Translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xlv, 226 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2015. $30. ISBN: 978 1 47985098 3.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 139-141
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Roger Allen (ed. and trans.): Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us or, A Period of Time, Volume One. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xxxvi, 484 pp. New York and London: New York University Press, 2015. $80. ISBN 978 1 4798 1388 9. - Roger Allen (ed. and trans.): Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī: What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us or, A Period of Time, Volume Two. (Library of Arabic Literature.) viii, 404 pp. New York and London: New York University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 1 4798 6225 2.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 141-142
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Elizabeth Sirriyeh : Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam: A History of Muslim Dreaming and Foreknowing. xiii, 239 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. £64. ISBN 978 1 78076 142 8.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 587-588
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Michael Farquhar : Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education and the Wahhabi Mission. xvi, 271 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. $45. ISBN 978 0 804 79835 8.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 382-384
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Konrad Hirschler : Medieval Damascus. Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafīya Library Catalogue. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture.) x, 525 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. ₤85. ISBN 978 1 4744 0877 6.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 142-144
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A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor (eds): Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation. (I.B. Tauris & BIPS Persian Studies Series.) xxvi, 228 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. ISBN 978 1 78453 239 0.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 384-386
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Luke Yarbrough (ed. and trans.): ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī, The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt. (The Library of Arabic Literature.) xliv, 266 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2016. ISBN 978 1 4798 8945 7.
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Reviews: South Asia
Richard H. Davis : The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography. (Lives of Great Religious Books.) x, 243 pp. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. £16.95. ISBN 978 06911 3996 8.
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- 27 June 2017, pp. 386-387
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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
Nadia Atia : World War I in Mesopotamia: The British and the Ottomans in Iraq. xii, 264 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. £69. ISBN 978 1 78453 146 1.
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- 08 November 2017, pp. 590-592
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Sophia Vasalou : Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics. ix, 342 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. ISBN 978 0 19 939783 9.
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- 14 March 2017, pp. 144-146
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