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michael sokoloff: a dictionary of jewish babylonian aramaic of the talmudic and geonic periods. (dictionaries of talmud, midrash and targum, iii.) 1582 pp. ramat-gan, israel: bar ilan university press; baltimore and london: the johns hopkins university press, 2002. michael sokoloff: a dictionary of judean aramaic. (dictionaries of talmud, midrash and targum, iii.) 88 pp. ramat-gan, israel: bar ilan university press, 2003.
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michel tanret: per aspera ad astra. l'apprentissage du cunéiforme à sippar-amna¯num pendant la période paléobabylonienne tardive. (mesopotamian history and environment, series iii, texts. volume i: sippar-amna¯num: the ur-utu archive, tome 2.) x, 178 pp., 35, xlv plates. ghent: university of ghent, 2002.
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MARC VAN DE MIEROOP: King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography. (Blackwell Ancient Lives.) xii, 171 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. £14.99.
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JEAN-JACQUES GLASSNER (trans. Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop): The Invention of Cuneiform. Writing in Sumer. xvii, 266 pp. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. £31.
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- 23 March 2005, pp. 107-109
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amar annus: the god ninurta in the mythology and royal ideology of ancient mesopotamia. (state archives of assyria studies vol. 14.) xvi, 242 pp. helsinki: university of helsinki, neo-assyrian text corpus project, 2002.
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RYKLE BORGER: Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 305.) viii, 712 pp. Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2004.
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- 23 March 2005, pp. 109-111
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DAVID T. RUNIA and GREGORY E. STERLING (eds): The Studia Philonica Annual. Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, vol. XIII: In the Spirit of Faith: Studies in Philo and Early Christianity in Honor of David Hay, and vol. XV: Laws Stamped with the Seals of Nature: Law and Nature in Hellenistic Philosophy and Philo of Alexandria. (Brown Judaic Studies, 332 and 337.) 304 pp. (vol. XIII), 199 pp. (vol. XV). Providence: Brown University, 2001 (vol. XIII) and 2003 (vol. XV).
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A. R. GEORGE: The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts. 2 vols. xxxv, 741 pp., iii, 743–986 pp., 147 plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. £175.
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- 23 March 2005, pp. 111-113
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KAYS MUTLU: İsmet Özel: Individualität und Selbstdarstellung eines Türkischen Dichters. (Bibliotheca Academica Orientalistik, 5.) viii, 108 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004. €24.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 465-467
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jürgen wasim frembgen: nahrung für die seele: welten des islam. 175 pp. munich: staatliches museum für völkerkunde, 2003.
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- 06 September 2005, pp. 309-310
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john carswell with a contribution by julian henderson: iznik: pottery for the ottoman empire. 164 pp. london: the islamic art society, 2003.
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- 06 September 2005, pp. 311-312
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R. M. WHITING (ed.): Mythology and Mytholologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences. Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project. xxv, 288 pp. Helsinki, 2001. $99. A. PANAINO and G. PETTINATO (eds): Melammu Symposia III. Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena: Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Chicago, USA, October 27–31, 2000. xi, 266 pp. Bologna: Università de Bologna and ISIAO, 2002.
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COLIN IMBER: The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power. xiv, 405 pp., 5 maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. £14.99.
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- 25 November 2005, pp. 467-469
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aboubakr chraibi (ed.): les mille et une nuits en partage. 528 pp. paris: sindbad, actes sud, 2004. €30.
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DILWORTH B. PARKINSON and ELABBAS BENMAMOUN (eds): Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII–XIV. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.) xiii, 248 pp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. €102. DILWORTH B. PARKINSON and SAMIRA FARWANEH (eds): Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XV. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.) 214 pp. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. €110.
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HERBERT BERG (ed.): Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins. (Islamic History and Civilizations: Studies and Texts, 49.) xiv, 402 pp. Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill, 2003. €120.
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MUHAMMAD BA¯QIR AS-SADR: Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence (translated and with an introduction by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh). x, 208 pp. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003. £14.99.
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ALAN DUNDES: Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Qur'an. xiv, 89 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. £12.95.
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elie kedourie: the chatham house version and other middle-eastern studies. xvi, 488 pp. chicago: ivan r dee, 2004. £17.95.
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KATAJUN AMIRPUR: Die Entpolitisierung des Islam. ‘Abdolkarim Soru¯šs Denken und Wirkung in der Islamischen Republik Iran. (Ex Oriente Lux, 1.) 247 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2003.
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