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Volume 9 - April 1999

Book Review

The Life of the Prophet Muhammad Al-Sira al-Nabawivya. By Ibn Kathir, Volume 1, translated by Trevor Le Gassick, reviewed by Ahmed Fareed (The Great Books of Islamic Civilization), Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1998.

The Cambridge History of Egypt. Vol. II: Modern Egypt From 1517 to the end of the Twentieth Century. Edited by M. W. Daly. pp. xii, 463, 1 map. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.£120 for the 2 volume set.

The Baburnama. Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. Translated and edited by Wheeler M. Thackston. pp. 472, illus. New York, Oxford University Press, in association with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1996. US$39.95.

A Gateway to Hell, A Gateway to Paradise: The North African Response to the Arab Conquest. By Elizabeth Savage. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, no. 7). pp. x, 206, 11 col. plates, 4 maps. Princeton, The Darwin Press, 1997. US $29.95.

The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society. Edited by Thomas Phillip and Ulrich Haarmann. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), pp. xiv, 306, 2 tables, 6 maps, index. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. £35.00.

The Egyptian Upper Class between Revolutions, 1919–1952. By Magda Baraka. (St Antony's Middle East Monographs, 30). pp. xv, 328, 20 tables, 2 figures, 4 plates, 2 appendices, bibliography, index. Reading, Ithaca Press, 1998. £35.00.

Narratives on Islamic origins; the beginnings of Islamic historical writing. By Fred Donner. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 14). pp. xv, 358. Princeton, New Jersey, Darwin Press, 1998. US$29.95.

L'Iran face à la domination Mongole. Edited by Denise Aigle. (Bibliothèque Iranienne 45). pp. 354. Tehran, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1997.

The Book of Misers. Al-Bukhalaʿ. By Al-Jahiz. Translated by ProfessorR. B. Serjeant, reviewed by DrEzzedin Ibrahim (The Great Books of Islamic Civilisation), pp. xxvii, 259, 6 col. illus. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1997.

Représentations de l'Islam dans la France du XVIIe Siècle la Ville des tentations. By Dominique Carnoy. pp. 368. Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998

The Tomb of Christ. By Martin Biddle. pp. xii, 172, 47 col. illus., 50 bl. & wh., 6 plans, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999. £25.00.

Arabs and Others in Early Islam. By Suliman Bashear. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 8). pp. viii, 161. Princeton, The Darwin Press, 1997. US $24.95

Early Persian tilework: the Medieval flowering of Kāshi. By Douglas Pickett. pp. 211, 35 figs., 145 plates. London, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, Teaneck, and Associated University Presses, 1997. £80.00.

The Composition of John's Gospel. Selected Studies from Novum Testamentum. Compiled by David E. Orton. (Brill's Readers in Biblical Studies, 2). pp. 259, indexes. Leiden, Boston & Cologne, Brill, 1999.

Muscovy and the Mongols: cross-cultural influences on the steppe frontier, 1304–1589. By Donald Ostrowski. pp. xvi, 329. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. £40.00.

Bihzad: Master of Persian Painting. By Ebadolla Bahari, foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. pp. 272, 70 col. illus., 40 bl. and wh. illus., map. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 1996., £65.00.

The history of al-Ṭabarī, volume xvii. The first civil war. Translated and annotated by G. R. Hawting. pp. xxi, 250. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1996. $18.95.

Flexibility and limitation in steppe formations: the Kerait khanate and Chinggis Khan. By Isenbike Togan (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, vol. xv). pp. xxii, 192. 6 plates, 2 maps. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1998. NLG 120.50, US$71.00.

The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn. Foreword By Javad Nurbakhsh. Introduction By S. H. Nasr. pp. 434. London and New York, Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1992.

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