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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 29 - Issue 1 - July 1995

Religious & Legal Studies

Book Reviews

A Reader on Classical Islam, by F.E. Peters. 420 pages, sources, index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. $15.00 (Paper) ISBN 0691000499

Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi’s Manual of Islam, by Yaḥyā Ibn Sharaf Al-Nawawī. Translated by Noah Ha Mim Keller. 92 pages, appendices. Evanston, IL: Sunna Books, 1994. $9.95 (Paper) ISBN 0–9638342-1–5

23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad, by Ali Dashti. Translated by F.R.C. Bagley. 228 pages, notes on the author and translation, indices. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1994 $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 1–5685-9–029-6

The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, edited by Leonard Lewisohn. Foreword by Dr.Javad Nurbakhsh. Introduction by S.H. Nasr. 434 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. London & New York: Khaniqah Nimatullahi Publications, 1992. (Paper) ISBN 0–933546-46–7

Morals for the Heart: Conversations of Shaykh Nizam ad-din Awliya, translated & annotated by Bruce B. Lawrence. The Classics of Western Spirituality Series. 404 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Paulist Press, 1992. $16.95 (Paper) ISBN 0–8091-04512

Women in the Qur’an, Traditions and Interpretation, by Barbara Freyer Stowasser. 206 pages, notes, references, glossary, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0–19-508480–2

Language & Literature

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The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet, by Grace Martin Smith. (University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 127) 146 pages, glossary, selected bibliography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. n.p. (Paper) ISBN 0–520-09781–5

The Secret of Secrets, by Hadrat ‘Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani, Interpreted by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak Al-Jerrahi Al-Halveti. (Golden Palm Series) Foreword by Syed Ali Ashraf. 122 pages, illustrations. Cambridge, England: Islamic Texts Society, 1992. $9.95 (Paper) ISBN 0–946621-29–2

Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes by ‘Alqama, Shánfara, Labíd, ‘Antara, Al-A’sha and Dhu al-Rúmma, translated by Michael A. Sells. 78 pages, glossary. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. $18.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0–8195-1158–7

The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance, by Victoria Rowe Holbrook. 217 pages, index, selected bibliography, notes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. $37.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0–292-73080–2

Women and Words in Saudi Arabia, The Politics of Literary Discourse, by Saddeka Arebi. 357 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Columbia University Press, 1994. $17.50 (Paper) ISBN 0–231-08421–8

Egyptian Writers Between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim & Gamal al-Ghitani, edited by Samia Mehrez. 161 pages, notes. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 1994. $34.50 (Cloth) ISBN 977–424-325–0

For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech, translated by Kenneth Whitehead & Kevin Anderson. Preface by the editors, Publisher’s Statement by George Braziller. 302 pages. New York: George Braziller, 1994. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 080761355x

Ramza, by Out El Kouloub. Translated and with an introduction by Nayra Atiya. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 201 pages. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. $14.50 (Paper) ISBN 0–8156-0280–4

Formal Spoken Arabic, Fast Course, by Karin C. Ryding & Abdelnour Zaiback. 222 pages, appendices, glossaries & 7 cassettes ($75.00). Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0–878402845

Ta ‘Riib Al-Kalima Al-a‘Ghamiyyay, by Ibn Kamal Pasha. 185 pages. Damascus: L’Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas, 1991. n.p. (Cloth) no ISBN

Reference Works

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Multi-Dictionary, Hebrew-Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew, by Edna Lauden & Liora Weinbach. 714 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Tel Aviv: Cordova Press, 1993 $25.00 (Paper) ISBN 965–390-003-x

Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen: Palästina IVa Bilād aš-Šām I, by Lutz Ilisch. Foreword by Josef van Ess, Heinz Gaube & Wolfgang Röllig. 51 pages, bibliography, plates, maps. Tubingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1993. n.p. (Paper) ISBN 3–8030-1100–0

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