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Volume 80 - October 2017

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sabine Schmidtke (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. xi, 815 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ₤95. ISBN 978 0 19 969670 3.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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