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International Journal of Middle East Studies
ISSN: 0020-7438

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Volume 9 - August 1978

Book Reviews

Peter Beaumont, Gerald H. Blake, and J. Malcolm Wagstaff, The Middle East: A Geographical Study (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1976). Pp. xvii + 572.

Lois A. Giffen, Theory of Profane Love Among the Arabs: The Development of the Genre, New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization, III (New York: New York University Press, 1971). Pp. xvii + 167.

Gustav Nachtigal, Sahara and Sudan, vol. I, Tripoli and Fezzan, Tibesti or Tu. Trans. from the German by Allen B. Fisher and Humphrey J. Fisher (London: C. Hurst & Company,, 1974). pp. xix + 460.

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Aharon Layish, Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State (New York: Halsted Press; Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1975). Pp. 369.

F. E. Peters, Allah's Commonwealth: A History of Islam in the Near East, 600–1000 A.D. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973). Pp. 800.

William L. HanawayJr, trans., Love and War: Adventures from the Firuz Shāh Nāma of Sheikh Bighamī, Persian Heritage Series, 19 (New York: UNESCO, 1974). Pp. 208.

The Function of Documents in Islamic Law: The Chapters on Sales from Ṭaḥāwi's Kitāb al-Shurūṭ al-Kabīr. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeanette A. Wakin (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1972). Pp. ix, 121, and 203; 3 p1.

Richard Hill, trans., On the Frontiers of Islam: The Sudan under Turco-Egyptian Rule, 1822–1845 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970). Pp. xxx + 234.

M. A. Shaban, Islamic History: A New Interpretation, vol. 2, A.D. 750–1055 (A.H. 132–448) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976). Pp. 221.

Norman Daniel The Cultural Barrier: Problems in the Exchange of Ideas (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975). Pp. 227.

Pierre Oberling, The Qashqā'i Nomads of Fārs (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974). Pp. 277.

A. F. L. Beeston, Samples of Arabic Prose in its Historical Development (Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the Board of Management of the James Mew Fund, 1977). Pp., 47.

Elie Kedourie, In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon–Husayn Correspondence and Its Interpretations, 1914–1939 (Cambridge, London, New York, and Melbourne:Cambridge University Press, 1976). Pp. xii + 330.

Derek Hill and Lucien Golvin, Islamic Architecture in North Africa (London: Faber and Faber; Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1976). Pp. 167, 560 figs., II color plates.

Louis Dupree and Linette Albert, eds., Afghanistan in the 1970s. Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development (New York: Praeger, 1974). Pp. xi + 266.

Eckart Ehlers, Traditionelle und Moderne Formen der Landwirtschaft in Iran (Marburg and Lahn: Marburger Geographische Schriften, 1975). Pp. 289.

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