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Volume 10 - November 2000

Book Review

Sancti Gregorii Nazianzeni Opera. Corpus Christianorum. By Helene Metreveli, (ed.). (Series Graeca 36. Corpus Nazianzenum 5). pp. xl, 295. Turnhout, Brepols, 1998.

Oeuvres Philosophiques & Scientifiques d'al-Kindi, Volume 2, Métaphysique et cosmologie. Edited by Roshdi Rashed and Jean Jolivet, pp. 243. Leiden, Brill, 1998.

Oral poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia 3: Bedouin Poets of the Dawasir Tribe. Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern Najd. By P. Marcel Kurpershoek. pp. xx, 507. Leiden, E.J. Brill. 1999.

The Mingana and Related Collections: a Survey of Illustrated Arabic, Greek, Eastern Christian, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. By Lucy-Anne Hunt. pp. 93. (Birmingham: The Mingana Collection of the Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust.)

Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam. By Robert G. Hoyland (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 13). pp. xviii, 872. Princeton, The Darwin Press, 1997.

The final sack of Nineveh. The discovery, documentation, and destruction of King Sennacherib's throne room at nineveh, Iraq. By John Malcolm Russell. pp. 248, 38 fig., 277 pl. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998. £40.00.

Liebe und Liebesdichtung in der arabischen Welt des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts. Eine literatur-und mentalitätsgeschichtliche Studie des arabischen Gazal. By Thomas Bauer. (Diskurse der Arabistik, 2). pp. 549. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998.

Die Rechtsbücher des Qairawāners Saḥnūn b. SaʿId: Entstehungsgeschichte und Werküber-lieferlung. By Miklos Muranyi. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 52, 3). pp. xviii, 196, 5 facsimiles. Stuttgart, Steiner, 1999.

The Arabic Literary Heritage: the development of its genres and criticism By Roger Allen. pp. xxxvii, 437. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

The Syriac version of the Old Testament: An Introduction. By M. P. Weitzman. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 56). pp. xvi, 357. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

The Origins of the Koran. Classic essays on Islam's holy book. Edited by Ibn Warraq. pp. 411. Amherst (N.Y.), Prometheus Books, 1998. $32.95.

Islamic law and culture, 1600–1840. By Haim Gerber. (Studies in Islamic Law and Society, 9). pp. 156, bibliography, index. Leiden, Brill, 1999.

Infants, parents and wet nurses. Medieval Islamic views on breastfeeding and their social implications. By Avner Giladi. (Islamic History and Civilization vol. 25). pp. x, 191. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1999.

Sherherazade through the looking Glass: The metamorphosis of the Thousand and one nights. By Eva Sallis. pp. xi, 169. Richmond, Curzon, 1999.

Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihād and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier. By Michael Bonner. (American Oriental Series, vol. 81). pp. xv and 221 with appendix, glossary, bibliography and index. American Oriental Society, 1996.

The Quest for the historical Muhammad. Edited and translated by Ibn Warraq. pp. 554. Amherst (New York), Prometheus Books, 2000.

Bibliographia aethiopica II: the Horn of Africa in English literature. By Hans Wilhelm Lockot, edited and revised by Siegbert Uhlig and Verena Bōll. (Aethiopische Forschungen Band 41). pp. lvii, 827. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1998.

Splendours of an Islamic World. By Henri and Anne Stierlin. pp. 219, illus. London, I. B. Tauris, 1999.

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth Century. The Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with part of the Eracles or Acre text. Ed. by J. Shirley. (Crusade Texts in Translation 5). Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999. £35.00

Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. By Adnan Aslan. pp. xiv, 290. Richmond, Curzon Press, 1998.

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