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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 28 - Issue 1 - July 1994

Religious Studies

Book Reviews

Ibn Al ‘Arabī: The Bezels of Wisdom, translated by R.W.J. Austin (The Classics of Western Spirituality Series) 302 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Paulist Press, 1992. $10.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8091-2331-2

Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam, by Wilferd Madelung. (Collected Studies Series, 364) 337 pages, addenda and corrigenda, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1992. $89.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86078-310-3

The Search for God’s Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī, by Bernard G. Weiss 745 pages, tables. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992. $65 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87480-356-X

Mit den Waffen des Gegners: Christlich-muslimische Kontroversen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, by Christine Schirrmacher. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 162) 437 pages, bibliography, indices. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1992. (Paper) ISBN 3-87997-205-2

The Political Language of Islam, by Bernard Lewis. 168 pages, notes, index. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. $9.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-226-47693-6

Geneologies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, by Talal Asad. 335 pages, references, index. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8018-4632-3

Historiography & History before 1900

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The Distant Shrine: The Islamic Centuries in Jerusalem, by F.E. Peters (AMS Studies in Modern Society: Political and Social Issues, No. 22) 275 pages, maps, appendix, index. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1993. $39.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-404-61629-1

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Problems in the Literary Source Material, edited by Averil Cameron & Lawrence I. Conrad (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: 1) 428 pages, map, photo, index. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1992. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87850-080-4

The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. X: The Conquest of Arabia, translated & annotated by Fred M. Donner Preface by Ehsan Yar-Shater. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies) 216 pages, maps, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-7914-1072-2

Moses Maimonides, by Oliver Leaman. (Arabic Thought and Culture) 190 pages, references, bibliography, index. London: Routledge, 1990. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-415-03481-7

Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order, edited by Michael Adas. (Critical Perspectives on the Past) 379 pages, maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, contributors. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-55639-067-2

Art & Architecture

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Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapı Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, by Gülru Necipoğlu. (Architectural History Foundation) 336 pages, maps, appendices, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. $50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-262-14050-0

Islamic Art and Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait, edited by Esin Atil. Foreword by Hussa Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah. 313 pages, illustrations, map, tables, concordance, bibliography, notes. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. $75 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8478-1366-5

Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza, by Sadek Mohamed-Moain. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 144) 700 pages, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1991. (Paper) ISBN 3-922968-76-7

Monuments of Syria: An Historical Guide, by Ross Burns. 297 pages, maps, plans, photos, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1993. $95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8147-1200-2

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