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Volume 75 - October 2012

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Dietrich Jung: Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam. (Comparative Islamic Series.) 323 pp. Sheffield and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 900 9.

Doris Behrens-Abouseif (with contributions by Nicholas Warner; photographs by Bernard O'Kane): The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Empire. xvi, 352 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84885 539 7.

Michael A. Reynolds: Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918. xx, 303 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 521 14916 7.

Farida Shaheed with Aisha Lee Shaheed: Great Ancestors: Women Claiming Rights in Muslim Contexts. xxxvii, 220 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 19 547636 1.

Sarah D. Shields: Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II. xi, 306 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 19 539331 6.

Benjamin C. Fortna: Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. xiv, 247 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 0 230 23296 9.

Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (eds): Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. xiv, 264 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. ISBN 978 977 416 398 2.

Reviews: South Asia

Gérard Fussman and Anna Maria Quagliotti: The Early Iconography of Avalokiteśvara. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, fasc. 80.) 152 pp. Paris: Collège de France, 2012. ISBN 978 286803080 1.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Lawrence G. Potter (ed): The Persian Gulf in History. viii, 326 pp. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £19. ISBN 978 0 230 61282 2.

S. Sayyid and Abdoolkarim Vakil (eds): Thinking through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives. x, 319 pp. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2010. £15.99. ISBN 978 1 85065 990 7. - Chris Allen: Islamophobia. vii, 210 pp: Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 7546 5140 6.

Jenny Rose: Zoroastrianism: An Introduction. xxiv, 303 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £14.99. ISBN 978 1 84885 088 0.

Reviews: South Asia

Jennifer Howes: Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784–1821). xiv, 269 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 806441 1.

Danièle Masset: Stances des Thera (Theragāthā). (Pali Text Society Translation Series No. 55.) 488 pp. Bristol: Pali Text Society, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 086013 486 2.

Pia Brancaccio: The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion. (Brill's Indological Library.) xxii, 332 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2011. €108. ISBN 978 90 04 18525 8.

Oskar von Hinüber: A Critical Pali Dictionary. Begun by Vilhelm Trenckner. Vol. III: Fascicle 8 kāmadhātu–kāreti. Bristol and Copenhagen: The Pali Text Society and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2011. xv–xxxvii, 15–37, 387–474 pp. ISBN 978 086013 483 1.

Jean Deloche: A Study in Nayaka-Period Social Life: Tiruppudaimarudur Paintings and Carvings. (Collection Indologie 116.) 136 pp. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole Française d'Extreme-Orient, 2011. ISBN 978 285539 108 3.

Avril A. Powell: Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire. (Worlds of the East India Company.) xvi, 318 pp. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84383 579 0.

Naomi Appleton: Jātaka Stories in Theravāda Buddhism: Narrating the Bodhisatta Path. ix, 176 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. £45. ISBN 978 140941092 8.

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