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Keiji Yamamoto and Charles Burnett (ed. and trans.):The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar, with an edition of the Greek version by David Pingree.(Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies.) 2 vols. xi, 947; viii, 466 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 978 90 04 38114 8.
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Bertrandon De La Brocquière (trans. Thomas Johnes): A Mission to the Medieval Middle East. The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquière to Jerusalem and Constantinople. xvi, 336 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019. £85. ISBN 978 1 7807 6432 0.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 141-142
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Gerrit Bos: Maimonides: Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms: A New Parallel Arabic–English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations. Volume 2. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, 14/2.) viii, 307 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 42552 1.
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Rachida Chih: Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal, and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (Routledge Sufi Series.) vii, 171 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. $126. ISBN 978 0 367 13589 8.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 143-144
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Arianna D'Ottone Rambach (ed.): Palaeography between East and West: Proceedings of the Seminars on Arabic Palaeography at Sapienza University of Rome. 191 pp. Rome and Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2018. ISBN 978 88 3315132 8.
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- 23 July 2020, pp. 334-336
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Beata Sheyhatovitch: The Distinctive Terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābādī. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 96.) ix, 267 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 36912 2.
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Jonathan E. Brockopp: Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622–950. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xi, 232 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. ISBN 978 1 107 10666 6.
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- 23 July 2020, pp. 336-338
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Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar and Cornell H. Fleischer (eds): Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4), 2 Vols. (Muqarnas, Supplements, Volume 14.) Vol. 1, ix, 1080 pp., Vol. 2, vii, 239 pp., facsimile edition of manuscript 363 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €120. ISBN 978 90 04 40248 5.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 144-146
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Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Eric Staples: A Maritime Lexicon: Arabic Nautical Terminology in the Indian Ocean. (Studies on Ibadism and Oman.) 641 pp. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019. $98. ISBN 978 3 487 15393 3.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 146-148
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Ahmed El Shamsy: Rediscovery of the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 312 pp. ISBN 978 0 69117456 3.
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- 15 December 2020, pp. 525-527
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Aydogan Kars: Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam.(AAR Academy Series.) xii, 344 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. ISBN 978 0 19 094245 8.
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- 23 July 2020, pp. 338-340
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John Tolan: Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today. xii, 309 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 691 16706 0.
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- 23 July 2020, pp. 340-341
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Osman Latiff: The Cutting Edge of the Poet's Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades. (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades.) xii, 299 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 34521 8.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 148-150
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Richard Van Leeuwen:The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One: The Near and Middle East.) ix, 832 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 36253 6.
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- 15 December 2020, pp. 527-529
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Gaga Shurgaia: Vaxt'ang I Gorgasali re di Kartli. Alle origini dell'autocefalia della Chiesa ortodossa di Georgia. 706 pp. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2018. £60. ISBN 978 88 7210 397 5.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 150-151
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Pieter Coppens: Seeing God in Sufi Qur'an Commentaries: Crossings between This World and the Otherworld. (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Apocalypticism and Eschatology.) x, 294 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 1 4744 3505 5.
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- 23 July 2020, pp. 342-343
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Barry Wood: The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil, a Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance. (Studies on Performing Arts and Literature of the Islamicate World 8.) xxiii, 485 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €127. ISBN 978 90 04 38352 4.
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Giovanni Maria Martini: ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate. (Islamicate Intellectual History, 4.) xxv, 495 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 35288 9.
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- 23 July 2020, pp. 343-345
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Kevin L. Schwartz:Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900. (Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World.) 248 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. £75. ISBN 978 147445084 3.
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Hamid Dabashi: The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature. 249 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. £27. ISBN 978 023154494 8.
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- 19 March 2020, pp. 152-153
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