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Volume 15 - July 2005

Book Review

The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion and Politics. Edited by Anthony O'Mahony. pp. vi, 210. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2002.

Die “Beschreibung der Zeiten” von Mōr Michael dem Grossen (1126–1199). Eine Studie zu ihrem historischen und historiographiegeschichtlichen Kontext. (Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium 594; Subsidia 110). By Dorothea Weltecke. pp. xvi, 323. Louvain, Peeters, 2003.

La Tienda Turca Otomana de la Real Armería (c. 1650–1697). By Antonio Fernández-Puertas. pp. 143. Madrid, Patrimonio Nacional, 2003

Nasīr al–Dīn Tūsī, Paradise of Submission, A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought: A New Persian Edition and English Translation of Tūsī's Rawda–yi Taslīm. By S. J. Badakhchani. pp. 300. London, I B Tauris, 2005.

A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism. Ibn al-Jawzī's Kitāb Akhbār Aṣ-Ṣifāt. By M. Swartz. A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text with Translations, Introduction and Notes. pp. 330 and 116 pages Arabic text. Leiden, Brill, 2002

Texts, Documents and Artefacts. Islamic Studies in Honour of D. S. Richards. Edited by Chase F. Robinson (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, volume 45). pp. xiii, 417. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2003.

The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View. By Mohammad Ali Syed. pp. xiv, 135. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2004.

The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition. The Qur'ān Commentary of al-Tha ‘labī (d. 427/1035). By Walid A. Saleh (Texts and Studies on the Qur'ān, ed. by Gerhard Böwering and Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Vol. 1). pp. 282. Leiden, Brill, 2004.

Charmes et Sortilèges, Magie et Magiciens. Edited by Rika Gyselen. (Res Orientales, XIV) pp. 304. Bures-sur-Yvette, Groupe pour l'étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 2002.

The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410. By Peter Jackson. pp. xxxiv, 414. Harlow, Pearson, Longman, 2005.

Historical Thinking in South Asia: A Handbook of Sources from Colonial Times to the Present. Edited with an introduction by Michael Gottlob. pp. xv, 318. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the Theology of Aristotle. By Peter Adamson, pp. x, 240. London, Duckworth, 2002

Islamic Mysticism Contested: Three Centuries of Controversies and Polemics. Edited by Frederrick de Jong and Bernd Radtke. (Islamic History and Civilization Series, Vol. 29). pp. xii, 829. Leiden, Brill, 1999.

Poverty and Charity in Middle East Contexts. Edited by Michael Bonner, Mine Ener and Amy Singer. pp. 345. New York, State University of New York Press, 2003.

The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions. Edited by Liz Wilson. pp. xi, 212. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 2003.

Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen. Edited by St.John Simpson. pp. 224, 260 colour, 50 black and white illus. London, the British Museum Press, 2002.

Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, VOL. iii. Indo-Islamic Society 14th-15th Centuries. By André Wink. pp. xi, 282. Leiden, Brill, 2004.

Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. By Carl W. Ernst. pp. 244. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins. Edited by Herbert Berg. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts. No. 49.) pp. xiv, 402. Leiden, Brill, 2003.

Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History: Selected Articles and Essays. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 81). By Kamal Karpat. pp. xii, 856. Leiden, Brill, 2002.

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