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Volume 12 - July 2002

Book Review

Rise of the Young Turks. Politics, the Military and the Ottoman Collapse. By M. Naim Turfan. pp. xix, 490. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 2000.

The Heart of Islamic Philosophy. The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teaching of Afḍal al-Dīn Kāshānī. By William C. Chittick. pp. 384. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Islamic Paper, a Study of the Ancient Craft. By Helen Loveday. pp. v, 90. London, The Don Baker Memorial Fund. Distributed by Archetype Publications, 2001.

The al-Ṣubayba (Nimrod) Fortress. Towers 11 and 9. By Moshe Hartal. With contributions by Reuven Amitai and Adrian Boas. (Israel Antiquities Authority Reports No. 11.) pp. 130, 197 line drawings and half tones, 22 plans in text. Jerusalem. Israel Antiquities Authority, 2001.

White Banners: Contention in ʿAbbasid Syria, 750–880. By Paul M. Cobb. pp. xx, 228. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001.

Yahya Michot, ed. and trans., Ibn Sīnā: Lettre au vizir Abū Saʿd. Editio princeps d'après le manuscrit de Bursa, traduction de l'arabe, introduction, notes et lexique. pp. 130, 186. Beirut, al-Bouraq, 2000.

Arab Women in the Middle Ages. Private Lives and Public Roles. By Shirley Guthrie. pp. 268. London, Saqi Books, 2001.

The Swahili. The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society. By Mark Horton and John Middleton. pp. 282. illus. 21, maps 11, index, bibliography, tables 3. Oxford, Blackwells, 2001.

Mahdisme et Millénarisme en Islam. Edited by Mercedes Garcia-Arenal. (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, série histoire, 91–94). pp. 328. Aix-en-Provence, Édisud, 2000.

The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam. By Kathryn Kueny. pp. xix, 179. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2001.

Galen: “Über die Anatomie der Nerven”. Originalschrift und alexandrinisches Kompendium in arabischer Überlieferung. Edited and translated by Ahmad M. Al-Dubayan. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 228). pp. 294. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2000.

World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca. Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. By David A. King (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Text and Studies 36). pp. xxviii, 638. Leiden and London, Brill and al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1999.

Between Bible and Qur'ān. The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam). By Uri Rubin. pp. 318. Princeton, Darwin Press, 1999.

Description of Egypt. By Edward William Lane. Edited and with an introduction by Jason Thompson, pp. xxxii, 588. Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2000.

In Quest of God and Freedom: The Sufi Response to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus. By Anna Zelkina. pp. xxiii, 265, London, Hurst and Company, 2000.

The Two Wings of Wisdom: Mysticism and Philosophy in the Risālat Uṭ-ṭair of Ibn Sina. (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 4). By Shokoufeh Taghi. pp. 228. Uppsala, Uppsala University Library, Sweden, 200.

Identification and Identity in Classical Arabic Poetry. By M. C. Lyons. pp. 366. Warminister, E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 1999.

Geschieden von allem ausser Gott: Sufik und Welt bei Abū Abd al-Rahmān as-Sulamī. By Lutz Berger. (Arabische Texte und Studien, Band 12). pp. 219. Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 1998.

Indigo. By Jenny Balfour-Paul. pp. viii, 264, illus.: 150 colour, 50 bl & wh. London, British Museum Press, 1998.

Qajar Portraits. By Julian Raby. pp. 103, figs 3, plates 139. London, I. B. Tauris, 1999.

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