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Volume 7 - July 1997

Book Review

The Islamic and Christian calendars AD 622–2222 (AH 1–1650). A complete guide for converting Christian and Islamic dates and dates of festivals. Revised third edition. By G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. pp. vi, 113. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1995. £12.95.

New Arabian studies 3. Edited by G. Rex Smith, J. R. Smart and B. R. Pridham. pp. xxii, 269 (English), 28 (Arabic), illus. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1996. £25.00.

La quiétude de l’intellect: Néoplatonisme et gnose ismaélienne dans l'oeuvre de Ḥamīid ad-Dīn al-Kirmānī (Xc/XIcS.). By D. De Smet (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 67.) pp. xi, 429. Louvain, Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 1995. BEF 3000.

Two Arabic versions of the Book of Ruth. Text edition and language studies. By Per Å. Bengtsson. (Studia Orientalia Lundensia, VI.) pp. xxxiii, 214, 11 pl., addenda and corrigenda slip. Lund, Lund University Press, 1995.

Siculo Arabic. By Dionisius Agius. (Library of Arabic Linguistics, Monograph 12.) pp. 542 + 10 (Arabic), 8 pi. London, Kegan Paul International, 1996. £65.00.

Politics and revelation. Māwardī and after. By Hanna Mikhail, pp. xxxii, 95. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1995. £29.95.

Beyond faith and infidelity. The Sufi poetry and Teachings of Maḥmūd Shabistarī. By Leonard Lewisohn (Curzon Sufi Series.) pp. viii, 344. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1995. £14.99.

A reader on classical Islam. By F. E. Peters. pp. xvi, 419. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1994. US$55.00/£39.50 (cloth), US$19.95/£15.00 (paperback).

All the king's falcons. Rumi on prophets and revelation. By John Renard, foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. pp. xviii, 216. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1994. US $16.95.

Symbol and secret: Qur’an commentary in Bahā’U’llah'S Kitāb-i Ïqān. By Christopher Buck. (Studies in die Babi and Bahā’ī Religions, Vol. 7.) pp. xliv, 326, 5 illus. Los Angeles, Kalimāt Press, 1995. US$42.50 (cloth), US$32.50 (paperback).

Abū Ya'qūb al-Sijistānī: intellectual missionary. By Paul E. Walker. (Institute of Ismaili Studies, Ismaili Heritage Series.) pp. xv, 132. London and New York, I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1996. £35.00.

The Christian communites of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic rule. A historical and archaeological study. By Robert Schick. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 2.) pp. xviii, 583, 24 pl., 9 maps. Princeton, NJ, Darwin Press, 1995. US$ 59.95.

Poetry and mysticism in Islam. The heritage of Rūmī. Edited by Amin Banani, Richard Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh. (Georgio Levi Della Vida Conferences, No. II, May 8–10, 1987.) pp. ix, 204. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £40.00.

A history of Arab-Islamic geography (9th-16th century A. D.). By Sayyid Maqbul Ahmad. pp.xxxv, 454, pl. Amman, Al al-Bayt University, Mafraq. A. H. 1416, A. D. 1995.

The eye of the beholder. The life of Muḥammad as viewed by the early Muslims. A textual analysis. By Uri Rubin (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 5.) pp. ix, 289. Princeton, NJ, The Darwin Press Inc., 1995. US $27.50.

The making of Orthodox Byzantium 600–1025. By Mark Whittow. (New Studies in Medieval History.) pp. xxv, 477, 15 maps. Houndmills, Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Press, 1996., £45.00 (cloth), £16.99 (paperback).

Muslims, Jews and Pagans. Studies on early Islamic Medina. By Michael Lecker. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts. Vol. 13.) pp. xviii, 180, 2 maps. Leiden etc., E.J. Brill, 1995. NLG 95.US $54.50.

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