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Volume 7 - July 1997

Book Review

Society and trade in South Arabia. By R. B. Serjeant, edited by G. Rex Smith. (Collected Studies Series. CS552.) pp. xii, 350, front., illus. Aldershot, Hampshire, Variorum, 1996. £55.00.

The history of the Wahabis from their origin until the end of 1809. The founders of Saudi Arabia. By Louis Alexandre Olivier De Corancez introduced by R. M. Burrell, translated by Eric Tabet pp. xxi, 161. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1995. £25.00.

Religious polemic and the intellectual history of the Mozarabs, C 1050–1200. By Thomas E. Burman. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Vol. 52.) pp. xvi, 407. Leiden etc., E.J. Brill, 1994. NLG 165, US $94.50.

Saladin and Richard the Lionhearted. Selected annals from Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār By al-'Umarī, Edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Eva Rodhe Lundquist. (Studia Orientalia Lundensia, VII) pp. 112, map. Lund, Lund University Press, 1996. SEK 202.

Knowledge and social practice in medieval Damascus, 1190–1350. By Michael Chamberlain. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) pp. xv, 199, 2 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994., £30.00.

Turkoman figural bronze coins and their iconography. Vol. I. The Artuqids. By William F. Spengler and Wayne G. Sayles. pp. xxiv, 193. front., illus., map. Lodi, Wisconsin, Clio's Cabinet, 1992.

Victory in the East: a military history of the First Crusade. By John France. pp. xv, 425, 18 figs. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1994. £35.00.

An Ottoman century: the district of Jerusalem in the 1600s. By Dror Ze'evi. pp. xii, 258. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1996, US $24.95.

Evliyā çelebis Anatolienreise: aus dem dritten Band des Seyāḥatnäme. (Evliya çelebi’s Book of Travels. Land and people of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. Vol. III.) Edited by Korkut M Buḡday. pp. xxiii, 456, map. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1996. NLG 236, US $152.25.

Iran and the Muslim world: resistance and revolution. By Nikki R. Keddie. pp. x, 303. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1995. £45.00.

Haifa: transformation of a Palestinian Arab society 1918–1939. By May Seikaly, foreword by Walid Khalidi. pp. xix, 284, 4 maps. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 1995. £39.50.

A modern history of the Kurds. By David McDowall. pp. xii, 472, 4 maps, London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 1996. £24.50.

The “ancient supremacy”: Bukhara, Afghanistan and the battle for Balkh, 1731–1901. By J. L. Lee. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts. Vol. 15.) pp. xlix, 695, 8 pl., 8 maps. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1996. NLG 295, US $ 190.50.

The army and the creation of the Pahlavi state in Iran, 1910–1926. By Stephanie Cronin. pp. 224. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 1997. £39.50.

Sites et monuments disparus d’après les tèmoignages de voyageurs. Edited by Rika Gyselen. (Res Orientales, Vol. VIII.) pp. 205, illus. Bures-sur-Yvette, Groupe pour l’Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient, 1966.

The Islamic intellectual tradition in Persia. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. edited by Mehdi Amin Razavi pp. xv, 375. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1996. £45.00.

Inscriptions of Gopakṣetra: materials for the history of Central India. By Michael D. Willis, pp. x. 134, 30 bl. & wh. illus., 4 maps. London, British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1996. £25.00.

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