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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 27 - Issue 2 - December 1993

Religious and Legal Studies

Book Reviews

The Reliance of the Traveller: A Classical Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, by Aḥmad ibn Naqīb al-Miṣrī (769/1368), trans. by Noah Ha Mim Keller. 1232 pages. Dubai, UAE: Modern Printing Press, 1991. (Currently available from Sunna Books, P.O. Box 6143, Evanston, IL 60204) $40 isbn 0-9638342-0-7

Mystical Poems of Rumi 2: Second Selection, Poems 201-400, by Jalal Al-Din Rumi. Translated by A.J. Arberry and edited by Ehsan Yarshater. 178 pages. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN 0226731529

The Seven Valleys, by Bahá’u’lláh, translated by ‘Alí-Kulí Khán with Marzieh Gail. 81 pages, notes, bibliography. Oxford: Oneword Publications, Ltd., 1992. £4.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-85168-031-4

World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 1, edited by Geoffrey Roper. (Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation) 569 pages, index. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992. $143 (Cloth) ISBN 1-873-992-01-7

History, Historiography & Philosophy before 1900

Book Reviews

Islam and the Middle East: The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry, by Mona Abul-Fadl. (Research Monographs, 2) 61 pages, notes, index. Herndon, VA: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1990. (Paper) ISBN 0-912463-74-0

The Concise History of Islam and the Origin of its Empires, by Gregory C. Kozlowski 99 pages, maps, glossary, bibliography. Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group, 1991. $7.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-87411-489-6

A History of Palestine, 634-1099, by Moshe Gil. Translated by Ethel Broido. 968 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. $125 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-40437-1

Jewish Civilization: The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective, by S.N. Eisenstadt (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies) 314 pages, notes, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. $74.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7914-1095-1

The Science of Mystic Lights: Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy, by John Walbridge. (Harvard Middle East Monographs 26) 296 pages, figures, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-932885-06-3

Follower and Heir of the Prophet: Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī (1564-1624) as Mystic, by J.G.J. ter Haar 183 pages, bibliography, glossary, index. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1992. HFL 60 (Paper) ISBN 90-72865-03-0

The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources, by Mehmed Fuad Köprülü. Translated by Gary Leiser. 101 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Inc., 1992. $19.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87480-403-5

Timuridische Emire nach dem Mu‘izz al-ansāb: Untersuchung zur Stammesaristokratie Zentralasiens im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert, by Shiro Ando. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 153) 337 pages, appendix, bibliography, indices, tables. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1992. ISBN 3-922968-95-3

The Pasha’s Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858, by Kenneth M. Cuno (Cambridge Middle East Library: 27) 277 pages, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, indices. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. $59.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-40478-9

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Religious and Legal Studies

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History, Historiography & Philosophy before 1900

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