Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 30 - December 1996
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Pre-Modern History
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies, edited by Averil Cameron. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 1, vol. III) 491 pages, maps, notes, index. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87850-107-X
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Religious & Legal Studies
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Symbol and Secret: Qur’ān Commentary in the Bahā’u’llā Kitāb-i Iqān, by Christopher Buck. (Studies in the Bābī and Bahā’ī Religions Vol. 7) 326 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix. Los Angeles: Kalimāt Press, 1995. $32.50 (Paper) ISBN 0-933770-80-4
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Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times, by George F. Hourani. Revised and expanded by John Carswell. 189 pages, maps, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 0-691-00032-8
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Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway, by Akbar S. Ahmed. (BBC Books) 260 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. London: Penguin, 1995. £6.99 (Paper) ISBN 0-14-025020-4
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Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam, by Steven M. Wasserstrom. 308 pages, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-691-03455-9
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Christian-Muslim Encounters, edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & Wadi Z. Haddad. 508 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. $29.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8130-1356-9
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Das Aleppiner Kalifat (A.D. 1261): Vom Ende des Kalifates in Bagdad über Aleppo zu den Restaurationen in Kairo, by Stefan Heidemann. (Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 6) 424 pages, maps, diagrams, plates, glossary, bibliography, index. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. $120.00 (Cloth) ISBN 90-04-10031-8
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Pioneers of Islamic Revival, edited by Ali Rahnema. (Studies in Islamic Society) 279 pages, notes, index. London & New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994. $25.00 (Paper) 1-85649-254-0
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Merchants & Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean, by Patricia Risso. (New Perspectives on Asian History) 152 pages, maps, notes bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8133-8911-9
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History before 1900
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The History of al-Tabarī, Vol. XXVIII. ‘Abbāsid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al-Manşūr A.D. 753-763/A.H. 136-146, translated, annotated with an Introduction by Jane Dammen Mcauliffe. (Bibiotheca Persica) 326 pages, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. $18.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7914-1895-2
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Kitab al-Siyar, by ’Abū al-’Abbās’Aḥmad Ibn Sa’īd al-Shammākhī Edited by Mohammed Hassen. (Kuliyyat al-’Ulūm al-’Insāniyya wa-I-’Ijtimā’iyya. Series 4, vol. 30) 466 pages, index. Tūnis, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 9973-922-36-0
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Irshād al-arīb ilā ma‘rifat al-adīb, Mu‘jam al-udabā’, by Yāqūt (d. 626/1229). Edited by Iḥsān Abbās’. 7 volumes with continuous pagination. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1993.
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Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, by Haskell D. Isaacs. (Cambridge University Library Genizah Series II) 144 pages, b&w plates, bibliography, indices. Port Chester, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-47050-1
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The Emergence of the ‘Abbāsid Autocracy: The ‘Abbāsid Army, Khurāsān and Adharbayjān, by Fukuzo Amabe. 333 pages, maps, tables, Arabic sources, notes, glossary, index. Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press, 1995. (Cloth) ISBN 4-87698-024-1
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The Book in the Islamic World: the Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, edited by George N. Atiyeh. 305 pages, illustrations, figures, notes, appendix, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-7914-2474-X
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Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World, edited by Metin Kunt & Christine Woodhead. 218 pages, tables, notes, glossary, bibliographical guide, maps, index. Essex: Longman Group UK, 1995. £13.99 (Paper) ISBN 0-582-03827-8
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Le Waqf dans l’Espace Islamique: Outil de Pouvoir Sociopolitique, edited by Randi Deguilhem. 337 pages, illustrations, notes, figures, tables, indices, abstracts. Damascus: L’Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 2-901315-13-5
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Kultur und Alltag im Osmanischen Reich: Vom Mittelalter bis zum Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts, by Suraiya Faroqhi. 402 pages, map, b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronology, index. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1995. DM58 (Cloth) ISBN 3-406-39660-7
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Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East, edited by L. Carl Brown. 337 pages, notes, maps, illustrations, bibliographical suggestions, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. $49.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-10304-2
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Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1080–1261, by Michael Angold. 604 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $89.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-26432-4
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