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David J. Wasserstein: The caliphate in the West: an Islamic political institution in the Iberian Peninsula. xiv, 280 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. £35.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 143-144
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Anne-Marie Eddé and Françoise Micheau (tr.): Al-Makīn Ibn al-ՙAmīd, Chronique des Ayyoubides (602–658/1205–6–1259–60). (Documents relatifs à l'Histoire des Croisades, xvi.) 146 pp. Paris: L'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1994.
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Michael Meineckje: Die mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 923/1517). Teil I: Genese, Entwicklung und Auswirkungen der mamlukischen Architektur. Teil II: Chronologische Liste der mamlukischen Baumassnahmen. (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo. Islamische Reihe, Bd. 5). xiv, 243 pp., 142 pis., 10 foldout plans; x, 576 pp. Glückstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin GmbH, 1992. DM 490.
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Suraiya Faroqhi: Pilgrims and sultans: the hajj under the Ottomans 1517–1683. xi, 244 pp. London: I. B. Tauris, 1994. £34.50.
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Daniel Martin Varisco: Medieval agriculture and Islamic science: the almanac of a Yemeni sultan. (Publication on the Near East, University of Washington, no. 6.) xv, 349 pp., 2 maps. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1994. $40.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 148-150
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Jonathan Owens: A grammar of Nigerian Arabic. (Semitica Viva, no. 10.) 276 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993.
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Ahmet T. Karamustafa: God's Unruly Friends: dervish groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period 1200–1550. xi, 159 pp., 7 plates. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994. $27.50.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 152-153
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ՙAbadallāh Muḥammad al-Ḥabashī (comp.): Fihris makhṭūṭat baՙḍ al-maktabāt al-khāṣṣa fī՚l Yaman (= Catalogue of the manuscripts of some of the private libraries of the Yemen). Edited by J. Johansen. (Publication no. 12.) [ix], 506 pp. London: al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1994. £24.
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Linda L. Layne: Home and homeland: the dialogics of tribal and national identities in Jordan. xvi, 188 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. $29.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 154-155
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Alastair Hamilton: Europe and the Arab world: five centuries of books by European scholars and travellers from libraries of the Arcadian Group. 207 pp. Oxford: The Arcadian Group in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1994. £55.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 155-157
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Marina Stagh: The limits of freedom of speech: prose literature and prose writers in Egypt under Nasser and Sadat. (Stockholm Oriental Studies, 14.)x, 374 pp. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 157-159
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Edward Keith-Roach: Pasha of Jerusalem: memoirs of a District Commissioner under the British Mandate. xix, 244 pp. London: The Radcliffe Press, 1994. £19.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 159-160
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Leonard Swidler (ed.): Muslims in dialogue: the evolution of a dialogue. (Religions in Dialogue, 3.) xviii, 356 pp. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. £49.95.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 160-161
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Gé Speelman, Jan van Lin and Dick Mulder (ed.): Muslims and Christians in Europe: breaking new ground. Essays in honour of Jan Slomp. 211 pp. Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok, 1993.
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Moshe Gammer: Muslim resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. xxiii, 452 pp. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1994. £45.
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Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. v: Saka documents VII: the St. Petersburg Collection. By Ronald E. Emmerick and Margarita I. Vorob'ëva-Desjatovskaja. 25 pp., 159 plates. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1994. £47.
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Dale F. Eickelman (ed.): Russia's Muslim frontiers: new directions in cross-cultural analysis. (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies.) 206 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. $29.95 (paper $12.95).
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 164-165
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Hanns Oertel: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Heinrich Hettrich und Thomas Oberlies. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 32.) 2 vols. xv, 772; v, 773–1669 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. DM 330. - Rudolf von Roth: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Konrad Meisig. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd.36.) xv, 743 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. DM 168.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 165-166
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Aditya Malik: Das Puṣkaramāhātmya: ein religionswissenschaftlicher Beitrag zum Wallfahrtsbegriff in Indien. Erörterung, Text, Übersetzung. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung Sudasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, 155.) xiii, 409 pp., 2 maps, 8 plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 146.
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Pratapadity Pal (ed.): The peaceful liberators: Jain art from India. 279 pp. Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. £45.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 167-168
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