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The Ancient World
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BERND JANOWSKI and GERNOT WILHELM (eds): Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge Band 1. Texte zum Rechts- und Wirtschaftsleben. xv, 372 pp. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2004. 3 579 05289 6. BERND JANOWSKI and GERNOT WILHELM (eds): Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge Band 2. Staatsverträge, Herrscherinschriften und andere Dokumente zur politischen Geschichte. xviii, 406 pp. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2005. 3 579 05288 8.
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MARC J. H. LINSSEN: The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice. (Cuneiform Monographs, 25.) xvi, 343 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill Styx, 2004€106. 90 04 124 2.
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The Near and Middle East
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John C. Lamoreaux: Theodore Abū Qurrah. (Library of the Christian East.) xxxvii, 278 pp. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2005. $29.95. ISBN 0 934893 00 4.
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Dominique Sourdel and Janine Sourdel-Thomine: Certificats de pàlerinage d’époque Ayyoubide. Contribution è l’histoire de l’idéologie de l’Islam au temps des Croisades. (Documents relatifs è l’histoire des Croisades.) 362 pp. Paris: L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2006. ISBN 2 87754 179 7.
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JEAN MAURICE FIEY (ed. LAWRENCE I. CONRAD): Saints Syriaques. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 6.) xxi, 224 pp. Princeton: Darwin Press, 2004. $35. 0 87850 111 8.
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Marwan Nader: Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099–1325). xii, 225 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £55. ISBN 0754 65687 X.
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Abdullah Saeed: Islamic Thought: An Introduction. x, 204 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £14.99. ISBN 0 415 36409 4.
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Camron Michael Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna and Elizabeth B. Frierson (eds): The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History. xi, 657 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £75. ISBN 0 19 926209 8.
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SULEIMAN ALI MOURAD: Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Baṣrī (d. 110/728 CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship. (Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science, LXII.) xi, 339 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 90 04 14829 9.
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John H. Pryor (ed.): Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 30 September to 4 October 2002. xxxii, 365 pp. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. £55. ISBN 0 7546 5197 5
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SOUTH ASIA
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Shoshee Chunder Dutt: Selections from “Bengaliana” (ed. Alex Tickell). 168 pp. Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2005. £9.95. ISBN 1 84233 049 7.
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RICHARD M. FRANK: Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. 1. Edited by Dimitri Gutas. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 392 pp. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. £62.50. 00 86078 977 2.
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William Gervase Clarence-Smith: Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. xxvi, 293 pp. London: Hurst and Company, 2006. £40. ISBN 1 85065 708 4.
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JOSEF W. MERI: The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria. (Oxford Oriental Monographs.) xiv, 327 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. £55. 0 19 925078 2.
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Colette Sirat: Writing as Handwork: A History of Handwriting in Mediterranean and Western Culture. (Bibliologia – BIB 24.) 575 pp. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. €75. ISBN 2 503 52116 9.
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Richard F. Gombrich: Theravāda Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo (Second edition.). (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) xiii, 234 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £16.99. ISBN 0 415 36509 0.
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RUDOLPH PETERS: Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century. (Themes in Islamic Law, 2.) x, 219 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. £16.99. 0 521 796709.
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Jens Braarvig (ed.): Buddhist Manuscripts, Volume II. (Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, Volume III.) xxiv, 370 pp., with facsimiles. Oslo: Hermes Publishing, 2002. ISBN 82 8034 003 3.
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Gerald De Gaury (ed. Bruce Ingham): Review of the ‘Anizah Tribe. xvii, 92 pp. Beirut: Kutub, 2005. $40. ISBN 9953 417 97 0.
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Ronald M. Davidson: Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture. xiv, 596 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. £21. ISBN 0 231 13471 1.
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