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THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST
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Michael Bonner Jihad in Islamic History, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 197 pp. ISBN 0 691 12574 0. £14.95
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A. A. Seyed-Gohrab and S. McGlinn: The Essence of Modernity: Mirza Yusof Khan Mustashar ad-Dowla Tabrizi’s Treatise on Codified Law (Yak Kaleme). [viii], xxviii, 114 pp. Amsterdam, Utrecht and West Lafayette, Indiana: Rozenberg SG and Purdue University Press, 2007. ISBN 978 90 5170 899 8.
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Jonathan Brown The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. (Islam History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xxii, 431 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 15839 9. €129
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- 20 October 2008, pp. 570-572
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David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn (eds): Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. x, 323 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. $24.95. ISBN 0 253 21727 X.
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Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne (eds): Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society. (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East.) xiii, 231 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £70. ISBN 978 0 415 42439 4.
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D. G. Tor: Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyār Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien.) 318 pp. Istanbul: Orient-Institut/Würzburg: Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2007. €58. ISBN 978 3 89913 553 4.
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Iris Shagrir Ronnie Ellenblum Jonathan Riley-Smith In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. (Crusades – Subsidia 1.) xxiii, 468 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 6140 5. £70
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Antony Copley: A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writing of Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood. xi, 397 pp. Lanham MD and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2006. $30.95. ISBN 978 0 7391 1465 0.
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Michael Axworthy Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, London: Hurst & Co., 2007. xvi, 333 pp. ISBN 978 1 85065 8711 9. £25
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Heinz Fähnrich: Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. (Handbuch der Orientalistik.) 873 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. €199. ISBN 978 90 04 16109 2.
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Édith Parlier-Renault: Temples de l’Inde méridionale (vie–viiie siècles): La mise en scène des mythes. 413 pp. Paris: Presses Universitaires de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2006. €45. ISBN 978 2 84050 464 1.
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Dominic Parviz Brookshaw Seena B. Fazel The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, London and New York: Routledge, 102008. (Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies.) xv, 283 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 35673 2. £70
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Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black (eds): Gender and Narrative in the Mahābhārata. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series.) xix, 326 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. £95. ISBN 0 415 41540 3.
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Martin Gaenszle and Jörg Gengnagel (eds): Visualizing Space in Banaras: Images, Maps, and the Practice of Representation. 358 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. €48. ISBN 3 447 05187 6. Niels Gutschow: Benares, The Sacred Landscape of Vārānasī. 498 pp. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. £89. ISBN 393668104X.
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Ebba Koch: The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra. 288 pp. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. £39.95. ISBN 0 500 342091.
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Farhad Daftary The Ismāīlīs: Their History and Doctrines. (Second edition.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxi, 772 pp. ISBN 978 0521 61636 2. £40
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K. R. Norman: Elders’ Verses II: Therīgāthā. (Second Edition.) (Pali Text Society Translation Series No. 40.) xci, 242 pp. Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2007. £22.50. ISBN 978 086013 436 7.
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IstvÁn VÁsÁry Turks, Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries, Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 352 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 5929 7. £65
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David Morgan: The Mongols. (Second Edition.) (The Peoples of Europe.) xxii, 246 pp. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell, 2007. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 3539 9.
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Soonil Hwang: Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana. (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism.) xv, 160 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £60. ISBN 978 0 7546 53691.
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