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Volume 75 - October 2012

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Emeri Van Donzel and Andrea Schmidt: Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources: Sallam's Quest for Alexander's Wall. (Brill's Inner Asian Library.) xx, 271 pp., 12 plates. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 17416 0.

Bethany Walker: Jordan in the Late Middle Ages. Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier. (Chicago Studies on the Middle East.) xii, 338 pp. Chicago: Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, 2011. ISBN 978 0 9708199 7 0.

Persis Berlekamp: Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam. xi, 220 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. £45. ISBN 978 030017060 3.

Nelly Hanna: Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600–1800). (Middle East Studies beyond Dominant Paradigms.) 244 pp. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. $34.95. ISBN 978 0 8156 3279 5.

Johanna Pink: Sunnitischer Tafsir in der modernen islamischen Welt. Akademische Traditionen, Popularisierung und Nationalstaatliche Interessen. (Brill Texts and Studies on the Qur'an.) xiv, 380 pp. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2011. €119. ISBN 978 90 04 18592 0.

Alexander Knysh: Islam in Historical Perspective. xiii, 534 pp. London and New York: Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN 978 0 321 39877 2.

Christiane Gruber (ed.): The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections. xviii, 281 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. ISBN 978 0 253 35377 1.

Alan Mikhail: Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. (Studies in Environment and History.) xxv, 347 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £55. ISBN 978 1 107 00976 2.

Thomas Kuehn: Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference: Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1849–1919. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage.) xviii, 292 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. €121. ISBN 978 90 04 21131 5.

Jürgen Wasim Frembgen (ed.): The Aura of Alif: The Art of Writing in Islam. 256 pp. Munich, London and New York: Prestel, 2010. £40. ISBN 978 379135065 3.

Mariam Rosser-Owen: Islamic Arts from Spain. 116 pp. London: V&A Publishing, 2010. £30. ISBN 978 1 86177 598 9.

Cem Emrence: Remapping the Ottoman Middle East. Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and the Islamic State. (Library of Ottoman Studies.) xi, 192 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. £52.50. ISBN 978 1 84885 958 6.

David Nicolle: Late Mamlūk Military Equipment: Travaux et Études de la Mission Archéologique Syro-Française Citadelle de Damas (1999–2006) vol. III. 396 pp. Damascus: Presses de ifpo, 2011. $68. ISBN 978 2 35159 045 4.

Amit Bein: Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic: Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition. ix, 212 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978 0 8047 7311 9.

Allen James Fromherz: Ibn Khaldun, Life and Times. xiii, 190 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 7486 4483 4.

Sibel Zandi-Sayek: Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840–1880. xvii, 273 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. $27.50. ISBN 978 0 8166 6602 7.

M. Şükrü Hanioğlu: Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography. xvi, 273 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. £19.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15109 0.

V. Necla Geyikdaği: Foreign Investment in the Ottoman Empire: International Trade and Relations 1854–1914. (Tauris Academic Studies.) xiv, 232 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. £54.50. ISBN 978 184885 461 1.

Peter Sluglett with Stefan Weber (eds): Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule. Essays in Honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq. (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage.) xxiii, 633 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2010. €187. ISBN 978 90 04 18193 9.

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