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The Near and Middle East
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B. HALLAQ, R. OSTLE and S. WILD (eds): La Poétique de l'Espace dans la Littérature Arabe moderne. 216 pp. Saint Étienne: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2002. €19.80.
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BERTOLD SPULER (tr. M. ISMAIL MARCINKOWSKI): Persian historiography and geography. xiii, 96 pp. Singapore: Pustaka Nasional Pte. Ltd, 2003. £40.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 91-93
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AKIKO MOTOYOSHI SUMI: Description in Classical Arabic Poetry: Wasf, Ekphrasis, and Interarts Theory. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, 25.) xvii, 251 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. €75.
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PIERRE BRIANT: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. xx, 1,196 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2002. $69.50.
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- 16 July 2004, pp. 229-230
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STEFAN HEIDEMANN and ANDREA BECKER: Raqqa II: die islamische Stadt. vii, 318 pp., 60 plates. 3 fold-out maps. Mainz-am-Rhein: Philipp von Zabern for Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 2003.
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JEAN-CLAUDE GARCIN (ed.): Lectures du Roman de Baybars. (Parcours Méditerranéens.) 320 pp. Marseille: Editions Parenthéses, 2003. €24.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 395-396
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MOHAMMAD GHOLI MAJD: Great Britain and Reza Shah: the plunder of Iran, 1921–1941. xiii, 429 pp. Gainsville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton/Pensacola/Orlanda/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers: University Press of Florida, 2001. £49.50.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 93-95
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JEREMY JOHNS: Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xviii, 390 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £50.
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BHADRIRAJU KRISHNAMURTI: The Dravidian languages. (Cambridge Language Surveys.) xxvii, 545 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. £70.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 95-97
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STEFANO CARBONI (with a contribution by Julian Henderson): Mamluk Enamelled and Gilded Glass in the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar. English text 71 pages, Arabic translation 39 pages. London: The Islamic Art Society, 2003.
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JANE DAMMEN MCAULIFFE (ed.): Encyclopaedia of the Qur'a¯n, Volume Two, E–I. xxiii, 572 pp. Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, 2002. €186.
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BARBARA BREND: Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustration to Amī Khusrau's Khamsah. xxvii, 324 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £60.
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KATHERINE ANNE HARPER and ROBERT L. BROWN (ed.): The roots of Tantra. (SUNY Series in Tantric Studies.) x, 270 pp. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002. $23.95.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 97-99
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NICOLAS VATIN and GILLES VEINSTEIN: Le Sérail Ébranlé: Essais sur les Morts, Dépositions et Avènements des Sultans Ottomans XIVe–XIXe Siècle. 523 pp. Paris: Fayard, 2003. €26.
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GEORGE LANE: Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance. (Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey.) xiii, 330 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £55.
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JULIA A. B. HEGEWALD: Water architecture in South Asia: a study of types, developments and meanings. (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, 24.) xiii, 266 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2002. €96.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 99-101
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MARK LIECHTY: Suitably modern: making middle-class culture in a new consumer society. xvii, 292 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. £13.95.
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- 21 April 2004, pp. 101-102
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HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ and MICHAEL MANN (eds): Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India. vi, 360 pp. London: Anthem Press, 2004.
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JANE HATHAWAY: A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen. xvi, 295 pp. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003. $22.95.
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- 16 July 2004, pp. 240-242
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G. JAN MEULENBELD: A History of Indian Medical Literature. (Groningen Oriental Studies Volume XV/I–III.) Groningen: Egbert Forsten (Ia and Ib) 1999; (IIa and IIb) 2000; (III) 2002. Ia: 1 frontispiece, xvii, 699 pp.; Ib: 1 frontispiece, vi, 774 pp.; IIa: 1 frontispiece, viii, 839 pp. (in addition: reprint of 19 pages defective in Ia); IIb: 1 frontispiece, viii, 1018 pp.; III (Indexes): 1 frontispiece, ii, 549 pp. €600.
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- 17 December 2004, pp. 404-407
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