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Aziz Al-Azmeh: Arabic thought and Islamic societies. (Exeter Arabic and Islamic Series.) [xvii], 295 pp. London: Croom Helm, 1986. £29.95
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Wayne T. Pitard: Ancient Damascus: a historical study of the Syrian citystate from the earliest times until its fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E. ix, 230 pp. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1987. $20. - Hélène S. Sader: Les états araméens de Syrie depuis leurs fondation jusqu' à leur transformation en provinces assyriennes. (Beimter Texte und Studien, Bd.36.) xiii, 306 pp. Beirut: In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1987. DM74.
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Jan-Olaf Blichfeldt: Early Mahdism: politics and religion in the formative period of Islam. (Studia Orientalia Lundensia, Vol. 2.) xii, 137 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. 137 pp. Guilders 48, $21.75.
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L. De Meyer and two others (ed.): Fragmenta Historia Aelamicae: Mélanges offerts à M.-J. Steve. 290 pp. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1986.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 544-546
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William M. Brinner and Stephen D. Ricks (ed.): Studies in Islamic and Judaic traditions: Papers presented at the Institute of Islamic–Judaic Studies, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver. (Brown Judaic Studies, 110.) xiii, 271 pp. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1986. $29.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 321-322
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Raif Georges Khoury: 'Abd Allāh Ibn Lahī'a (97-174/715-790):juge et grand maître de I' école égyptienne. Avec édition critique de I'unique rouleau de papyrus arabe conserve a Heidelberg. (Codices Arabici Antiqui, Bd.4.) [xi], 359 pp., 10 plates. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986. DM 98.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 546-548
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Emmanuel Sivan: Radical Islam: medieval theology and modern politics, x, 218 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. £16.95.
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William M. Brinner: (tr.): [The history of al-ṫabarī.] Vol. II.: Prophets and patriarchs. (Bibliotheca Persica.) xii, 207 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1986. $34.50 (paper $12.95). - C. E. Bosworth (tr.): [The history of al-ṫabarī.] Vol.XXXII. The reunification of the ‘Abbdsid caliphate. (Bibliotheca Persica.) xv, 281 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1987. $32.50 (paper $12.95).
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Amin T. Tibi: The Tibyān: memoirs of 'Abd Allāh b. Buluggīn, last Zīrid Amīr of Granada. Translated from the emended Arabic text. (Medieval Iberian Peninsula, Texts and Studies, Vol. v.) xii, 291 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986. Guilders 90, $41.
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G. R. Hawting: The first dynasty of Islam: the Umayyad Caliphate A.D. 661–750. xx, 141 pp. London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1986. £19.95
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David S. Powers: Studies in Qur’ān and ḥadīth: the formation of the Islamic law of inheritance, xiii, 263 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1986. $30.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 323-324
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Ariel A. Bloch: Studies in Arabic syntax and semantics, xxi, 140 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986. DM48.
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Robert Irwin: The Middle East in the middle ages: the early Mamluk sultanate 1250–1382. [xii], 180 pp. London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1986. £19.95.
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- 24 December 2009, p. 325
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas: Structures of avarice: the Bukhaā in medieval Arabic literature. (Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature. Studies in Arabic Literature, Vol. xi.) x, 183 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. Guilders 60, $27.25.
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John Hansman: Julfar, an Arabian port: its settlement and Far Eastern ceramic trade from the 14th to the 18th centuries, xii, 123 pp. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1986. £25.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 325-327
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Michael W. Dols (tr.): Medieval Islamic medicine: Ibn Ridwdn's treatise ‘On the prevention of bodily ills in Egypt’. Arabic Text edited by Adil S. Gamal. (Comprehensive Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care.) xvi, 186 pp., 63 pp. [Arabic text]. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. ¤35.00.
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Martin Hinds and Hamdi Sakkout: Arabic documents from the Ottoman period from Qasr Ibrīm: texts from excavations. Edited by W. J. Tait, Eighth memoir. viii, 114 pp., 8 plates, map. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1986.
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Louis Awad (ed. and tr.): The literature of ideas in Egypt. Part I. xii, 242 pp. (Arabic Writing Today, vol. III/Studies in Near Eastern Culture and Society, 6.) Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1986. $30 (paper $24).
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Michael W. Dols (tr.): Medieval Islamic medicine: Ibn Ridwdnās treatise ‘On the prevention of bodily ills in Egypt’. Arabic Text edited by Adil S. Gamal. (Comprehensive Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care.) xvi, 186 pp., 63 pp. [Arabic text]. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. ¤35.00.
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Peter M. Holt: The age of the crusades: the Near East from the eleventh century to 1517. (A History of the Near East, ed. P. M. Holt) xiii, 250 pp. London and New York: Longman1986.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 327-328
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