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Volume 76 - June 2013

Reviews: The ancient Near East

N. J. C. Kouwenberg: The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background. (Languages of the Ancient Near East 2.) xxii, 666 pp. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2010. $89.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 193 1.

Paul Delnero: The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature. (Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplementary Series 3.) vii, 230 pp. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012. £65. ISBN 978 089757088 6.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Sean W. Anthony: The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba’ and the Origins of Shīʿism. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xiii, 352 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €128. ISBN 978 90 04 20930 5.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Yehudah Cohn and Fergus Millar: Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135–700 ce. xxv, 162 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 2013. £25. ISBN 978 0 19 726522 2.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Caterina Bori and Livnat Holtzman (eds): A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah. (Oriente Moderno XC.) ix, 293 pp. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2010. ISBN 977 003054700 4.

Alain George: The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy. 236 pp. London: Saqi, 2010. ISBN 978 086356673 8.

Carl W. Ernst: How to Read the Qur’ān: A New Guide, with Select Translations. x, 273 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. ISBN 978 0 7486 5070 5.

Thierry Bianquis, Pierre Guichard and Mathieu Tillier (eds): Les débuts du monde musulman, VIIe–Xe siècle, de Muhammad aux dynasties autonomes. lvi, 647 pp. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2012. €49. ISBN 978 2 13 055762 3.

Doris Behrens-Abouseif (ed.): The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria – Evolution and Impact. (Mamluk Studies.) 351 pp., 150 figures. Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V&R unipress GmbH, 2012. €160. ISBN 978 3 89971 915 4.

Hans-Thomas Tillschneider: Typen historisch-exegetischer Überlieferung: Formen, Funktionen und Genese des asbāb an-nuzūl-Materials. 580 pp. Würzburg: Ergon, 2011. €75. ISBN 3 89913861 9.

Christine Woodhead (ed.): The Ottoman World. (The Routledge Worlds.) xix, 536 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. £140. ISBN 978 0 415 44492 7.

Zayde Antrim: Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World. xx, 212 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £40. ISBN 978 0 19 991387 9.

Colette Establet and Jean-Paul Pascual: La gent d’état dans la société ottomane damascène. Les ʿaskars à la fin du xviie siècle. 351 pp. Damascus: Institut Français du Proche-Orient, 2011. €30. ISBN 978 2 35159 175 8.

Konrad Hirschler: The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands. A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices. vi, 234 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. £65. ISBN 978 0 7486 4256 4.

Emine Ö. Evered: Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks. xx, 333 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. £56.50. ISBN 978 1 78076 109 1.

David Knipp (ed.): Siculo-Arabic Ivories and Islamic Painting 1100–1300. Proceedings of the International Conference, Berlin, 6–8 July 2007. (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Herziana.) 338 pp. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978 3 7774 4311 9.

Stefan Leder (ed.): Crossroads between Latin Europe and the Near East: Corollaries of the Frankish Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean (12th–14th Centuries). (Istanbuler Texte und Studien, 24.) 289 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2011. €59. ISBN 978 3 89913 846 7.

Denis E. McAuley: Ibn ʿArabī’s Mystical Poetics. (Oxford Oriental Monographs.) ix, 255 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £70. ISBN 978 0 19 965954 8.

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