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Volume 84 - October 2021

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Ryan J. Lynch: Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography. The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri. (The Early and Medieval Islamic World.) xiv, 254 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. ISBN 978 1 63860 439 4.

Gabriel Said Reynolds: Allah: God in the Qur'an. x, 327 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. £20. ISBN 978 0 30024658 2.

Jokha Alharthi: The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The ʿUdhri Tradition. xvi, 270 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. £80. ISBN 978 1 4744 8633 0.

Peter Behnstedt and Aharon Geva-Kleinberger: Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Israel): With some Data for Adjacent Areas. (Handbook of Oriental Studies 135.) 452 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 978 90 04 41066 4.

Carlos A. Segovia (ed.): Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories. 245 pp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 90 485 4010 5.

Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi (translated by Michael Sells): The Translator of Desires: Poems. (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation.) 323 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 0 69118134 9.

Ali Humayun Akhtar: Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad. xv, 262 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 107 18201 1.

C.Z. Chowdhury: A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. (Monographs in Arab and Islamic Studies.) xii, 228 pp. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox, 2019. ISBN 978 1 78179 522 4.

Leor Halevi: Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935. xi, 367 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $75. ISBN 978 0 23118866 1.

Farid Suleiman: Ibn Taymiyya und die Attribute Gottes. (Welten des Islams – Worlds of Islam – Mondes de l'Islam.) xi, 388 pp. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. €109.95. ISBN 978 3 11 062322 2.

Raymond Allchin and Norman Hammond (revised and updated by Warwick Ball with Norman Hammond): The Archaeology of Afghanistan from Earliest Times to the Timurid Period. xxxiii, 711 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 7486 9917 9.

Omid Ghaemmaghami: Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts.) xii, 276 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. ISBN 978 90 04 34048 0.

Reviews: South Asia

Emilie Aussant and Gerard Colas (eds): Les scolastiques indiennes. Genèses, développements, interactions. (Études thématiques 32.) 326 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême Orient, 2020. €40. ISBN 978 2 85539 270 7.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Philipp Wirtz: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World. (Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near East.) ix, 175 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978 0 36788177 1.

V.L. Ménage (edited with additions by Colın Imber): Ottoman Historical Documents: The Institutions of an Empire. xix, 207 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ISBN 978 1 4744 7936 3.

Venetia Porter with Natasha Morris and Charles Tripp: Reflections. Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. 256 pp. London: The British Museum Press, 2020. £25. ISBN 978 0 7141 1195 7.

Reviews: East Asia

Guillaume Jacques: A Grammar of Japhug. (Comprehensive Grammar Library 1.) xxvi, 1562 pp. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. ISBN 978 3 98554 001 3 (hardcover), 978 3 96110 305 8 (digital edition).

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Reviews: The Near and Middle East

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