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Volume 31 - February 1999

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Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 13 (Princeton, N.J.: Darwin Press, 1997). Pp. 890. $49.95 cloth.

Nelly Hanna, Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of lsmaʿil Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998). Pp. 246. $44.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Rainer Brunner, Annäherung und Distanz. Schia, Azhar und die islamische Ökumene, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 204 (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 1996). Pp. 328.

Glenn E. Perry, The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1997). Pp. 368. No price available.

Anna Baldinetti, Orientalismo e Colonialismo: La ricerca di consenso in Egitto per l'impresa di Libia (Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente “C.A. Nallino,”1997). Pp. 199. No price available.

Volker Perthes, The Political Economy of Syria under Asad (London: I. B. Tauris, 1995. Pp. 308. $19.95 paper.

Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dâr al-Iftâ, Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997). Pp. 431.

Fatima Mernissi, The Forgotten Queens of Islam (Polity Press and Blackwell Publishers, 1993; reprint, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). Pp. 238.

Malika Zeghal, Gardiens de L'Islam (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 1996). Pp. 381.

Daniel Pipes, The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996). Pp. 416.

Timothy J. Piro, The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan (Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). Pp. 149. $19.95 paper.

Thomas F. Mathews and Roger S. Wieck, ed., Treasures in Heaven. Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press and New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994). Pp. 246.

Michael J. Cohen. Fighting World War Three from the Middle East. Allied Contingency Plans, 1945–1954 (London; Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1997). Pp. 364. $49.50 cloth, $24.00 paper.

Frank E. Vogel and Samuel L. Hayes III, Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998). Pp. 345. $95.00 cloth.

Joel Beinin, The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora, Contraversions 11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Pp. 341.

André Raymond, Égyptiens et Français an Caire 1798-1801 (Cairo: Institut Francais d'Archéologie Orientale), 1998. Pp. 391. No price available.

Nathalie Mazraani, Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making (Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997). Pp. 264.

Ofra Bengio, Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, Studies in Middle Eastern History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Pp. 266.

Farhad Daftary, ed., Medieval lsma ʿili History and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Pp. 349. $59.95 cloth.

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