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Volume 8 - April 1998

Book Review

Medieval Isma'ili History and Thought. Edited by Farhad Daftary. pp. xviii, 331. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1996. £40.00 (US $59.95).

The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. By Wilferd Madelung. pp. xviii, 413. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1997. £45.00.

Obituary

Frank Steele, OBE

Book Review

Daghestan, Tradition and Survival. By Robert Chencinar. pp. 308, 139 bl. and wh. illus., 4 maps, bibliography, index. Richmond, Curzon Press, 1997.

The Islamic Middle East: an Historical Anthropology. By Charles Lindholm. pp. xxviii, 324, 23 illus., 6 figs., 5 maps. Oxford, Blackwell, 1996. £55.00 (Cloth), £14.99 (Paperback).

Sayat῾-Nova. An 18th century Troubadour. A Biographical and Literary Study. By Charles J. F. Dowsett. (Corpus Scriptorum Chrisrianorum Orientalium, 561; Subsidia 91) pp. xviii, 508. Louvain, Peeters, 1997. 4200 BEF.

The Middle East: 2000 years history from the rise of Christianity to the present day. By Bernard Lewis, pp. xiv, 433. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995. £20.00.

Annäherungen: der Mystisch-Philosophische Briefwechsel zwischen Ṣadr ud-Dīn-i Qūnawī and Naṣīr ud-Dīn-i Ṭūsī. Edition and commentary Gudrun Schubert. (Bibliotheca Islamica, Band 43). pp. xii, 70 in German, 174 in Arabic. Beirut and Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. DM96.

Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. By Denys Pringle. pp. xx, 159, 113 bl. & wh. illus., 62 figs, 4 tables, 10 maps, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

A survey of the Islamic sites near Aden and in the Abyan district of Yemen. By Geoffrey King and Cristina Tonghini. pp. viii, 96, 35 pls., 11 figs., including 3 maps. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996. £18.00.

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. Vol. III: States, Resources and Armies. Edited by Averil Cameron, pp. xvi, 491, 3 maps. Princeton, Darwin Press, 1995. US $35.00

Excavations at Khirbet Khatuniyeh. Saddam Dam Report II. By J. Curtis and A. Green. pp. xii, 180, 70 bl. & wh. photos, maps, plans. London, British Museum Press, 1997.

Religion and Politics under the early ‘Abbāsids: the emergence of the proto-Sunnī elite. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman. (Islamic History and Civilizations Studies and Texts, Vol. 16). pp. xii, 232. Leiden etc., Brill, 1997. US$85.75.

The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh, with an Introduction by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. (Twelfth Giorgio Levi della Vida Biennial Conference), pp. 121. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. £30.00.

Pre-Islamic Yemen: Socio-political organization of the Sabaean cultural area in the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad. By Andrej Vitalyevich Korotayev. pp. XII, 301, 1 diagram, 4 tables, 1 map. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996, DM 128.

Arabian diversions: Studies on the dialects of Arabia. By Bruce Ingham. pp. xv, 193. Reading, Ithaca Press,

The making of Iraq 1900–1963: Capital, Power and Ideology. By Samira Haj. pp. vii, 215. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1997. US$18.95.

Contes nouveaux des 1001 nuits. Étude du manuscrit Reinhardt. By Aboubakr Chraibi. pp. 290. Paris, Librairie d'Amerique et d'Orient, Jean Maisoneuve Successeur, 1996.

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Book Review

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