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Volume 8 - April 1998

Book Review

The World of Ibn Ṭufayl: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān. Edited by Lawrence I. Conrad. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies Vol. XXIV) pp. 308. Leiden, New York and Köln, E. J. Brill, 1996.

Saudi Arabia by the First Photographers and The Emirates by the First Photographers. By William Facey and Gillian Grant. Both books pp. 128, illus. London, Stacey International, 1996. £25.00 each.

Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought. By Louise Marlow. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) pp. xv, 198. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Damas et sa principauté sous les Saljoukides et les Bourides (468–549/1076–1154). Vie politique et religieuse. By Jean-Michel Mouton. (Textes Arabes et Etudes Islamiques, tome xxxiii.) pp. xvii, 414, 29 figs., fold-out map. Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994.

Rūzbihān Baqlī: Mysticism and Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. By Carl W. Ernst. (Curzon Sufi Series) pp. xxvi, 181. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1996. £12.99.

Syrian Ismailism: the ever living line of the Imamate, a.d. 1100–1260. By Nasseh Ahmad Mirza. pp. xiii, 150, maps. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1997. £14.99.

The Commerce and Trade of the Rasulids in the Yemen, 630–858/1231–1454. By Nayef Abdullah al-Shamrookh. pp. 398, 10 coloured plates, 10 bl. & wh. plates, 3 maps. State of Kuwait, 1996.

The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlis. By Jane Hathaway. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) pp. xvii, 198, 4 maps, 4 figs., 4 tables. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1997. £30.00 (US$49.95).

Middle East Sources: Compiled and edited by Ian Richard Netton. (A melcom guide to Middle Eastern and Islamic books and materials in United Kingdom and Irish Libraries). pp. xx, 197. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon, 1998.

Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought. By Daniel W. Brown. (Cambridge Middle East Studies, 5.) pp. x, 185. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1996. £30.00.

Syria: cradle of civilisations. By Alain Cheneviere. pp. 191, numerous colour plates. London, Stacey International, 1996. £35.00

Le mytho-cycle héroïque dans l'aire Indo-européenne: Correspondances et Transformations Helléno-aryennes. By Christophe Vielle. (Publications de L'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 46). pp. 253. Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Orientaliste, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1996. FB 1995.

A history of Islamic legal theories: an introduction to Sunnī uṣūl al-fiqh. By Wael B. Hallaq. pp. ix, 294. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1997. £35.00.

The Epic of Gilgamesh. Translated from the Arabic by Sumaya Shabandar. pp. 96. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994.

Die Natur in der Bildersprache des Šāhnāme. By Jürgen Ehlers. (Beiträge zur Iranistik, Band 16). pp. xii, 282. Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1995.

Poet and hero in the Persian Book of Kings. By Olga M. Davidson, pp. xiii, 197. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1994.

Manis Kosmogonische Šābuhragān-texte. Edition, Kommentar und Literaturgeschichtliche Einordnung der Manichäisch-Mittelpersischen Handschriften M98/99 I und M7980–7984. By M. Hutter. (Studies in Oriental Religions, 21.) pp. ix, 175, 20 pls. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992.

῾Abdullāh Anṣārī of Herāt (1006–1089 c.e.): an early Ṣūfi master. By A. G. Ravān Farhādi. (Curzon Sufi Series), pp. xiv, 158, illus., map. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1996. £12.99.

Mughal Gardens: Sources, Representations, Places and Prospects. Edited by James L. WescoatJr. and Joachim Wolschke Bulmahn. (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XVI). pp. 288, illus. Washington DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996. US $60.00.

Desinformation als Methode. Die Baha'ismus Monographie des F. Ficicchia. By Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh and Ulrich Gollmer. (Religionswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, Band 6). pp. xiii, 685. Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag, 1995. DM 65.

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