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Volume 4 - November 1994

Book Review

Rethinking world history: essays on Europe, Islam and world history. By Marshall G. S. Hodgson, edited by IIIEdmund Burke. (Studies in Comparative World History.) pp. xxi, 328. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £35.00 (cloth), £12.95 (paperback).

Early mesopotamia and Iran. Contact and conflict c. 3500–1600 bc. Proceedings of a seminar in memory of Vladimir G. Lukonin. Edited by John Curtis, pp. 95, 12 col. pl., 32 bl. and wh. pl., 29 figs. London, British Museum Press, 1993. £14.95.

The name of Manichaean mythological figures. A comparative study on terminology in the Coptic sources. By Paul Van Lindt. (Studies in Oriental Religions, 26.) pp. 247. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992. DM 138.

World Survey of Islamic manuscripts. Vol. II. Edited by Geoffrey Roper, pp. vi, 724. London, Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1993. Distributed by E.J. Brill, Leiden. Dfl. 250. US $143.00.

The Middle East and Europe. Encounters and exchanges. Edited by Geert Jan van Gelder and Ed de Moor. (Orientations I.) pp. 180. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia, Rodopi BV, 1992.

Islamic history: a framework for enquiry. Revised edition. By R. Stephen Humphreys, pp. xiv, 401. Princeton, NJ., Princeton University Press, 1991. US $39.95 (cloth), US $12.95 (paperback).

History of Islamic philosophy. By Henry Corbin, translated by Liadain Sherrard with the assistance of Philip Sherrard. pp. xviii, 445. London & New York, Kegan Paul International in association with Islamic Publications for the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 1993. £55.00.

Saint Louis, crusader king of France. By Jean Richard, edited and abridged by Simon Lloyd, translated by Jean Birrell. pp. xxix, 354, 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press; Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1992. £40.00.

Arabic legal and administrative documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections. By Geoffrey Khan. (Cambridge University Library Genizah Series, 10.) pp. xviii, 567, 16 pl. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £100.00.

The Lion of Egypt. Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century. By Peter Thorau, translated by P. M. Holt. pp. xiii, 321, 5 maps. London and New York, Longman, 1992. £13–50.

Avicenna. By Lenn E. Goodman. (Arabic Thought and Culture.) pp. xv, 240. London and New York, Routledge, 1992. £12.99.

Islam: the straight path. By John L. Esposito. Second Edition, pp xi, 251, map. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1994. £7-99.

Trade and empire in Muscat and Zanzibar: roots of British domination. By M. Reda Bhacker. (Exeter Arabic and Islamic Series.) pp. xxx, 278, 3 figures, 8 maps. London and New York, Routledge, 1992. £40.00.

Approaches to the Qur'ān. Edited by G. R. Hawting and Abdul-Kader A. Shareef. (Routledge/SOAS Series on Contemporary Politics and Culture in the Middle East.) pp. xiv, 336. London and New York, Routledge, 1993. £40.00.

Festgabe an Josef Matuz: Osmanistik-Turkologie-Diplomatik. Edited by Christa Fragner and Klaus Schwarz with a foreword by Bert G. Fragner. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 150.) pp. 364, illus. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1992.

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