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Joseph E. Lowry. Early Islamic Legal Theory: The Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfi’ī. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 30. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xv + 443 pages, appendix, bibliography, indices. Cloth US$191 ISBN 978-90-04-16360-7.

Frank Griffel. Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii + 408 pages, timetable, endnotes, bibliography, indexes. Cloth US$74 ISBN 978-0-19-533162-2.

Ussama Makdisi. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 280 pages, endnotes, index. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4621-4; Paper US$19.95 ISBN 978-0-8014-7575-7.

Wael B. Hallaq. An Introduction to Islamic Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vii + 200 pages, glossary, chronology, suggested further reading, index. Paper US$31.99 ISBN 978-0-521-67873-5.

Flagg Miller. The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. xxiv + 525 pages, maps, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index. Paper US$29.95 ISBN 978-0-932885-32-6.

Ali Modarres. Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2006. 199 pages. Paper US$45 ISBN-10:1568591403.

Esther Hertzog, Orit Abuhav, Harvey E. Goldberg, And Emanuel Marx, Eds. Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2010. xi+752 pages. Paper US$45 ISBN 978-0-8143-3050-0.

John Renard, ed. Tales of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv + 413 pages, endnotes, illustrations, appendix, glossary, indices. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 9780520258969.

Konrad Hirschler. Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors. New York: Routledge, 2006. iii-x + 181 pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$160 ISBN 968-0-415-38377-6.

Roy Jackson. Fifty Key Figures in Islam. London: Routledge Key Guides, 2006. xvi+ 261 pages. Paper US$26.95 ISBN 978-0415354684-4.

Diane Singerman, ed. Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2009. xv + 488 pages. Cloth US$34.95 ISBN 978-9774162886.

Jane I. Smith. Islam in America. Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xvii+232 pages. Paper US$24.50 ISBN: 978-0-231-14711-8.

R. Kevin Jaques. Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xix + 299 pages, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth US$147.00 ISBN: 90-04-14745-4.

Paul M. Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn. When Ways of life Collide. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Paper US$19.95 ISBN 978-0-691-14101-5.

P. K. Kumaraswamy, ED. Caught in Crossfire: Civilians in Conflicts in the Middle East. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2008. 236 pages, chronology, index. Paper US$34.50 ISBN: 978-0-86372-334-6.

Tamir Sorek. Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 220 pages, index. Cloth US$27.99 ISBN 978-0-221-87048-1.

Robert D. Lee. Religion and Politics in the Middle East: Identity, Ideology, Institutions, and Attitudes. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009. xi + 352 pages, tables, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$35 ISBN: 978-0-8133-4420-1.

Abdulkader Tayob. Religion in Modern Islamic Discourse. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. viii + 200 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$50 ISBN 978-0-231-15432-1.

Ariel Lewin. The Archaeology of Ancient Judah and Palestine. With Sandu Mendrea, Dinu Mendrea, and Radu Mendrea (Photographers). Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. 204 pages, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth US$39.95 ISBN 0-8923-6800-4.

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