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Suriya N. Faroqhi, ed. The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 3: The later Ottoman Empire 1603–1839. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxi + 619 pages. Cloth US$165.00 ISBN 0-521-62095-3.

Christian Lange. Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 298 pages, bibliography, index. Cloth US$99 ISBN 978-0-521-88782-3.

Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas, eds. Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xi + 384 pages, endnotes, index. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-8047-5566-3.

Bahman Maghsoudlou. Grass: Untold Stories. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2009. 310 pages, preface, footnotes, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth US$45 ISBN 978-1568592213.

Gary S. Gregg. The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology. Series in Culture, Cognition, and Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 470 pages, endnotes, index. Cloth US$52.95 ISBN 0-19517-199-3.

Gerald McLean, ed. Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics and Cultural Identity. London: Middlesex University Press, 2006. xiii + 160 pages. Paper £15 ISBN 978-1904750574.

Leor Halevi. Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xiii + 400 pages, index. Cloth US$38 ISBN 978-0-231-13742-3.

Nicola Migliorino. (Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. 242 pages. Bibliography, list of interviews, index. Cloth US$75 ISBN 978-1-84545-352-2.

Benny Morris. 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xiii + 524 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$32.50 ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xiii + 247 pages, footnotes, bibliography, appendix. Paper US$25.95 ISBN 978-0-691-13466-6.

Reza Pouejavady and Sabine Schmidtke. A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: ‘Izz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and His Writings. Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science, Texts and Studies, volume LXV. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xii + 274 pages. Cloth US$162 ISBN 978-9004151390.

Timothy Insoll. The Land of Enki in the Islamic Era: Pearls, Palms and Religious Identity in Bahrain. London: Kegan Paul, 2005. xxvii + 395 pages, appendices, references, index. Cloth US$161.50 ISBN 0-7103-0960-0.

Lawrence Rosen. Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. 256 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$35 ISBN 0-226-72616-9.

Shihan De Silva Jayasuriya. The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008. 212 pages, illustrations, maps. Cloth US$85.00 ISBN 978-1-84511-585-2.

Orhan Kemal. The Idle Years. London: Peter Owen Publishers, 2008. 223 pages. Paper £UK11.95 ISBN 978-0-7206-1310-0.

Cyrus Schayegh. Who is Knowledgeable is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900–1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 340 pages. Cloth US$49.95 ISBN 978-0-520-25447-3.

Rebecca L. Stein. Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. x + 220 pages, illustrations, footnotes, index, bibliography. Paper US$22.95 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4273-1.

Adeeb Khalid. Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 203 pages, glossary, endnotes, bibliography and index. Paper US$21.95 ISBN 978-0-520-24927-1.

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. A Mind at Peace. Translated from the Turkish by Erdağ Göknar. NY: Archipelago Books, 2008. 447 pages. Cloth US$25 ISBN 978-0979333057.

Lina Khatib. Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. 242 pages, bibliography, filmography, general index, index of films. Paper US $26.95 ISBN 1-84511-191-5.

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