Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 32 - Summer 1998
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Language, Literature & Culture
Book Reviews
The Thirsty Sword: Sirat Antar and the Arabic Popular Epic, by Peter Heath. 324 pages, notes, bibliography, appendices. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1996. $50.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87480-515-5
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The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf, by Nathan J. Brown. 258 pages, notes, glossary, index, bibliography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $59.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-59026-4
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The Rights of Women in Islam, by Asghar Ali Engineer. 188 pages, appendix, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. $18.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-312-16197-2
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The Oriental Rug Lexicon, by Peter F. Stone. 267 pages, maps, figures, bibliography. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997. $29.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-295-97574-1
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Fantasy or Ethnography? Irony and Collusion in Subaltern Representation: Conference Proceedings in Honor of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, edited by Sabra J. Webber, Margaret R. Lynd, and Kristin Peterson. (Papers in Comparative Studies, Vol. 8) 256 pages, b&w plates, figures. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Division of Comparative Studies, 1993-1994. $10.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-736-9123
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Shi‘a Islam: From Religion to Revolution, by Heinz Halm. (Princeton Series on the Middle East) 176 pages, figures, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Translated from the German by Allison Brown. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1997. $16.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-55876-135-7
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Improvisations on a Missing String, by Nazik Saba Yared. 112 pages, translated by Stuart A. Hancox. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 1997. $12.00 (Paper) ISBN 1-55728-496-2
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Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam, by Jeffrey Lang. 245 pages, notes. Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 1994. $11.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-915957-19-1
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The Book of a Thousand Judgements (A Sasanian Law-Book), by Anahit Perikhanian. (Persian Heritage Series 39) 432 pages, trans, by Nina Garsoïan. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1997. $69.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1-56859-061-X
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Pre-Modern History
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Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities, by Aziz Al-Azmeh. 296 pages, notes, bibliography, index. London/New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. $59.50 (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-053-2
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Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 376 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8156-0383-5
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Book of Gifts and Rarities: Kitāb al-Hadāyā wa al-Tuḥaf, by Ghāda al-Ḥijjāwī al-Qaddūmī. (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs 29) 535 pages, bibliography, glossary, appendices, indices, maps. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. $29.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-932885-13-6
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage, edited and introduced by Michael Wolfe. 620 pages, maps, glossary, selected bibliography and index. New York: Grove Press, 1997. $32.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8021-1611-6
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The History of al-Tabari (Ta’rikh al-rusul wa’l-muluk): An Annotated Translation. The Victory of Islam: Muhammad at Medina, A.D. 626-630/A.H. 5-8, Vol. VIII, by Muhammad Ibn Jarir Al-Tabari. Translated with notes by Michael Fishbein. 215 pages, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997 ISBN 0-7914-3149-5
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Art History
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Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles, by Thomas T. Allsen. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 137 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-58301-2
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Egypt in Africa, edited by Theodore Celenko. 138 pages, photographs. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. $24.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-253-33269-9
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Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society, by Jamsheed K. Choksy. 207 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997. $46.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-10684-X
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Bihzad: Master of Persian Painting, by Ebadollah Bahari. 272 pages, 134 color and b&w illustrations, notes, references, appendices. London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996. $75.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-85043-966-4
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Picturing the Middle East: A Hundred Years of European Orientalism: A Symposium, edited by Henry Krawitz. 88 pages, b&w plates, figures, footnotes. New York: Dahesh Museum, 1997. $25.00 (Paper) ISBN 09654793-0-7
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Genoa and the Genoese (958–1528), by Steven A. Epstein. 396 pages, tables, figures, maps, appendix, bibiogrphy, index. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8708-2291-4
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