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Abbas Daneshvari. Of Dragons and Serpents in Islamic Art: An Iconographic Study. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2011. 260 pages, figures and plates, footnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $59.00 ISBN 1-5685-9264-0.

Konrad Hirschler. The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. vi + 234 pages, illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. Paper US$40.00. ISBN 978-0-7486-7734-4.

Aaron W. Hughes. Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xvi + 310 pages, preface, acknowledgements, glossary, index. Cloth US$89.50 ISBN 978-0-2311-6146-6. Paper US$29.50 ISBN 978-0-2311-6147-3.

Sherko Kirmanj. Identity and Nation in Iraq. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013. xviii + 258 pages, appendixes, acronyms, glossary, references, index. Cloth US$65.00 ISBN 978-1-58826-885-3.

Guy Laron. Origins of the Suez Crisis: Postwar Development Diplomacy and the Struggle over Third World Industrialization, 1945-1956. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013. xv + 210 pages, notes, index. Paper US$55.00 ISBN 978-1-4214-1011-1.

Milka Levy-Rubin. Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Coexistence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 288 pages, endnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth US$94.00 ISBN 978-1-107-00433-7.

Emanuel Marx. Bedouin of Mount Sinai: An Anthropological Study of Their Political Economy. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. xii + 195 pages, 3 tables and 3 maps, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Cloth US$75.00 ISBN 978-0-85745-931-2; E-book US$75.00 ISBN 978-0-85745-932-9.

A. Azfar Moin. The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xvii + 343 pages, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 978-0231-16036-0; Paper US$28.00 ISBN 978-0-231-16037-7.

James E. Montgomery. Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 586 pages, preface, postface, appendix, bibliography, endnotes. Cloth US$152.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-8332-1.

Nasser Rabbat. Mamluk History through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 261 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$85.00 ISBN: 978-1-848885-242-6.

Kristina L. Richardson. Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 158 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography. Cloth US$96.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-4507-7; Paper US$40.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-9588-1.

Wendy M.K. Shaw. Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011. xv + 208 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$70.00 ISBN 978-1-84885-288-4.

Ahdaf Soueif. Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed. London: Pantheon/Bloomsbury, 2012. 272 pages, note on transliteration, map, preface, appendix, acknowledgements, notes. Cloth US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-307-90810-0; Paper US$15.95 ISBN 978-0-345-80351-1; E-book US$12.99 ISBN 978-0-307-9081107.

Mariz Tadros. Copts at the Crossroads: The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2013. 320 pages, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Paper US$29.50 ISBN 978-977-416-591-7.

Abdel Razzaq Takriti. Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 340 pages, acknowledgements, list of abbreviations, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth US$125.00 ISBN 978-0-19-967443-5.

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