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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scott Kugle. Sufis and Saints’ Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 368 pages, illustrations, figures, map, notes, bibliography, index. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-8078-5789-2.

Michael Lake, ed. The EU and Turkey: A Glittering Prize or a Millstone?London: Federal Trust for Education and Trust, 2005. 256 pages, index. Paper US$29.95 ISBN 1-903403-61-8.

Marnia Lazreg. Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii+335 pages, notes, glossary. bibliography, index. Cloth US$32.95 ISBN 978-0-691-13135-1.

Mark Levine. Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2005. 430 pages, endnotes, index. Cloth US$27.50 ISBN-10:1-85168-365-8.

Ze’ev Maghen. Virtues of the Flesh: Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence. Leiden: Brill, 2005. x + 298 pages, index. Cloth US$124/92€ ISBN 90-04-14070-0.

Suleiman Ali Mourad. Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006. xii + 340 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth US$209 ISBN 978-90-04-14829-1.

Nawal Nasrallah. Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook. English Translation with Introduction and Glossary. Leiden: Brill, 2007. x + 867 pages, plates, glossaries, indices. Cloth US$195.00 ISBN 978 90 04 15867-2.

Sameena Nazir and Leigh Tomppert. Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa—Citizenship andjustice. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 352 pages. Paper US$34.95 ISBN 978-0-7425-4992-0.

Sigrid Nökel and Levent Tezcan, EDS. Islam and the New Europe: Continuities, Changes, Confrontations. Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam6. Bielefeld, Germany: Transaction Publishers, 2005. 324 pages. Paper US$39.95 ISBN 3-89942-302-X.

Donald Quataert. Miners and their State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822–1920. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. 288 pages, illustrations, map, bibliography, index. Cloth US$80.00 ISBN 1-84545-133-3.

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