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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 30 - Issue 1 - July 1996

Folklore, Anthropology, Sociology

Book Reviews

Contemporary Coptic Nuns, by Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder. (Studies in Comparative Religion) 253 pages, b&w photos, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-57003-034-0

Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village, by Tone Bringa. (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) 281 pages, map, illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-691-00175-8

Domestic Government: Kinship, Community, and Polity in North Yemen, by Martha Mundy. (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East) 334 pages, maps, figures, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Taurus, 1995. $59.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-918-4

Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick, by Leonardo A. Villalón. (African Studies Series 80) 338 pages, tables, glossary, map, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $59.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-46007-7

Religious & Legal Studies

Book Reviews

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, by Martin Lings. 361 pages, index. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1995. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-946621-33-0

Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha Bint Abi Bakr, by D.A. Spellberg. 243 pages, illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-07998-2

Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam, by Wael B. Hallaq. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 329 pages, notes, indexes. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1995. $89.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86078-456-8

Introduzione Alle Regole Alimentari Islamiche, by Ersilia Francesca. 66 pages, table, notes, glossary, appendix, bibliography. Rome: Istituto per l’Oriente CA. Nallino, 1995. (Paper)

Au Carrefour des Religions: Mélanges offerts à Philippe Gignoux, edited by Rika Gyselen. (Res Orientales VII) 311 pages, b&w photos, figures, bibliographies. Leuven: Peeters Press, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 2-9508266-1-X

From Zoroastrian Iran to Islam: Studies in Religious History and Intercultural Contacts, by Shaul Shaked. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 331 pages, notes, addenda, indices. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1995. $89.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-086078-539-4

Symbol and Secret: Qur’ān Commentary in the Bahā’u’llā Kitāb-i Iqān, by Christopher Buck. (Studies in the Bābī and Bahā’ī Religions Vol. 7) 326 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix. Los Angeles: Kalimāt Press, 1995. $32.50 (Paper) ISBN 0-933770-80-4

Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway, by Akbar S. Ahmed. (BBC Books) 260 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. London: Penguin, 1995. £6.99 (Paper) ISBN 0-14-025020-4

Christian-Muslim Encounters, edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & Wadi Z. Haddad. 508 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. $29.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8130-1356-9

Pioneers of Islamic Revival, edited by Ali Rahnema. (Studies in Islamic Society) 279 pages, notes, index. London & New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994. $25.00 (Paper) 1-85649-254-0

History before 1900

Book Reviews

Irshād al-arīb ilā ma‘rifat al-adīb, Mu‘jam al-udabā’, by Yāqūt (d. 626/1229). Edited by Iḥsān Abbās’. 7 volumes with continuous pagination. Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1993.

The Emergence of the ‘Abbāsid Autocracy: The ‘Abbāsid Army, Khurāsān and Adharbayjān, by Fukuzo Amabe. 333 pages, maps, tables, Arabic sources, notes, glossary, index. Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press, 1995. (Cloth) ISBN 4-87698-024-1

The Book in the Islamic World: the Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, edited by George N. Atiyeh. 305 pages, illustrations, figures, notes, appendix, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-7914-2474-X

Le Waqf dans l’Espace Islamique: Outil de Pouvoir Sociopolitique, edited by Randi Deguilhem. 337 pages, illustrations, notes, figures, tables, indices, abstracts. Damascus: L’Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 2-901315-13-5

Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1080–1261, by Michael Angold. 604 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $89.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-26432-4

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