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Volume 82 - June 2019

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen (eds): The Aghlabids and Their Neighbours: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa. (Handbook of Oriental Studies.) xxxviii, 688 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €189. ISBN 978 90 04 35566 8.

George Dimitri Sawa: Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitāb al-Aghānī al-Kabīr. Annotated Translations and Commentaries. (Islamic History and Civilisation.) xv, 465 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 38365 4.

Massimo Campanini and Corrado La Martire: Dizionarietto di arabo per filosofi. 366 pp. Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2019. €23. ISBN 978 88 284 0031 8.

Sohaira Z.M. Siddiqui: Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiii, 312 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. ISBN 978 1 10849678 0.

Ethan L. Menchinger: The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasıf. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xxx, 319 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 107 19797 8.

Joel Blecher: Said the Prophet of God: Ḥadīth Commentary across a Millennium. xiv, 272 pp. Oakland, CA: The University of California Press, 2018. $85. ISBN 978 0 520 29594 0.

Elaine Wright: Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an. 336 pp. London: Chester Beatty Library in association with Ad Ilissvm, 2018. £90. ISBN 978 1 912168 04 0.

Christian C. Sahner: Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World. xxi, 235 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 691 17910 0.

Nİkolay Antov: The Ottoman ‘Wild West’: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. 324 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Ata Anzali: “Mysticism” in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept. (Studies in Comparative Religion.) xiii, 276 pp. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. $49.99. ISBN 978 1 61117 807 4.

Kay Prag: Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology. (The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 2016.) xiii, 147 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2018. £35. ISBN 978 0 19 726642 7.

Miklos Muranyi: The First Compendium of Ibadi Law: The Mudawwana by Abu Ghanim Bishr b. Ghanim al-Khurasani. (Studies on Ibadism and Oman.) 159 pp. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018. €38. ISBN 978 3 487 15678 1.

Kevin James Lewis: The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century: Sons of Saint-Gilles. (Rulers of the Latin East.) xiii, 339 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. £105. ISBN 978 1 315 60991 1.

Mònica Colominas Aparicio: The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia: Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam. (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World.) xiv, 397 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 34635 2.

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim: Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) ix, 266 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75. ISBN 978 1 108 47056 8.

Nawal Nasrallah: Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook. English translation, with an introduction and glossary. (Islamic History and Civilization.) xix, 704 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 34729 8.

Saloumeh Gholami (ed.): Endangered Iranian Languages. 122 pp. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2018. €39.90. ISBN 978 3 954 90329 0.

Wael B. Hallaq: Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge. x, 384 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. £30. ISBN 978 0 231 18762 6.

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