JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES

OXFORD VOLUME XI/1 (2000) ARTICLES Ottoman Perceptions of the Capitulations 1800-1914 Feroz Ahmad .. Atatrk and the Reforms in Turkey as Reflected in the Egyptian Press Richard Hattemer ....... Orienting the Gaze: Marcel Morand and the Codification of Le Droit Musulman Algrien Oussama Arabi ... BOOK REVIEWS 1. Tamara Sonn: INTERPRETING ISLAM: BANDALI JAWZIS ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. By Yasin Dutton ..................................................................................................... 73 2. Sato Tsugitaka: STATE AND RURAL SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM: SULNS, MUQAS AND FALLA N. By D.S. Richards 75 3. Elizabeth Sirriyeh: SUFIS AND ANTI-SUFIS: THE DEFENCE, RETHINKING AND REJECTION OF SUFISM IN THE MODERN WORLD. By Muhammad S. Umar 76 4. Lloyd V.J. Ridgeon: AZZ NASAF By Sajjad Rizvi ................................ 78 1 21 43

5. Sabine Schmidtke (ed.): CORRESPONDANCE CORBIN-IVANOW: LETTRES CHANGES ENTRE HENRY CORBIN ET VLADIMIR IVANOW DE 1947 1966. By Annemarie Schimmel ...... 81 6. Von Rdiger Arnzen (ed.): ARISTOTELES DE ANIMA: EINE VERLORENE SPTANTIKE PARAPHRASE IN ARABISCHER UND PERSISCHER BERLIEFERUNG. ARABISCHER TEXT NEBST KOMMENTAR, QUELLENGESCHICHTLICHEN STUDIEN UND GLOSSAREN. By Sabine Schmidtke 83 7. M. Izzi Dien: THE THEORY AND THE PRACTICE OF MARKET LAW IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM. By Hussein Hassan ...... 84 8. Fatemeh Keshavarz: READING MYSTICAL LYRIC: THE CASE OF JALAL AL-DIN RUMI. By Julie Scott Meisami .... 86 9. Michael Dumper: THE POLITICS OF JERUSALEM SINCE 1967. By Ghada Karmi ..... 90

10. James L. Gelvin: DIVIDED LOYALTIES: NATIONALISM AND MASS POLITICS IN SYRIA AT THE CLOSE OF EMPIRE. By Derek Hopwood .. 92 11. Gregory Starrett: PUTTING ISLAM TO WORK: EDUCATION, POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATION IN EGYPT. By Frank Mullaney ........................................................................... 94 12. Mahmud A. Faksh: THE FUTURE OF ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: FUNDAMENTALISM IN

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EGYPT, ALGERIA AND SAUDI ARABIA. By Youssef M. Choueiri ...

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13. Andrew Davison: SECULARISM AND REVIVALISM IN TURKEY: A HERMENEUTIC RECONSIDERATION. By William Hale ........... 97 14. A.L. Macfie: THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1908-1923. By Feroz Ahmad ... 98

15. Adeeb Khalid: THE POLITICS OF MUSLIM CULTURAL REFORM: JADIDISM IN CENTRAL ASIA. By Paul Bergne .......... 101 16. Barnett R. Rubin: THE FRAGMENTATION OF AFGHANISTAN: STATE FORMATION AND COLLAPSE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM. By Iftikhar H. Malik 104 17. John L. Esposito (ed.): POLITICAL ISLAM: REVOLUTION, RADICALISM OR REFORM? By Iftikhar H. Malik ......... 106 18. Mehrzad Boroujerdi: IRANIAN INTELLECTUALS AND THE WEST: THE TORMENTED TRIUMPH OF NATIVISM. By Keith McLachlan .. 108 19. Parvin Paidar: WOMEN AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRAN. By Shusha Guppy .... 110 20. Karin Ask - Marit Tjomsland (eds): WOMEN AND ISLAMIZATION: CONTEMPORARY DIMENSIONS AND DISCOURSE ON GENDER RELATIONS. By Heba Raouf Ezzat .......... 112 21. Kaye Haw: EDUCATING MUSLIM GIRLS: SHIFTING DISCOURSES. By Y. F. & M. A. Khan-Cheema ................. 115 BOOKS RECEIVED ............................. 118 VOLUME XI/2 (2000) ARTICLES Setting the Record Straight: Ibn Al-Labbds Refutation of Al-Shfi Sherman A. Jackson ............... 121 Ibn Taymiyya on Astrology: Annotated Translation of Three Fatwas Yahya J. Michot . 147 Towards a History of Syllogistic After Avicenna: Notes on Reschers Studies in Arab Modal Logic Tony Street ..... 209 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Ibn Warraq (ed.): THE ORIGINS OF THE KORAN: CLASSIC ESSAYS ON ISLAMS HOLY BOOK. By Yasin Dutton .. 229 2. Daniel Martin Varisco - G. Rex Smith (eds): THE MANUSCRIPT OF AL-MALIK AL-AFAL ALABBS B. AL B. D D B. Y SUF B. UMAR B. AL IBN RAS L (d.778/1377): A MEDIEVAL ARABIC ANTHOLOGY FROM THE YEMEN. By Wilferd Madelung ..... 232

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3. Selma Al-Radi: THE AMIRIYA IN RADA: THE HISTORY AND RESTORATION OF A SIXTEENTHCENTURY MADRASA IN THE YEMEN. By B. Haykel ... 233 4. Muhammad Qasim Zaman: RELIGION AND POLITICS UNDER THE EARLY ABBSIDS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE PROTO-SUNNI ELITE. By Chase F. Robinson ... 236 5. Linda T. Darling: REVENUE-RAISING AND LEGITIMACY: TAX COLLECTION AND FINANCE ADMINISTRATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1560-1660. By Salih zbaran . 238 6. Nur Bilge Criss: ISTANBUL UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION (1918-1923). By Feroz Ahmad 241 7. Michael J. Reimer: COLONIAL BRIDGEHEAD: GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY IN ALEXANDRIA, 1807-1882. By Robert Mabro 244 8. Iradj Amini: NAPOLEON AND PERSIA: FRANCO-PERSIAN RELATIONS UNDER THE FIRST EMPIRE. By Ahmad Gunny .. 246 9. Gregory Gleason: THe CENTRAL ASIAN STATES: DISCOVERING INDEPENDENCE. By S. Neil MacFarlane . 248 10. Richard C. Foltz: MUGHAL INDIA AND CENTRAL ASIA. By Peter Jackson .... 250 11. Arthur F. Buehler: SUFI HEIRS OF THE PROPHET: THE INDIAN NAQSHBANDIYYA AND THE RISE OF THE MEDIATING SUFI SHAYKH. By David Damrel ............ 251 12. Brendan OShea: CRISIS AT BIHAC: BOSNIAS BLOODY BATTLEFIELD. By M. Risaluddin .. 255 13. Noel Malcolm: KOSOVO: A SHORT HISTORY. By M. kr Haniolu ... 257 14. Miranda Vickers: BETWEEN SERB AND ALBANIAN: A HISTORY OF KOSOVO. By M. kr Haniolu . 258 15. S.J. Badakhshani: NAR AL-DN S, CONTEMPLATION AND ACTION: THE SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MUSLIM SCHOLAR (TRANSLATION OF SAYR WA SUL K). By Mehdi Aminrazavi . 260 16. I.M. Lewis: SAINTS AND SOMALIS: POPULAR ISLAM IN A CLAN-BASED SOCIETY. By Hussein Ahmed 262 17. David Westerlund - Eva Evers Rosander (eds): AFRICAN ISLAM AND ISLAM IN AFRICA: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN SUFIS AND ISLAMISTS. By Shamil Jeppie 265 18. Kenneth W. Harrow: THE MARABOUT AND THE MUSE: NEW APPROACHES TO ISLAM IN AFRICAN LITERATURE. By Abdulkader I. Tayob ... 267 19. Ahmad S. Moussalli: MODERATE AND RADICAL ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM. By Youssef M. Choueiri .. 269 20. Gema Martin Muoz (ed.): MODERNISM AND THE WEST. By S. Parvez Manzoor .. 270 21. David L. McKee - Don E. Garner - Yosra AbuAmara McKee: ACCOUNTING SERVICES IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. By Rodney Wilson .. 272

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BOOKS RECEIVED . 276 VOLUME XI/3 (2000) ARTICLES Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States Richard M. Eaton ... 283 The Mughal Empire in the Bengali Literary Tradition Tapan Raychaudhuri .. 320 The Ottoman and Islamic Substratum of Turkeys Swiss Civil Code Ruth A. Miller ........................................................................................................................................ 335 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Abdalhaqq & Aisha Bewley: THE NOBLE QURN: A NEW RENDERING OF ITS MEANING IN ENGLISH. By Mustansir Mir .... 362 2. Wael B. Hallaq: A HISTORY OF ISLAMIC LEGAL THEORIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO SUNNI U L AL-FIQH. By Muhammad Khalid Masud . 363 3. Monique Bernards: CHANGING TRADITIONS. AL-MUBARRADS REFUTATION OF SBAWAYH AND THE SUBSEQUENT RECEPTION OF THE KITB. By Lutz Edzard . 366 4. Hans Daiber: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY VOL. 1: ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. VOL. 2: INDEX OF NAMES, TERMS AND TOPICS. By Dimitri Gutas ... 368 5. Hamid Dabashi: TRUTH AND NARRATIVE: THE UNTIMELY THOUGHTS OF AYN AL-QUT ALHAMADHN By Julie Scott Meisami ............................................................................ 372 6. Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Mehdi Aminrazavi (eds): AN ANTHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY IN PERSIA VOLUME ONE. By Sajjad Rizvi .. 377 7. Mercedes Garcia-Arenal - Gerard Wiegers: ENTRE EL ISLAM Y OCCIDENTE: VIDA DE SAMUEL PALLACHE, JUDO DE FEZ. By L. P. Harvey ... 379 8. Miriam Hoexter: ENDOWMENTS, RULERS AND COMMUNITY: WAQF AL-ARAMAYN IN OTTOMAN ALGIERS. By Gregory C. Kozlowski .. 383 9. Richard N. Frye: THE HERITAGE OF CENTRAL ASIA. FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE TURKISH EXPANSION. By D.O. Morgan 385 10. Sheila Carapico: CIVIL SOCIETY IN YEMEN: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ACTIVISM IN MODERN ARABIA. By Paul Dresch ... 385 11. Ervand Abrahamian: TORTURED CONFESSIONS: PRISONS AND PUBLIC RECANTATIONS IN MODERN IRAN. By Eric Hooglund .... 388 12. Bassam Tibi: THE CHALLENGE OF FUNDAMENTALISM: POLITICAL ISLAM AND THE NEW WORLD DISORDER. By Ahmad S. Moussalli 391

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13. Fawaz Gerges: AMERICA AND POLITICAL ISLAM; CLASH OF CULTURES OR CLASH OF INTERESTS? Alexandre del Valle: ISLAMISME ET TATS UNIS. UNE ALLIANCE CONTRE LEUROPE. By Fred Halliday .... 395 14. Saskia Gieling: RELIGION AND WAR IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN. By Keith McLachlan . 398 15. John Esposito - Yvonne Haddad (eds): ISLAM, GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE. By Heba Ezzat . 400 16. Farid Esack: ON BEING A MUSLIM: FINDING A RELIGIOUS PATH IN THE WORLD TODAY. By Mustansir Mir . 406 BOOKS RECEIVED ..... 410

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VOLUME XII/1 (2001) ARTICLES Al-Ghazzls Tahfut: Is it Really a Rejection of Ibn Sns Philosophy? Jules Janssens . Ibn Sns Burhn al-Siddqn Toby Mayer 1 18

The Sh Construction of Taqld L. Clarke . 40 BOOK REVIEWS 1. John Kaltner: ISHMAEL INSTRUCTS ISAAC: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE QURN FOR BIBLE READERS. By Mustansir Mir ... 65 2. Jabal Muhammad Buaben: IMAGE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD IN THE WEST: A STUDY OF MUIR, MARGOLIOUTH AND WATT. By Mary Hossain . 68 3. Timothy Insoll: THE ARCHAELOGY OF ISLAM. By Neil Robinson . 69

4. Michael Lecker: JEWS AND ARABS IN PRE- AND EARLY ISLAMIC ARABIA. By Yasin Dutton . 72 5. Wheeler M. Thackston: SUHRAWARD: THE PHILOSOPHICAL ALLEGORIES AND MYSTICAL TREATISES. By Mehdi Aminrazavi . 74 6. Leonard Lewisohn - David Morgan (eds): THE HERITAGE OF SUFISM. VOLUME III: LATE CLASSICAL PERSIANATE SUFISM (1501-1750). By Thomas Dahnhardt .. 76 7. Peter G. Riddell - Tony Street (eds): ISLAM: ESSAYS ON SCRIPTURE, THOUGHT AND SOCIETY: A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOUR OF ANTHONY H. JOHNS. By Mustansir Mir ... 79 8. Peter Jackson: THE DELHI SULTANATE: A POLITICAL AND MILITARY HISTORY. By Stephen Frederic Dale .. 83 9. Kate Fleet: EUROPEAN AND ISLAMIC TRADE IN THE EARLY OTTOMAN STATE: THE MERCHANTS OF GENOA AND TURKEY. By Leslie Peirce ... 85 10. Richard van Leeuwen: WAQFS AND URBAN STRUCTURES: THE CASE OF OTTOMAN DAMASCUS. By Ruba Kanaan ... 88 11. Yuri Bregel: SHIR MUHAMMAD MIRAB MUNIS AND MUHAMMAD RIZA MIRAB AGAHI: FIRDAWS AL-IQBL, HISTORY OF KHOREZM. By Timur K. Beisembiev 90 12. Erik J. Zrcher: ARMING THE STATE: MILITARY CONSCRIPTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA, 1775-1925. By Clement Dodd 93 13. B. Rumer - S. Zhukov (eds): CENTRAL ASIA: THE CHALLENGES OF INDEPENDENCE. By Dilmurad Miraliev .. 95

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14. David Shankland: ISLAM AND SOCIETY IN TURKEY. By Feroz Ahmed ..

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15. Aykut Kansu: POLITICS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY TURKEY: 1908-1915. By Feroz Ahmed . 100 16. Maziar Behrooz: REBELS WITH A CAUSE: THE FAILURE OF THE LEFT IN IRAN. By Vanessa Martin ..... 103 17. Noam Chomsky: FATEFUL TRIANGLE: THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS. (Updated edn.) By Beverley Milton-Edwards ... 104 18. Michael N. Barnett: DIALOGUES IN ARAB POLITICS: NEGOTIATIONS IN REGIONAL ORDER. By A.M. Ansari 105 19. Ann Mosely Lesch: THE SUDAN: CONTESTED NATIONAL IDENTITIES. By Shamil Jeppie ..................................................................................................... 107 20. Juliette Koning - Marleen Nolten - Janet Rodenburg - Ratna Saptari (eds): WOMEN AND HOUSEHOLDS IN INDONESIA: CULTURAL NOTIONS AND SOCIAL PRACTICES. By R. H. Barnes . 109 21. Kate Zebiri: MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS FACE TO FACE. By Ataullah Siddiqui .. 111 22. Jrgan S. Nielsen (eds): THE CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM FRONTIER: CHAOS, CLASH OR DIALOGUES By Frank Mullaney 113 23. Ibrahim Warde: ISLAMIC FINANCE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. By Rodney Wilson 115 24. Tim Niblock - Rodney Wilson (eds): THE POLITICAL. ECONOMY OF THE MIDDLE EAST. VOLUME III: ISLAMIC ECONOMICS. By Mohamed Aslam Haneef ... 119 BOOKS RECEIVED . 123 VOLUME XII/2 (2001) ARTICLES The Remembrance of the Prophet in Suhrawards Awrif al-Marif Qamar-ul Huda ... 129 The Karbala Narrative: Sh Political Discourse in Modern Iran in the 1960s and 1970s Kamran Aghaie . 151 BOOK REVIEWS 1. G.R. Hawting: THE IDEA OF IDOLATRY AND THE EMERGENCE OF ISLAM: FROM POLEMIC TO HISTORY. By Yasin Dutton . 177 2. Mawil Izzi Dien: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF ISLAM. By Harfiyah Abdel Haleem . 179 3. Richard G. Hovannisian - Georges Sabagh (eds): RELIGION AND CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM.

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By James Montgomery .. 182 4. Hava Lazarus-Yafeh - Mark R. Cohen - Sasson Somekh - Sidney H. Griffith (eds): THE MAJLIS: INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM. By Stoyanka Kenderova . 184 5. Gerald T. Elmore: ISLAMIC SAINTHOOD IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME: IBNA AL-ARABS BOOK OF THE FABULOUS GRYPHON. By Ian Richard Netton . 187 6. Peter Avery: FARDUD-DN AR: THE SPEECH OF THE BIRDS (MANIQU-AIR). By Annemarie Schimmel . 188 7. Franklin D. Lewis: RUMI, PAST AND PRESENT, EAST AND WEST: THE LIFE, TEACHING AND POETRY OF JALL AL-DIN RUMI. By Gudrun Schubert ... 189 8. Alexander D. Knysh: ISLAMIC MYSTICISM: A SHORT HISTORY. By Gerald Elmore .. 191 9. Ian Richard Netton: F RITUAL: THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE. By Arthur F. Buehler ..... 194 10. Elisabeth Ozdalga (ed.): NAQSHBANDIS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY. By Thomas Dhnhardt . 195 11. Roshdi Rashed - Jean Jolivet: UVRES PHILOSOPHIQUES ET SCIENFITIQUES DAL KIND. VOL. 2: MTAPHYSIQUE ET COSMOLOGIE. By Majid Fakhry .. 197 12. Robert Gleave: INEVITABLE DOUBT: TWO THEORIES OF SH JURSIPRUDENCE. By L. Clarke . 198 13. Haim Gerber: ISLAMIC LAW AND CULTURE 1600-1840. By Hussein Hassan . 203 14. Leif Manger (ed.): MUSLIM DIVERSITY: LOCAL ISLAM IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS. By Mohammad Talib ... 207 15. Reuven Amitai-Preiss - David O. Morgan (eds): THE MONGOL EMPIRE AND ITS LEGACY. By Svat Soucek 210 16. Dick Douwes: THE OTTOMANS IN SYRIA: A HISTORY OF JUSTICE, AND OPPRESSION By Kate Fleet 214 17. Svat Soucek: A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA. By Benedek Pri ... 217 18. P.M. Holt: THE SUDAN OF THE THREE NILES: THE FUNJ CHRONICLE 910-1288/1504-1871. By Shamil Jeppie . 219 19. Ingvar Svanberg: CONTEMPORARY KAZAKS: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES. By Timur K. Beisembiev . 221 20. Giampaolo R. Capisani: THE HANDBOOK OF CENTRAL ASIA: A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF THE NEW REPUBLICS. By Shirin Akiner .. 224 21. Michael Dillon: CHINAS MUSLIM HUI COMMUNITY: MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT AND SECTS. David D. Wang: CLOUDS OVER TIANSHEN: ESSAYS ON SOCIAL DISTURBANCE IN XINJIANG IN

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THE 1940s. By Iftikhar H. Malik .. 227 22. Paul E. Losensky: WELCOMING FIGHN: IMITATION AND POETIC INDIVIDUALITY IN THE SAFAVID-MUGHAL GHAZAL. By Annemarie Schimmel ... 230 23. George Michell - Mark Zebrowski: THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA: ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF THE DECCAN SULTANATES. By Som Prakash Verma .. 232 24. Robert Hillenbrand: ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE: WORLD OF ART SERIES. By Ruba Kanaan .. 235 25. Godfrey Goodwin: TOPKAPI PALACE: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ITS LIFE AND PERSONALITIES. By Geoffrey Lewis 239 26. Maryam Poya: WOMEN, WORK AND ISLAMISM: IDEOLOGY AND RESISTANCE. By Harnyah Abdel Haleem .... 239 27. Shaharyar M. Khan: THE BEGUMS OF BHOPAL: A DYNASTY OF WOMEN RULERS IN RAJ INDIA. By Barbara D. Metcalf .. 242 28. Michael Hudson (ed.): MIDDLE EAST DILEMMA: THE POLITICS AND ECONIMICS OF ARAB INTEGRATION. By Emma Murphy . 244 29. Hamdi A. Hassan: THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT: RELIGION, IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN THE ANALYSIS OF WAR AND CONFLICT. By Joseph A. Kechichian . 247 30. R. Stephen Humphreys: BETWEEN MEMORY AND DESIRE: THE MIDDLE EAST IN A TROUBLED AGE. By James Piscatori 249 31. Farid El-Khazen: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE STATE OF LEBANON. By Jens Hanssen .... 250 32. Robert Dankoff - Robert Elsie: EVLIYA ELEBI IN ALBANIA (KOSOVO, MONTENEGRO, OHRID). By H.T. Norris ... 253 33. Tim Judah: KOSOVO: WAR AND REVENGE. By M. kr Haniolu ... 256 34. M. Umer Chapra: THE FUTURE OF ECONOMICS: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE. By Rodney Wilson . 257 35. Masoud Kavoossi: THE GLOBALISATJON OF BUSINESS AND THE MIDDLE EAST: OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS. By Rodney Wilson .. 260 BOOKS RECEIVED . 264 VOLUME XII/3 (2001) ARTICLES Islam and Economic Development in Malaysia A Reappraisal Mohamed Aslam Haneef ... 269 The Centennial Renewer: Bedizzaman Said Nursi and the Tradition of Tajdd

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Hamid Algar ... 291 Some Notes on the Typology of the Works of Al-Shahrazr Al-Ishrq Michael Privot 312 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Michael Cooperson: CLASSICAL ARABIC BIOGRAPHY: THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHETS IN THE AGE OF AL-MAM N. By A.H. Johns ... 322 2. Reuven Firestone: JIHAD: THE ORIGIN OF HOLY WAR IN ISLAM. By Ahmad S. Moussalli ... 325 3. Bernard G. Weiss: THE SPIRIT OF ISLAMIC LAW. By Hussein Hassan ... 327 4. Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee: ISLAMIC LAW OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION CORPORATIONS. ISLAMIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE, Volume 2. By Mawil Izzi Dien .. 329 5. Carl F. Petry (ed.): THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF EGYPT: VOLUME I, ISLAMIC EGYPT, 640-1517. By C. Edmund Bosworth ... 331 6. Adam Sabra: POVERTY AND CHARITY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM: MAMLK EGYPT, 1250-1517. By Elton L. Daniel ... 333 7. Carole Hillenbrand: THE CRUSADES: ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES. By Mames E. Lindsay . 334 8. Mara Rosa Menocal - Raymond P. Scheindlin - Michael Sells (eds): THE LITERATURE OF ALANDALUS. By L. P. Harvey 336 9. Michael Brett: IBN KHALDUN AND THE MEDIEVAL MAGHRIB. By L.P. Harvey ... 340 10. lvaro Galms de Fuentes: ROMANIA ARABICA (ESTUDIOS DE LITERATURA COMPARADA ARABE Y ROMANCE; II NARRATIVA Y FARSA FRANCESA MEDIEVAL; DANTE Y BOCACCIO; DE ALFONSO X EL SABIO A GNGORA. By L.P. Harvey .. 342 11. David Ayalon: EUNUCHS, CALIPHS, AND SULTANS: A STUDY IN POWER RELATIONSHIPS. By Elton L. Daniel ... 345 12. Eugene L. Rogan: FRONTIERS OF THE STATE IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: TRANSJORDAN, 1850-1921. By Engin Deniz Akarli 349 13. Berndt Radtke - John OKane - Knut S. Vikor - R.S. OFahey: THE EXOTERIC AHMAD IBN IDRS: A SUFIS CRITIQUE OF THE MADHHIB AND THE WAHHBS. By Annemarie Schimmel 351 14. Tore T. Petersen: THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN THE GREAT POWERS: ANGLO-AMERICAN CONFLICT AND CO-OPERATION, 1952-7. By James Craig ... 353 15. Abbas Milani: THE PERSIAN SPHINX: AMIR ABBAS HOVEYDA AND THE RIDDLE OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION. By Shahrough Akhavi .. 355 16. Alice C. Hunsberger: NASIR KHUSRAW, THE RUBY OF BADAKHSHAN: A PORTRAIT OF THE PERSIAN POET, TRAVELLER, AND PHILOSOPHER. By Julie Scott Meisami 357

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17. Calvin Allen, Jr & W. Lynn Rigsbee II: OMAN UNDER QABOOS: FROM COUP TO CONSTITUTION, 1970-1996. By Dawn Chatty .. 363 18. Kemal H. Karpat (ed.): OTTOMAN PAST AND TODAYS TURKEY. By Andrew Mango 365 19. John L. Esposito - Azzam Tamimi (eds): ISLAM AND SECULARISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By Fathi Osman ... 367 20. Maris Boyd Gillette: BETWEEN MECCA AND BEIJING: MODERNIZATION AND CONSUMPTION AMONG URBAN CHINESE MUSLIMS. By Michael Dillon 371 21. Muhammad Khalid Masud (ed.): TRAVELLERS IN FAITH: STUDIES OF THE TABLGH JAMAT AS A TRANSNATIONAL ISLAMIC MOVEMENT FOR FAITH RENEWAL. By Jonathan Birt ... 373 22. Eleanor Abdella Doumato: GETTING GODS EAR: WOMEN, ISLAM, AND HEALING IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF. By Mary Hossain .... 376 23. Maria Jaschok - Shui Jingjun: THE HISTORY OF WOMENS MOSQUES IN CHINESE ISLAM. By L.J. Newby . 378 24. Feride Acar - Aye Gne-Ayata (eds): GENDER AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: WOMEN OF CENTRAL ASIA, THE CAUCASUS AND TURKEY. By Shirin Akiner .. 381 25. Derek Hopwood: SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE BRITISH, THE FRENCH AND THE ARABS. By Ahmad Gunny . 382 26. Natalia Prigarina: MIRZA GHALIB: A CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY. By David Matthews .... 385 27. Hassan Hakimian - Ziba Moshaver (eds): THE STATE AND GLOBAL CHANGE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. By Rodney Wilson . 388 BOOKS RECEIVED . 391

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VOLUME XIII/1 (2002) ARTICLES Mull Sadrs Use of Ibn Sns Talqt in the Asfr Jules Janssens . History of the Shar in some States of Northern Nigeria to circa 2000 Tijjani Muhammad Naniya BOOK REVIEWS 1. Andrew Rippin (ed.): THE QURN: FORMATIVE INTERPRETATION. By S. Salman Nadvi .. 32 1 14

2. Eugene Cotran - Adel Omar Sherif (eds.): DEMOCRACY: THE RULE OF LAW AND ISLAM. By John O. Voll .... 35 3. Lawrence Rosen: THE JUSTICE OF ISLAM. By Hussein Hassan 37

4. Jonathan E. Brockopp: EARLY MLIK LAW; IBN ABD AL-AKAM AND HIS MAJOR COMPENDIUM OF JURISPRUDENCE. By Yasin Dutton 42 5. Robert Gleave - Eugenia Kermeli (eds.): ISLAMIC LAW: THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Hussein Hassan 50 6. Frank E.Vogel: ISLAMIC LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM: STUDIES OF SAUDI ARABIA. Muhammad Qasim Zaman . 51 7. Sarah Stroumsa: FREETHINKERS OF MEDIAEVAL ISLAM: IBN AL-RWAND, ABU BAKR ALRAZI AND THEIR IMPACT ON ISLAMIC THOUGHT. By S. Nomanul Haq ..... 54 8. M. Heemskerk: SUFFERING IN THE MUTAZILITE THEOLOGY: ABD AL-JABBRS TEACHING ON PAIN AND DIVINE JUSTICE. By Oliver Leaman ... 58 9. Arzina R. Lalani: EARLY SH THOUGHT: THE TEACHINGS OF IMAM MUHAMMAD AL-BQIR. By Hamid Algar . 59 10. Andrew J. Newman: THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF TWELVER SHSM: ADTH AS DISCOURSE BETWEEN QUM AND BAGHDAD. By Sajjad H. Rizvi ... 62 11. Pieter L. Schoonheim: ARISTOTLES METEOROLOGY IN THE ARABICO-LATIN TRADITION: A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE TEXTS, WITH INTRODUCTION AND INDICES [ARISTOTELES SEMITICO-LATINUS 12]. By Dimitri Gutas .. 66 12. Dmitry Frolov: CLASSICAL ARABIC VERSE, HISTORY AND THEORY OF AR . By M.G. Carter . 72 13. Edmund Bosworth (ed.): THE HISTORY OF THE SELJUQ TURKS. By Peter Jackson ... 75

14. Bat-Ochir Bold: MONGOLIAN NOMADIC SOCIETY; A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF MONGOLIA. By Christopher P. Atwood ..... 76

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15. F. Corriente - H. Bouzineb: RECOMPILACIN DE REFRANES ANDALUSES DE ALONSO DEL CASTILLO. By L.P. Harvey . 79 16. Sevket Pamuk: A MONETARY HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. By Kate Fleet . 81 17. Hanna Batatu: SYRIAS PEASANTRY: THE DESCENDANTS OF ITS LESSER RURAL NOTABLES, AND THEIR POLITICS. By Eugene L. Rogan .... 83 18. Sylvia Kedourie (ed.): TURKEY BEFORE AND AFTER ATATURK: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS; Sylvia Kedourie (ed.): SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC. By Clement Dodd ... 85 19. Parvin Alizadeh (ed.): THE ECONOMY OF IRAN: THE DILEMMA OF AN ISLAMIC STATE. By Ali A. Saeidi . 87 20. Kamran Talattof: THE POLITICS OF WRITING IN IRAN: A HISTORY OF MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE. By John R. Perry . 89 21. David Menashri: POST-REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN IRAN: RELIGION, SOCIETY AND POWER. By Vanessa Martin . 92 22. Derek Hopwood: ARAB NATION: ARAB NATIONALISM. By Fred Halliday 94

23. Raghid El-Solh (ed.): OMAN AND THE SOUTH-EASTERN SHORE OF ARABIA. By Dale F. Eickelman . 96 24. Ami Elad-Bouskila: MODERN PALESTINIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE. By Syrine Hout . 98 25. Yasir Suleiman (ed.): LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: STUDIES IN VARIATION AND IDENTITY. By Clive Holes ... 100 26. D. Fairchild Ruggles (ed.): WOMEN, PATRONAGE, AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES. By Mohammad Talib ... 106 27. Beverly B. Mack - Jean Boyd: ONE WOMANS JIHAD: NAN ASMAU, SCHOLAR AND SCRIBE. By Hussaini Usman Malami .... 109 28. David M. Hart: TRIBE AND SOCIETY IN RURAL MOROCCO. By Mohammad Talib . 113 BOOKS RECEIVED . 116 VOLUME XIII/2 (2002) ARTICLES Private Letters, Official Correspondence: Buyid Insh as a Historical Source Klaus U. Hachmeier ... 125 The Notion and Significance of Marifa in Sufism

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Reza Shah-Kazemi . 155 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Zahra al-Zeera: WHOLENESS AND HOLINESS IN EDUCATION: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE. By J. Mark Halstead 182 2. Cyril Glass: THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann ... 184 3. Dwight F. Reynolds (ed.): INTERPRETING THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE ARABIC LITERARY TRADITION. By Geert Jan van Gelder 187 4. J.A. Abu-Haidar: HISPANO-ARABIC LITERATURE AND THE EARLY PROVENAL LYRICS. By Consuelo Lpez-Morillas ... 190 5. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: EARLY URDU LITERARY CULTURE AND HISTORY. By David Matthews . 194 6. S. Vernoit (ed.): DISCOVERING ISLAMIC ART: SCHOLARS, COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS. By Ruba Kanaan . 196 7. Charles Butterworth (trans.): ALFARABI: THE POLITICAL WRITINGS, SELECTED APHORISMS AND OTHER TEXTS. By Ayman Shihadeh 199 8. Michael Brett: THE RISE OF THE FATIMIDS: THE WORLD OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE TENTH CENTURY CE. By Wilferd Madelung ... 202 9. Wilferd Madelung - Paul E. Walker (eds.): THE ADVENT OF THE FATIMIDS: A CONTEMPORARY SHII WITNESS. By Sajjad H. Rizvi 204 10. Rainer Brunner - Werner Ende (eds.): THE TWELVER SHIA IN MODERN TIMES: RELIGIOUS CULTURE AND POLITICAL HISTORY. By Wilferd Madelung .. 207 11. Matthew S. Gordon: THE BREAKING OF A THOUSAND SWORDS: A HISTORY OF THE TURKISH MILITARY OF SAMARRA. By Kate Fleet . 208 12. Erik Cornell: TURKEY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, THREATS. By Feroz Ahmad .. 211 13. Christopher Houston: ISLAM, KURDS ANO THE TURKISH NATION STATE. By Khaled Salih . 214 14. Korkut A. Erturk (ed.): RETHINKING CENTRAL ASIA: NON-EUROCENTRIC STUDIES IN HISTORY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND IDENTITY. By Kemal H. Karpat 217 15. Olivier Roy: THE NEW CENTRAL ASIA: THE CREATION OF NATIONS. By Touraj Atabaki ..... 219 16. John K. Cooley: UNHOLY WARS: AFGHANISTAN, AMERICA, AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. By Paul Bergne ..... 223 17. Gerlachus Duijzings: RELIGION AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY IN KOSOVO. By H. T. Norris

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. 225 18. Hooshang Amirahmadi: THE CASPIAN REGION AT A CROSSROAD: CHALLENGES OF A NEW FRONTIER OF ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT. By Farda M. Asadov . 227 19. Hooman Peimani: IRAN AND THE UNITED STATES: THE RISE OF THE WEST ASIAN REGIONAL GROUPING. By Hussaini Usman Malami 230 20. Neil Quilliam: SYRIA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER; Eyal Zisser: ASADS LEGACY: SYRIA IN TRANSITION. By Patrick Seale .. 233 21. L. Cari Brown (ed.): DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF REGIONAL AND OUTSIDE POWERS. By Sir James Craig . 238 22. Dariusz Kolodziejczyk: OTTOMAN-POLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, 15TH-18TH CENTURY: AN ANNOTATED EDITION OF AHDNAMES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS. By Colin Imber 240 23. Mohja Kahf: WESTERN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MUSLIM WOMAN: FROM TERMAGANT TO ODALISQUE. By Ahmad Gunny . 241 24. Avner Giladi: INFANTS, PARENTS AND WET NURSES: MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC VIEWS ON BREASTFEEDING AND THEIR SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS. By Hina Azam .. 244 25. Maxime Rodinson - A.J. Arberry - Charles Perry. MEDIEVAL ARAB COOKERY: ESSAYS AND TRANSLATIONS. By Geert Jan van Gelder 248 BOOKS RECEIVED . 252 VOLUME XIII/3 (2002) ARTICLES Contracts in Islamic Law: The Principles of Commutative Justice and Liberality Hussein Hassan .. 257 Islam and the Legacy of Sovietology: A Review Essay on Yaacov Rois Islam in the Soviet Union Devin DeWeese .. 298 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Daniel A. Madigan: THE QURNS SELF-IMAGE: WRITING AND AUTHORITY IN ISLAMIC SCRIPTURE. By Majid Fakhry . 331 2. Naphtali Kinberg: STUDIES IN THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF CLASSICAL ARABIC. By Anthony H. Johns ... 333 3. Manfred Ullmann: ISLAMIC MEDICINE. By Emilie Savage-Smith 335 4. Jawid A. Mojaddedi: THE BIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION IN SUFISM: THE TABAQT GENRE FROM AL-SULAM TO JM By Terry Graham 339

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5. Chase F. Robinson: EMPIRE AND ELITES AFTER THE MUSLIM CONQUEST: THE TRANSFORMATION OF NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA. By Elton L. Daniel ... 343 6. Suraiya Faroqhi: SUBJECT TO THE SULTAN: CULTURE AND DAILY LIFE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. By Colin Imber .. 344 7. Kemal H. Karpat: THE POLITICIZATION OF ISLAM: RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY, STATE, FAITH, AND COMMUNITY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN STATE. By Feroz Ahmad .. 346 8. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol: THE NEW MAMLUKS: EGYPTIAN SOCIETY AND MODERN FEUDALISM. By Ulrike Freitag ... 348 9. Molly Greene: A SHARED WORLD: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN. By Andrew Mango 351 10. Zafar Ishaq Ansari - John L. Esposito (eds.): MUSLIMS AND THE WEST: ENCOUNTER AND DIALOGUE. By Jorgen S. Nielsen ... 353 11. Yedida Kalfon - Norman A. Stillman (eds.): ARAB DRESS: A SHORT HISTORY. FROM THE DAWN OF ISLAM TO MODERN TIMES. By Mohammad Talib ... 354 12. Anne Sophie Roald: WOMEN IN ISLAM: THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE By Mary Hossain .... 357 13. Najde Al-Ali: SECULARISM, GENDER AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE EGYPTIAN WOMENS MOVEMENT. By Haleh Afshar ... 360 14. Fagheh Shirazi: THE VEIL UNVEILED: THE HIJAB IN MODERN CULTURE. By Mary Hossain . 361 15. Finbarr B. Flood: THE GREAT MOSQUE OF DAMASCUS: STUDIES ON THE MAKINGS OF AN UMAYYAD VISUAL CULTURE. By Marcus Milwright ... 364 16. Robert Hillenbrand - Sylvia Auld: OTTOMAN JERUSALEM: THE LIVING CITY, 1517-1917. By Marcus Milwright .. 366 17. Gza Fehrvri: CERAMICS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN THE TAREQ RAJAB MUSEUM. By Marcus Milwright .............................................................. 368 18. Ali Akbar Husain: SCENT IN THE ISLAMIC GARDEN: A STUDY OF DECCANI URDU LITERARY SOURCES. By Thomas Dhnhardt ... 369 19. A.L. Macfie (ed): ORIENTALISM: A READER. By Ahmad Gunny ... 372 BOOKS RECEIVED . 375

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VOLUME XIV/1 (2003) ARTICLES Heavens Witness: The Uses and Abuses of Mu|ammad Ghawths Mystical Ascension Scott Kugle . The Last Moors: Maghriba in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain Nabil I. Matar . BOOK REVIEWS 1. Anthony Shadid: LEGACY OF THE PROPHET: DESPOTS, DEMOCRATS, AND THE NEW POLITICS OF ISLAM. By Ahmad Moussalli . 59 2. Jonathan Bloom - Sheila Blair: ISLAM: A THOUSAND YEARS OF FAITH AND POWER. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann .. 61 3. Jianping Wang: A GLOSSARY OF CHINESE ISLAMIC TERMS. By Laura J. Newby .. 4. Roger Allen: AN INTRODUCTION TO ARABIC LITERATURE. By Mustafa M. Badawi 63 65

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5. Ahmed S. Bangura: ISLAM AND THE WEST AFRICAN NOVEL: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION. By Alamin Mazrui . 67 6. Frank Griffel: APOSTASIE UND TOLERANZ IM ISLAM: DIE ENTWICKLUNG ZU AL-AZALIS URTEIL GEGEN DIE PHILOSOPHIE UND DIE REAKTIONEN DER PHILOSOPHEN. By Jules Janssens . 69 7. Patricia Crone - Fritz Zimmermann: THE EPISTLE OF SLIM IBN DHAKWN. By Wilferd Madelung . 72 8. W. M. Ballantyne: ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES ON ARAB LAWS. By Hussein Hassan . 75 9. William J. Donaldson: SHARECROPPING IN THE YEMEN: A STUDY IN ISLAMIC THEORY, CUSTOM AND PRAGMATISM. By Hussein Hassan . 76 10. Akram Fouad Khater: INVENTING HOME: EMIGRATION, GENDER AND THE MIDDLE CLASS IN LEBANON, 1870-1920. By Dawn Chatty 79 11. Firdos Anwar: NOBILITY UNDER THE MUGHALS (1628-58). By Rafi Ahmad Alavi .. 12. Elton L. Daniel: THE HISTORY OF IRAN. By John R. Perry . 81 84

13. Osman Sayyid Ahmad Isml al-Bili: PRELUDE TO THE GENERALS: A STUDY OF SOME ASPECTS OF THE REIGN OF THE EIGHTH ABBASID CALIPH, AL-MUTAIM BI-ALLAH (218-277 AH/833-842 AD). By Elton L. Daniel 86 14. Malak Badrawi: POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN EGYPT 1910-1925: SECRET SOCIETIES, PLOTS AND ASSASSINATIONS. By Beverley Milton-Edwards . 88

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15. Ali Reza Abooalebi: ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY: STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 1980-1994. By Azzam Tamimi . 89 16. Khaled Hroub: HAMAS: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE. By Azzam Tamimi .. 91

17. Andrea Nusse: MUSLIM PALESTINE: THE IDEOLOGY OF HAMAS. By Beverley Milton-Edwards . 92 18. Ahmad S. Moussalli: THE ISLAMIC QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY, PLURALISM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS. By Azzam Tamimi . 93 19. Muhammad Taqi Usmani: AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC FINANCE. By Rodney Wilson . 95 20. Christopher Clay: GOLD FOR THE SULTAN: WESTERN BANKERS AND OTTOMAN FINANCE 1856-1881. By Kate Fleet .. 98 21. Jonas Svensson: WOMENS HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAM: A STUDY OF THREE ATTEMPTS AT ACCOMMODATION. By Mary Hossain . 101 22. Peter Riddell: ISLAM AND THE MALAY-INDONESIAN WORLD: TRANSMISSION AND RESPONSES. By Azumardi Azra . 103 23. M. Naim Turfan: RISE OF THE YOUNG TURKS: POLITICS, THE MILITARY AND OTTOMAN COLLAPSE. By Clement Dodd 106 24. William Hale: TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY, 1774-2000. By Blent Gkay 107 25. Alon Liel: TURKEY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, ISLAM, AND POLITICS. By Philip Robins . 110 26. David Gilmartin - Bruce B. Lawrence (eds.): BEYOND TURK AND HINDU: RETHINKING RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES IN ISLAMICATE SOUTH ASIA. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman . 112 27. Theoharis Stavrides: THE SULTAN OF VEZIRS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE OTTOMAN GRAND VEZIR MAHMUD PASHA ANGELOVI (1453-1474). By Colin Imber .. 116 BOOKS RECEIVED . 119 VOLUME XIV/2 (2003) ARTICLES Wahhabi Influences, Salafi Responses: Shaikh Mahmud Shukri and the Iraqi Salafi Movement, 1745-1930 Hala Fattah . 127 A Mamlk Theologians Commentary on Avicennas Risla A|awiyya: Being a Translation of a Part of the Dar al-taru of Ibn Taymiyya, with Introduction, Annotation, and Appendices, Part I Yahya Michot . 149 BOOK REVIEWS

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1. Harald Motzki: THE BIOGRAPHY OF MUHAMMAD: THE ISSUE OF THE SOURCES. By Yasin Dutton . 205 2. Gert Borg Ed. de Moor: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DIVINE IN ARABIC POETRY. By Michael G. Carter .. 208 3. Farhad Daftary (ed.): INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS IN ISLAM. By Julie Scott Meisami . 212 4. Roshdi Rashed - Hlne Bellosta: IBRHIM IBN SINN: LOGIQUE ET GOMETRIE AU XE SICLE. By Franois Charrette 217 5. Marc Geoffroy - Carlos Steel: LA BATITUDE DE LME. EDITIONS, TRADUCTIONS ANNOTES, TUDES DOCTRINALES ET HISTORIQUES DUN TRAIT DAVERROS. By Jules Janssens . 219 6. John OKane (trans.): SHAMS AL-DN AMAD-E AFLK: THE FEATS OF THE KNOWERS OF GOD. By Annemarie Schimmel 224 7. U. Vermeulen - J. Van Steenbergen (eds.): EGYPT AND SYRIA IN THE FATIMID, AYYUBID AND MANILUK ERAS, VOL. III. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH, 7TH AND 8TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ORGANIZED AT THE KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN IN MAY 1997, 1998 AND 1999. By Donald S. Richards ... 225 8. Oded Peri: CHRISTIANITY UNDER ISLAM IN JERUSALEM: THE QUESTION OF THE HOLY SITES IN EARLY OTTOMAN TIMES. By Kenneth Cragg ... 227 9. Justin McCarthy: THE OTTOMAN PEOPLES AND THE END OF EMPIRE. By Kate Fleet .... 229 10. Ergun zbudun: CONTEMPORARY TURKISH POLITICS: CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION; Marvine Howe: TURKEY TODAY: A NATION DIVIDED OVER ISLAMS REVIVAL. By Brian W. Beeley .... 231 11. Ash irakman: FROM THE TERROR OF THE WORLD TO THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE: EUROPEAN IMAGES OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND SOCIETY FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE NINETEENTH. By Richard C. Repp ... 234 12. Urgunge Onon: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHINGGIS KHAN. By Christopher Atwood 236 13. Devin DeWeese: STUDIES ON CENTRAL ASIAN HISTORY IN HONOR OF YURI BREGEL. By Paul Bergne 238 14. Ahmad Rashid: JIHAD: THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA. By Paul Bergne . 240 15. B.G. Williams: THE CRIMEAN TATARS: THE DIASPORA EXPERIENCE AND THE FORCING OF A NATION. By Paul Bergne . 242 16. Jacob M. Landau - Barbara Kellner-Heinkele: THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN THE EX-SOVIET MUSLIM STATES. By Paul Bergne . 245

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17. Nozar Alaolmolki: LIFE AFTER THE SOVIET UNION: THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT REPUBLICS OF THE TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA. By Touraj Atabaki ... 248 18. I. Draelants - A. Tihon - B. van den Abeele (eds.): OCCIDENT ET PROCHE-ORIENT: CONTACTS SCIENTIFIQUES AU TEMPS DES CROISADES. By Carole Hillenbrand ... 250 19. Benjamin Stora: ALGERIA 1830-2000: A SHORT HISTORY. By George Joff ... 252 20. Bjorn Moller (ed.): OIL AND WATER: CO-OPERATIVE SECURITY IN THE PERSIAN GULF. By Ewan Anderson .. 254 21. Djavad Salehi-Ishfahani: LABOUR AND HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST: STUDIES OF MARKETS AND HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOUR. By Rodney Wilson 256 22. Roel Meijer (ed.): ALIENATION OR INTEGRATION OF ARAB YOUTH: BETWEEN FAMILY, STATE AND STREET. By Elizabeth Fernea ... 259 23. Oleg Grabar: MOSTLY MINIATURES: AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSIAN PAINTING. By Maryam Ekhtiar 261 BOOKS RECEIVED . 265 VOLUME XIV/3 (2003) ARTICLES Factors Conducive to the Politicization of the Lebanese Sha and the Emergence of izbullh Amal Saad-Ghorayeb . 273 A Mamlk Theologians Commentary on Avicennas Risla A|awiyya: Being a Translation of a Part of the Dar al-taru of Ibn Taymiyya with Introduction, Annotation, and Appendices, Part II Yahya Michot . 309 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Colin Turner: ISLAM WITHOUT ALLAH? THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS EXTERNALISM IN SAFAVID IRAN. By Sajjad Rizvi ... 365 2. Herbert Berg: THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXEGESIS IN EARLY ISLAM: THE AUTHENTICITY OF MUSLIM LITERATURE FROM THE FORMATIVE PERIOD. By Mohammad Akram Nadwi .. 370 3. Paul L. Heck: THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION: QUDAMA B. JAFAR AND HIS KITB AL-KHARJ WA-INAT AL-KITBA. By Elton L. Daniel ... 377 4. Yahya Michot (ed.): IBN SN: LETTRE AU VIZIR AB SAD EDITIO PRINCEPS DAPRS LE MANUSCRIT DE BURSA, TRADUCTION DE LARABE, INTRODUCTION, NOTES ET LEXIQUE. By Dimitri Gutas .. 379 5. John Alembillah Azumah: THE LEGACY OF ARAB-ISLAM IN AFRICA: A QUEST FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE; Roland Oliver - Anthony Atmore: MEDIEVAL AFRICA 1250-1800. By Mohamed Bakari 381

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6. Jonathan T. Reynolds: THE TIME OF POLITICS (ZAMANIN SIYASA): ISLAM AND THE POLITICS OF LEGITIMACY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA, 1950-1966 (2nd edn.) By Murray Last .. 387 7. Ekmeleddin hsanoglu (ed.): HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN STATE, SOCIETY AND CIVILIZATION. By Geoffrey Lewis . 389 8. Amy Singer: CONSTRUCTING OTTOMAN BENEFICENCE: AN IMPERIAL SOUP KITCHEN IN JERUSALEM. By Richard C. Repp .. 390 9. A. Holly Shissler: BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES: AHMET AAOLU AND THE NEW TURKEY. By Feroz Ahmad .. 392 10. Stephane Dudoignon - Komatsu Hisao (eds.): ISLAM IN POLITICS IN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA (EARLY EIGHTEENTH TO LATE TWENTIETH CENTURIES). By Paul Bergne .. 394 11. Willem van Schendel - Erik J. Zurcher (eds.): IDENTITY POLITICS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE MUSLIM WORLD. By Paul Bergne . 399 12. Ebba Koch: MUGHAL ART AND IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY: COLLECTED ESSAYS. By Som Prakash Verma . 402 13. Owen Bennett Jones: PAKISTAN: EYE OF THE STORM. By Iftikhar Malik ... 406 14. Barbara Fuchs: MIMESIS AND EMPIRE: THE NEW WORLD, ISLAM, AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES. By Ahmad Gunny ... 410 15. Leslie McLoughlin: IN A SEA OF KNOWLEDGE: BRITISH ARABISTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Sir James Craig 412 BOOKS RECEIVED . 415

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VOLUME XV/1 (2004) ARTICLES Criticism of the Proto-Hadith Canon: Al-Draquns Adjustment of the a||ayn Jonathan A.C. Brown . Reading Al-Sharn: the Sufi Genealogy of Islamic Modernism in Late Ottoman Damascus Leila Hudson .. 39 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Kenneth Cragg: MUHAMMAD IN THE QURAN: THE TASK AND THE TEXT. By Mustansir Mir . 69 2. Subhash C. Inamdar: MUHAMMAD AND THE RISE OF ISLAM: THE CREATION OF GROUP IDENTITY. By Mohammad Akram Nadwi .. 71 3. Imm al-aramayn al-Juwayn: A GUIDE TO CONCLUSIVE PROOFS FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF BELIEF (KITB AL-IRSHD IL QAWI AL-ADILLA). By Michael E. Marmura 76 4. David B. Burrell: AL-GHAZALI: FAITH IN DIVINE UNITY AND TRUST IN DIVINE PROVIDENCE. By Ayman Shihadeh .. 78 5. Sabine Schmidtke: THEOLOGIE, PHILOSOPHIE UND MYSTIK IM ZWLFERSCHIITISCHEN ISLAM DES 9./15. JAHRHUNDERTS. By Robert Gleave ... 80 6. Syed Azizur Rahman: THE STORY OF ISLAMIC SPAIN. By Patrick Harvey ... 82

7. Anthony Luttrell: THE MAKING OF CHRISTIAN MALTA: FROM THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES TO 1530. By Jeremy Johns .. 84 8. Rene J. Barendse: THE ARABIAN SEAS: THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By Dietmar Rothermund ... 89 9. Bruce Masters: CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE OTTOMAN ARAB WORLD. By Geoffrey Lewis . 91 10. Thomas T. Allsen: CULTURE AND CONQUEST IN MONGOL EURASIA. By Charles Melville .. 91

11. Simon Digby: SUFIS AND SOLDIERS IN AWRANGZEBS DECCAN: MALFZT-INAQSHBANDIYYA. By Rafi Ahmad Alavi ... 95 12. Sunil Sharma: PERSIAN POETRY AT THE INDIAN FRONTIER. By Mohammad Akram Nadwi . 97

13. Haggai Erlich: THE CROSS AND THE RIVER: ETHIOPIA, EGYPT, AND THE NILE. By Hussein Ahmed .... 100 14. Hussein Ahmed: ISLAM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY WALLO, ETHIOPIA: REVIVAL, REFORM AND REACTION. By I.M. Lewis 107 15. Daniel Balland: HOMMES ET TERRES DISLAM: MLANGES OFFERTS XAVIER DE PLANHOL

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(VOLUMES 1 AND 2). By Jeremy Johns . 109 16. Gilles Kepel: JIHD: THE TRAIL OF POLITICAL. ISLAM. By Ahmad S. Moussalli .. 113 17. Charles E. Butterworth - I. William Zartman (eds.): BETWEEN THE STATE AND ISLAM. By Ahmad S. Moussalli .... 116 18. Michael Johnson: ALL HONOURABLE MEN: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF WAR IN LEBANON. By Jens Hanssen .. 119 19. Jason F. Isaacson - Colin Rubenstein (eds.): ISLAM IN ASIA; CHANGING POLITICAL REALITIES. By Imtiyaz Yusuf ... 123 20. Amal Saad-Ghorayeb: HIZBULLAH: POLITICS AND RELIGION. By Beverley Milton-Edwards 124 21. Madawi al-Rasheed: A HISTORY OF SAUDI ARABIA. By J.E. Peterson 126 22. Resul Yalcin: THE REBIRTH OF UZBEKISTAN: POLITICS, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE POST-SOVIET ERA. By Paul Bergne .. 127 23. Dariush Zahedi: THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION THEN AND NOW: INDICATORS OF REGIME STABILITY. By A.M. Ansari ... 129 24. Jenny B. White: ISLAMIST MOBILIZATION IN TURKEY: A STUDY IN VERNACULAR POLITICS. By William Hale 131 25. John Beasant: OMAN; THE TRUE-LIFE DRAMA AND INTRIGUE OF AN ARAB STATE. By Dawn Chatty . 133 26. Randi Deguilhem - Manuela Marn (eds.): WRITING THE FEMININE: WOMEN IN ARAB SOURCES. By Judy Mabro ... 135 27. Elizabeth Poole: REPORTING ISLAM: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF BRITISH MUSLIMS. By Roger Hardy ... 137 BOOKS RECEIVED . 141 CORRIGENDA ... 145 VOLUME XV/2 (2004) ARTICLES Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975-1998) Nadirsyah Hosen 147 Polemic, Philology, and Ambivalence: Reading the Qurn in Latin Christendom Thomas E. Burman 181 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Asaf A.A. Fyzee (trans.), Ismail Kurban Husein Poonawala (revised/ annotated): THE PILLARS OF

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ISLAM: DAIM AL-ISLM OF AL-QA AL-NUMN (Volume 1). By Mohammad Akram Nadwi . 211 2. Muammer skenderolu: FAKHR AL-DN AL-RZ AND THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE QUESTION OF THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD. By Ayman Shihadeh ... 213 3. Peter Adamson: THE ARABIC PLOTINUS: A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY OF THE THEOLOGY OF ARISTOTLE. By Majid Fakhry ... 215 4. Qasim al-Samarrai (ed.): WAF AL-WAF BI AKHBR DR AL-MUAF [BY AL B. ABDULLH AL-SAMHD]. By Abdul-Nabi Isstaif ... 217 5. Juan Cole: SACRED SPACE AND HOLY WAR: THE POLITICS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY OF SHIITE ISLAM. By Wilferd Madelung ... 219 6. Khaled M. Abou El-Fadl: CONFERENCE OF THE BOOKS: THE SEARCH FOR BEAUTY IN ISLAM. By Reza Shah-Kazemi ... 220 7. Jo-Ann Gross - Asom Urunbaev: THe LETTERS OF KHWJA UBAYD ALLH ARR AND HIS ASSOCIATES. By Hamid Algar ... 224 8. Basil W. Robinson: THE PERSIAN BOOK OF KINGS: AN EPITOME OF THE SHAHNAMA OF FIRDAWSI By Julie Scott Meisami .. 226 9. Wheeler M. Thackston Jr (ed./trans.): NASIR-I KHUSRAWS BOOK OF TRAVELS. By Julie Scott Meisami .. 228 10. Nadia Eboo Jamal: SURVIVING THE MONGOLS: NIZR QUHISTN AND THE CONTINUITY OF ISMAILI TRADITION IN PERSIA. By Farhad Daftary .. 229 11. Colin Imber: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1300-1650: THE STRUCTURE OF POWER. By Richard C. Repp ... 232 12. Daniel Goffman: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE. By Christine Woodhead . 234 13. Colin Heywood: WRITING OTTOMAN HISTORY: DOCUMENTS AND INTERPRETATIONS. By I. Metin Kunt . 237 14. Klaus Kreiser et al. (eds.): THE BEGINNINGS OF PRINTING IN THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST: JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS. By Jonathan M. Bloom 238 15. Chase R. Robinson (ed.): A MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC CITY RECONSIDERED: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO SAMARRA. By Barbara Finster .. 240 16. Josef W. Meri: THE CULT OF SAINTS AMONG MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN MEDIEVAL SYRIA. By Gary Leiser . 243 17. Warwick Ball - Len Harrow (eds.): CAIRO TO KABUL: AFGHAN AND ISLAMIC STUDIES. PRESENTED TO RALPH PINDER-WILSON. By James Allan . 245 18. Michael Francis Laffan: ISLAMIC NATIONHOOD AND COLONIAL INDONESIA: THE UMMA BELOW THE WINDS. By Azyumardi Azra 246

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19. Matthew Jones: CONFLICT AND CONFRONTATION IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA, 1961-1965. By Sir Donald Hawley .. 249 20. Yasir Suleiman: THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. By Leslie McLoughlin . 253 21. Calvin Goldscheider: CULTURES IN CONFLICT: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT. By Beverley Milton-Edwards . 256 22. Susan Silsby Boyle: BETRAYAL OF PALESTINE: THE STORY OF GEORGE ANTONIUS. By Derek Hopwood 257 23. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol: WOMEN OF JORDAN: ISLAM, LABOUR AND THE LAW. By Laurie A. Brand .. 259 24. Theresa Saliba - Carolyn Alien - Judith A. Howard (eds.): GENDER, POLITICS, AND ISLAM. By Mary Hossain . 261 25. Robert Dannin: BLACK PILGRIMAGE TO ISLAM. By Aminah Beverly McCloud 263 26. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (ed.): MUSLIMS IN THE WEST: FROM SOJOURNERS TO CITIZENS. By Iftikhar H. Malik . 265 27. John Esposito - Franois Burgat (eds.): MODERNIZING ISLAM: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann 267 28. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad - Jane I. Smith (eds.): MUSLIM MINORITIES IN THE WEST: VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE. By K. Humayun Ansari 271 29. Akel Ismail Kahera: DECONSTRUCTING THE AMERICAN MOSQUE: SPACE, GENDER AND AESTHETICS. By Jane I. Smith ... 273 30. Mhammed Sabour: THE ONTOLOGY AND STATUS OF INTELLECTUALS IN ARAB ACADEMIA AND SOCIETY. By Abdul-Nabi Isstaif 276 31. Johan Meuleman (ed.): ISLAM IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: MUSLIM ATTITUDES TOWARDS MODERNITY AND IDENTITY. By S. Parvez Manzoor ... 279 BOOKS RECEIVED . 283 VOLUME XV/3 (2004) ARTICLES Perpetual Creativity in the Perfection of God: Ibn Taymiyyas Hadith Commentary on Gods Creation of This World Jon Hoover . 287 Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar ibn Said Ghada Osman - Camille F. Forbes . 331 BOOK REVIEWS

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1. Nimrod Hurvitz: THE FORMATION OF ANBALISM: PIETY INTO POWER. By Wael B. Hallaq . 345 2. Majid Fakhry: AL-FARABI: FOUNDER OF ISLAMIC NEOPLATONISM: HIS LIFE, WORKS AND INFLUENCE. By Ayman Shihadeh .. 347 3. Qamar-ul Huda: STRIVING FOR DIVINE UNION: SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FOR SUHRAWARD SFS. By Arthur F. Buehler . 348 4. John Walbridge: THE WISDOM OF THE MYSTIC EAST: SUHRAWARD AND PLATONIC ORIENTALISM. By Mehdi Aminrazavi ... 350 5. James T. Monroe: AL-MAQAMAT AL-LUZUMIYYA BY AB L-HIR MUAMMAD IBN YSUF ALTAMM AL-SARAQUS IBN AL-ATARKW (d. 539/1143). By Geert Jan van Gelder ... 352 6. Lloyd Ridgeon: PERSIAN METAPHYSICS AND MYSTICISM: SELECTED WORKS OF AZZ NASAF. By Gerald Elmore .. 354 7. Ali S. Asani: ECSTASY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: THE ISMAILI DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE OF SOUTH ASIA. By Zawahir Moir .. 357 8. Thomas Dhnhardt: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN INDIAN SUFISM. By Scott Kugle . 359 9. Jonathan P. Berkey: THE FORMATION OF ISLAM: RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE NEAR EAST, 600-1800. By Ahmad Gunny . 364 10. Andrew Petersen: A GAZETTEER OF BUILDINGS IN MUSLIM PALESTINE (PART 1). By Ruba Kanaan .. 367 11. Eugene L. Rogan - Avi Shlaim (eds.): THE WAR FOR PALESTINE: REWRITING THE HISTORY OF 1948. By Michael Dumper . 369 12. Michael E. Meeker: A NATION OF EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN LEGACY OF TURKISH MODERNITY By Celia J. Kerslake ... 371 13. Negin Nabavi: INTELLECTUALS AND THE STATE IN IRAN: POLITICS, DISCOURSE, AND THE DILEMMA OF AUTHENTICITY By Ali Paya ... 371 14. Shibley Telhami - Michael Barnett (eds.): IDENTITY AND FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By Ahmad S. Moussalli . 379 15. Will Myer: ISLAM AND COLONIALISM: WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON SOVIET ASIA. By Paul Bergne 383 16. Tariq Ramadan: WESTERN MUSLIMS AND THE FUTURE OF ISLAM. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann . 386 17. Shireen T. Hunter (ed.): ISLAM, EUROPES SECOND RELIGION: THE NEW SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL LANDSCAPE. By Patricia Sellick . 391 18. Frederic Grare: POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: THE JAMAAT-I-ISLAMI. By Iftikhar Malik . 393

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19. John R. Bowen: ISLAM, LAW AND EQUALITY IN INDONESIA: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUBLIC REASONING. By William R. Roff ... 395 20. R.E. Elson: SUHARTO: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY. By Dewi Fortuna Anwar .. 396 21. Anthony S.K. Shome: MALAY POLITICAL LEADERSHIP. By Nico J.G. Kaptein . 399 22. Eleanor Abdella Doumato - Marsha Pripstein Posusney (eds.): WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST: GENDER, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY. By Haleh Afshar .. 401 23. Gerda Sengers: WOMEN AND DEMONS: CULTIC HEALING IN ISLAMIC EGYPT. By Elizabeth Fernea . 403 24. Frank J. Korom: HOSAY TRINIDAD: MUHARRAM PERFORMANCES IN AN INDO-CARIBBEAN DIASPORA. By Kamran Scott Aghaie . 405 25. S.M. Ghazanfar (ed.): MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ECONOMIC, THOUGHT: FILLING THE GREAT GAP IN EUROPEAN ECONOMICS. By Mohamed Asiam Haneef . 408 26. Rama M. Z. Keilani - Sv. Todorova (eds.): PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ISLAMIC CIVILISATION IN THE BALKANS. Sofia, April 21-23, 2000; Ali aksu (ed.): BALKANLARDA ISLM MEDENIYETI MILLETLERARASI SEM-POZYUMU TEBLILERI, Sofya 2123 Nisan 2000. By Stoyanka Kerendova ... 411

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VOLUME XVI/1 (2005) ARTICLES Umma: The Orientalists and the Qurnic Concept of Identity Maysam J. al Faruqi ... Muslim Dress in Europe: Debates on the Headscarf W. Shadid - P. S. van Koningsveld BOOK REVIEWS 1. Fuad Jabali: THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET: A STUDY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS. By Iftikhar Zaman .... 63 2. Robert Wisnovsky: AVICENNAS METAPHYSICS IN CONTEXT. By David Reisman . 66 3. Tobias Nnlist: HIMMELFAHRT UND HEILIGKEIT IM ISLAM: EINE STUDIE UNTER BESONDERER BERCKSICHTIGUNG VON IBN SINAS MIRAG-NAMEH. By Klaus U. Hachmeier ... 68 4. Zaid Ahmad: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF IBN KHALDN. By Mohammad Talib . 5. Sami Zubaida: LAW AND POWER IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. By Mohammad Fadel ... 70 72 1 35

6. F. Adanir - S. Faroqhi (eds.): THE OTTOMANS AND THE BALKANS: A DISCUSSION OF HISTORIOGRAPHY. By M. kr Haniolu .. 74 7. Andr Raymond: ARAB CITIES IN THE OTTOMAN PERIOD: CAIRO, SYRIA AND THE MAGHREB. By Jens Hanssen . 80 8. Uwaidah M. al Juhany: NAJD BEFORE THE SALAFI REFORM MOVEMENT: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS DURING THE THREE CENTURIES PRECEDING THE RISE OF THE SAUDI STATE. By Youssef M. Choueiri . 84 9. Shafi Aldamer: SAUDI ARABIA AND BRITAIN: CHANGING RELATIONS, 1939-1953. By Alan Munro . 85 10. Matthijs van den Bos: MYSTIC REGIMES: SUFISM AND THE STATE IN IRAN, FROM THE LATE QAJAR ERA TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. By Hamid Algar . 88 11. Stephanie Cronin (ed.): THE MAKING OF MODERN IRAN: STATE AND SOCIETY UNDER RIZA SHAH, 1921-1941. By A.M. Ansari .. 91 12. M. Hakan Yavuz - John L. Esposito (eds.): TURKISH ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE: THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF FETHULLAH GLENS NUR MOVEMENT. By Clement Dodd .. 93 13. Galina M. Yemelianova: RUSSIA AND ISLAM: A HISTORICAL SURVEY. By Paul Bergne ... 14. Boris Rumer (ed.): CENTRAL ASIA-A GATHERING STORM By Paul Bergne ... 95 98

15. Eve M. Troutt Powell: A DIFFERENT SHADE OF COLONIALISM: EGYPT, GREAT BRITAIN, AND

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THE MASTERY OF THE SUDAN. By Amr Sabet . 101 16. Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron Baudouin Dupret (eds.): EGYPT AND ITS LAWS. By Enid Hill 106

17. Raghid el-Solh: LEBANON AND ARABISM: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND STATE FORMATION. By Patrick Seale ... 114 18. Charlotte A. Quinn - Fredrick Quinn (eds.): PRIDE, FAITH, AND FEAR: ISLAM IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. By Amidu Olalekan Sanni . 117 19. Bahtiar Effendy: ISLAM AND THE STATE IN INDONESIA. By William Roff .. 120 20. Angela Romano: POLITICS AND THE PRESS IN INDONESIA: UNDERSTANDING AN EVOLVING POLITICAL CULTURE. By John Lent 121 21. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych: THE POETICS OF ISLAMIC LEGITIMACY- MYTH, GENDER AND CEREMONY IN THE CLASSICAL ARABIC ODE. By Geert Jan van Gelder .. 123 22. R.S. OFahey: ARABIC LITERATURE OF AFRICA VOLUME 3 FASCICLE A: THE WRITINGS OF THE MUSLIM PEOPLE OF NORTHEASTERN AFRICA. By Amidu Olalekan Sanni 125 23. John O. Hunwick: ARABIC LITERATURE OF AFRICA VOLUME 4: THE WRITINGS OF WESTERN SUDANIC AFRICA. By Amidu Olalekan Sanni .. 127 24. Ahmad Gunny: PERCEPTIONS OF ISLAM IN EUROPEAN WRITINGS. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann . 130 25. Stefano Allievi - Jrgen S. Nielsen (eds.): MUSLIM NETWORKS AND TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES IN AND ACROSS EUROPE; Brigitte Marechal - Stefano Allievi - Felice Dassetto Jrgen Nielsen (eds.): MUSLIMS IN THE ENLARGED EUROPE: RELIGION AND SOCIETY. By Patricia Sellick . 133 BOOKS RECEIVED . 137 VOLUME XVI/2 (2005) ARTICLES An Innovation from the Time of the Ban Hshim: Some Reflections on the Taslm at the End of the Prayer Yasin Dutton .. 147 Islamic Books and their Publishers: Notes on the Contemporary Indonesian Scene C.W. Watson .. 177 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Sherman A. Jackson: ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THEOLOGICAL TOLERANCE IN ISLAM: AB MID AL-GHAZLS FAYAL AL-TAFRIQA. By Tony Street . 211 2. David C. Reisman (ed.): BEFORE AND AFTER AVICENNA: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF THE AVICENNA STUDY GROUP. By Tony Street . 213

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3. Bryan S. Turner (ed.): ISLAM: CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN SOCIOLOGY By Mohammad Talib .. 218 4. Peter Mandaville: TRANSNATIONAL MUSLIM POLITICS: REIMAGINING THE UMMA. By Maysam al Faruqi . 222 5. Muhammad Qasim Zaman: THE ULAMA IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAM: CUSTODIANS OF CHANGE. By Mohammad Talib ... 227 6. Jodi Magness: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE EARLY ISLAMIC SETTLEMENT IN PALESTINE. By Marcus Milwright .. 230 7. Timur Kuran: ISLAM AND MAMMON: THE ECONOMIC PREDICAMENTS OF ISLAMISM. By M. Umer Chapra .. 232 8. Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi: CONTEMPORARY ARAB THOUGHT: STUDIES IN POST-1967 ARAB INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. By Fred Halliday .. 239 9. Mashood A. Baderin: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAMIC LAW. By John Kelsay .. 242 10. Carne Rosefsky Wickham: MOBILIZING ISLAM: RELIGION, ACTIVISM, AND POLITICAL CHANCE IN EGYPT. By Mohamed El Sayed Said . 245 11. Mohammed M. Hafez: WHY MUSLIMS REBEL? REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. By Iftikhar Malik . 249 12. Aharon Layish - Gabriel R. Warburg: THE REINSTATEMENT OF ISLAMIC LAW IN SUDAN UNDER NUMAYRI: AN EVALUATION OF A LEGAL EXPERIMENT IN LIGHT OF ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT, METHODOLOGY, AND REPERCUSSIONS. By Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban ... 251 13. Th. Emil Homerin: FROM ARAB POET TO MUSLIM SAINT: IBN AL-FRI, HIS VERSE, AND HIS SHRINE. By Kenneth L. Honerkamp 254 14. Guity Neshat - Lois Beck (eds.): WOMEN IN IRAN FROM THE RISE OF ISLAM TO 1800. By H.A. Afshar . 257 15. Cheryl A. Rubenberg: PALESTINIAN WOMEN: PATRIARCHY AND RESISTANCE IN THE WEST BANK. By Randa Farah 259 16. John Hunwick - Eve Troutt Powell: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN LANDS OF ISLAM. By Alamin Mazrui . 263 17. Christophe Jaffrelot (ed.): PAKISTAN: NATIONALISM WITHOUT A NATION? By Zafar Iqbal Cheema ... 266 18. Dru C. Gladney: DISLOCATING CHINA: MUSLIMS, MINORITIES AND OTHER SUBALTERN SUBJECTS. By Maria Jaschok .. 268 19. Jacques Bertrand: NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INDONESIA. By Johan H. Meuleman ... 275 BOOKS RECEIVED . 279

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VOLUME XVI/3 (2005) ARTICLES Discourse and Historical Analysis: The Case of al-abars History of the Messengers and the Kings Ulrika Mrtensson .. 287 The Mudejars and the Local Courts: Justice in Action Isabel OConnor . 332 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Paul Suter: ALFURKAN TATARSKI - DER LITAUISCH-TATARISCHE KORAN-TEFSIR. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann .. 357 2. Zailan Moris: REVELATION, INTELLECTUAL INTUITION AND REASON IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MULLA SADRA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE AL-HIKMAH AL-ARSHIYYA. By James W. Morris ... 360 3. Kiki Kennedy-Day: BOOKS OF DEFINITION IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY: THE LIMIT OF WORDS. By Sajjad H. Rizvi ... 362 4. Ramzi Baalbaki: GRAMMARIANS AND GRAMMATICAL THEORY IN THE MEDIEVAL ARABIC TRADITION. By Tams Ivnyi 366 5. Muhammed A. al-Dami: ARABIAN MIRRORS AND WESTERN SOOTHSAYERS: NINETEENTHCENTURY LITERARY APPROACHES TO ARAB-ISLAMIC HISTORY. By Dana Sajdi . 371 6. Franois Charrette: MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTATION IN FOURTEENTH CENTURY EGYPT AND SYRIA: THE ILLUSTRATED TREATISE OF NAJM AL-DN AL-MIR. By Hlne Bellosta ... 374 7. Jonathan E. Brockopp (ed.): ISLAMIC ETHICS OF LIFE: ABORTION, WAR AND EUTHENASIA. By Abul Fadi Mohsin Ebrahim 376 8. Clement M. Henry - Rodney Wilson (eds.): THE POLITICS OF ISLAMIC FINANCE. By MuhammadShahid Ebrahim .. 378 9. Jonathan Benthall - Jerome Bellion-Jourdan: THE CHARITABLE CRESCENT: POLITICS OF AID IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. By Masooda Bano ... 383 10. Gabriel Warburg: ISLAM, SECTARIANISM AND POLITICS IN SUDAN SINCE THE MAHDIYYA. By Hussein Ahmed .. 386 11. Barry Rubin: THE TRAGEDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST. By Hassan Hanafi .................................... 388 12. Martin Strohmeier: CRUCIAL IMAGES IN THE PRESENTATION OF A KURDISH NATIONAL IDENTITY: HEROES AND PATRIOTS, TRAITORS AND FOES. By Christine Allison 389 13. Catharina Raudvere: THE BOOK AND THE ROSES: SUFI WOMEN, VISIBILITY, AND ZIKIR IN CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL. By Anne Sofie Roald . 392 14. Kathryn Babayan: MYSTICS, MONARCHS, AND MESSIAHS: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF EARLY MODERN IRAN. By Andrew J. Newman .. 395

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15. Anna Suvorova: MUSLIM SAINTS OF SOUTH ASIA: THE ELEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES. By Bruce B. Lawrence ... 397 16. Yoginder Sikand: MUSLIMS IN INDIA SINCE 1947: ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES ON INTER-FAITH RELATIONS. By Ian Talbot . 400 17. Mridu Rai: HINDU RULERS, MUSLIM SUBJECTS: ISLAM, RIGHTS AND THE HISTORY OF KASHMIR; Chitralekha Zutshi: LANGUAGES OF BELONGING: ISLAM, REGIONAL IDENTITY, AND THE MAKING OF KASHMIR. By Tapan Raychaudri 402 18. Humayun Ansari: THE INFIDEL WITHIN: MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN SINCE 1800. By Patricia Sellick . 405 19. Gotthard Strohmaier: HELLAS IM ISLAM: INTERDISZIPLINARE STUDIEN ZUR IKONOGRAPHIE, WISSENSCHAFT UND RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE. By Kevin van Bladel . 407 20. Alastair Hamilton - Francis Richard: ANDR DU RYER AND ORIENTAL STUDIES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE. By Ahmad Gunny ... 409 BOOKS RECEIVED . 412

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VOLUME XVII/1 (2006) ARTICLES MS London, British Library Or. 3126: An Unknown Work by al-Ghazl on Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology Frank Griffel .. A Sufi Itinerary of Tenth Century Nishapur Based on a Treatise by Ab Abd al-Ra|mn al-Sulam Kenneth Honerkamp .. BOOK REVIEWS 1. Ted Peters - Muzaffar Iqbal - Syed Nomanul Haq (eds.): GOD, LIFE, AND THE COSMOS: CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES. By Sajjad H. Rizvi 68 2. Margaret Smith: MUSLIM WOMEN MYSTICS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF RABIA AND OTHER WOMEN MYSTICS IN ISLAM; Shemeem Burney Abbas: THE FEMALE VOICE IN SUFI RITUAL: DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES OF PAKISTAN AND INDIA. By Anne Sofie Roald .. 71 3. Boaz Shoshan: POETICS OF ISLAMIC HISTORIOGRAPHY: DECONSTRUCTING TABARS HISTORY. By C. Edmund Bosworth 74 4. Mercedes Garca-Arenal - Fernando Rodrguez Mediano - Rachid el Hour: CARTAS MARRUECAS: DOCUMENTOS DE MARRUECOS EN ARCHIVOS ESPANOLES (SIGLOS XVI-XVII). By Patrick Harvey . 76 5. Petra M. Sijpesteijn - Lennart Sundelin (eds.): PAPYROLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF EARLY ISLAMIC EGYPT. By George T. Scanlon 78 6. Samir Khalaf: CULTURAL RESISTANCE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By Dawn Chatty . 79 7. Francis Owtram: A MODERN HISTORY OF OMAN: FORMATION OF THE STATE SINCE 1920. By Jeremy Jones .. 81 8. R. Hrair Dekmejian - Hovann H. Simonian: TROUBLED WATERS. THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE CASPIAN REGION. By Touraj Atabaki .. 83 9. Ali Aissaoui: ALGERIA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OIL AND GAS. By Wilfrid Knapp . 85 10. A.M. Ansari: IRAN, ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICS OF MANAGING CHANGE. By Russami Usman Malami 87 11. Touraj Atabaki Erik J. Zrcher: MEN OF ORDER: AUTHORITARIAN MODERNIZATION UNDER ATATURK AND REZA SHAH. By Clement Dodd 91 12. Laurence Kelly: DIPLOMACY AND MURDER IN TEHRAN: ALEXANDER GRIBOYEDOV AND IMPERIAL RUSSIAS MISSION TO THE SHAH OF PERSIA. By Homa Katouzian .. 93 13. Allen J. Frank - Mirkasyim A. Usmanov (eds.): AN ISLAMIC BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF

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THE EASTERN KAZAKH STEPPE, 1770-1912 QURBN AL KHLID. By Thomas Welsford .... 14. Suraiya Faroqhi: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE WORLD AROUND IT. By Metin Kunt .

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15. Gabriel Piterberg: AN OTTOMAN TRAGEDY; HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY AT PLAY. By lker Evrim Binba . 100 16. Anna Suvorova: MUSLIM SAINTS OF SOUTH ASIA: THE ELEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES. By Bruce B. Lawrence ... 102 17. Adeel Khan: POLITICS OF IDENTITY: ETHNIC NATIONALISM AND THE STATE IN PAKISTAN. By Ian Talbot . 105 18. Greg Barton: ABDURRAHMAN WAHID. MUSLIM DEMOCRAT, INDONESIAN PRESIDENT. A VIEW FROM THE INSIDE. By Peter Carey 107 19. S. Frederick Starr: XINJIANG: CHINAS MUSLIM BORDERLAND. By Michael Dillon .. 110 20. Haifaa Jawaad - Tansin Benn (eds.): MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND BEYOND: EXPERIENCES AND IMAGES. By Mary Hossain . 113 21. Nathal M. Dessing: RITUALS OF BIRTH, CIRCUMCISION, MARRIAGE AND DEATH AMONG MUSLIMS IN THE NETHERLANDS. By Pnina Werbner .. 114 22. Gunther Dietz - Nadia El-Shohoumi: MUSLIM WOMEN IN SOUTHERN SPAIN: STEPDAUGHTERS OF AL-ANDALUS. By L.P. Harvey . 116 23. Carolyn Moxley Rouse: ENGAGED SURRENDER: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND ISLAM. By Aminah Beverley McCloud ... 119 24. Loukia K. Sarroub: ALL AMERICAN YEMENI GIRLS: BEING MUSLIM IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL. By J. Mark Halstead 121 25. Lois Beck - Guity Neshat (eds.); WOMEN IN IRAN FROM 1800 TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. By Haleh Ashfar .. 123 BOOKS RECEIVED . 125 VOLUME XVII/2 (2006) ARTICLES Sajarah Leluhur: Hindu Cosmology and the Construction of Javanese Muslim Genealogical Authority R. Kevin Jaques .. 129 Between Time and Eternity: Mr Dmd on Gods Creative Agency Sajjad H. Rizvi ... 158 Averroes on Gods Knowledge of Particulars Catarina Belo .. 177 BOOK REVIEWS

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1. Hiroyuki Mashita (ed.): Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics. By Mark P. Mhlhusler

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2. Emilie Savage-Smith: A Descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St Johns College, Oxford. By Mark P. Mhlhusler .. 201 3. Blent Ucar: Recht als Mittel zur Reform von Religion und Gesellschaft: die trkische Debatte um die Scharia und die Rechtsschulen im 20. Jahrhundert. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann .. 204 4. Roy Parviz Mottahedeh: Muhammad Bqir as-Sadr: Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. By Sajjad H. Rizvi . 207 5. David Westerlund (ed.): Sufism in Europe and North America. By Thomas Dahnhardt 212 6. Anne Sophie Roald: New Muslims in the European Context: the Experience of Scandinavian Converts. By Mary Hossain . 214 7. Reina Lewis: Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem. By Mohammad Talib . 216 8. William E. Watson: Tricolor and Crescent. France and the Islamic World. By Ahmad Gunny .... 219 9. Elie Podeh - Onn Winckler (eds.): Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt. By Derek Hopwood 221 10. Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh: In the Path of Hizbullah. By Beyerley Milton-Edwards . 223 11. Michael R. Fischbach: Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. By Michael Dumper 224 12. Neguin Yavari - Lawrence G. Potter - Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim (eds.): Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet. By Niall Christie . 225 13. Alex de Waal (ed.): Islamism and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa. By Hussein Ahmed . 227 14. Igor de Rachewiltz: The Secret History of the Mongols: a Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. By Christopher P. Atwood .. 234 15. M. Ismail Marcinkowski: From Isfahan to Ayutthaya. Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century. By C. Edmund Bosworth ... 236 16. Tariq Rahman: Denizens of Alien Worlds: a Study of Education, Inequality and Polarization in Pakistan. By Ghazala Bhatti .. 238 17. Munawar Iqbal - Rodney Wilson (eds.): Islamic Perspectives on Wealth Creation. By M. Umer Chapra ..... 243 BOOKS RECEIVED . 247 VOLUME XVII/3 (2006) ARTICLES

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The Genealogy of the Spanish Qurn Consuelo Lpez-Morillas ... 255 Addressing Religious Discrimination and Islamophobia: Muslims and Liberal Democracies. The Case of the United Kingdom Paul Weller . 295 Allma Sayyid Mu|ammad usayn abab: Philosopher, Exegete, and Gnostic Hamid Algar ... 326 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Robert C. McKinney: The Case of Rhyme versus Reason: Ibn al-Rm and his Poetics in Context. By Julie Scott Meisami 352 2. Patricia L. Baker: Islam and the Religious Arts. By James Allan ... 358 3. Joseph E. Lowry - Devin J. Stewart - Shawkat M. Toorawa (eds.): Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of Professor George Makdisi. By R. Kevin Jaques 359 4. Walter Dostal - Wolfgang Kraus (eds.): Shattering Tradition: Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean. By Mohammad Talib .. 362 5. Emilie Savage-Smith (ed.): Magie and Divination in Early Islam. By Amidu Olalekan Sanni . 366 6. Abdel Salam Sidahmed - Alsir Sidahmed: Sudan. By Ahmed Al-Shahi ... 368 7. Natana J. Delong-Bas: Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. By Laurent Bonnefoy . 371 8. Pascal Mnoret (trans. by Patrick Camiller): The Saudi Enigma: A History. By Robert Lacey .. 372 9. Geoffrey Nash: From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East 1830-1926. By Ahmad Gunny . 375 10. Elisabeth zdalga (ed.): Late Ottoman Society: the Intellectual Legacy. By Clement Dodd ... 377 11. Michai Biran: The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History. Between China and the Islamic World. By C. Edmund Bosworth ... 379 12. Toby M. Howarth: The Twelver Shia as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears. By Vernon James Schubel ... 382 13. Giora Eliraz: Islam in Indonesia: Modernism, Radicalism, and the Middle East Dimension. By Johan Meuleman ... 384 14. Riaz Hassan (ed.): Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia. Essays in Honour of Professar Syed Hussein Alatas. By Johan Meuleman ... 387 15. Damien Kingsbury: Power Politics and the Indonesian Military. By John Sidel 391

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16. J. Beckford - D. Joly F. Khosrokhavar: Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France. By Basia Spalek . 394 BOOKS RECEIVED . 398

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VOLUME XVIII/1 (2007) ARTICLES The Financial Reforms of the Caliph al-Mutaid (279-89/892-901) Ahmad Al-Hasan Ayatollah Khomeini and the Contemporary Debole on Freedom Sussan Siavoshi .. Beyond Politics: the Reality of a Deobandi Madrasa in Pakistan Masooda Bano A Daughter in the Indonesian Muhammadiyah: Nasyiatul Aisyiyah Negotiates a New Status and Image Siti Syamsiyatun BOOK REVIEWS 1. M.M. al-Azami: The History of the Qurnic Text from Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study. By Mustansir Mir . 95 2. Harald Motzki (ed.): Hadith: Origins and Developments. By Recep entrk 97

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3. Hiroyuki Yanagihashi: A History of the Early Islamic Law of Property: Reconstructing the Legal Development, 7th-9th Centuries. By Mohammad H. Fadel ... 100 4. Michael Cook: Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition. By Suleiman A. Mourad . 102 5. Patricia Crone: From Kavd to al-Ghazl. Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c. 600-c. 1100. By Tony Street . 103 6. S.J. Badakhchani (ed.): Paradise of Submission: A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought. A New Persian Edition and English Translation of Nar al-Dn ss Rawa-yi taslm. By Sajjad H. Rizvi . 105 7. Farhad Daftary: Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies. By Wilferd Madelung 108 8. Muhammad Kamal: Mulla Sadras Transcendent Philosophy. By Rahim Acar .... 109 9. John Brooke - Ekmeleddin hsanolu (eds.): Religious Values & the Rise of Science in Europe. By Anna Akasoy ... 112 10. Bernd Radtke: Neue kritische Gnge: Zu Stand und Aufgaben der Sufikforschung/New Critical Essays: on the Present State and Future Tasks of the Study of Sufism. By Thomas Dahnhardt ..... 115 11. Patrice Cressier - Maribel Fierro - Luis Molina (eds.): Los Almohades: Problemas y Perspectivas. By L.P. Harvey ........................................................................ 118 12. Scott S. Reese (ed.): The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa. By Murray Last 124 13. Suraiya Faroqhi - Randi Deguilhem (eds.): Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East. Fashioning the

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Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean. By Annika Rabo .. 125 14. Jens Hanssen: Fin de Sicle Beirut. The Making of An Ottoman Provincial Capital. By Ebru Boyar . 128 15. Maurits H. van den Boogert: The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System: Qadis, Consuls and Beratlis in the 18th Century. By Richard C. Repp . 131 16. Yildiz Atasoy: Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State. By M. kr Haniol .. 134 17. Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi: The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran. Political Islamic Groups in Iran (1941-1961). By Vanessa Martin ... 136 18. Youssef M. Choueiri (ed.): A Companion to the History of the Middle East. By Anoush Ehteshaami . 138 19. Hafizullah Emadi: Culture and Customs of Afghanistan; Angelo Rasnayagam: Afghanistan: a Modern History. By Thomas Barfield . 139 20. Rowena Robinson: Tremors of Violence: Muslim Survivors of Ethnic Strife in Western India. By Asghar Ali Engineer . 142 21. Jytte Klausen: The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe. By Humayun Ansari . 144 22. Nabil Matar. Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689. By Ahmad Gunny ... 147 23. Abdulkader Thomas (ed.): Interest in Islamic Economics: Understanding Rib. By Mohamed Aslam Haneef 149 24. Sami Tamer: The Islamic Financial System; Salahuddm Ahmed: Islamic Banking, Finance and Insurance: a Global Overview. By Rodney Wilson .. 152 BOOKS RECEIVED .. 157 VOLUME XVIII/2 (2007) ARTICLES Knowledge and Volition in Early Ashari Doctrine of Faith Ferit Uslu 163 Mull Sadr on Theodicy and the Best of All Possible Worlds Ibrahim Kalin . 183 Current Issues in Indonesian Islam: Analysing the 2005 Council of Indonesian Ulama Fatwa No. 7 Opposing Pluralism, Liberalism and Secularism Piers Gillespie ................ 202 BOOK REVIEWS

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1. Muhammad Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi: The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities. By Murad Hofmann . 241 2. Rudolph Peters: Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law. By Mona Siddiqui .. 244 3. R. Kevin Jaques: Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law. By Ahmad Atif Ahmad 246 4. Ayman Shihadeh: The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Dn al-Rz. By Ibrahim Kalin . 248 5. Ebrahim Moosa: Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination. By Jules Janssens 250 6. Kenneth S. Avery: A Psychology of Early Sufi Sam: Listening and Altered States. By Bernd Radtke . 253 7. Daniel Martin Varisco: Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation. By Mohammad Talib ... 254 8. Michael Bonner: Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times. By James Howard-Johnston . 257 9. Andrew J. Newman: Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. By Christoph Herzog . 259 10. L. P. Harvey: Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614. By David J. Wasserstein . 262 11. Keith David Watenpaugh: Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. By Derek Hopwood . 264 12. Moshe Gammer: The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule. By Anna Zelkina .. 267 13. Soner Cagaptay: Islam, Secularism, and Nationalism in Modern Turkey. Who is a Turk? By Clement Dodd . 268 14. George S. Rentz (ed): The Birth of the Islamic Reform Movement in Saudi Arabia: Muhammad ibn Abd alWahhab (1703/4-1792) and the Beginnings of the Unitarian Empire in Arabia; Haneef James Oliver: The Wahhabi Myth: Dispelling Prevalent Fallacies and the Fictitious Link with Bin Laden; David Commins: The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. By Robert Lacey . 270 15. Hussain Ghubash: Oman: A Thousand Years of Democratic Tradition. By Jeremy Jones . 274 16. Linell E. Cady - Sheldon W. Smith (eds): Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence. By Ian Talbot . 276 17. Benjamm Fleming Intan: Public Religion and the Pancasila-Based State of Indonesia: An Ethnical and Sociological Analysis. By R. H. Barnes . 278 18. Gerhard Endress (ed.): Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World. By Francis Robinson . 281

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19. Glru Necipolu (ed.): Sinans autobiographies. Five Sixteenth-Century Texts. By J. M. Rogers . 282 20. Manfred Woidich: Das Kairenisch-Arabische. Eine Grammatik. By Arne A. Ambros ... 286 21. Paul Starkey: Modern Arabic Literature. By M.M. Badawi ..... 289 22. Matthew Dimmock: William Percys Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition. By Nabil Matar 293 23. Rainer Brunner: Islamic Ecumenism in the 20th Century: The Azhar and Shiism between Rapprochement and Restraint. By Mawil Izzidien .. 296 24. Bernard OKane: The Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand. By Oliver Watson ... 299 25. Farruk Iqbal: Sustaining Gains in Poverty Reduction and Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa. By Masooda Bano 302 BOOKS RECEIVED . 305 VOLUME XVIII/3 (2007) ARTICLES On Fakhr al-Dn al-Rzs Life and the Patronage He Received Frank Griffel .. 313 From ubb to Ishq: The Development of Love in Early Sufism Joseph E.B. Lumbard . 345 Onomastica, and Taxonomies of Belonging in the Malay Muslim World William R. Roff .. 386 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Dimitri Gutas (ed.): Richard M. Frank: Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalm, Vol. I. By Michael Carter 406 2. Abdullah Saeed: Approaches to the Qurn in Contemporary Indonesia. By Muhammad Zainiy Uthman . 408 3. Todd Lawson (ed.): Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Islamic Thought. Essays in Honour of Hermann Landolt. By Sajjad Rizvi ... 411 4. Cleophea Ferrari: Der Kategorienkommentar von Ab l-Fara Abdallh Ibn a-ayyib. Texte und Untersuchungen. By Sabine Schmidtke . 413 5. Dina Le Gall: A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700. By Hamid Algar . 414 6. Sumaiya A. Hamdani: Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood. By Wilferd Madelung . 420

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7. Ramzi Baalbaki (ed.): The Early Islamic Grammatical Tradition. By Arne A. Ambros . 422 8. Nile Green: Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan. By Richard M. Eaton . 423 9. Lena Jonson: Tagikistan in the New Central Asia: Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry and Radical Islam. By Shirin Akiner .. 425 10. Jacob M. Landau: Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History. By William Hale 427 11. Muzaffar Alam - Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. By Stephen E Dale ... 429 12. Praveen Swami: India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004. By Ian Talbot . 431 13. Paul Aarts - Gerd Nonneman: Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs. By Robert Lacey 434 14. Benjamm F. Soares: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa. By Rebecca Masterton . 436 15. Muhammad S. Umar: Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule. By Murray Last .. 439 16. Dawn Chatty (ed.): Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa. By Jack Kalpakian . 441 17. John G. Kennedy (ed.): Nubian Ceremonial Life: Studies in Islamic Syncretism and Cultural Change. By Hussein Ahmed .. 445 18. Zachary Abuza: Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia. By John Sidel .. 449 19. Irene A. Bierman (ed.): The Experience of Islamic Art on the Margins of Islam. By Mehrdad Shokoohy . 452 20. Diane Robinson-Dunn: The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture. Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century. By Ahmad Gunny . 459 21. Muzammil Quraishi: Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study. By Yunas Samad . 461 22. Adnan Musallam: From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism. By Alistair Crooke ... 463 23. Mahmoud A. El-Gamal: Islamic Finance: Law, Economics and Practice. By Rodney Wilson . 466 BOOKS RECEIVED . 469

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VOLUME XIX/1 (2008) ARTICLES The Historiography of an Execution: The Killing of ujr b. Ad Khaled Keshk . Islamic Mystical Resonances in Fulbe letterature Rebecca Masterton . Popular Beliefs As Reflected in 'Merits of Palestine and Syria (Fail al-Shm) Literature: Pilgrimage Ceremonies and Customs in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods Ghalib Anabsi The Epistemological Foundation of Conceptions of Justice in Classical Kalm: A Study of Abd al-Jabbr's al-Mughn and Ibn al-Bqilln's al-Tamhd Kambiz Ghaneabassiri ... BOOK REVIEWS 1. Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth: Gods and Humans in Islamic Thought: Abd al-Jabbr, Ibn Sn and al-Ghazl. By Sajjad H. Rizvi . 97 2. Catarina Belo: Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes. By Jules Janssens 100 3. Amos Bertolacci: The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitb al-Shif: A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought. By Thres-Anne Druart 104 4. Habibuddin Ahmed: The Nature of Time and Consciousness in Islam. By Sajjad H. Rizvi .. 107 5. Wael B. Hallaq: The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law. By Mohammad Akram Nadwi . 109 6. Recep Senturk: Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the adth Transmission Network, 610-1505. By Christopher Melchert . 115 7. John R. Bowen: Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space. By Mohammad Talib ... 117 8. Nicholas Warner: The True Description of Cairo. A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View. By Yahya Michot .. 119 9. Haggai Erlich: Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity and Politics Entwined. By Hussein Ahmed . 121 10. M. Hakan Yavuz (ed.): The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti. By Clement Dodd .. 128 11. Matthew Crosston: Fostering Fundamentalism: Terrorism, Democracy and American Engagement in Central Asia. By Shirin Akiner .. 131 12. Adeeb Khalid: Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia. By Devin De Weese 133

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13. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley: Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal. By Gail Minault . 141 14. Asim Roy (ed.): Islam in History and Politics. Perspectives from South Asia. By Iftikhar Malik . 143 15. Donald Leslie, Yang Daye and Ahmed Youssef: Islam in Traditional China: A Bibliographical Guide. By L.J. Newby .. 145 16. Umar Faruq Abd Allah: A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb. By Aminah Beverly McCloud ... 146 17. Linda Rae Bennett: Women, Islam and Modemity: Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia. By Siti Syamsiyatun . 148 18. Karen van Nieuwkerk (ed.): Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West. By Harfiyah Abdel Haleem 151 BOOKS RECEIVED . 155 CORRIGENDUM .. 158 VOLUME XIX/2 (2008) ARTICLES The Rib of Arsf and the Coastal Defence System in Early Islamic Palestine Hassan S. Khalilieh .... 159 Satan's Seven Specious Arguments: al-Shahrastn's Kitb al-Milal wa-l-ni|al in an Ismaili Context Adam R. Gaiser .. 178 Abd al-aqq Dihlaw, an Accidental Revivalist: Knowledge and Power in the Passage from Delhi to Makka Scott Kugle . 196 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Alan Dundes: Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Quran. By Mustansir Mir .. 247

2. Michael Lecker: The 'Constitution of Medina': Muhammad's First Legal Document. By Recep entrk . 251 3. David Cook: Martyrdom in Islam. By Muhammad Zainiy Uthman 253 4. Christian Jambet (transl. by Jeff Fort): The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mull adr. By Sajjad H. Rizvi ... 255 5. Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Lennart Sundelin, Sofia Torallas Tovar and Amalia Zomeo (eds.): From AlAndalus to Khurasan: Documents from the Medieval Muslim World. By L. P. Harvey ... 257 6. Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn (eds.), in collaboration with Ernest Tucker: History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods By C. Edmund Bosworth .. 260

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7. Yoav Alon: The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State. By Laurie A. Brand 263 8. Youssef Chaitani: Post-Colonial Syria and Lebanon: The Decline of Arab Nationalism and the Triumph of the State. By Laurie A. Brand .... 266 9. Nehemiah Levtzion (ed. by Michel Abitbol and Amos Nadan): Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal. By Murray Last ...... 268 10. Joanna de Groot: Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran. From the Qajars to Khomeini. By Vanessa Martin . 269 11. Touraj Atabaki (ed.): The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran. By Feroz Ahmad ... 271 12. Ali arkolu and Ersin Kalayciolu: Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society. By William Hale .. 273 13. erif Mardin: Religion, Society, and Modernity in Turkey. By Ibrahim Kalin .. 275 14. Laura A. Ring: Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. By Tahir Karman .. 279 15. Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton (eds.): Slavery & South Asian History. By Nile Green ... 281 16. Stewart Gordon: When Asia was the World. By Francis Robinson ... 283 17. Gregory Minissale: Images of Thought: Visuality in Islamic India 1550-1750. By Som Prakash Verma . 284 18. Howard M. Federspiel: Sultans, Shamans & Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia. By R.H. Barnes . 286 19. Gill Cressey: Diaspora Youth and Ancestral Homeland: British Pakistani/Kashmiri Youth Visiting Kin in Pakistan and Kashmir. By Alison Shaw .... 289 20. Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.): Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas. By Mohamed Aslam Haneef ... 291 21. Yvonne Haddad, Jane Smith and Kathleen Moore: Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today. By Aminah Beverly McCloud 295 22. Asef Bayat: Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn. By Abdelwahab ElAffendi ... 297 23. Roxanne L. Euben: Journeys to the Other Shore. Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge. By Ahmad Gunny .. 299 BOOKS RECEIVED . 302 VOLUME XIX/3 (2008) ARTICLES

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Divorce, adth-Scholar Style: From al-Drim to al-Tirmidh Scott C. Lucas 325 Continuity and Change in Qurnic Readings: A Study of the Qurnic MS. Garrett 38 Yasir S. Ibrahim ... BOOK REVIEWS 1. G.H.A. Juynboll: Encyclopedia of Canonical adth. By Jonathan A.C. Brown ... 391 2. Christopher A. Colmo: Breaking with Athens: Alfarabi as Founder ('Applications of Political Theory'). By Ian Richard Netton . 397 3. Robert Gleave: Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbr Shi School. By Wilferd Madelung ... 398 4. Arne A. Ambros and Stephan Prochzka: A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic. Arne A. Ambros and Stephan Prochzka: The Nouns of Koranic Arabic Arranged by Topics: A Companion Volume to the 'Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic'. By Harfiyah Ball Haleem ........... 400 5. Julia Bray (ed.): Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam: Muslim Horizons. By Charles E. Butterworth .... 402 6. Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne (eds.): Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: The Urban impact of Religion, State and Society. By Stewart Gordon ... 405 7. C. Edmund Bosworth (ed.): The Turks in the Early Islamic World ('The Formation of the Classical Islamic World'). By Peter Jackson ...... 407 8. Marc David Baer: Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe. By Metin Kunt 410 9. Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman (eds.): The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire. By Ruth A. Miller 412 10. Hakan T. Karateke and Marius Reinkowski (eds.): Legitimizing the Order: the Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power. By Metin Kunt ... 414 11. Sina Akin: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present. Hans-Lukas Kieser: Turkey Beyond Nationalism: Towards Post-Nationalist Identities. By Hakan Yavuz . 417 12. mt Czre (ed.): Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party. By William Hale . 421 13. Moshe Gammer (ed.): Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder. By Michael Kemper . 423 369

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14. Jamal Malik (ed.): Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? By Mohammad Talib ..

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15. John L. Esposito, John O. Voll and Osman Bakar (eds.): Asian Islam in the 21th Century. By R. Michael Feener . 430 16. Thomas Gibson: Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia: From the 16th to the 21th Century. By John T. Sidel .. 432 17. R. Michael Feener: Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia. By Azyumardi Azra .. 436 18. Cheikh Anta Babou: Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913. By Rebecca Masterton . 438 19. Garry S. Gregg: Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society. By Mohammad Talib ... 442 20. Robert W. Hefner and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (eds.): Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education. By Mohammad Talib 445 21. Joan Wallach Scott: Politics of the Veil. By Mary Hossain ...... 449 22. Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth: Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary Genre. By Christopher Shackle ..... 451 23. Matthew Birchwood: Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture, 1640-1685. By Nabil Matar ... 453 REJOINDER The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: A Response By Wael B. Hallaq . 456 BOOKS RECEIVED . 467

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VOLUME XX/1 (2009) ARTICLES Some Considerations on Averroes' Views Regarding Women and Their Role in Society Catarina Belo Islamic Mystical Readings of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure Rebecca Masterton Uncontrived Concord: The Eclectic Sources and Syncretic Theories of Liu Zhi, a Chinese Muslim Scholar James D. Frankel ... Contextualizing Sectarian Militancy in Pakistan: A Case Study of Jhang Tahir Kamran .... BOOK REVIEWS 1. Kristin Zahra Sands: f Commentaries on the Qurn in Classical Islam. By Reza Shah-Kazemi ... 86

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2. Fahmida Suleman (ed.): Word of God, Art of Man: The Qurn and its Creative Expressions: Selected Proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003. By Marcus C. Milwright . 90 3. Constant Hams (ed.): Coran et talismans: Textes et pratiques magiques en milieu musulman. By Venetia Porter .. 93 4. Jon Hoover: Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies. By Yossef Rapoport . 95 5. Jules Janssens: Ibn Sina and his Influence on the Arabic and Latin World. By George Saliba .. 99

6. Simon A. Wood (transl.): Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Rida's Modernist Defense of Islam. By Katharina Ivanyi . 100 7. Paul L. Heck (ed.): Sufism and Politics: The Power of Spirituality. By Elizabeth Sirriyeh 103 8. Raziuddin Aquil: Sufism, Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India. By David W. Damrel 105 9. Robert Rozehnal: Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty First Century Pakistan. By Francis Robinson 108 10. Michael Axworthy: The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant. By Thomas Welsford ... 109 11. Jonathan M. Bloom: Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt. By Mariam Rosser-Owen ... 114

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12. Francesca de Chtel: Water Sheikhs and Dam Builders: Stories of People and Water in the Middle East. By W. M. Edmunds . 118 13. Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan (eds.): Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. By Tahir Abbas .... 120 14. Anna Frangoudaki and alar Keyder (eds.): Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, 1850-1950. By Christine Philliou . 122 15. Jamil M. Abun-Nasr: Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life. By Robert Rozehnal . 124 16. Aziz al-Azmeh and Effie Fokas (eds.): Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence. By Humayun Ansari . 127 17. John Wright: The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. By Hussein Ahmed . 130 18. Ronak Husni and Daniel L. Newman: Muslim Women in Law and Society: Annotated translation of alhir al-addd's Imratunfi 'l-sharia wal-mujtama, with an introduction. By Hina Azam . 134 19. Mary F. Thurlkill: Chosen Among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam. By Harfiyah Ball-Haleem .. 136 20. Etin Anwar: Gender and Self in Islam. By Mary Hossain . 139 21. Beth Baron: Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender and Politics. By Miriam Cooke .. 141 22. Moataz A. Fattah: Democratic Values in the Muslim World. By Iftikhar H. Malik . 143 23. Philip Seib: New Media and the New Middle East. By S. Abdallah Schleifer ... 146 CORRIGENDUM .. 152 BOOKS RECEIVED . 153 VOLUME XX/2 (2009) ARTICLES Islamic Universalism: The Amritsar Version of Ahl al-Qurn Ali Usman Qasmi .. 159 Mosques as Higher Educational Institutions in Mamluk Syria Hatim Mahamid 188 Inscription as an Important Means for Understanding the History of the Islamic East: Observations on some Newly Discovered Epigraphs of Muslim Bengal Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq . 213 BOOK REVIEWS

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1. Hseyin Ilker inar: Maria und Jesus im IslamDarstellung anhand des Korans und der islamischen kanonischen Tradition unter Bercksichtigung der islamischen Exegeten. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann .. 251 2. Massimo Campanini, Caroline Higgitt (transl.): An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy. By Oliver Leaman . 254 3. Charles Tripp: Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism. By M. Umer Chapra . 255 4. Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters and Frank Vogel (eds.): The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress. By Mohammad Fadel . 259 5. Richard M. Frank, Dimitri Gutas (ed.): Early Islamic Theology: The Mutazilites and al-Ash'ar. Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalm, vol II. By Michael G. Carter 263 6. Anna Akasoy, James E. Montgomery and Peter E. Pormann (eds.): Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East. By Kevin van Bladel ... 266 7. Engseng Ho: The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. By Syed Muhammad Khairudin Aljunied 270 8. Scott Kugle: Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood and Authority in Islam. By Amira K. Bennison . 272 9. Glru Necipolu: The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. By Howard Grane . 274 10. Oleg Grabar: Islamic Art and Beyond: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume III. By Tehnyat Majeed 277 11. Carole Hillenbrand: Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol: The Battle of Mamikert. By Leslie Peirce 280 12. Edward J. Erickson: Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I: A Comparative Study. By Kate Fleet . 283 13. Oliver Schlumberger: Debating Arab Authoritarianism: Dynamics and Durability in Nondemocratic Regimes. By Robert Springborg . 285 14. Armando Salvatore: The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam. By S. Parvez Manzoor . 288 15. Aini Linjakumpu: Political Islam in the Global World. By Murad Wilfried Hofmann 291 16. Sufia M. Uddin: Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation. By Tapan Raychaudhuri .. 294 17. Ayesha Siddiqa: Military Inc. Inside Pakistan's Military Economy. By Ian Talbot .. 297 18. Philip Lewis: Young, British and Muslim. By Humayun Ansari 299 19. Farhang Rajaee: Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran. By Sussan Siavoshi ... 301 20. Daniel Martin Varisco: Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid. By Abdul Nabi Isstaif .. 304

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