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Reviews: The Ancient Near East
Daniel T. Potts: Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era. xxv, 558 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. £55. ISBN 978 0 19 933079 9.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 179-180
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Reviews: The Near and Middle East
ALEX MALLETT: Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097–1291. xi, 176 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. £65. ISBN 978 1 4094 5612 4.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 387-389
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Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman (eds): Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East. (Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts 108.) xx, 390 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. €110. ISBN 978 9 004 27159 3.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 610-612
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FREDERICK F. ANSCOMBE: State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands. xix, 323 pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. £55. ISBN 978 1 1076 1523 6.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 389-391
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Mohammad Rihan: The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe: Conflict and Factionalism in the Early Islamic Period. viii, 231 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. £58. ISBN 978 1 78076 564 8.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 181-182
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JAMES E. MONTGOMERY: Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature.) vi, 586 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £95. ISBN 978 0 7486 8332 1.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 391-393
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Jean-Michel Mouton, Dominique Sourdel and Janine Sourdel-Thomine: Mariage et séparation à Damas au Moyen Âge: un corpus de 62 documents juridiques inédits entre 337/948 et 698/1299. (Documents relatifs à l'histoire des croisades, XXI.) 326 pp. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2013. €40. ISBN 978 2 87754 296 8.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 182-184
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Maʿmar Ibn Rāshid (ed. and trans. Sean W. Anthony, Foreword by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem): The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xlv, 372 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2014. $35. ISBN 978 0 8147 6963 8.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 612-613
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Sara Leila Husseini: Early Christian–Muslim Debate on the Unity of God: Three Christian Scholars and their Engagement with Islamic Theology (9th Century c.e.) (History of Christian–Muslim Relations.) ix, 242 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. €110. ISBN 978 9004 27838 7
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 614-615
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BEKIM AGAI, OLCAY AKYILDIZ and CASPAR HILLEBRAND (eds): Venturing Beyond Borders – Reflections on Genre, Function and Boundaries in Middle Eastern Travel Writing. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien.) 264 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag Würzburg in Kommission, 2013. €59. ISBN 978 3 89913 977 8.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 393-395
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Sean W. Anthony: Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle: Umayyad Crucifixion in Its Late Antique Context. (American Oriental Series, 96.) x, 99 pp. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 2014. $39.50. ISBN 978 0 940490 37 6.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 184-186
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NATHANIEL GREENBERG: The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967). xxxi, 95 pp. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. £44.95. ISBN 978 0 7391 8369 4.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 395-397
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Dimitri Gutas: Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works, second edition. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies.) xxxi, 617 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €167. ISBN 978 90 04 25580 7.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 615-617
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Owen Wright: Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo: The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ʿilm al-adwār wa-’l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr. (SOAS Musicology Series.) ix, 361 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. £75. ISBN 978 1 4094 6881 3.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 187-188
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Li Guo: The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam: Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Dāniyāl's Mamluk Cairo. (Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts.) xi, 240 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2012. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 21045 5.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 189-190
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Arezou Azad: Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Faḍāʾil-i Balkh. (Oxford Oriental Monographs.) xxvi, 213 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 968705 3.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 617-619
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AYESHAH S. CHAUDHRY: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition. xii, 258 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 19 964016 4.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 397-398
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Michael Cook: Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective. xx, 541 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. £27.95. ISBN: 978 069114490 0.
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- 17 March 2015, pp. 190-192
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Patricia Blessing: Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330. (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies.) xv, 240 pp. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Virginia: Ashgate, 2014. ₤65. ISBN 978 1 4724 2406 8.
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- 28 September 2015, pp. 619-620
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Reviews: South Asia
NINA MIRNIG, PÉTER-DÁNIEL SZÁNTÓ and MICHAEL WILLIAMS (eds): Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Tradition. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 1. xiii, 474 pp. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2013. £38. ISBN 978 1 84217 385 5. - GIOVANNI CIOTTI, ALASTAIR GORNALL and PAOLO VISIGALLI (eds): Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Tradition. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 2. ix, 219 pp. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2013. £28. ISBN 978 1 78297 415 4.
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- 15 June 2015, pp. 399-401
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