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The Qu'ānic Sufism. By Dr. Mir Valiuddin. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. Second Revised Edition, vi plus 216 pp. Rs. 45
Sufi Essays. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: Schocken Books, 1977. 184 pp., Index. $3.75. pa.
Al-Qā     ī Abn Yal'ā Ibn al-Farrā', Kitāb al-Mu'amad fī u     ūl al-īn. Par Wadī'     addād. Beyrouth: DS El-Machreq éd., 1974. Coll. "Recherches" No. 8, Nouvelle série, A. Langue arabe et pensée islamologique. Intr. anglaise 28 pp.; Intr. arabe 16 pp.; 4 facsimilés de manuscrits; texte arabe pp. 19–301.
Études d'Islamologie. By Robert Brunschvig. Paris: Éditions G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1976. 2 vols. Vol. I: xv plus 398 pp. 65 F. pa. Vol. II: 406 pp. 65 F. pa.
The Doctrine of Ijmā' in Islam. By Ahmad Hasan. Islamabad, Pakistan: Islamic Research Institute, n. d. vi + 274 pp. Rs. 65.00.
Social Justice in Islam. By H. Mintjes. Amsterdam: Institute for the Study of Religion, Free University, 1977. 92 pp. n. p. paper.
Middle Turkic Glosses of the Rylmds Interlinear Koran Translation. By János Eckmann. Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica XXI. Budapest: Akadémjiaa Kiadó, 1976. 359 pp. $25.00.
The British in India, A Study in Imperialism. By K. K. Aziz. Historical Studies (Muslim India) Series, 1. Islamabad: National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, 1976. xi plus 389 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 100. US $15.00.
Law Reform in the Muslim World. By Norman Anderson. University of London Legal Series, 11. London: The Athlone Press, 1976. xi plus 235 pp. $13.50.
The Ba'th Party: A History from Its Origins to 1966. By John T. Devlin. Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover Institution Publications, 1976. 372 pp. $11.95.     

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Recent Prize-Winning Books in History: Providence island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. The New Rural History: A Subject Whose Time Has Come Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930. Africa and the Middle East The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Anioma: A Social History of the Western Igbo People. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. The Americas: Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. The George R. “Bob” Caron Story—Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay: Fire of a Thousand Suns. Science and Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison. The Scottish High Church Tradition in America: An Essay in Scotch-Irish Ethnoreligious History. The Abolitionists & The South, 1831-1865. Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994. The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II. Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures in New York's Lower East Side. Rural Guatemala: 1760-1940. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. “Lest We Forget:” A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland. The Sixties and the End of Modern America. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. McCarthyism and New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt. Asia and the Pacific China in World History. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. The Cambridge History of China. Volume 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Teachers of the Inner Chambers, Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Learning to be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. The New Cambridge History of India. Volume III:4, Ideologies of the Raj. The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. A History of Brunei. Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution. Europe: Italy Since 1800: A Nation in the Balance? The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule. Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution. Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England. Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage. Asquith As War Leader. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune. A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Charlotte Brontë. A Passionate Life. Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England. Captain James Cook: A Biography. Poland Since 1944: A Portrait of Years. Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond. New French Thought: Political Philosophy. The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500. Gladstone 1875-1898. The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494-1545. Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London, 1850-1915. Who Are The Macedonians? Exile and Destruction. The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945. Economic Structures of Antiquity. The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle. London at War, 1939-1945. kathinka Zitz-Halein and Female Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany. General, Comparative, Historiographical The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. The pacific Basin Since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim states and the Pacific Islands.     

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R obert L. W ilken : The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992; pp. xvi + 365
C. S tephen J aeger : The Envy of Angels: Cathedral School and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994; pp. 515.
R oberta G ilchrist : Contemplation and Action: The Other Monasticism. London, Leicester University Press, 1995; pp. xvi + 250.
W illiam J. D ohar : The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership: The Diocese of Hereford in the Fourteenth Century . Philadelphia, Philadelphia University Press, 1995; pp. xvi + 198.
J ohn F ennell : A History of the Russian Church to 1448 . London and New York, Longman, 1995; pp. xii + 266.
M ihchel de C erteau : The Mystic Fable, Volume 1 : The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . Translated by Michael B. Smith, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. 384.
J osé C asanova , Pblic Religions in the Modern World . Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. x 320
W alter H. C apps : The New Religious Right: Piety, Patriotism, and Politics . Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1994; p. 223.
D iana W ood : The Church and Childhood (Studies in Church History, Volume 31). Oxford, Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Basil Blackwell, 1994; pp. 530.
R ose -M ary S argent : The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment . Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. 336.
T homas O'C onnor : An Irish Theologian in Enlightenment France: Luke Joseph Hooke, 1714-96 . Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1995; pp. 218.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Trialogue of the Abrahamic Faiths. Edited by Isma'il R. Al-Faruqi. The Tarjuman al-Qur'an: a critical analysis of Maulana Abu'l-Kalam Azad's approach to the understanding of the Qur'an. By I. H. Azad Faruqi. Major Themes of the Qur'ān. By Fazlur Rahman. Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Edited by A. F. L. Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant and G. R. Smith. Man's Religious Quest: Units 20–21: Islam and the Muslim. By Kenneth Cragg. Muhammad and the Jews. By Barakat Ahmad. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society. Vol. I: The Central Lands; Vol. II: The Arabic-Speaking Lands. Edited by Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis. Minderheit, Millet, Nation?: Die Juden in Ägypten 1914–1952. (Studien zum Minderheiten-problem im Islam). By Gudrun Krämer. Reislamisierung und Entwicklungspolitik [Forschungsberichte des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit, Band 30]. By D. Khalid. The Middle East Annual: Issues and Events [Volume 1–1981]. Edited by David H.     

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Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East. By Evelyne Accad
Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. By David Dean Commins
Khomeini's Forgotten Sons: The Story of Iran's Boy Soldters. By Ian Brown
Bibliographical Guide to Iran: The Middle East Library Committee Guide. Edited by L. P. Elwell-Sutton     

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Book reviewed in this article: Kenneth G. Holum, Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. Edith Ennen, The Medieval Woman. Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jean F. O'Barr, Anne B. Vilen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl (eds), Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages. Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family. Kate Mertes, The English Noble Household 1250–1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule. Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty. American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific. Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid (eds), Recasting Women. Essays in Colonial History. Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth Century England. Catherine Lowman Wessinger, Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism (1847–1933). Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860–1931. Joanna Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Stephanie Urdang, And Still They Dance: Women, War and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. Alice Kessler-Harris, A Woman's Wage. Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. Hilary Marland (trans), ‘Mother and Child Were Saved’: The Memoirs (1693–1740) of the Frisian Midwife Catharina Schrader. Ann Taves (ed), Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England: The Memoirs of Abigail Abbott Bailey. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions, Nature, Gender and Science in New England. Carol A. Kolmerten, Women in Utopia: The Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities. Sally L. Kitch, Chaste Liberation: Celibacy and Female Cultural Status. Frances Bartkowski, Feminist Utopias. Shahida Lateef, Muslim Women in India: Political and Private Realities, 1890s–1980s. Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality: the British Experience. Ruth Compton Brouwer, New Women for Cod: Canadian Presbyterian Women and India Missions, 1876–1914. Catriona Blake, The Charge of the Parasols. Ornella Moscucci, The Science of Woman. Gynaecology & Gender in England, 1800–1929. Felicia Gordon, The Integral Feminist: Madeleine Pelletier, 1874–1939.     

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W. W. M eissner : Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint
A lan P. F. S ell : Saints: Visible, Orderly and Catholic
B arry F erguson (ed.): The Anglican Church and the World of Western Canada, 1820–1970
S anda L. Z imdars -S wartz : Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje
N icholas P erry and L oreto E cheverría : Under the Heel of Mary
G erald S tuddert -K ennedy : British Christians, Indian Nationalists and the Raj
S usan E. E milsen : A Whiff of Heresy: Samuel Angus and the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales     

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J ohn S purr : The Restoration Church of England, 1646–1689.
K enneth H ylson -S mith : Evangelicals in the Church of England, 1734–1984
A. R. D avidson : Christianity in Aotearoa: a History of Church and Society in New Zealand.
P eter H empenstall : The Meddlesome Priest: A Life of Ernest Burgmann.     

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Economic Life in Ottoman Jarusalem. By Amnon cohen.
Sultanes Oubliées: Femmes chefs d'Etat en Islam. By Fatima Mernisst.
Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition. By Daniel Pipes.
Islam and human Rights: Tradition and politics. By Ann Elizabeth Mayer.
Studies in Near Eastern Culture and History. Edited by James A. Bellamy.
Trends and issues in Contemporary Arab Thought. By Issa J. Boullata.
Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845–1846. The voyage of Mu     ammad as-Saffar. Translated and Edited with introduction and notes by Susan Gilson Miller.
Islamic Fundamentalism And Modernity. By William Montgomery Watt.
A Catalog of the Islamic Documents from al-     aram ash-Sharīf in Jerusalem. By Donald P. Little.
Interreligious Documents I: Guidelines for Dialogue Between Christians and Muslims. (revised ed.). Prepared by Maurice Borrmans. Translated from the French by R. Marston Speight.
Between Qu'ān and Crown: The Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Arab World. By Tamara Sonn.     

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The Economics of Oligopolistic Competition: Price and Nonprice Rivalry, Collected Papers of Robert E. Kuenne, by Robert E. Kuenne.
Urban Transportation Economics, by Kenneth A. Small.
Infrastructure and the Space-Economy: Essays in Honor of Rolf Funck, edited by Karin Peschel.
Spatial Statistics: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Daniel A. Griffith.
Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets, by Thomas Hyclak and Geraint Johnes. Review by Lori G. Kletzer
Put Up or Give Way: States, Economic Competitiveness, and Poverty, by John Sidor.
The Production of Space, by Henri Lefebvre.
River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 182CL1870, by Timothy R. Mahoney.
China's Coastal Cities: Catalysts for Modernization, edited by Yue-manYeung andXu-wei Hu.
Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Local, Regional, and National Change, by Edward J. Malecki.
The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America, by Ann Markusen, Peter Hall, Scott Campbell, and Sabina     

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Optimization in Location and Transport Analysis , by A. G. Wilson, J. B. Coelho, S. M. MacGill, and H. C. W. L. Williams.
Transport Planning: Vision and Practice , by John Adams.
Quantitative Geography: A British View , by N. Wrigley and R. V. Bennett (eds.).
The New Suburbanites: Race and Housing in the Suburbs , by Robert W. Lake.
Finding a Place for Energy, Siting Coal Conversion Facilities , by Frank J. Calzonetti with Mark S. Eckert.
Industrial Location and Regional Systems , by John Rees, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, and Howard A. Stafford (eds.).
Research in Real Estate (Volumes 1 and 2) , by C. F. Sirmans (ed.).
Modern Federalism: An Analytic Approach , by Peter W. House and Wilbur A. Steger.     

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Geograph as Spatial Interaction , by edwward L. Ullman, edited by Ronald R. Boyce.
Resources and Development: Natural Resource Policies and Economic Development in an Interdependent World , by Peter Dorner and Mahmoud A. El-Shafie.
Metropolitan Planning: Issues and Policies , by Yung-Hee Pho and Myong-Chan Hwang.
Microeconomic Simulation Models for Public Policy Analysis, Volume 1-Distributional Impacts, Volume 2-Sectoral, Regional, and General Equilibrium Models , by R. H. Haveman and K. Hollenbeck (eds.).
An Industrial Geography of Japan , by Kiyoji Murata (ed.).     

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Urban Economics, by David W. Rasmussen.
The Modern City: Readings in Urban Economics, by David W. Rasmussen and Charies T. Haworth (eds.).
Readings in Urban Economics, by Matthew Edel and Jerome Rothenberg (eds.).
Location Analysis: An Interregional Econometric Model of Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing and Services, by Curtis C. Harris, Jr. and Frank E. Hopkins.
The Urban Economies, 1985: A Multiregional Multi-Industry Forecasting Model, by Curtis C. Harris, Jr.
Interindustry Relations: Some Attraction Models, by Alfred van Wickeren.
Simulation and Gaming in Social Science, by Michael Inbar and Clarice S. Stoll.
Secondary Analysis of Sample Surveys, by Herbert H. Hyman.
Principles of Survey Analysis, by Travis Hirschi and Hanan Selvin.
Abandoning Method, by Derek Phillips.     

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The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe . By W. Montgomery Watt
Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World . By Wilson B. Bishai
Islamic Civilisation: 950–1150 . Ed. D. S. Richards
Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri, III. Language and Literature . By Nabia Abbott
An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry . Selected and edited by Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar
Muslim Spain: Its History and Culture. By Anwar G. Chejne
Morocco Under Colonial Rule: French Administration of Tribal Areas, 1912–1956. By Robin Bidwell
La Personnalité et le Devenir Arabo-Islamiques. By Hichem Djalt
Islam and the Confluence of Religions in Uganda, 1840–1966. By Noel King, Abdu Kasozi, Arye Oded
Islam and Social Order in Mauritania; A Case Study from the Nineteenth Century. By C. C. Stewart with E. K. Stewart
Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People. By Robert A. Fernea and Georg Gerster
Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics. By Majid Khadduri
The Fall of Jerusalem. By Abdullah Schleifer
Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Vol. 2: Farah and South-western Afghanistan. Edited by Ludwig W. Adamec     

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Applied Factor Analysis, by R. J. Rummel.
Elementary Mathematical Economics, by S. G. B. Henry.
Graph Theory, by Frank Harary.
Multivariate Model Building: The Validation of a Search Strategy, by John A.
Operations Research for Management Decisions, by Samuel B. Richmond.
Stochastic Models of Buying Behavior, by W. F. Massy, D. B. Montgomery, and D. G. Morrison.
General Systems Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications, by Ludwig von Bertalanffy.     

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Post-Industrial America: Metropolitan Decline and Interregional Job Shifts , by George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes (eds.).
Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry , by Karl-Goram Maler.
No Growth: Impacts on Metropolitan Areas , by Edgar Rust
Manitoba Interlake Area: A Regional Development Evaluation , by James A. MacMillan, Chang-Mei Lu, and Charles F. Framingham.     

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Electric Energy Usage and Regional Economic Development , by James H. Savitt.
Income, Employment, and Urban Residential Location , by Larry L. Orr.
Economics and New Towns: A Comparative Study of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia , by Albert J. Robinson.
Strategies for Change in the South , by Thomas N. Naylor and James Clotfelter.
Urban Homesteading , by James W. Hughes and Kenneth D. Bleakly, Jr.     

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Book Review in this Articles al-Kltab al-Muquaddas: al-'Ahd al-Jadid. Beilry: Manshurāt al-Matba'a al-Kathulikityya, 1969. La poéise populaire traditionanlle chantee au Proche-Orient arabe, l: Les Textes. By Simon Jargy. In Aleppo Once. By Taqui Altounyan. Edessa, ‘The Blesed City.’ By J. B. Segal.