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Book reviewed in this article:
De Medieval Islamic Controversy Between Philosophy and Orthodoxy: Ijmā and Ta'wīl in The Conflict Between Al-Ghazālī and Ibn Rushd in Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Texts and Studies, Volume 3: Iysa A. Bello
Beauty in Arabic Culture by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
The Making of an Egyptian Arab Nationalist: The Early Years of Azzam Pasha, 1893–1936 by Ralph Coury
Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia by Robert W. Hefner     

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The Mystical Teachings of al-Shādhill: Including His Life Prayers, Letters, and Followers. A Translation from the Arabic of Ibn al-Sabbagh's Durrat al-Asrar wa Tuhfat al-Abrar by Elmer H. Douglas. Edited with an Introduction and a Bibliography by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabī.
Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals of the Heart. Translated and Annotated by Bruce B.
Traditional Islam in the Modern World. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Islam: An Introduction. By Annemarie Schimmel.
Al-Damurdāshl's Chronicle of Egypt. 1685–1755: al-Durra al-musana fī akhbār al-kināna. Translated and annotated by Daniel Crecelius and 'bd al-Wahhāb Bakr.
The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Shi ' as. By Joyce N. Wiley.
Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini. By H. E. Chehabi.
Iran's First Revolution: Shi ' ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1906. By Mangol Bayat.
Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution. By David Menashri.
The Modern Uzbeks from the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History. By Edward A.
Religion, Learning and Science in the ' Abbasid Period. Edited by M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham and R. B. Serjeant.
The Ismā ' ilīs: Their history and doctrines. By Farhad Daftary.
' Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ' bbāsid Age. By Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Images of Paradise in Islamic Art. Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs. By Zeynep çelik.
Islamic Art. By Barbara Brend.
Turkish Nationalism in the Young Turk Era. By Masam Arai.
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. By Robert Olson.
Islam and the Economic Challenge. By Muhammad Umer Chapra.
Palestinian Universities Under Occupation. By Anthony Thrall Sullivan.     

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Ibn Taymīya's Struggle against Popular Religion, with an Annotated Translation of his Kitāb iqti     ā a     -     irā     al-mustaqīm mukhālafat a         āb al-ja     īm. By Muhammad Umar Memon
The Islamic View of Women and the Family . By Muhammad Abdul-Rauf
Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak . Edited by Elizabeth W. Fernea and Basima Qattan Bezirgan
Images and Self-Images: Male and Female in Morocco . By Daisy Hilse Dwyer
Moroccan Islam: Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center . By Dale F. Eickelman
Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco: Precolonial Protest and Resistance, 1860–1912 . By Edmund Burke, III
Arab Nationalism: An Anthology . 2nd edn. Ed. by Sylvia G. Haim
Saladin . By Geoffrey Hindley
Islam et Jeunesse en Turquie d'aujourd'hui . By Sabine Dirks
Selections from the Poetry of Bassār. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by A. F. L. Beeston.     

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International Congress for the Study of the Qur'ān , revised ed. Edited by A. H. Johns
Ibn Khaldān: An Essay in Reinterpretation. By Aziz Al-Azmeh
The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. By Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad
Die Vorstellung vom Schicksal und die Darstellung der Wirklichkeit in der zeitgenossischen Literatur islamischer Länder. Edited by J. C. Bürgel and H. Fähndrich
Rings of Burnished Brass. Yūsuf Idrīs
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. By William C. Chittick
The Ahmadiyya doctrine of God. By Henry J. Otten
Issues in the Islamic Movement, 1981–1982 (1401–1402). Edited by Kalim Siddiqui
Mouvements populaires à Bagdad a l'epoque abbasside IX^e-XI^e siècles. By Simha Sabari
Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War. By Malcolm Cameron Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson.
The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries. By Glenn E. Perry
Islam in Tribal Societies From the Atlas to the Indus. By Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam. The Darul Islam in Indonesia. By C. van Dijk
Senegal: An African Nation between Islam and the West. By Sheldon Gellar     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Iran Between Two Revolutions , By Ervand Abrahamian Mollā Sadrā Sh?rāz?: Le Livre des pénétrations métaphysiques (Kitāb al-Mashāir). Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Corbin Le livre du licite et de l'illicite (Kitāb al-halāl wa-l-harām , Book XIV of Al-Gazāl?'s Ihyā Ulūm ad-D?n). Introduction, translation and notes by Régis Morelon Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought. By Fuad Baali Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam. Edited by Katherine P. Ewing The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. By Gordon Darnell Newby Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. by Barbara J. Callaway Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society. By Hisham Sharabi The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser Christians and Muslims Together: An Exploration by Presbyterians. Edited by Byron L Ägypten unter Mubarak: Identität und nationales Interesse. by Gudrun Krämer Towards Understanding the Qur⁾ān. Vol. 1, Sura 1–3. English version of Sayyid Abul A⁽la Mawdudi's Tafhim al-Qur⁽ān, translated and edited by Zafar Ishaq Ansari Middle East Contemporary Survey. Vol. IX. Edited by Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked. The Sufi Path of Knowledge : Ibn al-⁽Arab?'s Metaphysics of Imagination. By William C. Chittick Colonising Egypt. By Timothy Mitchell Past-Revolutionary Iran. Edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manouchehr Parvin Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. By M. E. Combs-Schilling Islam: The Straight Path. By John L. Esposito Islam, Politics, and Social Movements. Edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. By Lila Abu-Lughod     

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Arabic and Islamic Themes: Historical, Educational and Literary Studies. By A. L. Tibawi.
Kahlil Gibran: His Life and World. By Jean Gibran and Kahlil Gibran.
The Classical Heritage In Islam. By Franz Rosenthal.
Islamic Historiography: The Histories of Mas'ūdi. By Tarif Khalidi.
Islamic History A. D. 600–750 (A. H. 132): A New Interpretation. By M. A. Shaban.
The 'Abbāsid Revolution. By M. A. Shaban.
A History of Islamic Sicily. By Aziz Ahmad.
The Zirids of Granada. By Andrew Handler.
The Arabs and Mediaeval Europe. By Norman Daniel.
A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730. Edited by M. A. Cook.
Gurtaf Raquette and Qasim Akhun's Letters to Kamil Effendi. Ethnological and Folkloristic Materials from Southern Sinkiang. Edited and translated with explanatory notse by Gunner Jarring.     

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Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948.
State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise.
Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Charles Butterworth.
The Encyclopædia of Islam.
The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations.
Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization.
Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640.
Domains of Fear and Desire.
Islam, Democracy, the State and the West: A Round Table with Dr.     asan Turābī.
The Arab World: Society, Culture and State.
Islamic Resurgence: Challenges, Directions and Future Perspectives. A Round Table with Kurshid Ahmad.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Muhammad and the Christian: A Question of Response. By Kenneth Cragg Orientations pour un dialogue entre Chretiens et Musulmans. By Maurice Bowrrmans Recherches sur la pensée chrétienne et I'lslam dans les temps modernes et à l'époque contemporaine. By Youakim Moubarac Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship . By al-Ghazāl?. Translated from Jhyā' by Muhtar Holland The Multiple States of Being. By René Guénon Mikhail Naimy: Some Aspects of His Thought as Revealed in His Writings. By Hussein Dabbagh Muslim Women and Higher Education: a case for separate institutions and a work plan for women's university. By Anis Ahmad and Muslim Sajjad We Shall Return: Women of Palestine. By Ingela Bendt and James Downing Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community. By Lawrence Rosen The Islamic Conception of Justice. By Majid Khadduri. Foreword by R. K. Ramazani Islam in the Political Process. Edited by James P. Piscatori Religion and Politics [Political Anthropology, Vol. 3], Edited by Myron J. Aronoff From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand Iran's Islamic Revolution: Popular Liberation or Religious Dictatorship? by Suroosh Irfani Religion, Society and the State in Arabia: the Hijaz under Ottoman Control, 1840–1908. By William Ochsenwald Islam and the Politics of Meaning in Palestinian Nationalism. Nels Johnson Deutsche Interessen in Syrien und Palästina 1841–1898: Aktivitäten religïoser Institutionen, wirtschaft-liche und politische Einflüsse. By Abdel-Raouf Sinno Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt: a Biography of Muhammad Husayn Haykal. By Charles D. Smith Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria. By Allan Christelow Elements d'histoire culturelle al?erienne. By Abdelkader Djeghloul Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887–1912). By Anaide Ter Minassian The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia (slightly revised reprint). By B. J. Boland     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? By Abdallah Laroui The Muslim Mind . By Charis Waddy The Ethics of al-Ghazali: A Composite Ethics in Islam . By Muhammad Abul Quassem Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law . By Uriel Heyd. Edited by V. L. Ménage The Muslim Filipinos. Their History, Society and Contemporary Problems . Edited by Peter G. Gowing and Robert D. McAmis. Tunisie du Sud: Ksars et Villages de Crětes . By André Louis. Preface by H. E. Habib Bourguiba The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia: 1919–1929 . By Gregory J. Massell Zur Soziologie der Dekolonisation in Afrika (On the Sociology of Decolonization in Africa) . Edited by Gerhard Grohs and Bassam Tibi Militär und Sozialismus in der Dritten Welt (Military and Socialism in the Third World) . By Bassam Tibi     

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Book Reviews in This Article: Al-Quran Rendered into English. By Syed Abdul Latif. The Message of the Qur'an Presented in Perspective. By Hashim Amir-Ali. Ibn Kammn?a's Examination of the Three Faiths: A Thirteenth-Century Essay in the Comparative Study of Religion. Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Moshe Perlman. Arab Civilization to A.D. 1500. By D. M. Dunlop. The Baha'i Faith: Its History and Teachings. By William McElwee Miller. Jeunesse, Famille et Développement: Essai sur le changement socio-culturel dans un pays du Tiers Monde (Tunisie). By Carmel Camilleri. Jabal al-Akhdar, Cyrenaica: An Historical Geography of Settlement and Livelihood. By Douglas L. Johnson. Is Western Civilization Universal? By Maryam Jameelah. Syria under the Ba'th, 1963-1966: The Army-Party Symbiosis. By Itamar Rabinovich. Politics and Change in Al-Karak, Jordan. By Peter Gubser. Man, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East. Edited by Jacob M. Landau.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Qur'anic Concept of History, by Mazheruddin Siddiqi. Counsels in Contemporary Islam. Islamic Surveys 3. By Kenneth Cragg. Die Welt des Islam und die Gegenwart. (The World of Islam and the Present Time.) Edited by Rudi Paret. A History of Medieval Islam, by J. J. Saunders. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, by Guy LeStrange. The Modern History of Lebanon, by Kamal S. Salibi. Documents from Islamic Chanceries. First Series (Oriental Studies III). Edited by S. M. Stern. The University Looks Abroad: Approaches to World Affairs at Six American Universities, a report from Education and World Affairs. Bread From Stones: Fifty Years of Technical Assistance. Edited by John S. Badeau and Georgians G. Stevens.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Collection of the Qurr'ān. By John Burton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977; first paperback, 1979. vii plus 273 pp. $17.95, hard cover; $10.95, paperback.
The Jewels of the Qura'ān: Al-Ghazali's Theory. A translation, with introduction and annotation, of al-Ghazālī's Kitāb Jawāhir al-Qur'ān . By Muhammad Abul Quasem. Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia: Published by the author, printed by the University of Malaya Press, 1977. 2.44 pp. Bibliography. Indices. US $5.95 paper: US $12.00 hard cover.
Islam According to the Qurr'ān, Vol. II of Topical and Chronological Qur' an. By P. Mohamed Ali. Cochin, India: Published by the author, 1978. 46 pp. (paper). Rs. 15 ($2; £l).
Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Isbun: A Reconsideration of the Sources, with Special Reference to the Divine Saying or Hadith Qudsi. By William A. Graham. Religion and Society, 7. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. ix Plus 266 pp. DM 68.—
The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. By Henry Corbin. Trans. from the French by Nancy Pearson. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 1978. 174 pp. $6.95.
Western Civilisation Through Muslim Eyes. By Sayid Mujtaba Rukni Musawi Lari. Trans. by F. J. Goulding. Guildford. England: F. J. Goulding, 1977. xii + 146 pp. £1.
Introduction to Palladii's Chinese Literature of the Muslims. By Ludmilla Panskaya in collaboration with Donald Daniel Leslie. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1977. 106 pp. $6.95.
Muslims and Mongols: Essays on Medieval Asia. By J. J. Saunders. Edited by G. W. Rice. Christchurch, N. Z., Whitcoulls Ltd. for the University of Canterbury, 1977. 143 pp. NZR $7.95.     

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The Cultural Barrier: Problems in the Exchange of Ideas . By Norman Daniel
The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel . By A. L. Tibawi
The Mystical Philosophy of Ibn Masarra and His Followers . By Miguel Asin Palacios, translated by Elmer H. Douglas and Howard W. Yoder
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq . By Hanna Batatu
Kitāb Ādāb al-Murīdīn . By Abū al-Najīb 'Abd al-Qāhir al-Suhrawardī
ŠUŠ'Ī, Šams ad-DĪn aš-. Die Chronik aš-Šuā'īs. Ed. and transl . By Barbara Schäfer.
Deliverance From The Cross . By Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
Al-Ghadir fi 'l-Kitāb wa' l-Sunna wa 'l-Adab . By 'Abd al-husayn Ahmad al-Amnī al-Najafī
A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza. Volume III: The Family . By S. D. Goitein
An-Nawnwī's Forty hadith . Translated by Ezzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies     

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Books Reviewed in this article: Renaissance of Islamic Culture And Civilization in Pakistan. By Dr. Abdur Rauf. Lahore. Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf, 1965. XIX, 320. Bibliography and Index. Rs. 20/- The Development of Arabic Logic. By Nicholas Rescher. Pp. 262. University of Pittsburgh Press 1964. Revolution and Military Rule in the Middle East: The Northern Tier. By George M. Haddad. Robert Speller & Sons, Publishers Inc. N.Y., 250 pages $6.00 Torch for Islam: A Biography of George K. Harris by Malcolm K. Brad-shaw. China Inland Mission Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Lutterworth Press, London, 1965 pp. 157, 8/6. The prospects of Christianity throughout the world. Edited by M. Searle Bates and Wilhelm Pauck. New York 1964. Charles Scribner's Sons Pp. 286. Islam and Modernism. By Maryam Jameelah. Lahore: Mohammad Yusuf Khan, 1966. Poems from the Divan of Khushal Khan Chatted. translated from the Pashto by D. N. Mackenzie, 261 pp. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, 1965. A Muslim Manual of War. Edited and translated by George T. Scanlon, Cairo, American University Press, 1961. Pp. viii, 130 (Introduction and translation); 97 (Arabic text). Muhammad the Last Prophet by Imam Vehbi Ismail, Cedar Rapids, 1962. Religion for to-morrow , by Theron D. Wilson, Philosophical Library, N.Y. 1963 Aspects of Egypt: Some Travels in the United Arab Republic. By Ethel Mannin. Hutchinson of London, 1964; pp. 264, map, 25 photographs. 30 shillings in U.K.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Logos Islamikos: Studia Islamica in Honorem Georgii Michaelis Wickens. Edited by Roger M. Savory and Dionisius A. Aguis. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984. vii plus 351 pp. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Actes du premier congrès international d'études arabes chrétiennes. Edited by Khalil Samir. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta 218]. Rome; Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1982. 312 pp. 21.000 Lire it. Palast, Moschee und Wüstenschloss Das Werden der islamischen Kunst 7.-9. Jahrhundert. By Heinrich Gerhard Franz. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1984. 166 pp. 72 Text Figures. 166 Photographs in 64 Plates. DM 54.-. A Wife For My Son. By Ali Ghalem. Chicago: Banner Press, 1984 (orig. ed., 1979, in French). 211 pp. $5.95. Islam, Christianity, and African Identity. By Sulayman S. Nyang. Brattleboro, Vermont: Amana Books, 1984. 106 pp. $6.95. The Economic Functions of the Early Islamic State. By S.M. Hasan-uz-Zaman. Karachi, Pakistan: International Islamic Publishers, 1981. xvi plus 370 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Paperback, n.p. Man Is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassan Kanafani. By Muhammad Siddiq. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1984. 108 pp. Chronology. Bibliography. $9.95, paperback. Islam and Revolution in Africa. By Aziz A. Batran. Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984. 51 pp. $4.95. A Clarification of Questions: An Unabridged Translation of Risaleh Tawzih al-Masael. By Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini. Translated by J. Borujerdi with a foreword by Michael M.J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1984. xxxiv plus 432 pp. Indices. Appendices, n.p. The State and Revolution in Iran. By Hossein Bashiriyeh. London: Croom Helm and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 203 pp. Bibliography, Index. $27.50. Oceidentosis: A Plague From the West. By Jalal Al-I Ahmad. Translated by R. Campbell. Annotations and Introduction by Hamid Algar. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1984. 137 pp. Notes and Index. $5.95. A Calendar of Documents on Indo-Persian Relations (1500-1750) [Volumes I & II]. By Riazul Islam. Karachi: Iranian Culture Foundation, Tehran, and Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, Karachi, 1979, 1982. Vol. I, xxviii plus 511 pp. Vol. II, xxv plus 489 pp. $30.00 for each volume. The Bahr Ul-Asrār, Travelogue of South Asia. By Mahmūd b. Am?r Wal? Balkh?. Edited by Riazul Islam. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1980. 55 plus 106 pp. $5.00. The Majma' Al-Shur'arā' I-Jahāng?r Shāh?. By Mullā Qāti?- Heraw?. Edited by Muhammad Saleem Akhtar. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1979. xvii & 42 plus 402 pp. $12.00. Islamic Thought and Culture. Edited by Ismā'?l R. al-Fārūq?. Washington, D.C.: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1402/1982. 121 pp. n.p. Essays in Islamic and Comparative Studies. Edited by Ismā'?l R. al-Fārūq?. Washington, D.C.: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1402/1982. 120 pp. n.p. Muslims in the West, the Message and Mission. By Syed Abdul Hassan Ali Nadwi. London: The Islamic Foundation, 1983. 191 pp. n.p. The Middle East Political Dictionary. By Lawrence Ziring. Santa Barbara, California and Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO Information Services, 1984. xviii plus 452 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index, n.p. The Writing of History in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A Study in National Transformation. By Jack A. Crabbs, Jr. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, and Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1984. 227 pp. $22.50, paper.     

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Book Review in this Articles al-wādi al-Muqaddas. By M. Kāmil Husayn. al-Kindi: The Philosopher of The Arabs. By George N. Atiyeh. Ta'llm al-Lugh. al-'Arabiyya fi Nigeria. (Teaching the Arabic Language In Nigeria). By Salim Le Réformisme musulman en Alagérie de 1925 à 1940: Essal d'histoire reli-gieuse et sociale. By Ali Merad. Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan, 1857–1964. By Aziz Ahmad. Islam in China. By Yang I-fan. Afghanistan, 1900–1923: A Diplomatic History. By Ludwig Adamac Liqā' 'ind Bawwãbat Mandelbaum (Meeting at Mandelbaum Gate). By Ahmad Fawzi ^CAbd al-Jabbãr. Paintings From Islamic Lands. Edited by R. Pinder-Wilson. Ten Muslims Meet Christ. By William McElwee Miller.     

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Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo. By Arlene Elowe Macleod.
The Patriarchal Paradox. Women Politicians in Turkey. By Yesim Arat.
The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century. By Resat Kasaba
Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics. By John P. Entelis
Pakistan: Transition from Military to Civilian Rule. By Golam W. Choudhury.
Religion and Property in Northern Nigeria. By Lissi Rasmussen.
Domestic Life in Palestine. By Mary Eliza Rogers.
Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales. By Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana.
Islam: The Way of Submission. By Solomon Nigosian.
The Essential Teachings of Islam: Daily Readings from the Sacred Texts. Edited by Kerry Brown and Martin Palmer.
Islam: State and Society. Edited by Klaus Ferdinand and Mehdi Mozaffari.
Islam and World Peace: explanations of a Sufi. By M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.
Our Philosophy. By Allama Muhammed Baqir As-Sadr. Trans, by Shams C.
A Muslim Philosopher on the Soul and Its Fate: Al-'Āmirīs Kitāb al-Amad. 'lā l-abad. Introduction, translation, and notes by Everett K. Rowson.
Islam, Guerilla War, And Revolution-A Study in Comparative Social History. By Haim Gerber.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Regards chrétiens sur Pislam . By Louis Gardet. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1986. 219 pp. Indices. 96 F. Traditional Islam in the Modern World . By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. London and New York: KPI Ltd., 1987. x plus 335 pp. n.p. Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology. By Merryl Wyn Davies. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. x plus 189 pp. Index. $52.50, hardcover. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion. William A. Graham. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 306 pp. Bibliography. Indices. $32.50. Medieval Persian Court Poetry . By Julie Scott Meisami. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiii plus 345 pp. $45.00. Textual Sources for the Study of Islam. Edited and translated by Andrew Rippin and Jan Knappert. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. xii plus 209 pp. Map. Glossary. Index. £6.75. In Quest of an Islamic Humanism: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Mohamed al-Nowaihi. Edited by A. H. Green. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1984. xxiv plus 217 pp. n.p. Philosophy of Islam. Ayatullah Dr. Muhammad Hosayni Behishti and Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Javad Bahonar. Salt Lake City: Islamic Publications, n.d. 580 pp. n.p. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. By David B. Burrell. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 130 pp. $15.95, hardcover; $8.95, paper. Averroes’ De Substantia Orbis: Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text with English Translation and Commentary. By Arthur Hyman. [Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi: Averroes Hebraicus, Medieval Academy Books No. 96.] Cambridge, Massachusetts and Jerusalem: Medieval Academy of America, 1986. 156 plus 74 pp. in Hebrew numerals. Two Critical Apparatus. Hebrew-Latin Glossary. Bibliography. Two Indices. $30.00. Eighteenth-Century Renewal And Reform In Islam. Edited by Nehemiah Levtzion and John O. Voll. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. Preface plus 200 pp. Glossary. Index. $24.95, Cloth. Zwischen Faktum and Fiktion: Eine Studie zum Umayyadenkalifen Sulaiman b. Abdalmalik and seinem Bild in den Quellen. By Reinhard Eisener. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. ix plus 296 pp. Appendix. Index. DM 68. Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society. Edited by G.H.A. Juynboll. [Papers on Islamic History; v.5.] Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. ix plus 292 pp. $20.00. Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. By Martin Kramer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. xi plus 250 pps. Index. $30.00. Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World. By C.A. Qadir. North Ryde, New South Wales: Croom Helm, 1988. viii plus 218 pages. Index. $67.50, cloth; Canada $94.50. Urdu Letters of irz Asadu'llh n lib. Translated and annotated by Daud Rahbar. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1987. xlv plus 628 pp. n.p. Imam Ali: Source of Light, Wisdom and Might. By Sulaymn Kattn, translated by I. K. Howard. London: Muhammadi Trust and New York: Methuen, 1986. x plus 148 pp. $25.00. Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900–1930. By Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. xviii plus 346 pp. $39.95. Tchad 1900-1902, une guerre franco-libyenne oublie? Une confrrie musulmane, la Sansiyya, face la France. By Jean-Louis Triaud. [Racines du présent series.] Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988. 203 plus xxxii pp. Photoreproductions of 38 archival letters in handwritten Arabic (with 105 pp. French translation). 3 maps. Bibliography. Index. n.p. Amal and the Shia: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon. By Augustus Richard Norton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. xxii plus 238 pp. $25.00, hardcover; $10.95, paperback. 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