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Book reviewed in this article: Islam: A Christian Perspective. By Michael Nazir-Ali. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983. 185 pp. $11.95. A Guide to the Contents of the Qur'an. By Faruq Sherif. London: Ithaca Press, 1985. 165 pp. £15.00. The shorter Chapters of The Qur'an. Translated by Thomas B. Irving. Kuala Lumpur: M.A.J. Beg, 1986. 95 pp. n.p. Creation and the Teaching of the Qur'an. By Thomas J. O'Shaughnessy. [Biblica et Orientalia, 40.] Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1985. vii plus 100 pp. $6.00, paper. Islamic Concept of God. By Mohammad Zia Ullah. London: Kegan Paul International, 1984. xi plus 115 pp. Index. $26.95. Eight Lives: A Study of the Hindu-Muslim Encounter. By Rajmohan Gandhi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. x plus 359 pp. Bibliography. References and Notes. Index. $12.95, paper; $39.50, cloth. Journey to the Lord of Power: A Sufi Manual on Retreat. By Ibn ‘Arabi. Translated from the Arabic by Rabia Harris. New York: Inner Traditions International, 1981. Illustrations. 144 pp. $8.95, paper. The Unveiling of Love: Sufism and the Remembrance of God. By Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti. Translated from the Turkish by Muhtar Holland. New York: Inner Traditions International, 1981. 201 pp. $10.95. Sh'ism and Social Protest. Edited by R.I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. x plus 325 pp. $40.00, cloth; $12.95, paper. Muslim Women. Edited by Freda Hussain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 228 pp. $22.50. Woman in Islam. By Wiebke Walther. Montclair: Abner Schram, 1981. 204 pp. Photographs. Charts. $35.00. Marriage and Sexuality in Islam: A Translation of al-Ghazl's Book on the Etiquette of Marriage from the Iy. By Madelain Farah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1984. xii plus 126 pp. Indices. $20.00. Däs Ärztebankett. Aus arabischen Handschriften übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung sowie Anmerkungen versehen von Felix Klein-Franke. By Abu l-asan al-Muhtr al-asan ibn ‘Abdn. Stuttgart: Hippokrates Verlag, 1984. 323 pp. DM 49.80. Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali. By Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot. [Cambridge Middle East Library]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. x plus 300 pp. Bibliography; Index. $49.50. Les Ordres mystiques dans l'Islam Cheminements et situation actuelle. Edited by A. Popovic & G. Veinstein. [Recherches d'histoire et de sciences sociales, 13.] Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. 324 pp. Index. 190F, paper. Shh Abd al-Azz: Puritanism, Sectarian Polemics and Jihd. By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi. Canberra: Ma'rifat Publishing House, 1982. xii plus 609 pp. A $38. The Arab Predicament, Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967. By Fouad Ajami. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xvi plus 220 pp. n.p. The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt. By Israel Gershoni. Tel Aviv: The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1981. 142 pp. n.p. Towns and townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, crafts and food production in an urban setting, 1520-1650. By Suraiya Faroqhi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv plus 425 pp. Photographs. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Glossary. Bibliography. Indices. $59.50. The West Bank: History, Politics, Society, and Economy. By Don Peretz. [Westview Special Studies on the Middle East.] Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986. xi plus 173 pp. Index. $22.00, softbound. A Legend of Alexander and The Merchant and the Parrot. By Herbert Mason. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. 119 pages, n.p. Modern Arabic Literature and the West. By M.M. Badawi. London: Ithaca Press, 1985, ii plus 236 pp. 18.00. Hikayat Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham: An Edition of an Anonymous Malay Text with translation and notes. Edited and translated by Russell Jones. Berkeley: University of California, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985. ix plus 332 pp. Bibliography. Index. $14.50, paper; $27.25, hardcover. The author's response to “Leaman's Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy: A Review Article,” by Michael E. Marmura, MW, LXXVI (1986), 43-45.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination .* By Martin Lings. New York: Interlink Books, 1987 (orig. ed. London, 1976). 242 pp. Illustrations. Indices. $49.95, hardcover. The Rising of al-Husayn: Its Impact on the Consciousness of Muslim Society . By Shaykh Muhammad Mahd Shams al-Dn. Translated from the Arabic by I.K.A. Howard. New York: Methuen, 1986. xxi plus 218 pp. $15.95, paper. Remembrance and Prayer: The Way of the Prophet Muhammad . By Muhammad al-Ghazl. Translated by Yusuf Talal De Lorenzo. Leicester, England: The Islamic Foundation, 1986/1406 A.H. 232 pp. Arabic text of prayers. Index. 10.-, hardcover; 4.95, paperback. The Bounteous Koran . A translation of meaning and commentary by M.M. Khatib. Authorized by Al-Azhar, 1984. London: Macmillan Press, 1986. xlvii plus 827 pp. plus 14 pp. of addenda. Preface. Introduction. Arabic index of srahs. $36.00, hardcover. Les Mille et une nuits d'Antoine Galland ou le chef-d'oeuvre invisible . By Georges May. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986. 247 pp. in French. 135 francs. Rethinking Islam Today . By Mohammed Arkoun. [Occasional Papers Series.] Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1987. 25 pp. n.p. Al-Fnrabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's “De Interpretntione.” Translated with an Introduction and Notes by F. W. Zimmermann. [The British Academy, Classical and Medieval Logic Texts]. London: Oxford University Press, 1981. clii plus 287 pages. $145.00. The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin Return. (Mersd al-ebd men al-mabd el-ma-d): A Sufi Compendium by Najm al-Dn Rzi known as Dya . By ‘Abd Allh ibn Muhammad Najm al-Dn Rz Translated from the Persian with introduction and annotation by Hamid Algar. [Persian Heritage Series, No. 35.] Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1982. 537 pages. n.p. Islamic Coins. By Michael Bates . [ANS Handbook 2]. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1982. Deluxe edition includes 36 color slides. 52 pp. $8.00. Dadda ‘Atta and His Forty Grandsons; The Socio-political Organization of the Ait ‘Atta of Southern Morocco . By David Hart. [MENAS Socio-Economic Studies.] Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. xix plus 260 pp. $30.00. The Lebanese Crisis (1975-1985): A Bibliography . Compiled by Georges T. Labaki. College Park: Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, 1986. 134 pp. n.p. Arab Resources: The Transformation of a Society . Edited by Ibrahim Ibrahim. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; London: Croom Helm, 1983, 304 pp. Tables. n.p. From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates: A Society in Transition . By Frauke Heard-Bey. London and New York: Longman, 1982. xxvi plus 522 pages. Maps. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Appendix. Glossary. Index. $45.00, cloth. Saudi Arabia: Rush to Development. Profile of an Energy Economy and Investment . By Ragaei El Mallakh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. 472 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. $32.50. The Changing Bedouin . Edited by Emanuel Marx and Avshalom Shmueli. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1984. xi plus 197 pp. $29.95. Religious Strife in Egypt: Crisis and Ideological Conflict in the Seventies . By Nadia Ramses Farah. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. xiii plus 135 pp. Bibliography. Chapter notes. $42.00, hardcover. Egypt: Politics and Society, 1945-1981 . By Derek Hopwood. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982. x plus 194 pp. $10.95; $28.50, cloth. Middle East Mission: The Story of a Major Bid for Peace in the Time of Nasser and Ben-Gurion By Elmore Jackson. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983. 124 pp. Chronology; Appendix; Index. $12.95. Protest Movements and Religious Movements in Egypt: Past and Present . By Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot. [Occasional Paper Series]. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1984. 10 pp. $3.75. Religion and Political Development: Some Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli . By Barbarara Freyer Stowasser. [Occasional Paper Series]. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1983. 28 pp. n.p. American Christianity, the Jewish State, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict . By Thomas Wiley. [Occasional Paper Series]. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1983. 32 pp. n.p. Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia . Compiled by Ahmad Ibrahim, Sharon Siddique, and Yasmin Hussain. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1985. xv plus 407 pp. Bibliography. n.p. The Two Yemens . By Robin Bidwell. London: Longman; Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. xvii plus 350 pp. Maps; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $26.00. Jewish Life under Islam: Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century . By Ammon Cohen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. xiii plus 267 pp. Map; Tables; Index. $30.00. Modernization in the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Richard Hill . Edited by M.W. Daly. New York: Lilian Barber Press, 1985. 177 pp. Index. $29.50, hardcover. Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries . Vol III: The Islamic Experience in Contemporary Thought. By Syed Vahiduddin. Edited by Christian W. Troll. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1986. xi plus 292 pp. Photograph. Glossary. Indices. n.p. Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey . Edited by Jacob M. Landau. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984. xiii plus 268 pp. Index. $20.00.     

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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. Passeé Turco-Tatar, Présent Sovietique: Études offertes Alexandre Bennigsen/Turco-Tatar Past Soviet Present: Studies presented to Alexandre Bennigsen. Edited by Ch. Lemercier-Quelquejay, G. Veinstein, and S.E. Wimbush. [Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, la Collection TLrcica, VI: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, la collection Civilisations et Sociétés, 74.] Louvain-Paris: Éditions Peeters and Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. ix plus 563 pp. Photograph. n.p. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. By Olivier Roy. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. vi plus 253 pp. $24.95. Khoumani, Islamic Fundamentalists and the Contributions of Islamic Sciences to Modern Civilization. By Antoine J. Abraham. [Anthroscience Monograph Series.] Notre Dame, Indiana: Foundations Press of Notre Dame, 1983. 39 pp. n.p. The Gulf Cooperation Council: Moderation and Stability in an Interdependent World. Edited by John A. Sandwick. Foreword by George McGovern. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1987. x plus 289 pp. Tables. Charts. Texts of documents. Bibliography. $15.95. The Powers in the Middle East: The Ultimate Strategic Arena. Edited by Bernard Reich. New York: Praeger, 1987. 351 pp. $45.00.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Orthodox Christians and Muslims .* Edited by N.M. Vaporis. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1986. ix plus 203 pp. $10.00. Christianity/Islam: Essays on Esoteric Ecumenism . By Frithjof Schuon. Translated by Gustavo Polit. Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 1985. vii plus 270 pp. n.p. (First published in 1981 by Archè Milano as Christianisme/Islam.) A Muslim Theologian's Response to Christianity: Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawb al-a$ . Edited and translated by Thomas F. Michel. Delma, New York: Caravan Books, 1984. ix plus 465 pp. Bibliography. Glosary. Index. n.p. The Maronites in History . By Matti Moosa. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986. 352 pp. Index. $35.00, cloth. Islamic Spirituality: Foundations . Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. [Vol. 19 of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest]. New York: Crossroad, 1987. 450 pp. Illustrations. $49.50, hardcover. The Islamic Concept of God . By Mohammed Zia Ullah. London, Boston and Melbourne: Kegan Paul International, 1984. xi plus 115 pp. Index. $26.95. The Islamic Way of Life . By Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi, edited and translated by Khurshid Ahmad and Khurram Murad. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1986. 80 pp. Index of Quranic verses cited. n.p. Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History . By Ahmad V. al-Hassan and Donald Hill. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1986. xiv plus 304 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. $39.50. From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms . By Mircea Eliade. [ A History of Religious Ideas , Vol. 3.] Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. xii plus 360 pp. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Early Muslim Dogma: A Source-critical Study . By Michael Cook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xi plus 242 pp. $49.50. Islam in a World of Nation-States . By James P. Piscatori. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. viii plus 193 pp. Illustrations; Chronology of the Muslim World; Glossary; Notes; Index. $39.50. Islam and Politics . By John L. Esposito. Foreword by Hermann Frederick Eilts. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1984. xiv plus 273 pp. n.p. Israeli Arabism: The Latest Incarnation of Orientalism . By Shukri Abed with an introduction by Eli Zureik. [Occasional Paper No. 6; Series Editors: Fouad Moughrabi and Elia Zureik]. Washington, D.C.: Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, 1986. n.p. n.p. The Palestinians in Israeli Social Science Writings . By Aziz Haidar. [Occasional Paper No. 9; Series Editors: Fouad Moughrabi and Elia Zureik]. Washington, D.C.: Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, 1986. n.p. n.p. Sand in the Snow: Images of the Middle East in Canadian English-Language Literature and Commentary . By Mordecai Briemberg. [Occasional Paper No. 8; Series Editors: Fouad Moughrabi and Elia Zureik]. Washington, D.C.: Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, 1986, n.p. n.p. Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial . Edited by Ibrahim Abu Lughod. Wilmette, Illinois: Medina Press, 1982. 225 pp. $17.95, cloth; $7.95, paper. Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa . By Labelle Prussin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. xxiii plus 306 pp. Figures. Plates. Maps. Index. $75.00. The Qashqai of Iran . By Lois Beck. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xvi plus 384 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Hercegovina, 1878-1914 . By Robert J. Donia. [East European Monographs No. LXXVIII.] Boulder: East European Monographs, 1981. xix plus 237 pp. $17.50. The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the Philippines . By Cesar Adib Majul. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1985. 162 pp. Appendixes. Bibliography. Maps. $5.95. The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century . By Zeynep $CLelik. [Publications on the Near East 2. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. 202 pp. 103 Illustration; 17 Maps; Bibliography; Index. $25.00. Bureaucrat and Intellectural in the Ottoman Empire. The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600) . By Cornell H. Fleischer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Glossary; Bibliography; Index. 363 pp. Muslims of the Soviet Empire. A Guide . By Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. xvi plus 294 pp. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. A History of the Sikhs , Volume I: 1469-1839 , Volume II: 1839-1964 , reprint ed. By Khushwant Singh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984 (orig. ed., 1963-1966). Vol. I: xiii plus 419 pp.; Vol. II: xi plus 395 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Indices. n.p.     

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Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages. By Thomas F. Glick. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. xi plus 376 pp. $22.50.
Literature and Violence in North Arabia. By Michael E. Meeker. [Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. xvi plus 272 pp. $25.00, hard cover; $10.95, paper.
The Tales of the Prophets of al-Kisā'ī. Translated from the Arabic with an introduction and notes by W. M. Thackston, Jr. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978. xxxiv plus 378. $25.00.
The Rose and the Rock: Mystical and Rational Elements in the Intellectual History of South Asian Islam. Edited by Bruce B. Lawrence. Durham, NC: Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia, Duke University, 1979. n. p. n. p.
The First Crusade. By Steven Runciman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980 (abridged ed.; original ed. 1951). 240 pp. Illustrations. $19.95.
Honneur et Baraka: Ies structures sociales dnns le Rif. By Raymond Jamous. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 303 pp. $49.50.
Islam and the Medieval West: Aspects of Intercultural Relations. Edited by Khalil I. Semaan. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1980. xi plus 172 pp. $34.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.
Shi'ism and Constitutionalism in Iran. By Abdul-Hadi Hairi. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. xii plus 274 pp. Bibliography, index. $19.50.
The Qur'an: Basic Teachings. By Thomas Ballatine Irving, Khurshid Ahmad and Muhammad Manazir Ahsan. Leicester, England: The Islamic Foundation, 1979. 278 pp. n. p.
Oman: The Reborn Land. By F. A. Clements. London and New York: Longmans, 1980. 182 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $25.00.
The Crisis in the Lebanese System: Confessionalism and Chaos. By Enver M. Koury. Washington, D. C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1976. 92 pp. $3.00.     

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Book reviewed in this article: AI-Qur'n: A Contemporary Translation . By Ahmed Ali. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. 572 pp. Indexes. $9.95. Dictionary of Qur'nic Terms and Concepts. By Mustansir Mir. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978. xiv plus 244 pp. Index. $40.00. The Second Message of Islam . By Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Translation and introduction by Abdallahi Ahmed An-Na'im. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. 178 pp. $29.95. The Politics of Islamic Revivialism: Diversity and Unity . Edited by Shireen T. Hunter. [Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies in association with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.] Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. xv plus 303 pages. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $35.00, cloth; $12.95, paperback. Words of Ecstasy in Sufism . By Carl W. Ernst. [SUNY Series in Islam. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Editor.] Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. viii plus 184 pp. Appendix. Indices. $34.95. Mahsin al-Majlis: The attractions of mystical sessions. Ibn al-'Arif . Translated by William Elliot and Adnan K. Abdulla. Avebury, England: n.p., 1980. 121 pp. n.p. The Arab Gulf States: Steps Toward Political Participation. By J.E. Peterson. Foreword by Majid Khadduri. [The Washington Papers/131.] New York: Praeger, published with The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., 1988. xii plus 155 pp. Three tables; Notes; Index. $33.95, hardcover; $10.95, paper. Warriors at Suez; Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East . By Donald Neff. New York: The Linden Press/Simon and Schuster, 1981. 477 pp. $8.25. Muslim Endowments and Society in British India . By Gregory C. Kozlowksi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. plus 211 pp. $42.50. Agrarian Relations in the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Centuries . Translated from the Bulgarian. Vera P. Moutafchieva. [East European Monographs, 251.] Boulder: East European Monographs (distributed by Columbia University Press), 1988 (Bulgarian ed., 1962). xiii plus 245 pp. Tables $25.00. Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners . By Margaret K. Nydell. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, 1987. x plus 164 pp. $16.00, paper. Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question . By Kevin Dwyer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xxvii plus 297 pp. Notes; Bibliography; Indexes. Voilà ce qui est arrivé: Plaidoyer pour une guerre Sainte en Afrique de I'Ouest au XIXe siècle . By AI-Hjj ‘Umar al-Ft. Edited and translated by Sidi Mohamed Mahibou and Jean-Louis Triaud (Original title: Bayn m Waqa'a). [Fontes Historiae Africanae, series Arabica, VIII.] Paris: Editions du Centre National de al Recherche Scientifique, 1983. 261 plus (Arabic) 58 pp. Map. Indices. 205 Frs. Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria. The Making of a Muslim Working Class . By Paul M. Lubeck. [African Studies Series 52.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. x plus 362 pp. Maps; Tables. $49.50. Horn and Crescent. Cultural change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800–1900 . By Randall L. Pouwels. [African Studies Series 53.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv plus 273 pp. Illustrations; Maps; Glossary. n.p. Roman, provincial and Islamic law: the origins of the Islamic patronate . By Patricia Crone. [Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 178 pp. $39.50. Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah . By Abdul Azim Salehi. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1988. 286 pp. 12, hardcover; 5.50, paper. A Fabian in Egypt: Salamah Musa and the Rise of the Professional Classes in Egypt, 1909–1939 . By Vernon Egger. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. xvi plus 234 pp. Biblipgraphy. Index. n.p. God's Caliph. Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam . By Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds. Cambridge University Press, 1986. 155 plus 2 pp. n.p. The Art of Bad'az-Zamn al-Hamadhn as Picaresque Narrative . By James T. Monroe. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983. 175 pp. n.p., paper.     

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Arabic and Islamic Garland: Historical, Educational and Literary Papers. Adel Awa, Issa Boullata, Syed Nadvi (honorary eds.). Presented to AbdulLatif Tibawi. London: The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1977. 239 pp.
Forty Poems from the Divan. By Nasir-i Khusraw. Translated with introductions by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Gholam-Reza Aavani. General Editor: Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Tehran: Imperial lranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977. x plus 144 pp. $10.00.
The Islamic Jesus: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English and French. By Don Wismer. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977. xix plus 305 pp. $ 29.00.
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World. By Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. ix plus 268 pp. $ 18.50.
American Diplomatic Relations with the Middle East, 1784–1975: A Survey. By Thomas A. Bryson. Metuchen, N. J., The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1977. xiii plus 431 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.50.
Sir Eldon Gorst: The Overshadowed Proconsul. By Peter Mellini. Hoover Colonial Studies. Stanford, Cal.: Hoover Institution Press, 1977. xxv plus 315 pp. $10.95.
Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History. Edited by Thomas Naff and Roger Owen. Papers on Islamic History, 4. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press; London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Sirnons, Inc., 1977. xii plus 450 pp. $12.50.
The 'Disciplina Clericalis' of Petrus Alfonsi. Trans. from Latin and ed. by Eber-hard Hermes. Trans. from Latin and German into English by P. R. Quarrie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. x plus 203 pp. $12.50.
A History of the Crusades. Volume IV: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States. Edited by Harry W. Hazard. (General editor: Kenneth M. Setton) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. xxvii plus 414 plus 10 pp. Addenda & Corrigenda.     

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Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics. By George F. Hourani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv plus 282 pp. $39.50, hard cover. Book reviewed in this article: Muslim Political Thought and Administration. By Haroon Khan Sherwani. New Delhi: Munshiram Manaharlal Publishers, 1981, first pub. 1942. xi plus 215 pp., Appendices. Index. Rs. 65. Islam: The Religious and Political Life of a World Community. Edited by Marjorie Kelly. New York: Praeger, 1984. xii plus 321 pp. Maps. Charts. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $12.95. paper. Studien zum Islamischen Recht. By Noel J. Coulson and Abdelwadoud Yehia [Veröffentlichungen der (Commission für Europarecht, Internationales und Auslàndisches Privatrecht, nr. 2]. Wien, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen, 1983. 37 pp. 6s. 70.—. Theodicy in Islamic Thought. The Dispute Over Al-Ghaz's “Best of All Possible Worlds. ” By Eric L. Ormsby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv plus 309 pp. $30.00. Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muhammad: Eine Kritik am “christlichen” Abendland. By Günter Lüling. Erlangen: Hannelore Lülung, 1981. 423 pp. n.p. The Qur'an. The first American version. Translation and commentary by T.B. Irving (Al-Hajj Taim li). Brattleboro, Vermont: Amana Books, 1985. xliii plus 401 pp. n.p. The Jew As Ally of the Muslim, Medieval Roots of Anti-Semitism. By Allan Harris Cutler and Helen Elmquist Cutler. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 577 pp. $50.00, hardcover. Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth-Century Notable. By Dale F. Eickelman. [Princeton Studies on the Near East.] Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xviii plus 202 pp. Photos. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $32.50. Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized. By John P. Entelis. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986. xi plus 239 pp. Index. Maps. Illustrations. $30.00, hardcover. Syria: Modern State in an Ancient Land. By John F. Devlin. [Nations of the Contemporary Middle East.] Boulder and London: Westview Press and Croom Helm, 1983. 152 pp. $16.50. Error and Betrayal in Lebanon: An Analysis of Israel's Invasion of Lebanon and Implications for U.S.-Israeli Relations. By George W. Ball. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1984. 152 pp. n.p.     

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The Early History of the Gulf Arabs . By Ahmad Anani and Ken Whittingham. London and New York: Longman Group Limited, 1986. vi plus 170 pp. Bibliographic notes on main characters in the text. Select Bibliography. Index. $19.95.
Jesus and the Ahmadiyya Movement . Edited by A. Aftab. Canada: Editions lslamiques D'Amerique, 1987. 57 pp. Bibliography, $3.75, paper.
The Poems of Hamzah Fansuri . Edited by G.W.J. Drewes and L.F. Brakel. Leiden: Foris Publications Dordrecht-Holland/Cinnaminson-USA, 1986. ix plus 285 pp. Bibliography. General Index. n.p.
Islamic Law in the Contemporary World . By Sayed Hassan Amin. Royston Limited: Glasgow, 1985. ix plus 190 pp. Glossary. Chronology. General Bibliography. Appendix with List of Treaties, Table of Statutes and List of Cases. Index. $15.00.
Commercial Law of Islam . By Sayed Hassan Amin. Vahid Publications: Tehran, 1986. vii plus 144 pp. Bibliography on Iranian Law. Index. $27.00.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: al-Isbtiqāq. By Fu’ād Hannā Tarazi. No. 50 of Silsilat al-‘Ulūm al-Sharqiyya, in the Publications of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub Press, 1968. xii + 390 pp. The La?ā'if al-Ma‘ārif of Tha ‘lib?. Translated with introduction and notes by C. E. Bosworth. Edinburgh: The University Press, 1968. xiii + 164 pp. £310s. The Kitāb al-Maghāz? of al-Wāqid?. Edited by Marsden Jones. London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Printed by Dar al-Maaref, Cairo, 1964 and 1966. Three Vols., xiii + 46 + 1130 PP. + Indexes. $20.20. History of Egypt. An Extract from Abu L-Mahasin b. Taghri Birdi's Chronicle entitled Hawadith ad-Duhur fi Madi l-Ayyam Wash-Shuhur (845–854 A.H., A.D. 1441–1450). Translated by William Popper and edited by Walter J. Fischel. New Haven: American Oriental Society, Essay No. 5. 1967. 60 pp. Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt. Edited by P. M. Holt. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. xx plus 400 pp.£3.10s. Educational Problems in Turkey: 1920–1940. By Ilhan Basgöz and Howard E. Wilson. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Publications, 1968. (Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 86), pp. 268, bibliography, index. $7. Turkey and Greece: Closer Unity-Now ! By Reverend Campbell McKinnon. New York: Vantage Press, 1968. 64 pp. $2.95. Women of Algeria; An Essay on Change. By David C. Gordon. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs XIX. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1968. 98 pp. Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914. By Briton Cooper Busch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. pp. xiv plus 432. $8.75. The Middle East Conflict. By Malcolm H. Kerr. New York: The Foreign Policy Association, Headline Series No. 191, October 1968. 63 pp. $0.85. Poetry of Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Translated by Sulāfa Hijjāw?. Baghdad: Directorate of General Culture, Ministry of Culture and Guidance. 1968. 47 pp.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: Mishkāt al-Masāb?h, English Translation with Explanatory Notes , by James Robson, Sh. Muh. Ashraf, Lahore, 1963–1965. Pp. 1453. Jesus in the Qurān. By Geoffrey Parrinder. Faber and Faber, London, 1965. Pp. 187. 32s 6d. Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement. By Richard N. Frye. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1965. Pp. xiii + 210. $2.75. A Reader's Guide to the Great Religions. Edited by Charles J. Adams. The Free Press, New York, 1965. Pp. xv + 364. The Arab Cold War, 1958–1964: A Study of Ideology in Politics , by Malcolm Kerr. Oxford University Press (Chatham House Series), London, 1965; pp. VIII, 139. Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of Hamilton A. R. Gibb. Edited by G. Makdisi. E. J. Brill, Leiden, and Harvard University Press, 1965. Pp. xviii +688. Gld. 120. A History of Islamic Spain. By Montgomery Watt, with sections on literature by Pierre Cachia. Edinburgh University Press, 1965. Pp. x + 210, illustrations, maps. 25s. $6. History of Eastern Arabia 1750–1800: The Rise and Development of Bahrain and Kuwait , By Ahmad Abu Hakima, pp. xix, 213, Beirut, Khayat's. 1965. Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century , By R. Bayly Winder, pp. xiv, 312, London, Macmillan, and New York, St. Martin's Press, 1965. The Origins of the Islamic State. Translation by Philip K. Hitti, Beirut, Kha. yat's Oriental Reprints, No. 11, 1960. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science , University of Chicago, March, 1966, Vol. 1, No. 1. The Armenian Communities in Syria under Ottoman Dominion. By Avedis K. Sanjian. Harvard University Press, Mass, 1965, pp. 390. Bibliography. $8.95. Towards Pakistan. By Waheed-uz-Zaman, Publishers United, Lahore, 1964, 252 p. Rs. 12.50. History, Archaeology and Christian Humanism. By William Foxwell Albright. Adam & Charles Black, London 1965. pp. x, 342. 35s. net. Egyptian Guilds in Modern Times. By Gabriel Baer, pp. xiii and 192. The Israel Oriental Society (Oriental Notes and Studies, No. 8) (Jerusalem, 1964). $4.50.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Islam: A Survey of the Muslim Faith. By C. George Fry and James R. King. Islam and the West: The Moriscos. A Cultural and Social History. By Anwar G. Chejne. The Muslim Community in North America. Edited by Earle H. Waugh, Baha Abu-Laban, and Regula B. Qureshi. Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries. Edited by Christian W. Troll. The Afghan Connection: The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger. By George Pottinger. Modern Arab Thought: Channels of the French Revolution to the Arab East. By Ra'?f Khūr?, translated by I?sān 'Abbās, edited by Charles Issawi. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics. By Helena Cobban. The Zionist Connection II: What Price Peace? By Alfred M. Lilienthal. Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam. By Edward Mortimer. Sex and Society in Islam: Birth Control Before the Nineteenth Century. By B. F. Musallam. Studies on Byzantium, Seljuks, and Ottomans: Reprinted Studies. Byzantina kai Metabyzantina, Vol. 2. By Speros Vryonis, Jr. Malibu Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt: Studies in the Writings of 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'ran?. By Michael Winter. Chants Musulmans en Peul. By J. Haafkens. Love, Madness, and Poetry: An Interpretation of the Maǧnūn Legend. By As'ad E. Khairallah. The Churches and Islam in Europe (II). By Jan Slomp and others. The Republic of Lebanon: Nation in Jeopardy. By David C. Gordon. I Speak for Lebanon. Kamal Joumblatt. Translated by Michael Pallis. Issues in Islamic Banking: Selected Papers. By Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi. The Memoirs of a Syrian Prince: Abu'l-Fidā', Sultan of Hamāh (672–732/1273–1331). Translated with an introduction by P. M. Holt. Une Herméneutique de la Tradition Islamique: Le Commentaire des Arba'ūn al-Nawaw?ya de Mu?y? al-D?n Ya?y? al-Nawaw? (m. 676/1277): Introduction, texte arabe, traduction, notes et index du vocabulaire. By Louis Pouzet.     

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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:
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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Books Reviewed in this article: Anthology of Islamic Literature from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times , selected, edited and introduced by James Kritzeck, Holt, Rinehard and Winston, New York, 1964. Pp. 379. $8.50. A Reader in Modern Literary Arabic , By Farhat J. Ziadeh. Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1964. $8.50. Three Muslim Sages , by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Harvard University Press, 1964; PP- 185, $3.95. Botschaft des Ostens. By Sir Muhammad Iqbāl. Aus dem Persischen uebertra-gen und eingeleitet von Annemarie Schimmel. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1963, pp. XXX, 108. A Path for Pakistan. By Aslam Siddiqi. Pakistan Publishisg House, Karachi, 1964; pp. xv + 250; Rs. 16. The Significance of Muhamadan Law in Present Day Egypt (Dutch). B. J. Brugman, Martinus Nijhoff's Gravenhage, 1960. “Verhandelingen…”, vol. XXVIII, pp. 215. William McKane, Al-Ghazāli's Book of Fear and Hope , E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1962. Pp. XIX + 104. 18 guilders.     

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Studies in a Masque (1883, 1893). By S. Lane-Poole. Reprint, Beirut: Khayats, 1966. Sad b. MansāTgr ibn KammāTna's Examination of (the Inquiries into the Three Faitha Edited by Moshe Perlmann. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1967. pp. xii plus 119. $ 4.00. Islamic Shiite Encyclopedia, Volume I. By Hassan Al-Amin. London: Luzac & Co., Ltd, 1967. 271 pp. 3.00. L'Egypte Moderne, by Nada Tomiche. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966 (No. 569 in Series entitled, “Que Sais-Je?” Le Point des Connaissances ActuelleS). The Mgarian Insurrection: 1954–1962. By Edgar O'Ballance. Hamden, Conn, Archon Books, 1967. pp. 231. $ 7.00. English-Arabic Dictionary of Political, Diplomatic and Conference Terms. By M. Mansoor. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1961. pp. 352. Al-LisāTn al-^CArabi: Majallah dawryah lil-abhāTth al-lughawiyah wa-nashāTt al-tarjamah wa-al-ta rib al-alam al-^carabi. Published by Al-Maktab al-dāTim li-tansq al-ta^Crib, al-tāTbi^C li-jāTmi^cat al-duwal al^carabiyah. Rabat, Morocco, Vol. iv, for Rabi^c al-thāTn, 1386 (August, 1966). pp. 389. The Contribution of Arabic Language to Ancient Civilization. By Abdul-Hak Fadil (^CAbd al-Haqq FāTdil). Rabat: The Permanent Bureau of Arabisation in the Arab Counties, n.d. pp. 13.     

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Al-islāTm tujāTh tahaddiyāTt al-hayaāT al-asriyya. By Hasan Sa^cb. Beirut: DāTr al-ÄdāTb, 1965. 198 pp. LL 3.00. The Surest Path to Knowledge Concerning the Condition of Countries. By Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi. Translated by Leon Cari Brown. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. pp. 182. Islam in the Modern National State. By E. I. J. Rosenthal. Cambridge University Press, 1965. pp. xxii, 416. $ 10.50. Tunisia: From Protectorate to Republic. By Dwight L. Ling. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1967. pp. ix, 273. $7.50 or 54s. Ahmed Ben Bella By Robert Merle. Translated by Camilla Sykes. Introduction by Clare Holingworth. New York: Walker and Company, 1967. pp. 160. Impact of US. Technial aid on the rural devdopment of Iran. By Gholam H. Kazemian Brooklyn, New York: Theo Gaus’ Som, Inc, 1968. ix plus 129 pp. $6.00     

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Al-IslāTm wa’ I-Mashya. By MustafāT Hasan al-Bikr. Maktabat DāTr Nashr al-ThaqāTfa, Alexandria, 1966. Baal Christ, and Mohammed: religion and revolution in North Africa. By John K. Cooley, John Murray, London, 1967. pp. xv plus 368. Egyptian Guilds in Modern Times. By Gabriel Baer. The Israel Oriental Society (Oriental Notes and Studies, No. 8), Jerusalem, 1964 pp. xviii plus 192. $ 4.50. The Trucia States: A Brief Economic Survey (Middle East Economic and Social Monographs, No. I). By K. G. Fenelon. Khayats, Beirut, 1967. pp. 94 The Province of Damascus 1723–1783. By Abdul-Grim Rafeq. Khayats, Beirut, 1966. pp. XV plus 370. Muslim Communities in Gujrat. By M. C. Misra. Asia Publishing House, New York, 1964. pp. xi plus 187. Bibliography and Index. Price not indicated.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial. Edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Community of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza , Volume 4: Daily Life. By S. D. Goitein The Arabic Book. By Johannes Pedersen The Early Islamic Conquests. By Fred McGraw Donner The Islamic Impact. Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Byron Haines and Ellison Findly Persian Miniature Painting: and its Influence on the art of Turkey and India [The British Library Collections]. By Norah M. Titley Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture [Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. I]. Edited by Abbas Daneshvari Architecture and Community: Building in the Islamic World Today. [The Aga Khan Award for Architecture.] Edited by Renata Holod with Darl Rastorfer Islam and Ownership. By Seyyed Mahmood Taleqani Society and Economics in Islam: Writings and Declarations of Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleghani. Translated from the Persian by R. Campbell Equality, Efficiency, and Property Ownership in the Islamic Economic System. By Akhtar A. Awan. Lanham Crime and Corrections: An Al-Islamic Perspective. By Sidney R. Sharif The Qur'ān and Its Interpreters. Vol. I. By Mahmoud M. Ayoub 'Ulum al-Qur'ān: An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qur'ān. By Ahmad von Denffer Ibn Taymiyyah's Ethics—The Social Factor. By Victor E. Makari Shāh Wal?-Allāh And His Times. By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi Islamic Theology and Philosophy: Studies in Honor of George F. Hourani. Edited by Michael E. Marmura Religion, My Own. The Literary Works of Naj?b Ma fūz. By Mattityahu Peled L'Orient dèchirè entre I'Est et L'Ouest (1955–1982). By Simon Jargy The Reflowering of Malaysian Islam: Modern Religious Radicals and Their Roots. By Judith Nagata Muslim Sects and Divisions. The section on Muslim sects in Kitāb al-Milal wa'I-Ni al by Mu ammad b. 'Abd al-Kar?m Shahrastān? (d. 1153) . By A. K. Kazi and J. G. Flynn Muslim Intellectual Responses to “New Order” Modernization in Indonesia. By Muhammad Kamal Hassan Social history of Timbuktu: the role of Muslim scholars and notables 1400–1900. By Elias N. Saad Religion and Politics in Muslim Society : Order and Conflict in Pakistan. By Akbar S. Ahmed Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa. By Mary F. Smith     

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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