Reviews

Selected Onomastic Writings, Rüdiger Schmitt, edited by Winfried Breidbach and Philip Huyse, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000, ISBN: 0–933273–42–8, 303pp., $48.00 (Mostly in German).

Hamid al‐Din al‐Kirmani: Isma'ili Thought in the Age of al‐Hakim, Paul E. Walker, London: I.B Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1999, ISBN 1 85043 321 3, xiv + 168pp., £25.00.

Intellectual Traditions in Islam, ed. Farhad Daftary, London and New York: I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000, ISBN 1–86064–435‐X, xvii + 252 pp.

The Persian Presence in the Islamic World, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian and George Sabagh, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN: 0–521–59185–6 (hb), 267 pp.

La Science dans le monde Iranien à I'époque islamique, Études réunies et présentées par ? Vesel, H. Beikbaghban et B. Thierry de Crussol des Epesse, Teheran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Bibliothèque Iranienne 50, 1998, xxiv + 430pp, including general index, list of illustrations, and Persian table of contents.

Geschichte der Stadt Qom im Mittelalter (650–1350): politische und wirtschaftliche Aspekte, Andreas Drechsler, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1999, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 224, ISSN: 0939–1940, ISBN 3–87997–276–1, 377 pp.

Al‐Khayyam Mathématicien, R. Rashed et B. Vahabzadeh, Paris: Librairie Scientifique et Technique, Albert Blanchard, 1999, ISBN 2–85367–210–7, x + 429 pp., incl. Arabic text, French translation, commentaries, appendices, indices, and glossary.

Omar Khayyam the Mathematician, R. Rashed & B. Vahabzadeh, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000, Persian Heritage Series, No. 40, ISBN 0–933273–46–0, x + 268, including English translation, appendices, indices.

Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah ^cAbbas: Ideology, Imitation and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles, Sholeh A. Quinn, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000, ISBN 0–87480–643–7, (hardcover) 197 pp., 4 tables, 2 appendices, index, $32.50.

The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete, Abraham of Crete, annotated and trans. by George Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1998, vi + 202 pp., including maps, glossary, bibliography, and index, cloth $26.95.

History of the Wars (1721–1738), Abraham of Erevan, annotated and trans, by George Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1999, viii+112 pp., including maps, bibliography, and index, paperback $19.95.

Education, Religion, and the Discourse of Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran, Monica M. Ringer, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2001, ISBN: 1–56859–131–4 (pb), 310 pp.

Die globale kapitalistische Expansion und Iran. Eine Studie der Iranischen Politischen Ökonomie (1500–1980), Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Münster, Hamburg, and London: Lit Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3–8258–4440–0 (hb), DM 89.80, ISBN 3–8258–4439–0, (pb), DM 48.80, 684 pp., appendices, bibliography, index.

The CIA Documents & the Overthrow of Dr. Musaddiq of Iran, ed. Gholam‐reza Vatandoust, Tehran: RASA Publications, 2000.

Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah, Baqer Moin, London: Tauris Publishers, 1999, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, ISBN: 0–312–26490–9, 352 pp., $27.95

Women, Work, & Islamism: Ideology & Resistance in Iran, Maryam Poya, London & New York: Zed Books, 1999, ISBN: 1–85649‐ 681–3.

Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, Ziba Mir‐Hosseini, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, ISBN 0–691–01004–8, xxiv + 305 pp., cloth, $55.00, paper, $18.95.

Religious Minorities in Iran, Eliz Sanasarian, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xviii + 229 pp., tables, photographs, $59.95 (cloth).

Fathers and Sons: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Abolqasem] Firdawsi, translated from the Persian by Dick Davis, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2000, 310 pp.

Literarische Verwendung persischer Termini und Redewendungen im Werke Sadeq Hedayats: ein Kompendium, Fakhrezzaman Schirazi‐Mahmoudian, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Iranica, Bd. 4,1999, 981 pp., DM 176.

Histoire du cinema Iranien. 1900–1999, Mamad Haghighat and Frédéric Sabouraud, Paris: Cinéma du Réel, Bibliotheque Publique d'Information et Centre Georges Pompidou, 1999, ISBN: 2–84246–041–3, 247 pp

A Study of European, Persian and Arabic Loans in Standard Sorani, Jafar Hasanpoor, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1999, Reports on Asian and African Studies (RAAS), 1, ISBN 91–506–1353–7, ISSN 1404–0743, 176 pp.

Amoo Norooz and Other Persian Stories, ed. Ahmad K. Jabbari, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000, ISBN: 1–56859–065–2, (hardcover), 108 pp., illustrations.