Journal of Islamic Studies

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Mohamed Aslam Haneef

Islam and Economic Development in Malaysia—A Reappraisal
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 269-290; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.269 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hamid Algar

The Centennial Renewer: Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and the Tradition of Tajdid
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 291-311; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.291 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Privot

Some Notes on the Typology of the Works of Al-Shahrazuri Al-Ishraqi
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 312-321; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.312 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. H. Johns

Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun By Michael Cooperson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000(, 239 pp. Price HB £35.00. ISBN 0–521–66199–4.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 322-324; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.322 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ahmad S. Moussalli

Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam By Reuven Firestone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 206 pp. Price HB £17.99. ISBN 0–19–512580–0.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 325-327; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.325 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. Hassan

The Spirit of Islamic Law By Bernard G. Weiss (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998), 224 pp. Price HB £35.95. ISBN 0–8203–1977–5.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 327-329; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.327 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mawil Izzi Dien

Islamic Law of Business Organization Corporations. Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 2 By Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee (Islamabad: The Islamic Research Institute Press, 1998), 211 pp. Price PB not given. ISBN 1–56564–090–X.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 329-331; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.329 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. Edmund Bosworth

The Cambridge History of Egypt: Volume I, Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 Edited by Carl F. Petry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 664 pp. Price HB £75.00. ISBN 0–521–47137–0.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 331-333; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.331 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elton L. Daniel

Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250–1517 By Adam Sabra (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 205 pp. Price HB £37.50. ISBN 0–521–77291–5.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 333-334; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.333 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James E. Lindsay

The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives By Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), 702 pp. Price PB £29.95. ISBN 0–7486–0630–0.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 334-336; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.334 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. P. Harvey

The Literature of Al-Andalus Edited by María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, and Michael Sells (in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 516 pp. Price HB £90.00. ISBN 0–521–47159–1.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 336-340; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.336 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. P. Harvey

Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib By Michael Brett (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999), 312 pp. Price HB £57.50. ISBN 0–86078–772–9.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 340-342; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.340 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. P. Harvey

Romania Arabica (estudios de literatura comparada arabe y romance) II Narrativa y farsa francesa medieval; Dante y Bocaccio; De Alfonso X el Sabio a Góngora By Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes (Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 2000), 346 pp. Price PB not given. ISBN 84–895112–75–2.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 342-345; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.342 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elton L. Daniel

Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study in Power Relationships By David Ayalon (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1999), 387 pp. Price HB $38.00. ISBN 965–493–017–X.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 345-348; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.345 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Engin Deniz Akarli

Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921 By Eugene L. Rogan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 289 pp. Price HB £40.00. ISBN 0–521–66312–1.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 349-351; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.349 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Annemarie Schimmel

The Exoteric Ahmad Ibn Idris: A Sufi's Critique of the Madhahib and the Wahhabis By Berndt Radtke, John O'Kane, Knut S. Vikor, and R. S. O'Fahey (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999), 235 pp. Price HB $65.00. ISBN 90–04–11375–4.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 351-353; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.351 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Craig

The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Co-operation, 1952–7 By Tore T. Petersen (London and New York: Macmillan Press and St Martin's Press Inc., 2000), 184 pp. Price HB £40.00. ISBN 0–333–78989–X.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 353-355; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.353 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shahrough Akhavi

The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution By Abbas Milani (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000), 399 pp. Price HB £17.95. ISBN 1–86064–528–3.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 355-357; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.355 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julie Scott Meisami

Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher By Alice C. Hunsberger (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000), 313 pp. Price HB £25.00. ISBN 1–85043–919–2.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 357-363; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.357 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dawn Chatty

Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970–1996 By Calvin Allen Jr and W. Lynn Rigsbee II (Ilford: Frank Cass, 2000), 251 pp. Price HB £39.50. ISBN 0–7146–5001–3.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 363-365; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.363 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Mango

Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey Edited by Kemal H. Karpat (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), 328 pp. Price HB $96.00. ISBN 90–04–11562–5.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 365-366; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.365 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fathi Osman

Islam and Secularism in the Middle East Edited by John L. Esposito and Azzam Tamimi (London: C. Hurst, 2000), 223 pp. Price PB £12.95. ISBN 1–85065–541–3.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 366-370; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.366 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Dillon

Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption among Urban Chinese Muslims By Maris Boyd Gillette (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 291 pp. Price HB $45.00. ISBN 0–8047–3694–4.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 371-372; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.371 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Birt

Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tablighi Jama‘at as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal Edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), 278 pp. Price HB DGL 185.11. ISBN 90–04–11622–2.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 373-376; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.373 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Hossain

Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf By Eleanor Abdella Doumato (Bognor Regis: Columbia University Press, 2000), 324 pp. Price PB £28.50. ISBN 0–231–11667–5.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 376-378; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.376 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. J. Newby

The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam By Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun (Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000), 380 pp. Price HB £45.00. ISBN 0–7007–1302–6.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 378-381; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.378 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shirin Akiner

Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey Edited by Feride Acar and Aye Güne-Ayata (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), 376 pp. Price $99.00. ISBN 90–04–11561–7.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 381-382; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.381 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ahmad Gunny

Sexual Encounters in the Middle East: The British, the French and the Arabs By Derek Hopwood (Reading: Ithaca Press, l999), 308 pp. Price HB £35.00. ISBN 0–86372–253–9.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 382-385; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.382 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Matthews

Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography By Natalia Prigarina (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 374 pp. Price HB £6.00. ISBN 0–19–577945–2.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 385-387; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.385 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Wilson

The State and Global Change: The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and North Africa Edited by Hassan Hakimian and Ziba Moshaver (Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001), 282 pp. Price PB £16.99. ISBN 0–7007–1366–2.
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 388-390; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.388 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received
Journal of Islamic Studies 2001 12: 391-398; doi:10.1093/jis/12.3.391 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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