Journal of Islamic Studies

Articles

Ulrika Mårtensson

Discourse and Historical Analysis: The Case of al-abar's History of the Messengers and the Kings
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 287-331; doi:10.1093/jis/eti152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Isabel O'Connor

The Mudejars and the Local Courts: Justice in Action
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 332-356; doi:10.1093/jis/eti153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Murad Wilfried Hofmann

Alfurkan Tatarski – Der Litauisch-tatarische Koran-Tefsir. • PAUL SUTER (Köln: Böhlau-Verlag GmbH, 2004), 576 pp. Price 59.90 ISBN 3–412–13403–1
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 357-359; doi:10.1093/jis/eti154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James W. Morris

Revelation, Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra: An Analysis of the al-Hikmah al-Arshiyya. • By ZAILAN MORIS (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 238 pp. Price PB £18.99 ISBN 0–700–71503–7
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 360-362; doi:10.1093/jis/eti155 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sajjad H. Rizvi

Books of Definition in Islamic Philosophy: The Limit of Words. • By KIKI KENNEDY-DAY (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 200 pp. Price HB £65.00 ISBN 0–700–71723–4
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 362-366; doi:10.1093/jis/eti156 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tamás Iványi

Grammarians and Grammatical Theory in the Medieval Arabic Tradition. • RAMZI BAALBAKI (Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate/Variorum, 2004), 354 pp. Price HB £59.50 ISBN 0–860–78948–9
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 366-371; doi:10.1093/jis/eti157 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dana Sajdi

Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers: Nineteenth-Century Literary Approaches to Arab-Islamic History. • MUHAMMED A. AL-DAMI (New York: Peter Lang, 2002), 235 pp. Price HB 59.90 ISBN 0–820–46126–1
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 371-374; doi:10.1093/jis/eti158 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hélène Bellosta

Mathematical instrumentation in fourteenth century Egypt and Syria: The illustrated treatise of Najm al-Dn al-Mir. • By FRANÇOIS CHARRETTE (Brill: Leiden, 2003), 582 pp. Price HB £112 ISBN 9004130152
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 374-376; doi:10.1093/jis/eti159 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim

Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War and Euthanasia. • Edited by JONATHAN E. BROCKOPP (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003). 262 pp. Price PB $24.95 ISBN 1–570–03471–0
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 376-378; doi:10.1093/jis/eti160 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Muhammad-Shahid Ebrahim

The Politics of Islamic Finance. • Edited by CLEMENT M. HENRY and RODNEY WILSON (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), 313 pp. Price PB £19.99 ISBN 0–748–61837–6
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 378-383; doi:10.1093/jis/eti161 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masooda Bano

The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World. • JONATHAN BENTHALL and JEROME BELLION-JOURDAN (London: I. B. Tauris 2003), 208pp. HB £39.50 ISBN 1–860–64901–7
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 383-386; doi:10.1093/jis/eti162 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hussein Ahmed

Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya. • By GABRIEL WARBURG (London: Hurst, 2003), 245 pp. Price PB £19.95 ISBN 1-–850–65590–1
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 386-388; doi:10.1093/jis/eti163 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hassan Hanafi

The Tragedy of the Middle East. • By BARRY RUBIN (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 295 pp. Price HB £22.50. ISBN 0–521–80623–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 388-389; doi:10.1093/jis/eti164 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christine Allison

Crucial Images in the Presentation of a Kurdish National Identity: Heroes and Patriots, Traitors and Foes. • By MARTIN STROHMEIER (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 265 pp. Price HB $123.00 ISBN 9–004–12584–1
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 389-392; doi:10.1093/jis/eti165 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Sofie Roald

The Book and the Roses: Sufi Women, Visibility, and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul. • By CATHARINA RAUDVERE (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), 245 pp. Price PB £15.95 ISBN 1–860–64942–4
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 392-395; doi:10.1093/jis/eti166 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew J. Newman

Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran. • By KATHRYN BABAYAN (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 632 pp. Price PB £12.95 ISBN 0–932–88528–4
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 395-397; doi:10.1093/jis/eti167 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruce B. Lawrence

Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries. • By ANNA SUVOROVA (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), 256 pp. HB £60.00 ISBN 0–415–31764–9
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 397-400; doi:10.1093/jis/eti168 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Talbot

Muslims in India since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations. • By YOGINDER SIKAND (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), 284 pp. Price HB £55.00 ISBN 0–415–31486–0
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 400-402; doi:10.1093/jis/eti169 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tapan Raychaudhuri

Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir. • By MRIDU RAI (London: G. Hurst & Co., 2004), 450 pp. Price PB £19.95 ISBN 1–850–65701–7. • Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir. • By CHITRALEKHA ZUTSHI (London: G. Hurst & Co., 2004), 348 pp. Price HB $35.00 ISBN 8–178–24060–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 402-405; doi:10.1093/jis/eti170 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia Sellick

‘The Infidel Within’: Muslims in Britain since 1800. • By HUMAYUN ANSARI (London: C. Hurst, 2004), 452 pp. Price PB £16.95 ISBN 1–850–65685–1
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 405-407; doi:10.1093/jis/eti171 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kevin van Bladel

Hellas im Islam: Interdisziplinare Studien zur Ikonographie, Wissenschaft und Religionsgeschichte. • By GOTTHARD STROHMAIER (Wiesbaden: Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, 2003), 264 pp. Price 98 ISBN 3–774–04637–6
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 407-409; doi:10.1093/jis/eti172 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ahmad Gunny

André du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France. • By ALASTAIR HAMILTON and FRANCIS RICHARD (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 192 pp. HB £65.00 ISBN 0–197–14402–0
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 409-411; doi:10.1093/jis/eti173 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Journal of Islamic Studies 2005 16: 412-418; doi:10.1093/jis/eti174 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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