Journal of Islamic Studies

Articles

Frank Griffel

MS London, British Library Or. 3126: An Unknown Work by al-Ghazl on Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 1-42; doi:10.1093/jis/eti175 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenneth Honerkamp

A Sufi Itinerary of Tenth Century Nishapur Based on a Treatise by Ab Abd al-Ramn al-Sulam
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 43-67; doi:10.1093/jis/eti176 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Sajjad H. Rizvi

God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives • Edited by TED PETERS, MUZAFFAR IQBAL and SYED NOMANUL HAQ (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). 404 pp. Price HB £57.75. ISBN 0–754–60883–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 68-71; doi:10.1093/jis/eti177 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Sofie Roald

Muslim Women Mystics: The Life and Work of Rabia and other Women Mystics in Islam • By MARGARET SMITH (Oxford: Oneworld, 2001). 256 pp. Price PB £12.99. ISBN 1–85168–250–3. • The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India • By SHEMEEM BURNEY ABBAS (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002). 239 pp. Price HB $45.00. ISBN 0–292–78723–5
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 71-74; doi:10.1093/jis/eti178 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. Edmund Bosworth

Poetics of Islamic Historiography: Deconstructing abar's History • By BOAZ SHOSHAN (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004). 309 pp. Price HB $150.00. ISBN 9–004–13793–9
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 74-76; doi:10.1093/jis/eti179 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Harvey

Cartas Marruecas: Documentos de Marruecos en archivos españoles (siglos XVI–XVII) • By MERCEDES GARCíA-ARENAL, FERNANDO RODRÍGUEZ MEDIANO and RACHID EL HOUR (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Monografías 3, 2002). 432 pp. HB 26.00. ISBN 84–00–08075–0
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 76-78; doi:10.1093/jis/eti180 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George T. Scanlon

Papyrology and the History of Early Islamic Egypt • Edited by PETRA M. SIJPESTEIJN and LENNART SUNDELIN (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004). 258 pp. Price HB $136.00. ISBN 90–04–13886–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 78-79; doi:10.1093/jis/eti181 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dawn Chatty

Cultural Resistance: Global and Local Encounters in the Middle East • By SAMIR KHALAF (London: Saqi Books, 2002). 320 pp. Price HB £35.00. ISBN 0–865–356814–9
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 79-81; doi:10.1093/jis/eti182 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy Jones

A Modern History of Oman: Formation of the State Since 1920 • By FRANCIS OWTRAM (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004). 232 pp. Price HB £35.00. ISBN 1–86064–617–4
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 81-83; doi:10.1093/jis/eti183 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Touraj Atabaki

Troubled Waters. The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region • By R. HRAIR DEKMEJIAN and HOVANN H. SIMONIAN (London: I. B. Tauris, 2001). 277 pp. Price HB £39.50. ISBN 1–86064–639–5
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 83-85; doi:10.1093/jis/eti184 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wilfrid Knapp

Algeria: the Political Economy of Oil and Gas • By ALI AISSAOUI (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2001). 336 pp. Price HB £29.50. ISBN 0–19–730027–8
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 85-87; doi:10.1093/jis/eti185 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hussaini Usman Malami

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change • By A. M. ANSARI (London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs). 2000, 256 pp. Price PB £16.95. ISBN 1–86203–117–7
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 87-90; doi:10.1093/jis/eti186 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clement Dodd

Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah • By TOURAJ ATABAKI and ERIK J. ZüRCHER. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000). 286 pp. £42.00. ISBN 1–86064–426–0
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 91-92; doi:10.1093/jis/eti187 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Homa Katouzian

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia • By LAURENCE KELLY (London: I. B. Tauris, 2002). 330 pp. Price HB £25.00. ISBN 1–86064–666–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 93-95; doi:10.1093/jis/eti188 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Welsford

An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770–1912 Qurbn Al Khlid • Edited by ALLEN J. FRANK and MIRKASYIM A. USMANOV (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2005). 182 pp. Price HB $107.00. ISBN 90–04–14127–8
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 95-98; doi:10.1093/jis/eti189 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Metin Kunt

The Ottoman Empire and the World around it • By SURAIYA FAROQHI (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004). xiv, 290 pp. Price HB £35.00. ISBN 1–85043–715–7
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 98-100; doi:10.1093/jis/eti190 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilker Evrim Binbas

An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play • By GABRIEL PITERBERG (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). 271 pp. Price HB £39.95. ISBN 0–520–23836–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 100-102; doi:10.1093/jis/eti191 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruce B. Lawrence

Muslim Saints of South Asia: the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries • By ANNA SUVOROVA (RoutledgeCurzon: London & New York, 2004). 256 pp. Price HB £60.00. ISBN 0–41531–764–9
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 102-105; doi:10.1093/jis/eti192 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Talbot

Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State in Pakistan • By ADEEL KHAN (New Delhi: Sage Publications India Ltd, 2005). 212 pp. Price PB $7.00. ISBN 0–76193–304–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 105-107; doi:10.1093/jis/eti193 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Carey

Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President. A View from the Inside • GREG BARTON (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002). 414 pp. Price HB £22.95. ISBN 0–86840–405–5
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 107-110; doi:10.1093/jis/eti194 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Dillon

Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland • By S. FREDERICK STARR (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004). 499 pp. Price PB £32.95. ISBN 0–7656–1318–2
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 110-112; doi:10.1093/jis/eti195 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Hossain

Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images • Edited by HAIFAA JAWAAD and TANSIN BENN (Leiden Boston: Brill, 2003). 203 pp. Price HB £59.00. ISBN 90–04–12581–7
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 113; doi:10.1093/jis/eti196 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pnina Werbner

Rituals of Birth, Circumcision, Marriage and Death among Muslims in the Netherlands • By NATHAL M. DESSING (Leuven: Peeters, 2001). 211 pp. Price PB 28.00. ISBN 9–042–91059–3
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 114-115; doi:10.1093/jis/eti197 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. P. Harvey

Muslim Women in Southern Spain: Stepdaughters of al-Andalus • By GUNTHER DIETZ and NADIA EL-SHOHOUMI (La Jolla, CA: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, 2005). 170 pp. Price PB $22.50. ISBN 0–9702838–5–7
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 116-119; doi:10.1093/jis/eti198 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aminah Beverly McCloud

Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam • By CAROLYN MOXLEY ROUSE (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2004). 288 pp. Price PB £12.95. ISBN 0–520–23795–1
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 119-120; doi:10.1093/jis/eti199 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Mark Halstead

All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School • By LOUKIA K. SARROUB (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). 158 pp. Price PB £12.50. ISBN 0–8122–1894–9
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 121-123; doi:10.1093/jis/eti200 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Haleh Ashfar

Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic • Edited by LOIS BECK and GUITY NESHAT (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004). 302 pp. Price PB $20.00. ISBN 0–252–02937–2 cloth, ISBN 02–252–017189–1 (PB)
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 123-124; doi:10.1093/jis/eti201 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 125-128; doi:10.1093/jis/eti202 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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