Journal of Islamic Studies

Articles

R. Kevin Jaques

Sajarah Leluhur: Hindu Cosmology and the Construction of Javanese Muslim Genealogical Authority
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 129-157; doi:10.1093/jis/etl004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sajjad H. Rizvi

Between Time and Eternity: Mr Dmd on God's Creative Agency
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 158-176; doi:10.1093/jis/etl003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catarina Belo

Averroes on God's Knowledge of Particulars
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 177-199; doi:10.1093/jis/etl022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Mark P. Mühlhäusler

Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics • Edited by HIROYUKI MASHITA (Royal Asiatic Society Classics of Islam. London: Routledge-Curzon, 2004), 5 vols., 2080 pp. Price £550.00 (set). ISBN 0–700–7167–0X.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on April 5, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 200-201; doi:10.1093/jis/etl005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Mühlhäusler

A Descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford • By EMILIE SAVAGE-SMITH (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), xix, 155 pp. Price HB £60.00. ISBN 0–19–920195–1.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on April 5, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 201-204; doi:10.1093/jis/etl009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Murad Wilfried Hofmann

Recht als Mittel zur Reform von Religion und Gesellschaft: Die türkische Debatte um die Scharia und die Rechtsschulen im 20. Jahrhundert • By BÜLENT UCAR (Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2005), 406 pp. Price PB 48.00. ISBN 3–89913–452–4.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 204-207; doi:10.1093/jis/etl015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sajjad H. Rizvi

Muammad Bqir a-adr: Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence • Translated by ROY PARVIZ MOTTAHEDEH (Oxford: Oneworld, 2003), 208 pp. Price HB £44.00. ISBN 1–85168–324–0.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 207-212; doi:10.1093/jis/etl018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Dahnhardt

Sufism in Europe and North America • Edited by DAVID WESTERLUND (London–New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004), 272 pp. Price HB £96.95. ISBN 0–415–32591–9.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 212-214; doi:10.1093/jis/etl006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Hossain

New Muslims in the European Context: the Experience of Scandinavian Converts • By ANNE SOPHIE ROALD (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004), 392 pp. Price HB $142.00. ISBN 90–04–13679–7.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 214-216; doi:10.1093/jis/etl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mohammad Talib

Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem • BY REINA LEWIS (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004), xv, 297 pp. Price HB £39.50. ISBN 1–86064–730–8.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 216-219; doi:10.1093/jis/etl011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ahmad Gunny

Tricolor and Crescent. France and the Islamic World • By WILLIAM E. WATSON (Westport, Praeger, 2003), 295 pp. Price HB £28.99. ISBN 0–275–974–70–7.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 219-221; doi:10.1093/jis/etl010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek Hopwood

Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt • Edited by ELIE PODEH and ONN WINCKLER (University Press of Florida, 2004), 380 pp. Price HB $59.95. ISBN 0–813–02704–7.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 23, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 221-223; doi:10.1093/jis/etl017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Beverley Milton-Edwards

In the Path of Hizbullah • By AHMAD NIZAR HAMZEH (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2004), 242 pp. Price HB $24.95. ISBN 1–32445–160.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 223-224; doi:10.1093/jis/etl021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Dumper

Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict • By MICHAEL R. FISCHBACH (Columbia University Press: New York, 2003), xxviii, 467 pp. HB £26.50. ISBN 0–231–12978–5.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 224-225; doi:10.1093/jis/etl008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Niall Christie

Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet • Edited by NEGUIN YAVARI, LAWRENCE G. POTTER and JEAN-MARC RAN OPPENHEIM (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 388 pp., maps, illustrations, tables. Price HB £25.50, ISBN 0–23113–472–X.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 225-227; doi:10.1093/jis/etl014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hussein Ahmed

Islamism and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa • Edited by ALEX DE WAAL (London, C. Hurst & Co., 2004), 279 pp. Price PB £17.50. ISBN 1–85065–731–9.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on April 5, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 227-234; doi:10.1093/jis/etl012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher P. Atwood

The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century • Translated by IGOR DE RACHEWILTZ (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), 2 vols. 1,347 pp. Price HB $214.00. ISBN 90–04–13159.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 234-236; doi:10.1093/jis/etl016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. Edmund Bosworth

From Isfahan to Ayutthaya. Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century • By M. ISMAIL MARCINKOWSKI (Contemporary Islamic Scholars Series. Singapore: Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd., 2004), xiv, 122 pp. ISBN 9971–77–491–7.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 236-238; doi:10.1093/jis/etl019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ghazala Bhatti

Denizens of Alien Worlds: A Study of Education, Inequality and Polarization in Pakistan • By TARIQ RAHMAN (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 210 pp. Price HB $14.00. ISBN 0–19–597863–3.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 238-243; doi:10.1093/jis/etl013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Umer Chapra

Islamic Perspectives on Wealth Creation • Edited by MUNAWAR IQBAL and RODNEY WILSON (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), ix, 294 pp. (HB, price not given.) ISBN 0–748–62100–8.
Journal of Islamic Studies Advance Access published on March 22, 2006
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 243-246; doi:10.1093/jis/etl020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Books Received

Books Received
Journal of Islamic Studies 2006 17: 247-253; doi:10.1093/jis/etl023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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