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The Near and Middle East - Joshua Parens: Metaphysics as rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's Laws. (SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies.) xxxviii, 195 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. $17.95.
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The Near and Middle East - Paul Sander: Zwischen Charisma und Ratio: Entwicklungen in der frühen imāmitischen Theologie. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 183.) 229 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1994.
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The Near and Middle East - Yochanan Silman: Philosopher and prophet: Judah Halevi, the Kuzari, and the evolution of his thought. 375 pp. Transl. by L. Schramm. (SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism and Religion.) 375 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. $18.95.
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The Near and Middle East - Gerhard Conrad: Die Quḍāt Dimašq und der Maḏhab al-Auzā῾ī: Materialen zur Syrischen Rechtsgeschichte. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 46.) xviii, 828 pp. Beirut: In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1994. DM 228.
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The Near and Middle East - Qasim Al-Samarrai (ed.): Sayf b. ՙUmar al-Tamīmī: Kitāb al-Ridda wa'l-futūh and Kitāb al-Jamal wa masīr ՙĀ'isha wa ՙAlī. A facsimile edition of the fragments preserved in the University Library of Imām Muhammad Ibn Saՙud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saՙudi Arabia. 2 vol. 18, 348 pp. [facs.]: 32, 406 pp. [in Arabic]. Leiden: Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium, 1995. Guilders 160.
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The Near and Middle East - Richard Gramlich: Abu l-'Abbas b. ‘Aṭā’: Sufi und Koranausleger. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. LI, 2.) vii, 346 pp. Stuttgart: Komissionsverlag Franz Steiner, 1995. DM 184.
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The Near and Middle East - Gregor Schoeler: Charakter und Authentie der muslimischen Überlieferung über das Leben Mohammeds. (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients. Beihefte zur Der Islam. N.F., Bd. 14.) 214 pp. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1996. DM 188.
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The Near and Middle East - Albrecht Noth: The early Arabic historical tradition: a source-critical study. 2nd edition, in collaboration with Lawrence I. Conrad. Translated from the original German by Michael Bonner. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 3.) xi, 248 pp. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1994. $27.50.
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The Near and Middle East - Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle (ed.): Qaṣīda poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa. Vol. 1: Classical traditions and modern meaning. Vol. 2: Eulogy's bounty, meaning's abundance: an anthology. (Studies in Arabic Literature. Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 20.) xxiv, 532 pp.; xiv, 523 pp. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996. Guilders 495, $319.50.
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The Near and Middle East - William C. Chittick: Imaginal worlds: Ibn al-ՙArabī and the problem of religious diversity. vii, 208 pp. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1994. $18.95.
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The Near and Middle East - Tarif Khalidi: Arabic historical thought in the classical period. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiii, 250 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. £35, $54.95.
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The Near and Middle East - Amikam Elad: Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic worship: holy places, ceremonies, pilgrimage. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, 8.) xxiii, 196 pp. Leiden, New York and London: E. J. Brill, 1995. Guilders 115, $65.75.
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The Near and Middle East - Naphtali Kinberg: A lexicon of al-Farrā''s terminology in his Qur'ān commentary, with full definitions, English summaries and extensive citations. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abt. Der nahe und mittlere Osten, 23. Bd.) 27, 1004 [Arabic] pp. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996. Guilders 598.50, $386.50.
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The Near and Middle East - Arie Schippers: Spanish Hebrew poetry and the Arabic literary tradition. Arabic themes in Hebrew Andalusian poetry. (Medieval Iberian Peninsula Texts and Studies, 7.) xiv, 376 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994. Guilders 204.50, $128.50.
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The Near and Middle East - Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid (ed.): Le manuscrit autographe d'al-Mawāՙiz wa-al-Iՙibār fī Dhikr al-Khiṭaṭ wa-al-Athār de Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad b. ՙAlī b. ՙAbd al-Qādir al-Maqnīzī (766–845 A.H.I 1325–1441 A.D.). V, 524 pp. London: Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1416/1995. £24.
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The Near and Middle East - Maya Shatzmiller: Labour in the medieval Islamic world. (Islamic History and Xivilization Studies and Texts, Vol. 4.) viii 450 pp., Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1994. Guilders 240, $137.25.
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The Near and Middle East - Hartmut Bobzin: Der Koran im Zeitalter der Reformation: Studien zur Frühgeschichte der Arabistik und Islamkunde in Europa. (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 42.) xiv, 598 pp. Beirut: In Kommision bei Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1995. DM 188.
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The Near and Middle East - P. M. Holt: Early Mamlūk diplomacy (1260–1290): treaties of Baybars and Qalāwūn with Christian rulers. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, Vol. 12.) viii, 161 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. Guilders 113.50, $64.75.
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The Near and Middle East - F. E. Peters: The Hajj: the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places, xxvi, 399 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. £19.95.
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The Near and Middle East - Michael Bonine, Eckart Ehlers, Thomas Krafft and Georg Stöber (ed.): The Middle Eastern city and Islamic urbanism: an annotated bibliography of Western literature. (Bonner Geographische Abhandlungen, Ht. 91.) 877 pp. Bonn: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, 1994. DM 68. - Masashi Haneda and Toru Miura (ed.): Islamic urban studies: historical review and perspectives. xvi, 365 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995. £55.
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