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Visit our booth at the Annual Theorizing Islam Meeting to reserve your exam copy! Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction The Qur’an by Aaron W. Hughes An Annotated Translation edited by A.J. Droge The scholarly study of Islam has become ever more insular and apologetic. Academic Islamic This new edition of the Qur’ān is Studies has tried to maintain a focus on truth, specifically designed to meet the needs authenticity, experience, and meaning and of students of religion, and provides has effectively avoided discussion of larger them with a one-volume resource social, cultural and ideological issues. The aim comparable to what is available for the of Theorizing Islam is to explore the potential Jewish and Christian scriptures. The meticulously crafted translation affords for a fuller, more honest and more sophisticated approach to both theory and readers not only a better sense of what the Qur’ān says, but how it says methodology in the academic study of Islam. it, in a rendition that strives to remain faithful to the way it was originally 160p (Acumen Publishing, June 2012, Religion in Culture: Studies in Social Contest expressed. Accompanying the translation is an extensive set of annotations & Construction) hardcover, 9781908049360, $95.00. Special Offer $76.00 offering a wealth of linguistic and historical detail. 736p, maps (Equinox Publishing, April 2013, Comparative Islamic Studies) Delights from the paperback, 9781845539450, $39.95. Special Offer $32.00 Garden of Eden hardcover, 9781845539443, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 A Cookbook and History of the Iraqi Cuisine Prophecy and Power (Second Edition) Muhammad and the Qur’an in the Light of Comparison by Nawal Nasrallah by Marilyn Robinson Waldman This new edition, luxuriously illustrated A posthumous work by the most rigorous comparativist in her generation throughout with color photos, paintings, of Islamic studies scholars, Prophecy and Power proposes a major innovative medieval miniatures and sketches, approach to both the Prophet Muhammad and the Noble Qur’an. The book displays the diversity of the region’s ranges across various issues: the comparative study of prophecy; Quranic traditional culinary practices, delicious comparison as a modality of change; the Prophet as exemplar and foil; and and enduring. The book contains more than 400 recipes, all tested and easy to an experiment in comparison between Muhammad and Alinesitouie. follow, and covers all food categories. 208p (Equinox Publishing, October 2012, Comparative Islamic Studies) 680p, 300 col illus (Equinox Publishing, February 2013) hardcover, hardcover, 9781845539870, $95.00. Special Offer $76.00 9781845534578, $49.95. Special Offer $40.00

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Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam by Dietrich Jung In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind Prolegomena to a History the increasingly circular debate about the true nature of Islam in which of Islamicate Manichaeism the Muslim religion has been represented either as intrinsically hostile to by John C Reeves or as principally compatible with modern culture. Instead, it associates the evolution of a particularly essentialist image of Islam with a complex process of cross-cutting (self)- Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate interpretations of Muslim and Western societies within an emerging global public sphere. Manichaeism provides an annotated anthology 332p (Equinox Publishing, December 2011, Comparative Islamic Studies) of primary sources highlighting Manichaeism, paperback, 9781845539009, $39.95. Special Offer $32.00 a dualist religion emerging in Mesopotamia hardcover, 9781845538996, $99.95. Special Offer $80.00 in the third century and which spread rapidly throughout the Roman and Sasanian empires The Zionist Bible until it was violently suppressed by both polities. It nevertheless continued to flourish Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory largely clandestinely in the Near East, Central by Nur Masalha Asia, and China until it finally disappeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This Throughout the history of European imperialism, the grand narratives book translates and assesses the importance of the Bible have been used to justify settler-colonialism. This volume of a number of , Persian, Syriac, and explores the ways in which modern political Zionism and Israeli even testimonies for a better militarism have used the Bible – notably the Book of Joshua – and its understanding of the cultural importance of description of the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land as an what many scholars characterize as the first agent of oppression and to support settler-colonialism in Palestine. world religion. The Zionist Bible examines how the birth and growth of the State of 348p (Equinox Publishing, December 2011, Israel has been shaped by this Zionist reading of the Bible, how it has Comparative Islamic Studies) hardcover, refashioned Israeli-Jewish collective memory, erased and renamed Palestinian topography, and how 9781904768524, $99.95. Special Offer $80.00 critical responses to this reading have challenged both Jewish and Palestinian nationalism. 288p (Acumen Publishing, March 2013, BibleWorld) hardcover, 9781844656578, $99.95. Special Offer $80.00

Ibn ‘Arabi and the Contemporary West Beshara and the Ibn ‘Arabi Society by Isobel Jeffery-Street The influence of Ibn ‘Arabi, the 12th century Andalusian mystic philosopher extended beyond the Muslim world from Spain, to China, to Indonesia. This volume examines ‘Arabi’s teachings through the work of the Beshara Trust and the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society. The study investigates how the Beshara School has used Ibn ‘Arabi’s teachings in assisting a range of students from around the world towards personal, spiritual development, and how the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society has evolved into an international organization with increasing influence in both the West and the Muslim world. 298p (Equinox Publishing, January 2012, Comparative Islamic Studies) paperback, 9781845536718, $34.95. Special Offer $28.00; hardcover, 9781845536701, $99.95. Special Offer $80.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 Lockwood Press American Schools of Oriental Research

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Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies New Series!

The purpose of this series is to make available to students and scholars resources in Islamic studies in English and at an affordable price. Volumes will include Study Texts, translations of seminal works from Arabic, French, and German, reprints of classic works, and handbooks and other reference works. In selecting volumes, the editors will be guided by a distinguished board of scholars of late antiquity, Islam, and comparative religion. For information and guidelines on proposing a topic for the series, please contact the series editors, Joseph E. Lowry ([email protected]), Devin J. Stewart ([email protected]), and Shawkat M. Toorawa ([email protected]).

A Reader of Literature The Economy of Certainty edited and annotated by S.A. Bonebakker An Introduction to the Typology and M. Fishbein of Islamic Legal Theory by Aron Zysow A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature is one of a very small group of resources in English for the teaching of Zysow argues that the great dividing line in Islamic legal intermediate and advanced level classical Arabic. Based thought is between those legal theories that require on his lecture notes, the late Seeger Bonebakker designed certainty in every detail of the law and those that will a superb teaching text, which he then asked his UCLA admit probability. The latter were historically dominant colleague, Michael Fishbein, to help him annotate and and include the leading legal schools that have survived augment. The result is a truly valuable reader, one used to our own day. Zysow’s important work is published widely in the United States and Europe, featuring judicious here in full, for the first time, with updated references and instructive selections from such works as Ibn al-Qifti’s Inbah al-ruwat, al-Tanukhi’s al-Faraj and some further reflections by the author. ba’d al-shidda, and al-Dhahabi’s Siyar a’lam al-nubala’, among others. 400p (Lockwood Press, March 2013, Resources in Arabic 238p (Lockwood Press, March 2012, Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies 1) paperback, and Islamic Studies 2) paperback, 9781937040093, 9781937040031, $19.95. Special Offer $16.00 $65.00. Special Offer $52.00

The Photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society by Rachel Hallote, Felicity Cobbing, and Jeffrey B. Spurr This volume includes over 150 never previously published photographs of archaeological sites in the Middle East taken in 1875 by photographer Tancrède Dumas for the American Palestine Exploration Society. The volume additionally tells the complete history of the American Palestine Exploration Society, which functioned in the 1870s and worked together with the British Palestine Exploration Fund to survey and map archaeological sites in Ottoman Palestine. The Americans’ interactions with the British are examined, and Dumas’ photographs are put into a comparative context alongside those of contemporaries. These photographs preserve the appearance of many of these sites when they were first seen by westerners, before urban development and tourism changed the nature of the regions. 368p, 15 b/w figs, 179 b/w pls (American Schools of Oriental Research, October 2012, Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 66) hardcover, 9780897570985, $89.95. Special Offer $72.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Gulf Region Economic Development and Diversification edited by Giacomo Luciani, Steffen Hertog, Eckart Woertz, and Richard Youngs The four volumes in this major research collection address the key economic issues which affect the future development and diversification of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely Saudi Arabia, , Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman. Specifically, this recent research covers: Economic Diversification; Development of Global Partnerships; Labor Markets and Migration; Financial Markets as Global Players.

The work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by some 40 international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program. This collection will prove an essential reference work for policy makers and scholars on all the critical issues facing the Gulf countries as their economies develop beyond dependence on the oil and gas sector and forge new international alliances. 4 vols, 1136p (Gerlach Press, August 2012) hardcover, 9783940924001. Special Introductory Offer $395.00 (Price from January 1st, 2013: $450.00) (set shipping costs apply; please see order form for details)

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The GCC in the Global Economy Resources Blessed: Diversification and the Gulf Development Model edited by Richard Youngs (Director-General, FRIDE, Madrid) edited by Giacomo Luciani (Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po, and Princeton Global Scholar) Changing geopolitical realities have seen the Gulf region turning to Asia and Africa to build new economic links, while The Gulf countries have adopted a unique combination of policies to encourage strengthening old ones. This proactive internationalism is visible diversification with largely positive results, while there are significant distinctions not just in economics and energy, but also in politics and security between the individual cases. This work evaluates various examples to show the extent where a host of new agreements has been developed. This work to which the Gulf economies have diversifed to date, and how results can be measured, provides an overview of the ways in which the GCC states now taking into consideration factors such as composition of GDP or exports; government need to move ahead with reforms that will reflect issues such services; and the categorization of industrial activities downstream of resources as raised expectations from a period of high revenues and the extraction (oil refining, petrochemicals) and their availability (aluminium, phosphates, region’s demographics. 200 pages iron, steel, glass and other energy- and resource-intensive industries). 328 pages.

GCC Financial Markets: The World’s New Money Centers National Employment, Migration and Education in the GCC edited by Eckart Woertz (Princeton Environmental Institute, edited by Steffen Hertog (London School of Economics) Princeton University) This volume provides a cross-cutting analysis of the policy challenges Bond markets in the GCC countries are underdeveloped, and the capital mix is related to GCC labor markets. It analyzes the different dimensions of heavily skewed towards banks, while ambitious development plans in fields segmentation of these markets, factors of change influencing labor like petrochemicals and infrastructure, as well as a rapidly growing population, supply such as trends in education and demography, as well as the impact create an increased need for finance. This study outlines the structure of various of potential future reforms in areas such as immigration policy, labor segments of GCC financial markets and points to regulatory challenges and sponsorship, taxation and minimum wages. The work therefore provides future developments, ranging from capital market structures to the planned an overview of what arguably will be the core socio-economic challenge GCC Monetary Union, Islamic banking, and sovereign wealth funds. 304 pages. for the GCC in the coming years. 304 pages. www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 Brepols Publishers Hempen Verlag

Holy War and Rapprochement Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260–1335) by Reuven Amitai The relations between the Mamluk Sultanate of Syria and Egypt and the Ilkhanate, the Mongol state in Iran and the surrounding countries, were of a military, political-diplomatic, social and cultural nature. Le Proche-Orient They had a profound impact not only on these states themselves, de Justinien aux Abbassides their ruling elites and the general population, but also on neighboring Peuplement et dynamiques spatiales countries and beyond. The history of the eastern Mediterranean, Actes du colloque “Continuités de l’occupation Anatolia, Arabia, and the Caucasus can hardly be understood without entre les périodes byzantine et abbasside au taking into consideration these complicated relations. Proche-Orient, VIIe–IXe siècles,” Paris, 18–20 400p (Brepols Publishers, November 2012, Miroir de l’Orient Musulman 4) paperback, 9782503531526, Octobre 2007 $87.00. Special Offer $70.00 edited by A. Borrut, M. Debié, A. Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri, A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval and J.-P. Sodini Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islam by Rita George-Tvrtković The 21 essays in this volume use case studies to research the demographic and social This book analyses the events of a decade-long encounter between an developments brought about by the transition Italian Dominican and the Muslims of Baghdad, as recounted by the of power from the Byzantine Empire to the friar himself. The focus is on the ambivalent sections of his writings, new Arabic administration under Umayyad and such as his praise-filled descriptions of Muslim praxis, his obvious love Abbasid rule. French text. of Qur’anic Arabic, his frequent references to personal encounters with 384p, 38 col & 284 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, Muslims, and his candid descriptions of the wonder and doubt which these March 2012, Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive confrontations often elicited. 19) paperback, 9782503535722, $128.00. 275p, illus (Brepols Publishers, October 2012, Medieval Voyaging 1) Special Offer $103.00 hardcover, 9782503532370, $116.00. Special Offer $93.00 Foreign Sailors on Socotra The Valley of the Six Mosques The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq Work and Life in Medieval Valldigna by Ingo Strauch by Ferran Garcia-Oliver Several years ago a group of Belgian speleologists came This is a detailed and fascinating account of a Muslim valley across a large number of inscriptions, drawings and in Christian-ruled Spain at the end of the Middle Ages. archaeological objects. As further investigation showed, Valldigna is located south of the city of Valencia and was part they were left by sailors who visited the island between of a region conquered by the king of Aragon-Catalonia in the the 1st c. BC and the 6th c. AD. The majority of the texts thirteenth century. Unlike much of Spain where the Muslim are written in the Indian Brahmi script, but there are inhabitants were expelled or eventually departed after the also inscriptions in South-Arabian, Ethiopian, Greek, Christian conquests, the Valencia countryside remained Palmyrene and Bactrian scripts and languages. This predominantly Muslim in the fourteenth and fifteenth corpus of nearly 250 texts and drawings thus constitutes one of the main sources for the centuries, the period on which this book is focused. investigation of Indian Ocean trade networks in the first centuries of our era. The present 311p, 5 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, May 2012, The Medieval book is the first comprehensive edition and study of this material. Countryside 8) hardcover, 9782503531304, $131.00. 592p (Hempen Verlag, December 2012, Vergleichende Studien zu Antike und Orient 3) Special Offer $105.00 hardcover, 9783934106918, $157.00. Special Offer $126.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 Peeters Publishers Peeters Publishers

Seals and Sealing Practices in the Near East Developments in Administration and Magic from Prehistory to the Islamic Period edited by Ilona Regulski, Kim Duistermaat, and Peter Verkinderen The cultural and historical setting of the Near East provides a unique opportunity to study a longer usage of sealing practices in administration Centre and Periphery and magic, which extends beyond the constraints of a specific time period within the Borders of Islam or region. Comparing ancient practices with more recent ones can offer Proceedings of the 23rd Congress important insights into the development of sealing practices and provide of L’Union Européenne des answers to specific questions related to the handling of seals and the social Arabisants et Islamisants status of the seal bearer. This collection of papers is the result of a workshop. edited by Giuseppe Contu 234p (Peeters Publishers, September 2012, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 219) hardcover, 9789042926684, $108.00. Special Offer $87.00 The 26 articles contained in this volume, written by specialists from all over Europe, Portugal, the and Safavid Persia deal with the following subjects: Islam; History, Society and Archaeology; Literature; edited by Rudi Matthee and Jorge Flores and Arabic Language and Linguistics. The central theme focuses on how the The Portuguese were the first Europeans to play a major commercial, characteristics of Islam and Arabism are to military and diplomatic role in the . They first appeared be found in the periphery of the Arabic and before Hormuz in 1507 and remained active in the wider region for the Islamic world in relation to its center and next two centuries. This book commemorates the quincentennial of their the interchanges implied by the geographic arrival in the Persian Gulf. Its contributors offer an array of fresh research distance between center and periphery. on their activities on Hormuz and beyond, examining these from a 335p (Peeters Publishers, October 2012, variety of angles, with special attention to the wider context involving Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 207) the adjacent Safavid, Ottoman and Mughal states. The essays presented hardcover, 9789042924963, $121.00. here explore the commercial and military activities of the Portuguese, Special Offer $97.00 their rivalry with the Ottoman state for naval control in the Gulf, and their interaction with Safavid Persia by way of missionary ventures, diplomacy and travel. 324p (Peeters Publishers, December 2011, Acta Iranica 52) hardcover, 9789042924482, $115.00. Special Offer $92.00

Catalogue of Syriac and Manuscripts Manuscripts owned by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage by Amir Harrak Forty-three Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts owned by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage are here catalogued and described in great detail. The manuscripts cover major literary genres known to Syriac literature, each of which is discussed in a lengthy introduction with an up-to-date bibliography. To illustrate the contents and styles of the manuscripts, short texts extracted from most of them are given in Syriac and Garshuni with translations in English. Some manuscripts are liturgical, others are spiritual and theological compendiums, biblical lectionaries and psalms, Melkite pastoral letters dealing with Roman Catholic devotional practices, charms and popular medicine, and sogyata and durikyata poems. 149p (Peeters Publishers, December 2011, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 639) paperback, 9789042925212, $102.00. Special Offer $82.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 Peeters Publishers

Fictionalizing the Past Historical Characters in Arabic Popular Epic edited by Sabine Dorpmueller This collection of articles deals with the relation between the Arabic popular epic and “official” historiography. Using methods based in literary criticism, modern research has come up with new and Isacco di Ninive refreshing approaches to study the historicity of the heroic literature. The contributors to this volume are all experts in the field of the Arabic The unique manuscript, copied around 1900 popular epic. They examine which narrative structures popular epics in the region of Urmia (now in Iran) and share with historiography and how historical characters and events are published here, has given us a collection fictionalized in order to create the story. Each contribution deals with of speeches by Isaac of Nineveh unknown a different epic, including Sirat ‘Antar, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, al-Iskandar, al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, al-Zahir until now. Ancient sources inform about Baybars, Bani Hilal, and epics in the Thousand and One Nights. One so far rather unknown epic, the Sirat the existence of several collections of his al-Hakim bi-Amrillah, is discussed here in detail for the first time. speeches, but until a few decades ago only 149p (Peeters Publishers, August 2012, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 206) hardcover, 9789042924918, the first collection was known. In the 1980s, $114.00. Special Offer $92.00 the second collection was recovered and partially published. Now, this work provides us with the third collection. Kitāb al-Ma’ārif by Abū Sa’ īd Maymūn b. Qāsim al-Tabarānī . Terza Collezione Critical Edition with an Introduction (Text) by Meir M. Bar-Asher and Aryeh Kofsky edited by Sabino Chiala The Nusayri-’Alawi faith is an excellent example of a syncretistic esoteric religion with a self-conscious elite who zealously guarded its sectarian Original Syriac text, with introduction and literature. The faith fuses elements of cults and creeds of ancient pagan notes in Italian. religions, Persian religion, Christianity, Gnosticism, Sunni and especially 139p (Peeters Publishers, December 2011, Shi’i Islam, into a syncretistic system that is clothed in heterodox Shi’i garb. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium This book presents a critical edition and study of Kitab al-Ma’arif (Book of 637) paperback, 9789042925144, $100.00. Knowledge), authored by the early 11th-century sage Abu Sa’id Maymun b. Special Offer $80.00 Qasim al-Tabarani. This seminal work is a compendium of Nusayri theology Terza Collezione and liturgy, forming part of al-Tabarani’s larger project to systematize the beliefs and practices of the developing religion. (Version) 198p (Peeters Publishers, August 2012, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 209) hardcover, 9789042925106, translated by Sabino Chiala $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Italian translation of the original Syriac text. 173p (Peeters Publishers, December 2011, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium “L’ivresse de la liberté” 638) paperback, 9789042925151, $98.00. La révolution de 1908 dans l’Empire ottoman Special Offer $79.00 edited by François Georgeon In July 1908, the Young Turk Revolution was under way. Enthusiastically embraced, the “intoxication of freedom” profoundly marked the history of the Balkans and the Near and Middle East in the 20th century. Starting with the search of the origins of the revolution, this book examines the implementation of the new regime in government, administration, and community. It then takes us into the provinces of the empire, also stakeholders of the revolution, before analyzing 1908 as a “global” event, interacting with and resonating within its geographical environment and the rest of the world. French text. 608p (Peeters Publishers, October 2012, Collection Turcica 17) paperback, 9789042924956, $102.00. Special Offer $82.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 Harrassowitz Verlag

The Mecca Festival by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, translated and edited by Wolfgang H. Behn An enormous advance in the study of Islam came from the work of the Dutch scholar and Privy Councillor of the Netherlands, Christiaan Snouk A Critical Edition of the Grammatical Hurgronje, distinguished by a profound acquaintance with the Arabic sources, a sense of historicity, penetrating criticism, and a persistent Treatise Tad-kirat jawāmi’ al-’adawāt by Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Mahmūd logical line of argument. His doctoral dissertation on the Mecca . . . pilgrimage is a seminal work, yet not one offering easy approach. by Arik Sadan Wolfgang Behn now provides an English translation in a language common to Orientals and Occidentals alike that helps to adequately Medieval Arab scholars held grammar in a appreciate The Mecca Festival. very high esteem. The intellectual curiosity as 132p (Harrassowitz Verlag, May 2012) hardcover, 9783447067010, $72.00. Special Offer $58.00 well as the interconnection between grammar and the sciences of religion can be seen in the grammarians’ writings and theories in general and in particular in the hitherto unpublished – The Crimean Khanate between East and West and virtually unknown – grammatical treatise (15th–18th Century) Tadkirat jawami’ al-’adawat (‘memorandum of edited by Denise Klein the many meanings of the particles’). The book presents a scientific critical edition that is based This volume presents a collection of studies exploring the politics, on eleven manuscripts. society, and culture of the Crimean Khanate, as well as the 150p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2012, Arabische khanate’s place within early modern Europe. Twelve articles in Studien 8) paperback, 9783447066754, $75.00. English and German, written by scholars of different backgrounds Special Offer $60.00 and perspectives, introduce one of the least studied regions in Eastern Europe, from the emergence of the khanate as a successor of the Golden Horde in the 15th century until the end of Tatar rule Early Ibād. ī Literature with the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Empire in 1783. Abu l-Mundhir Bashīr b. Muh.ammad b. Mahbūb: Kitāb al-Rasf fi l-Tawhīd, Kitāb 241p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2012, Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 78) paperback, . . . 9783447067058, $81.00. Special Offer $65.00 al-Muh.āraba and Sīra edited with an introduction by Abdulrahman al-Salimi and Die Risāla fī l-Hawāss des Ibn al-Ğazzār Wilferd Madelung .. Die arabische Vorlage˘ des Albertus Magnus zugeschriebenen Abu l-Mundhir Bashir (d. ca. 290/908) was a Traktats De mirabilibus mundi prominent Ibadi scholar and author of authoritative edited with translation and commentary by Fabian Käs theological and legal books. This volume contains a first edition of three Arabic treatises by Abu Based on ancient models, the Arabs of the Middle Ages developed a separate genre of literature l-Mundhir. Two of the texts, Kitab al-Rasf fi l-Tawhid about the sympathetic qualities of natural objects. The famous physician Ibn al-Gazzar (d. 980 AD) (Book of Paving about Divine Unity) and Kitab also authored a work of this genre. It consists of a theoretical introduction about the possibility of the al-Muharaba (Book of Warfare), were until recently existence of such hawass and a list of over a hundred sympathetic effects. The Arabic original of the considered lost by western scholars. Risala fi l-Hawass, of which a Latin and a Hebrew translation are known, was long considered lost. This 80p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2011, volume now provides for the first time an edition of the Arabic text with a German translation and Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 75) extensive commentary, which presents parallels in Arabic literature. German text. paperback, 9783447064354, $31.00. 120p (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2012, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 79) paperback, Special Offer $25.00 9783447066792, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 Harrassowitz Verlag

Borders and Beyond Crossings and Transitions in Modern Arabic Literature edited by Kerstin Eksell and Stephan Guth This volume is the result of a Lebanese-Scandinavian cooperation examining various aspects of liminality, hybridity, and border- crossing in Arabic literature and culture. The volume focuses on the very processes of change in the literary landscape, the moments of transition from one stage to another, when established traditions are exposed to new influences which cause generic transformations and produce new syntheses. Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 182p (Harrassowitz Verlag, February 2012, Mîzân 21) paperback, 9783447066457, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00 A series of three works that selects 40 authors from a particular time period in Arabic literary history and invites scholars From New Values to New Aesthetics with specialized expertise to contribute Turning Points in Modern Arabic biographical essays on them. Every essay edited by Stephan Guth and Gail Ramsay is self-contained, beginning with a list of the author’s complete works (and Since the emergence of the modern Arab intellectual in the 19th century, Arabic literature has always translations of them), and then proceeding followed and critically commented on socio-political and cultural change, but also contributed to bringing to chronicle the subject’s life through a it about. Focusing on crucial moments and factors as well as figures, ideas, and organs, these two volumes thorough examination of the principal works approach the close connection between literature and socio-political and/or cultural history, between attributed to him. Each essay concludes with ‘scribe’ and ‘writer’, from two angles. a selected bibliography of reference works. 1. From Modernism to the 1980s 2. Postmodernism and Thereafter Vol. 1 — 925–1350 176p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2011, Mizan 20.1) 248p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2011, paperback, 9783447066006, $75.00. Mizan 20.2) paperback, 9783447066013, edited by Terri DeYoung Special Offer $60.00 $91.00. Special Offer $73.00 and Mary St. Germain 371p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2011, Mizan 17.1) hardcover, 9783447065986, A Grammar of Negev Arabic Recent Advances $105.00. Special Offer $84.00 Comparative Studies, Texts and Glossary in in Tungusic Linguistics the Bedouin of the ‘Azāzmih Tribe edited by Andrej L. Malchukov Vol. 2 — 1350–1850 by Musa Shawarbah and Lindsay J. Whaley edited by Devin J. Stewart This volume examines the major phonological and The volume presents research that is 440p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2009, morphological features of the ‘Azazmih Arabic, a representative of the current scientific Mizan 17.2) hardcover, 9783447059336, Bedouin dialect that is spoken by the ‘Azazmih, knowledge. It includes papers of a $102.00. Special Offer $82.00 the tribal confederation that inhabits the Negev comparative orientation in the tradition Highlands stretching from Beersheba southwards. The of Tungusic studies, but also addresses Vol. 3 — 1850–1950 description of the ‘Azazmih dialect, which comprises new domains, as well as employing new edited by Roger Allen the main part of the study, is based on rigorous methods. All essays have a typological 395p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2010, analysis of a vast quantity of linguistic data collected orientation, even though they draw on the Mizan 17.3) hardcover, 9783447061414, in intensive fieldwork. material from individual Tungusic languages. $102.00. Special Offer $82.00 470p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2012, Semitica 279p (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2012, Viva 50) hardcover, 9783447066471, $147.00. Turcologica 89) paperback, 9783447065320, Special Offer $118.00 $105.00. Special Offer $84.00 www.isdistribution.com (+1) (860) 584 6546 V&R unipress Universitätsverlag Winter

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