Journal of Islamic Studies

2008 19:1
Articles
Khaled Keshk
The Historiography of an Execution:
The Killing of ujr b. Ad
1-35
Rebecca Masterton
Islamic Mystical Resonances in Fulbe
Literature
36-58
Ghalib Anabsi
Popular Beliefs As Reflected in Merits
of Palestine and Syria (Fail al-Shm)
Literature: Pilgrimage Ceremonies and
Customs in the Mamluk and Ottoman
Periods
59-70
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
The Epistemological Foundation of
Conceptions of Justice in Classical
Kalm: A Study of Abd al-Jabbr's alMughn and Ibn al-Bqilln's al-Tamhd
71-96
Book Reviews
Sajjad H. Rizvi
Gods and Humans in Islamic Thought:
Abd al-Jabbr, Ibn Sn and al-Ghazl BY
MAHA ELKAISY-FRIEMUTH
97-100
Jules Janssens
Chance and Determinism in Avicenna
and Averroes BY CATARINA BELO
100-104
Threse-Anne Druart
The Reception of Aristotle's
Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitb al-Shif:

A Milestone of Western Metaphysical

Thought BY AMOS BERTOLACCI
104-106
Sajjad H. Rizvi
The Nature of Time and Consciousness
in Islam BY HABIBUDDIN AHMED
107-108
Mohammad Akram Nadwi
The Origins and Evolution of Islamic
Law BY WAEL B. HALLAQ
109-115
Christopher Melchert
Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of
the adth Transmission Network, 610
1505 BY RECEP SENTURK
115-117
Mohammad Talib
Why the French Dont Like
Headscarves: Islam, the State, and
Public Space BY JOHN R. BOWEN
117-119
Yahya Michot
The True Description of Cairo. A
Sixteenth-Century Venetian View BY
NICHOLAS WARNER
119-121
Hussein Ahmed
Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam,
Christianity and Politics Entwined BY
HAGGAI ERLICH
121-128
Clement Dodd
The Emergence of a New Turkey:
Democracy and the AK Parti Edited by
M. HAKAN YAVUZ
128-131
Shirin Akiner

Fostering Fundamentalism: Terrorism,

Democracy and American Engagement
in Central Asia BY MATTHEW
CROSSTON
131-133
Devin DeWeese
Islam after Communism: Religion and
Politics in Central Asia BY ADEEB
KHALID
133-141
Gail Minault
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely
Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam
of Bhopal BY SIOBHAN LAMBERTHURLEY
141-142
Iftikhar Malik
Islam in History and Politics.
Perspectives from South Asia Edited
by ASIM ROY
143-145
L. J. Newby
Islam in Traditional China: A
Bibliographical Guide BY DONALD
LESLIE, YANG DAYE AND AHMED
YOUSSEF
145-146
Aminah Beverly McCloud
A Muslim in Victorian America: The
Life of Alexander Russell Webb BY
UMAR FARUQ ABD ALLAH
146-148
Siti Syamsiyatun
Women, Islam and Modernity: Single
Women, Sexuality and Reproductive
Health in Contemporary Indonesia BY
LINDA RAE BENNETT
148-151
Harfiyah Abdel Haleem

Women Embracing Islam: Gender and

Conversion in the West Edited by
KAREN VAN NIEUWKERK
151-154

Journal of Islamic Studies

2008 19:2
Articles
Hassan S. Khalilieh
The Rib of Arsf and the Coastal Defence
System in Early Islamic Palestine
159-177
Adam R. Gaiser
Satan's Seven Specious Arguments: alShahrastn's Kitb al-Milal wa-l-nial in an
Ismaili Context
178-195
Scott Kugle
Abd al-aqq Dihlaw, an Accidental
Revivalist: Knowledge and Power in the
Passage from Delhi to Makka
196-246
Book Reviews
Mustansir Mir
Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the
Quran BY ALAN DUNDES
247-251
Recep Sentrk
The Constitution of Medina:
Muhammad's First Legal Document
BY MICHAEL LECKER
251-253
Muhammad Zainiy Uthman
Martyrdom in Islam BY DAVID
COOK
253-254
Sajjad H. Rizvi
The Act of Being: The Philosophy of
Revelation in Mull adr BY
CHRISTIAN JAMBET, transl. JEFF
FORT
255-257

L. P. Harvey
From Al-Andalus to Khurasan:
Documents from the Medieval Muslim
World Edited by PETRA M.
SIJPESTEIJN, LENNART SUNDELIN,
SOFIA TORALLAS TOVAR,
AMALIA ZOMEO
257-260
C. Edmund Bosworth
History and Historiography of PostMongol Central Asia and the Middle
East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods
Edited by JUDITH PFEIFFER AND
SHOLEH A. QUINN, in collaboration
with ERNEST TUCKER
260-263
Laurie A. Brand
The Making of Jordan: Tribes,
Colonialism and the Modern State BY
YOAV ALON
263-265
Laurie A. Brand
Post-Colonial Syria and Lebanon: The
Decline of Arab Nationalism and the
Triumph of the State BY YOUSSEF
CHAITANI
266-268
Murray Last
Islam in Africa and the Middle East:
Studies on Conversion and Renewal
BY NEHEMIAH LEVTZION. Edited
by MICHEL ABITBOL and AMOS
NADAN
268-269
Vanessa Martin
Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran.
From the Qajars to Khomeini BY
JOANNA DE GROOT
269-271
Feroz Ahmad

The State and the Subaltern:

Modernization, Society and the State in
Turkey and Iran Edited by TOURAJ
ATABAKI
271-273
William Hale
Turkish Democracy Today: Elections,
Protest and Stability in an Islamic
Society BY AL ARKOLU and ERSN
KALAYCIOLU
273-275
Ibrahim Kalin
Religion, Society, and Modernity in
Turkey BY ERF MARDN
275-279
Tahir Kamran
Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi
Apartment Building BY LAURA A.
RING
279-281
Nile Green
Slavery & South Asian History Edited
by INDRANI CHATTERJEE and
RICHARD M. EATON
281-283
Francis Robinson
When Asia was the World BY
STEWART GORDON
283-284
Som Prakash Verma
Images of Thought: Visuality in Islamic
India 15501750 BY GREGORY
MINISSALE
284-286
R. H. Barnes
Sultans, Shamans & Saints: Islam and
Muslims in Southeast Asia BY
HOWARD M. FEDERSPIEL
286-289

Alison Shaw
Diaspora Youth and Ancestral
Homeland: British Pakistani/Kashmiri
Youth Visiting Kin in Pakistan and
Kashmir BY GILL CRESSEY
289-291
Mohamed Aslam Haneef
Islam and the Everyday World: Public
Policy Dilemmas Edited by SOHRAB
BEHDAD and FARHAD NOMANI
291-294
Aminah Beverly McCloud
Muslim Women in America: The
Challenge of Islamic Identity Today
BY YVONNE HADDAD, JANE
SMITH AND KATHLEEN MOORE
295-296
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Making Islam Democratic: Social
Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn
BY ASEF BAYAT
297-299
Ahmad Gunny
Journeys to the Other Shore. Muslim and
Western Travelers in Search of
Knowledge BY ROXANNE L.
EUBEN
299-301

Journal of Islamic Studies

2008 19:3
Articles
Damla Demirz
The GreekTurkish Rapprochement
of 1930 and the Repercussions of the
Ankara Convention in Turkey
309-324
Scott C. Lucas
Divorce, Hadith-Scholar Style: From
al-Darimi to al-Tirmidhi
325-368
Yasir S. Ibrahim
Continuity and Change in
Qurrhringanic Readings: A Study of the
Qurrhringanic MS. Garrett 38
369-390
Book Reviews
Jonathan A. C. Brown
Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith
BY G. H. A. JUYNBOLL
391-397
Ian Richard Netton
Breaking with Athens: Alfarabi as
Founder, Applications of Political
Theory BY CHRISTOPHER A.
COLMO
397-398
Wilferd Madelung
Scripturalist Islam: The History and
Doctrines of the Akhbari Shilhringi
School BY ROBERT GLEAVE
398-400
Harfiyah Ball Haleem
A Concise Dictionary of Koranic
Arabic BY ARNE A. AMBROS and

STEPHAN PROCHZKA The Nouns

of Koranic Arabic Arranged by Topics:
A Companion Volume to the Concise
Dictionary of Koranic Arabic BY
ARNE A. AMBROS and STEPHAN
PROCHZKA
400-402
Charles E. Butterworth
Writing and Representation in
Medieval Islam: Muslim Horizons
Edited by JULIA BRAY
402-405
Stewart Gordon
Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic
World: The Urban Impact of Religion,
State and Society Edited by AMIRA K.
BENNISON and ALISON L.
GASCOIGNE
405-407
Peter Jackson
The Turks in the Early Islamic World
[The Formation of the Classical Islamic
World] Edited by C. EDMUND
BOSWORTH
407-409
Metin Kunt
Honored by the Glory of Islam:
Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman
Europe BY MARC DAVID BAER
410-412
Ruth A. Miller
The Early Modern Ottomans:
Remapping the Empire Edited by
VIRGINIA H. AKSAN and DANIEL
GOFFMAN
412-414
Metin Kunt
Legitimizing the Order: the Ottoman
Rhetoric of State Power Edited by

HAKAN T. KARATEKE and MARIUS

REINKOWSKI
414-417
Hakan Yavuz
The Emergence of the Turkish Nation
from 1789 to the Present BY SINA
AKsIN Turkey Beyond Nationalism:
Towards Post-Nationalist Identities By
HANS-LUKAS KIESER
417-421
William Hale
Secular and Islamic Politics in
Turkey: The making of the Justice and
Development Party Edited by MIT
CIZRE
421-423
Michael Kemper
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the
State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet
Disorder Edited by MOSHE
GAMMER
423-426
Mohammad Talib
Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching
Terror? Edited by JAMAL MALIK
426-430
R. Michael Feener
Asian Islam in the 21st Century
Edited by JOHN L. ESPOSITO, JOHN
O. VOLL and OSMAN BAKAR
430-432
John T. Sidel
Islamic Narrative and Authority in
Southeast Asia: From the 16th to the
21st Century. BY THOMAS GIBSON
432-435
Azyumardi Azra
Muslim Legal Thought in Modern
Indonesia BY R. MICHAEL FEENER

436-438
Rebecca Masterton
Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu
Bamba and the Founding of the
Muridiyya of Senegal, 18531913 BY
CHEIKH ANTA BABOU
438-442
Mohammad Talib
Culture and Identity in a Muslim
Society BY GARRY S. GREGG
442-445
Mohammad Talib
Schooling Islam: The Culture and
Politics of Modern Muslim Education
Edited by ROBERT W. HEFNER and
MUHAMMAD QASIM ZAMAN
445-449
Mary Hossain
Politics of the Veil BY JOAN
WALLACH SCOTT
449-451
Christopher Shackle
Ghazal as World Literature I:
Transformations of a Literary Genre
BY THOMAS BAUER and
ANGELIKA NEUWIRTH
451-453
Nabil Matar
Staging Islam in England: Drama and
Culture, 16401685 BY MATTHEW
BIRCHWOOD
453-455
Rejoinder
Wael B. Hallaq
The Origins and Evolution of Islamic
Law: A Response BY WAEL B.
HALLAQ
456-466