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BOSWORTH, C. E. Eastward Ho! Diplomats, Travellers and Explorers of the Middle East and Beyond, 1600-1940. Sawbridgeworth, Herts., UK: East & West Publishing, 2012. Pp. 288. [pounds sterling]25.

BOWERING, GERHARD, and BILAL ORFALI. The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism. Islamic History and Civilization, vol. 98. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. ix + 34 + 686 (Arabic). $282.

CALDER, NORMAN; JAWID MOJADDEDI; and ANDREW RIPPIN, eds. and trs. Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xv + 364. $125 (cloth); $45.95 (paper). *CORMACK, MARGARET, ed. Muslims and Others in Sacred Space. AAR Religion, Culture, and History. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xvii + 232. $35 (paper).

CRONE, PATRICIA. The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 566. $99.

DAOUADI, BELKACEM, ed. Le tresor des secrets et des irides jecondes (Kanz al-asrar al-afkar) de Muhammad b. Sdid Al-Zammari VECMAS. Lyons: ENS Editions, 2012. Pp. 495 (Arabic). [euro]20 (paper).

DIEM, WERNER. Von Status pendens zum Satzsubjekt: Studien zur Topikalisierung in neureren sentitischen Sprachen. Wiesbaden: Harra.ssowitz, 2013. Pp. viii + 120. [euro]54.

ELLENBLUM, RONNIE. The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East. 950-1072. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 270. $99, [pounds sterling]60 (cloth); $79 (ebook).

Ess, JOSEPH VAN. Die Traume der Schulweisheit: Leben und Werk des 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Ourgan1 (gest. 81611413). Abhandlungen Itir die Kunde des Mor-genlandes, vol. 86. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. viii + 146. [euro]44.

GELDER, GEERT JAN VAN, tr. Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. xxviii + 465. $25 (paper).

GELDER, GEERT JAN VAN. Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry. Arabische Studien. vol. 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. xv + 399. [euro]78.

GLEAVE, ROBERT. Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theo'''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 212. $115.

GRIFFITH, SIDNEY H. The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam. Jews, Christians, and...