1988 — Original Publishers Cloth. Xxxiii, 299 pages, illustrations. 23cm. Contributions of 16 authors. CONTENTS: Preface, by Farhad Kazemi & R. D. McChesney; Biography of Richard Bayly Winder; Bibliography of Richard Bayly Winder; The commerce of Mecca before Islam, by F. E. Peters; Whence the Muslim conquest of Northern Mesopotamia? , by Nadine F. Posner; Russia's relations with the Mamluk Beys of Egypt in the late eighteenth century, by Daniel Crecelius; The loan of mursad on Waqf properties, by Randi Beguilhem-Schoem; Ilyas Qudsi on the craft organizations of Damascus in the late nineteenth century, by R. D. McChesney, trans; Ibn Taymiyah's empiricism, by Nicholas Heer; Islamic textuality in light of poststructuralist criticism, by Richard C. Martin; Subordinance and dominance : non-Muslim minorities and the traditional Islamic state as perceived from above and below, by Norman A. Stillman; Geometry and ideology : the festival of Islam and the study of Islamic art, by Oleg Grabar; Universal solutions to problems of spherical astronomy from Mamluk Egypt and Syria, by David A. King; Fatimid under glaze painted wares : a chronological readjusment, by George T. Scanlon; Women and politics in an Arabian Oasis, by Christine Eickelman; "How could something so right go so wrong?" : the collapse of Lebanon's ethnoconfessional democracy, by John P. Entelis; The immortal Ataturk : psychobiography as autobiography, by Norman Itzkowitz; Ménage à quatre : the making of agrarian policy in Senegal, by John Waterbury. SUBJECTS: Islamic civilization. Civilisation islamique. Middle East. Machreq. Moyen-Orient --Histoire. Includes bibliographies and index. Navy cloth over boards with gilt titles. Good condition. (FEST1-6)
