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Book Review:

 

Middle East:

Jan Assman, The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharoahs (Reviewed by Todd Lawson)

Yohannan Friedmann, Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition (Reviewed by Andrew Peacock)

Kathryn Babayan, Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscape of Early Modern Iran (Reviewed by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab)

Avigdor Levy, Editor, Jews, Turks, Ottomans: A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century (Reviewed by Paul Sedra)

Moslem, Mehdi, Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran (Reviewed by Ali Akbar Mahdi)

Gabriel A. Almond, R; Scott Appleby and Emmanuel Sivan, Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World (Reviewed by Jolanda Guardi)

Chase Robinson, Islamic Historiography (Reviewed by Asad Ahmed)

Suad Joseph (ed.), Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Reviewed by Paul Brykczynski)

South Asia:

A. K. Ramanujan, A Flowering Tree And Other Oral Tales from India (Reviewed by Alessandra Consolaro)

Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 (Reviewed by Sai Bhatawadekar)

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