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Picturing the PastImaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle Eastedited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter and John ALarson

This fully illustrated catalog of essays, descriptions, andcommentary accompanies the Oriental Institute specialexhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East.

Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles,models, photographs, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how thearchitecture, sites, and artifacts of the ancient Middle East have beendocumented. It also examines how the publication of those images has shapedour perception of the ancient world, and how some of the more “imaginary”reconstructions have obscured our real understanding of the past. The exhibitand catalog also show how features of the ancient Middle East have beenpresented in different ways for different audiences, in some cases transforming ahighly academic image into a widely recognized icon of the past. 184p, 168 illus.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Museum Publications 34, 20129781885923899, paperback – $29.95. Special Offer $24.00

Sea of PearlsSeven Thousand Years of the Industry that Shapedthe Gulfby Robert A. Carter

Since Antiquity the natural pearls of the Gulf have beenfamed as the finest, most lustrous and most plentiful thatthe world can offer. From the beginnings of trade until the1930s, these pearls were a major product of the Gulf’s coastal peoples.Latterly, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, rising international demandturned pearling into their economic mainstay.

There has until now been no book taking the entire history of pearling as itssubject. Dr Carter’s ground-breaking work traces its evolution on both the Arabianand the Persian sides of the Gulf, and explores the role it played in shaping thepolitical, social and urban configuration that we see in the region today. Lavishlyillustrated, it will fascinate not only those wishing to understand the growth andconduct of the pearl fishery, but also those interested in the history of the regionand the origins of the Gulf states. 364p, full color illus throughout.

Arabian Publishing, October 20129780957106000, hardback – $190.00. Special Offer $152.00

Cultural ChangeJewish, Christian, and Islamic Coins of the HolyLandby David Hendin

This is a full color catalog of the coins featured in the ANSacclaimed temporary exhibit of the same name. All coinsare illustrated in full color, with explanatory text, illustrations of relatedmaterial, maps and family-trees. The volume serves as the ideal introductionto the coinage of the Holy Land, as well as providing a history of the regionfrom the 4th century BC to Crusader times, illustrated by the coinage that wasproduced there. As such, it contains some of the earliest Jewish coins, as wellas the earliest to bear overtly Christian symbolism. The coins contained in thisexhibit are often the finest examples of their kind in existence, and the texthas been written by one of the foremost experts in the field, so the resultingvolume is as attractive to look at as it is informative. 128p, color illus.

American Numismatic Society, 20119780897223195, paperback – $40.00. Special Offer $32.00

Medieval and Ottoman Hajj Route inJordanAn Archaeological and Historical Studyedited by Andrew Petersen

As one of the five pillars of Islam, the pilgrimage to Mecca(the Hajj) is central to the life of all Muslims. A network ofroads radiates from the Hijaz like a giant spider’s web,connecting Mecca to all parts of the Muslim world. Historically the mostsignificant of these routes starts at Damascus in Syria, and is a directcontinuation of the ancient trade route connecting Arabia to the Levant.

A significant part of this route runs through Jordan and this book documentsthe archaeological and architectural remains which line this route, payingparticular attention to the forts and cisterns built and maintained by theOttoman rulers from the 16th century onwards. The final part of the bookdescribes the results of excavations at one of the forts, which gives an insightinto the material culture of both the pilgrims and the soldiers who mannedthe forts. 256p.

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Textile Production and Consumption inthe Ancient Near EastArchaeology, Epigraphy, Iconographyedited by Marie-Louise Nosch and HenrietteKoefoed

In the past, textile production was a key part of allancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out inthis respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms ofraw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. Thethirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in theAncient Near East describe the developments and changes from household tostandardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place inthe region. They discuss the economic, social and cultural impact of textiles onancient society through the application of textile tool studies, experimentaltesting, context studies and epigraphical as well as iconographical sources.Together they demonstrate that the textile industries, production, technology,consumption and innovations are crucial to, and therefore provide an in-depthview of ancient societies during this period. Geographically the contributionscover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland, Sumer, and Egypt.200p, 8 colour & 82 b/w illustrations.

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Nishapur RevisitedThe Qohandez Potteryby Rocco Rante and Annabelle Collinet

Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Roadcity, its position providing links to central Asia andChina, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and thewest. Despite previous excavations there are manyunresolved questions surrounding the site; when was the city founded? IsNishapur a Sasanian city? Was it founded by the Sasanian king Shapur I or II?The question of chronology of occupation and the ceramic sequence is alsoproblematic particularly for late antiquity and the medieval period, as well as acomplete topography of the site.

After an introduction to the site and the former American and Iranianexcavations, this book presents the stratigraphy and the pottery of the site. Thecombination of data from the stratigraphical and laboratory analyses gives anaccurate and completely new chronology of the site. Moreover, the study alsobrought to light a new typological sequence of the ceramic, as well as newdata about the pottery production at Nishapur. 144p, illus.

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An Examination of Late AssyrianMetalworkby John Curtis

Although the Assyrian kingdom that dominated theAncient Near East between the ninth and seventhcenturies BC had a rich material culture, attestedparticularly by the distinctive stone wall reliefs andcolossal gateway figures, practically nothing is known about Assyrianmetalwork. There has been no previous survey of this subject, largely becausemost of the material was not accessible.

This volume makes available for the first time a vast amount of previouslyunpublished metalwork, much of it from the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud. Itemerges that Assyria had a thriving metalworking industry probably superiorto any contemporary state in the region, and was producing large quantities ofsophisticated bronze and ironwork, of high technical quality and sometimeselaborately decorated. This book will therefore be of interest to archaeologists,art historians and metallurgists. 330p, illus.

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The Tripolye Culture Giant-Settlements in UkraineFormation, Development and Declineedited by Francesco Menotti and Aleksey G.Korvin-Piotrovskiy

The crucial role that the Ukrainian ‘branch’ of theTripolye culture played in shaping the historicalformation of the Ukraine, and indeed that of Europe, is still not fullyunderstood or appreciated. Although we are mostly aware of its finely-craftedand decorated pottery, along with the highly-discussed house architecture andhuge settlements (known as ‘giant-settlements’), we often fail to connect thevarious dots in order to understand the different aspects of its development,from the very first eastward migrations, to the scission into two separate localgroups (eastern and western Tripolye culture), the formation of the so-calledgiant-settlements, and finally to its inexorable decline after more than 2000years of prosperous existence. This volume has been organised so as to give thereader a clear image of the Tripolye culture in the Ukraine, with a specialemphasis placed upon the development of the so-called ‘giant-settlements’.174p, b/w illus.

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Umm al-BiyaraExcavations by Crystal-M. Bennett in Petra 1960-1965by Piotr Bienkowski

Umm al-Biyara, the highest mountain in Petra,southern Jordan, was the first Iron Age Edomite site tobe extensively excavated. It was a domestic, unwalledsite of stone-built longhouses dating to the 7th-6th centuries BCE. Thestratigraphy, pottery, small finds and inscribed material, including theimportant bulla of Qos-Gabr King of Edom, are described, supplemented bychapters on the use of space and a landscape study of mountain-top sites inthe Petra region. The later Nabataean remains on the edge of the summitindicate a major Nabataean complex of buildings, possibly a palace, whichwould make this the first Nabataean palace in Petra to be explicitly identified.160p, 183 b/w illus.

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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient NearEast and the Mediterranean from the 3rdto the 1st Millennia BCedited by C. Michel and M.L. Nosch

The written sources from the Ancient Near East and theEastern Mediterranean Area from the 3rd to the 1stmillennium contain rich terminologies describingtextiles. The Greek word for a long shirt, khiton, ki-to in Linear B, derives fromthe Semitic root ktn. The Akkadian term for linen is kitm, but the Old Assyriankutnum is made of wool and the Arab and English word for cotton today hasthe same root.

This example illustrates on the one hand how connected some textiles termsare across time and space, but it also shows how very carefully we mustconduct the etymological and terminological enquiry with constantly changingsemantics as the common thread. The survey of textile terminologies in 22chapters presented in this volume demonstrates the interconnections betweenlanguages and cultures via textiles. 463p.

Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 8, 20109781842179758, hardback – $70.00. Special Offer $56.00

Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in theAncient Near East and Beyondedited by Natalie N. May

The purpose of the conference from which this volumeemerged, was to analyze the cases of and reasons formutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity.Destruction of images and texts has a universalcharacter; it is inherent in various societies and periods of human history.Together with the mutilation of human beings, it was a widespread and highlysignificant phenomenon in the ancient Near East. However, the goals meant tobe realized by this process differed from those aimed at in other cultures. Forexample, iconoclasm of the French and Russian revolutions, as well as the Post-Soviet iconoclasm, did not have any religious purposes. Moreover, moderncomprehension of iconoclasm is strongly influenced by its conception during theReformation. This volume explores iconoclasm and text destruction in ancientNear Eastern antiquity through examination of the anthropological, cultural,historical, and political aspects of these practices. 450p, 15 illus, 86 color plates.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Seminars 8, August 2012

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BismayaRecovering the Lost City of Adabby Karen Wilson, with Jacob Lauinger, MonicaLouise Phillips, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman,and Aage Westenholz

An expedition from the University of Chicago excavatedthe site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) from 1903–05. Theexcavations were directed first by Edgar J. Banks and then, briefly, by Victor S.Persons. Over 1,000 artifacts, many of them early cuneiform documents, weresent to Chicago, where they are now housed in the Oriental Institute Museum.The results of the Bismaya excavations were never properly published, andmost of the material was never published at all.

Banks wrote a readable popular account that appeared in 1912 and indicated thathis field methods were considerably less than satisfactory. However, that was notthe case. Banks kept a field diary and this monograph presents the large andsignificant corpus of unpublished material, including analyses of stratigraphy,architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions ofchronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practicesduring the third millennium B.C. 194p, 47 figures, 113 plates, 13 tables.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications 138, August 2012




Slaves and Households in the NearEastedited by Laura Culbertson

This volume contains papers that emerged fromthe seminar “Slaves and Households in the NearEast” held at the Oriental Institute March 5-6,2010. Despite widespread mention of enslavedpeople in historical records from the ancient,medieval, and early modern Near East, scholarsstruggle to understand what defines this phenomenon in both particularcontexts and in general. The purpose of the seminar was to seek newunderstandings of slavery through scholarly exchange and exploration of newapproaches. In particular, contributors examined slavery in the context ofhouseholds, an approach that allows scholars to expose different dimensions ofthe phenomenon beyond basic economic questions. Households, whetherdomestic units, temples, or the building blocks of political organizations, canbe used as the prism through which to view the dynamics among enslavedpeople and their immediate contacts. The volume contains micro-historicalexaminations of slavery in contexts spanning almost four millennia. 152p, 1figure, 3 tables.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Seminars 7, 20119781885923837, paperback – $24.95. Special Offer $20.00

Ancient IsraelHighlights from the Collections of theOriental Institute, University of Chicagoby Gabrielle V. Novacek

On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institutecelebrated the official public opening of the Haasand Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasionmarked the return of some of the mostextraordinary artifacts ever excavated in thesouthern Levant to permanent public display. The Oriental Institute’s prolifichistory of exploration in the region is testament to a long-standing scholarlypassion for discovery and the pursuit of knowledge. This volume draws fromthe momentum generated by the opening of the Megiddo Gallery and presentsa selection of highlights from the Institute’s greater Israel collection. 130p, 4b/w & 68 color photos.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Museum Publications 31, 20119781885923653, paperback – $41.95. Special Offer $34.00

Ankara Arkeoloji Müzesinde bulananBogazköy Tabletleri II Bogazköy Tablets in the ArchaeologicalMuseum of Ankara IIby Rukiye Akdogan and Oguz Soysal

This is the first volume in a new series, ChicagoHittite Dictionary Supplements, designed toaugment and supplement the work of theChicago Hittite Dictionary project. The Hittitetablets, acquired by the Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, bear the siglumAnAr. The best-preserved and attractive pieces of these tablets have previouslybeen made accessible to the scholarly public; the others, however, mostly stilluseful and in reasonable condition, remained untouched in the AnkaraMuseum for years.

The represented text genres herein include historical, administrative andtechnical, lexical, mythological texts, hymns and prayers, rituals, cultadministration and inventory texts, divination documents, festival descriptions,and compositions in languages other than Hittite (Hattian, Hurrian, Luwian,Sumerian, and Akkadian). With the present edition of 389 pieces in cuneiformcopies, there are almost no more AnAr fragments remaining in the AnkaraMuseum that would be worth publishing. 50p, 64 plates.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago Hittite DictionarySupplements 1, 2011


The Oriental Institute 2010–2011Annual Reportedited by Gil Stein

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports containyearly summaries of the activities of the Institute’sfaculty, staff, and research projects, as well asdescriptions of special events and other Institutefunctions. 304p, 272 figs.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 20119781885923882, paperback – $24.95. Special Offer $20.00



The Oxus Treasureby John Curtis

In May 1880, Captain F.C. Burton, a Britishpolitical officer in Afghanistan, rescued a group ofmerchants who had been captured by banditswhile travelling between Kabul and Peshawar.With them was a rich and impressive collection ofgold and silver objects dating back to the fifth andfourth centuries BC. From the banks of the RiverOxus, the entire hoard was, in due course, bequeathed to the British Museum.Consisting of around 170 objects, including vessels, a gold scabbard, armlets,coins and much more, the collection is an example of ancient goldsmithery atits very best. With exciting and descriptive insight placing the treasure intohistorical and cultural context, this book takes a closer look at the individualwonders that make up the Oxus Treasure - one of the British Museum’s mostcelebrated and cherished collections. 64p, 30 color illus.

British Museum Press, Objects in Focus, 20129780714150796, paperback – $10.00. Special Offer $8.00

Arabic and Persian Seals and Amuletsin the British Museumby Venetia Porter, with special assistancefrom Robert Hoyland and AlexanderMorton, contributions by ShailendraBhandare, and scientific analysis by JanetAmbers, Sylvia Humphrey, Nigel Meeks, andMargaret Sax

This catalogue is in two parts. The first focuses onthe 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals in the British Museum coveringmaterial from the 8th to the 20th century. The Introduction covers seal practicein different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the alama ormotto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, theforgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described.

The features of the seals themselves, in particular the palaeography and datingof early Islamic seals, some grammatical features of the inscriptions, and therange of designs present on the seals are analysed. The types and form ofIslamic names, the range of phrases that commonly appear and thecharacteristics of later seals are also discussed. The second part of the bookfocuses on 170 amulets in the collection preceded by an introduction to thesubject. 208p, illus.

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Love and DevotionFrom Persia and Beyondedited by Susan Scollay

Jointly published by Macmillan and the StateLibrary of Victoria in association with the BodleianLibrary, Oxford, this book accompanies anexhibition of original manuscripts relating toPersian poetry and its milieu to be held at theState Library from March 2012. With contributionsby Australian and international scholars and superb examples of the art formas it is portrayed in works like the Bodleian’s famous Shahnama of Firdausi, it iseasy to see how the beauty of Persian manuscripts would capture the minds ofearly European travellers and influence art and literature in the West. This bookis lavishly illustrated to feature the gorgeous colours and intricate details ofthese Persian masterpieces. 222p, illus.

Macmillan Art Publishing, August 20129781921394508, paperback – $70.00. Special Offer $56.00

An Investigation into Early DesertPastoralismExcavations at the Camel Site, Negevby Steven A. Rosen

This book focuses on two primary purposes, one istheoretical/methodological and the secondsubstantive. Briefly stated, the book comprises acase study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailedanalyses and a synthetic overview of a seasonal encampment from this earlyperiod in the evolution of desert pastoral societies. It thus both demonstratesthe feasibility of an archaeology of early mobile pastoralism and grapples withthe basic anthropological and methodological issues surrounding the subject.Substantively, both the architectural and material culture assemblagesuncovered constitute the first detailed analysis of this early desert culture andinclude materials previously unreported for the region and period. Historically,the Camel Site is placed in the larger perspective of the beginnings of multiresource nomadism in relation to the rise of complex societies. 215p, over 100photos, figures and illus.

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 69, 20119781931745833, hardback – $69.95. Special Offer $56.009781931745840, paperback – $39.95. Special Offer 32.00



Ancient Iran from the Airby David Stronach and Ali Mousavi

This book features many of the more exceptionallandscapes and monuments of Iran as seenthrough the lens of the world’s foremost aerialphotographer, George Gerster. The photographs,which were taken between 1976 and 1978, arepresented in six chapters, each authored by one ormore scholars of international repute, and thework as a whole is edited by two of the main contributors, David Stronach andAli Mousavi.

Ancient Iran from the Air takes the reader on an aerial odyssey that explores thecountry’s infinitely varied landscapes; many of the more noted sites associatedwith Iran’s rich prehistoric past; the storied capitals of the Achaemenid andSasanian empires; the memorable monuments of Saljuk and Safavid Isfahan;and, last but not least, on a journey that celebrates the age-old virtues of Iran’slargely unsung vernacular mud-brick architecture. 192p, 107 color & 6 b/w illus.

Philipp von Zabern, Zaberns Bildbände Archäologie, August 20129783805344531, hardback – $60.00. Special Offer $48.00

Archäologie in EurasienVolume 27

Archäologie in Eurasien publishes monographiccontributions to the archaeology of the Black Sea-area, Northern Caucasia, the Eurasian steppe,Mongolia and Northern China. 301p.

Contents include: Geophysikalische Prospektionmit Fluxgate-Gradiometer (Von Volker Heyd undChristoph Skowranek); Cultural Sequence, Stratification and ArchitecturalRemains (Mehmet Özdogan, Hermann Parzinger, Zeynep Eres and Özgür Yilmaz);Pottery Appendix (Mehmet Özdogan and Özgür Yilmaz); Clay, Bone, Horn andFine Groundstone Objects (Mehmet Özdogan and Özgür Yilmaz); HumanRemains (Yasemin Yilmaz)

Philipp von Zabern, August 20129783805345132, hardback – $87.00. Special Offer $70.00

Bactrian Documents from NorthernAfghanistan ILegal and Economic Documents. Revisededition.by Nicholas Sims-Williams

During the last twenty years, more than 150documents in Bactrian, the language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light. Thesedocuments provide unique information on thehistory of Afghanistan and neighbouring lands in the 4th to 8th centuries C.E.,as well as revealing a Middle Iranian language which was hardly known before.

The first volume of Nicholas Sims-Williams’ edition, which was published in2001, contained all the legal and economic documents which were known upto that time. The present, substantially revised edition includes a number ofadditional documents as well as incorporating significant improvements to thetext and translation. However, some sections of the earlier edition, in particularthe glossary, have been omitted, since they have been superseded by theequivalent sections of Bactrian Documents II (published in 2007 and stillavailable). 171p.

Khalili Collections, Studies in the Khalili Collection 3.1, July 20129781874780922, hardback – $70.00. Special Offer $56.00

Bactrian Documents from NorthernAfghanistan IIIPlatesby Nicholas Sims-Williams

During the last twenty years, more than 150documents in Bactrian, the language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light. Thesedocuments, which have been deciphered andpublished by Nicholas Sims-Williams, provideunique information on the history of Afghanistan and neighbouring lands inthe 4th to 8th centuries C.E., as well as revealing a Middle Iranian languagewhich was hardly known before. The purpose of the present volume is toillustrate the new documents as comprehensively as possible. In addition to230 pages of photographs, the volume contains a complete catalog of thedocuments. 270p, including 230 b/w plates.

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Canhasan Sites 3Canhasan I: The Small Findsby David French

The primary aim of this volume is to present adescriptive account and catalog of the registeredsmall-finds from the Canhasan I mound in south-central Anatolia. The small-finds have beengrouped, described and then illustrated accordingto material, e.g., clay, stone, bone. The separationinto discrete groups and the description of individual objects have both beendeliberately simplified, the intention being to provide (where possiblechronologically) an orderly arrangement from which those interested are ableto scan and note the range of materials and, if they wish, to take up relevantaspects or indeed to inspect the objects for further study and research.

One object, an ivory bracelet - not only emphasises, by its presence atCanhasan, the distant source of the material but points directly to the natureand dynamics of trade/transfer/exchange in the 6th millennium. The braceletdocuments the role of personal display and human vanity as an incentive formaterial acquisition. 210p, 76 figures, 44 plates.

British Institute at Ankara, BIAA Monographs 45, 20109781898249245, hardback – $90.00. Special Offer $72.00

Seals, Sealings and Tokens fromBactria to Gandhara (4th to 8th century CE)by Judith A. Lerner, Nicholas Sims-Williamsand Nicholas Sims-Williams

This volume presents the Bactrian and Gandharanseals, sealings, and tokens in the Aman urRahman collection, which span the period fromthe second half of the 4th well into the 8thcentury CE. As the largest gathering of such glyptic art in the world, thepublication brings this previously little-known collection to public andscholarly attention and places it within the context of the history and culture ofthe vast crossreads that extended from Afghanistan to Northern India.

This area came under the successive control of Sasanian Persians, Hunnic tribes,and Turks, and it was home to such religious beliefs as Buddhism, Hinduismand Zoroastianism. These many influences are reflected in the iconography andstyle of the seals made and used in the region. Judith A. Lerner draws uponevidence from numismatics, textual remains, contemporary sculpture, paintingand decorative arts. Supplementing her study are chapters on the sealinscriptions by Nicholas Sims-Williams and Harry Falk. 222p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Veröffentlichungen der numismatischenKommission 421, 2011


Balboura Survey and Settlement in Highland Southwest AnatoliaVolume 1: Balboura and the history of highland settlement Volume 2: The Balboura Survey: detailed studies and cataloguesby J. J. Coulton

The Balboura Survey (1985–1994) investigated the settlement history of a small district in the ancient region of Kabalia in themountains of southwestern Turkey. Although the survey’s focus was on the Hellenistic-Early Byzantine city of Balboura and itswestern territory, the fieldwork revealed significant prehistoric occupation, and the project included research into Ottoman and recentsettlement.

The first volume of the final publication analyses settlement in the survey area from the Chalcolithic to the 20th century, placing it in the context of the adjoiningdistricts. The second volume contains detailed discussions of the prehistoric pottery and of the Hellenistic and later pottery, which provide a chronological framework forthe interpretation of the survey, and a major study of Hellenistic and Roman inscriptions examined during the project, many of them unpublished. Five detailed catalogues present the Hellenistic and later pottery, the evidence of ancient activity across the city site, the rural sites and their pottery, knowninscriptions from the territory of Balboura, and Balbouran funerary monuments.

Volume 1 Volume 2252p, 110 line & half tone figures and 32 tables 506p, 353 line & and half tone figures and 101 tables

British Institute at Ankara, BIAA Monographs 43, 20129781898249221, hardback – $160.00. Special Offer $128.00



People from the DesertPre-Islamic Arabs in History and Cultureedited by Nader Al Jallad

People from the Desert: Pre-Islamic Arabs in Historyand Culture provides a collection of text-basedstudies that investigate different aspects of thehistory, culture and literature of the pre-Islamicperiod. It presents detailed studies of the poetryof Imru’l-Qays, al-Shanfara, ‘Antarah, al-Khansa’and more. It also offers in-depth studies of pre-Islamic religions, narratives,trade, women, the concepts of life and death and much more. 208p.

Reichert Verlag, Textualia 2, August 20129783895008726, paperback – $168.00. Special Offer $134.00

Ägypten und AnatolienPolitische, kulturelle und sprachlicheKontakte zwischen dem Niltal undKleinasien im 2. Jarhtausend v. Chr.by Francis Breyer

This is a history of the contact between pharonicEgypt and the Hittite-Luwian world. It covers theEgyptian-Anatolian cultural contact for the wholeperiod of Hittite expansion and supremacy in thenear east. With that focus, this monograph closes a great gap in the study ofthe connections of Egypt to its neighbors. First, not only is the contact betweenthe two ancient cultures thoroughly represented and analyzed, but also isconnected to a modern cultural-studies oriented discourse. As a result, next tothe political connections stands above all the cultural exchange, the mutualawareness of players on both sides as in the interplay in the fields of religionand customs, economy and technology, art and iconography, writing andlanguage. Thus the depiction is characterized through the correlation ofcultural-historical as well as archaeological, philological and linguisticevidence, from the heartlands of both cultures and from the wider zone ofcontact in the Levant. German text. 638p, illus.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Contributions to the Chronology of the EasternMediterranean 25, 2010


Alttürkische HandschriftenTeil 18: Buddhica aus der BerlinerTurfansammlung. Teil 1: Das apokrypheSutra Säkiz Yükmäk Yaruk.edited by Simone-Christiane Raschmann

This catalog lists 250 Old Turkic manuscriptfragments of the apocryphal sutra of SäkizYükmäk Yaruk. This work incorporates the resultsof a complete edition of the sutra by Japanesescholar Juten Oda, which contains all world-wide transmissions of the OldTurkic fragments and is modified with some new compositions and break-down of the fragments. The, until now, mostly ignored remaining titles andindependent texts are now presented. The results of a paper-analysis of 61fragments of the Säkiz Yükmäk Yaruk are also presented for the first time.German text. 311p, illus.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland0.26, 2012

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Mitteliranische HandschriftenTeil 4: Iranian Manuscripts in Syriac Script inthe Berlin Turfan Collectionedited by Nicholas Sims-Williams

The manuscripts brought from Chinese Turkistanto Germany by the Turfan expeditions of 1902-1914 include many Christian texts, none of whichhave previously been catalogued. This cataloguecovers all the Sogdian and New Persianmanuscripts in Syriac script, in total nearly 500 folios and fragments, which arepresented in a systematic sequence, beginning with biblical and liturgical textsand ending with miscellaneous and secular material. It is shown that in somecases a large number of fragments belong to a single manuscript, and thatmany pieces can be joined together. Since most of the texts are translated fromSyriac, the Syriac originals are identified wherever possible. In the case offragments which have been wholly or partially published, full bibliographicaldetails are given; inaccurate readings found in published sources aresystematically corrected. The catalogue ends with indexes and concordances,including a complete index of names of people and places. German text.250p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland18.4, 2012

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An Archaeological Guide to Bahrainby Rachel MacLean and Timothy Insoll

People have lived on the islands of Bahrain for oversix thousand years. There are traces of their livesscattered across the landscape or hidden in thesands: burial mounds, villages, palaces, temples,and forts. This guidebook introduces readers toBahrain’s rich and varied past, and takes them tosome of the most important sites in the Kingdom.Using the evidence from decades of archaeological work it not only details whatcan be seen by the visitor today, but how people once lived, worked andworshipped here. It is an indispensable guide for residents and visitors toBahrain’s unique heritage. 162p, color and b/w illustrations throughout.

Archaeopress, 20119781905739363, paperback – $27.95. Special Offer $22.00

Proceedings of the Seminar forArabian Studies Volume 41 (2011)Papers from the forty-fourth meeting,London, 22-24 July 2010edited by Janet Starkey

Highlights of Volume 41 (2011) include: Someobservations on women in Omani sources (OlgaAndriyanova); Through evangelizing eyes:American missionaries to Oman (Hilal al-Hajri);Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ras Ushayriq in northern Qatarand some observations on the occurrence of date presses (Andrew Petersen)and Oman and Bahrain in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians’ Arabian periphery(Brian Ulrich). For a full list of contents, please see our website. 436p, illus incolour & b/w.

Archaeopress, Seminar for Arabian Studies 41, 20119781905739400, paperback – $110.00. Special Offer $88.00

On the Road to Reconstructing thePast: Computer Applications andQuantitative Methods in ArchaeologyProceedings of the 36th InternationalConferenceedited by Erzsébet Jerem, Ferenc Redö andVajk Szeverényi

The volume comprises 54 papers, while theattached CD contains the full material (84contributions) presented at the 2008 CAA conference in Budapest. The studiesare grouped around four large topics: Remote Sensing and Arial Photography;Data Acquisition and Management; GIS and Intrasite Analysis and finallyVirtual Reconstruction and Visualisation. This collection, along with theframework in which it was produced, offers an image of the presentrelationship between archaeology and computer science.

After the political transitions of the late 20th century, the main topic ofHungarian and, in general, Eastern European archaeology has been the gigantictask resulting from overdue infrastructural development: organizing large-scalepreventive excavations, their implementation, documentation and presentation.The tasks could only be solved by means of recent advances in informationtechnology. The organizers of the Budapest conference believed that this themewould draw attention to other more basic problems of archaeology. 428p.

Archaeolingua, CAA Conference Proceedings, 20129789639911307, paperback – $62.00. Special Offer $50.00

Archaeological, Cultural and Linguistic HeritageFestschrift for Elisabeth Jerem in Honour ofher 70th Birthdayedited by Peter Anreiter, Eszter Bánffy,László Bartosiewicz, Wolfgang Meid andCarola Metzner-Nebelsick

More than 50 authors, from many countries, havecontributed to this impressive volume whichhonours Erzsébet Jerem, founder and longtimeeditor of the Archaeolingua publication venue. Mainfocus is on the archaeology of Hungary and adjacent regions, with particularstress on Iron Age cultural elements which, from an archaeological point of view,may be labelled Celtic. An important part of the contributions however is oflinguistic, philological or epigraphic interest which deal, in an interdisciplinaryway, with problems concerning Celtic Studies as a whole or in detail, or that are ofrelevance to cultural history in general. 639p, illus.

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Israel and BabylonThe Babylonian Influence on Israelite Religionby Hermann Gunkel, edited by K.C. Hanson

Franz Delitzsch’s lectures in 1902 and 1903 set off theBabel-Bible controversy, which rocked Europe andNorth America. In this searing critique of Delitzsch,Gunkel provides his own analysis of the relationshipbetween ancient Israel and Babylon. In this edition,Gunkel’s original work is newly translated, with a newForeword, notes, bibliographies, and indexes. 78p.

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Israelby Peter Hirschberg

Peter Hirschberg has lived in Jerusalem for severalyears, guiding numerous travel groups andteaching a great number of courses in advancededucation in Israel/Palestine. In this excellenttravel guide, he introduces the most importantbiblical sites against the background of biblicalevidence and the newest findings in biblicalarchaeology. He not only aids a deeper understanding of the significance ofparticular places, but he also demonstrates how a study trip or a pilgrimage tothe Holy Land may assist us in approaching the ‘spirit of the Bible’ in a novelway. The focus of this book is the narrative of Jesus, hence sites that are ofimportance in the New Testament are treated with particular emphasis. Themajor sites of the Old Testament are also given their due attention. The volumeis richly illustrated and written in an accessible style, making it anindispensable travel companion for the interested visitor to the Holy Land.German text. 348p, illus.

Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Biblische Reiseführer 6, 20119783374028412, paperback–$32.00. Special Offer $26.00

In the Midst of JordanThe Jordan Valley during the Middle BronzeAge (circa 2000-1500 BCE). Archaeologicaland Historical Correlatesby Aren M. Maier

This volume brings together a variety of types offinds and approaches, to form a coherent pictureof the role and significance of this region duringthis period. Starting from a general regionaloverview, a critical review of the finds from the various sites in the region ispresented, followed by discussion of various aspects of the material culture,historical sources, trade and chronology, and an attempt to synthesize thesettlement pattern and processes, from the beginning of the Middle BronzeAge until the onset of the Late Bronze Age.

The volume concludes with an appendix with a detailed list on all MB sites inthe Jordan Valley, and a list and discussion of all 14C dates from the JordanValley. The volume should be of interest to scholars dealing with the Bronzeand Iron Ages of the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as archaeologists andancient historians in general. 298p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 36, 2011


Ägypten und Levante XX/2010Internationale Zeitschrift für ägyptischeArchäologie und derenNachbargebiete/International Journal forEgyptian Archaeology and RelatedDisciplinesedited by Manfred Bietak

Highlights of volume 10 include: A Stone Vessel ofPrincess Itakayet of the 12th Dynasty from TombVII at Tell Misrife/Qatna (Syria) (A Ahrens); A signet ring with a cryptographicinscription in Bonn (C. Jurman); Contributions to the Chronology of the NewKingdom and the Third Intermediate Period (T. Schneider); Objects of Prestige?Chariots in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean and Near East (M.H.Feldman and Co Sauvage) and The Old to Middle Babylonian Transition: Historyand Chronology of the Mesopotamian Dark Age (F. van Koppen). For a full listof contents, please see our website. 463p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Ägypten und Levante 20, 20119783700169604, paperback – $149.00. Special Offer $119.00


Late Antiquity and Medieval

Persia’s Imperial Power in LateAntiquityThe Great Wall of Gorgan and the FrontierLandscapes of Sasanian Iranby Eberhard Sauer, H. O. Rekavandi, T. J.Wilkinson and J. Nokandeh

The Gorgan Wall is guarded by over 30 forts, islonger than Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wallput together and is the most monumental ancientborder defence system between Central Europe and China. Yet few have heardof it. Dating proposals have ranged over more than a millennium, and majorityopinion attributed the wall to the Parthians. Scientific dating has nowestablished that it was created in the 5th/6th century AD and belongs to one ofthe largest empires of antiquity, that of Sasanian Persia (3rd-7th centuries AD).

In the hinterland of the wall there were massive square fortifications, one ofwhich has yielded traces of dense occupation, probably neat rows of armytents. The wall cut through a landscape that a millennium earlier was heavilysettled and irrigated by canals which enabled a flourishing culture to emergein the steppe. This project has shed light on what made one of antiquity’slargest empires and earlier civilisations succeed. 600p, illus.

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AverroesTahafut al Tahafut: The Incoherence of theIncoherence, Volumes I and II. 3rd editiontranslated, with an introduction,commentary and notes by Simon van denBergh

Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes,came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arabphilosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of theAlmohad ruler Abu Ya’quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, written not long after 1180, is his major work and the one in which hisoriginal philosophical doctrine is to be found. It takes the form of a refutationof Ghazali’s Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), a workbegun in 1095 which attacked philosophical speculation and declared some ofthe beliefs of the Philosophers to be contrary to Islam. Averroes sets hisAristotelian views in contrast with the Neo-Platonist ones attributed to thephilosophers by Ghazali. 630p.

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Late AntiquityEastern Perspectives, From the Sasanians toEarly Islamedited by Teresa Bernheimer and AdamSilverstein

In the past four decades scholars have debated theplace of early Islam within the late antique world,particularly in relation to the issue of where andwhen ‘Late Antiquity’ends. Although the Sasanianempire (in what is now modern Iran) became equally powerful as the Byzantineempire, and the two often forged their characters and practices on the basis oftheir relations with each other, that has rarely translated into equal coverage forthe eastern part of the late antique world in studies of the period. Late Antiquity:Eastern Perspectives aims to redress this balance and situate Iran within thebroader world of this era. Eight papers serve as case studies for consideringnarratives and perspectives other than those emanating from Byzantium or, moregenerally, ‘the West’. They demonstrate the potential of eastern source-material,particularly James Howard-Johnston’s double-length article which produces adetailed reconstruction of the Sasanian army. 176p, 4 b/w illus & 6 maps.

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Late Antiquity and Medieval


Selbst - und Fremdwahrnehmung imProzess kultureller Transformationby Sevket Kucukhuseyin

It took centuries for Byzantine Anatolia to becomea predominantly Turkish and Muslim area. Wehave yet to explain how it came to be that theTurkish-Muslim immigrants, who for a long timeconstituted a minority, did not merge into theautochthonous Christian majority, but that, on thecontrary, it was the immigrants’ language and religion that became prevalent.This study contributes to a better understanding of this complicated process,which remains insufficiently explored. It examines perceptions of the self andothers as found in the oldest Anatolian-Muslim narrative sources, comprisinghistoriographies, hagiographies and popular novels dating from the 13th-15thcenturies. It focusses on the question of the extent to which the mentalperceptions of identity and alterity to be found in these texts reflect this long-term process of transformation, or even had an impact on it. 488p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-hist. Klasse 825,September 2012


Geschichte Wassaf’s Deutsch übersetzt von Hammer-Purgstallby Sibylle Wentker

This current volume presents the third of fivesections of the Geschichte Wassaf’s (Tarih-iWassaf) translated into German by the Austrianorientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1744-1856). In it, the author of this important work onPersian history, araf ad-Din ‘Abd Allah b. Fadl AllahAllah Wassaf, from Shiraz, describes the history of his home province of Farsand the Mongolian rulers in Iran, whilst also dealing with neighbouringdynasties. The third part of his chronicle contains a description of the reigns ofthe Ilkhan Gaykhatu (1291-1295), Baydu (1295) and Ghazan (1295-1304),with long passages also being devoted to the history of India and Egypt.Particularly interesting are the accounts of the devastating effects of theintroduction into Iran of paper money on the Chinese model. This currentsection of Wassaf’s chronicle gives a detailed account of what was achievedduring Ghazan’s reign and the measures he took to Islamise the country. 366p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-hist. Klasse 827,September 2012


A Baghdad Cookery Bookby Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi, anew translation by Charles Perry

Al-Baghdadi’s Kitab al-Tabikh was for long theonly medieval Arabic Cookery book known to theEnglish-speaking world, thanks to A.J Arberry’spath-breaking 1939 translation, which was re-issued by Prospect Books in 2001. For centuries, ithas been the favourite Arab cookery book of theTurks. The original manuscript is still in Istanbul, and at some point a Turkishsultan commissioned a very handsome copy which can still be seen in TheBritish Library in London.

In the twentieth century the Iraqui scholar, Daoud Chelebi, produced a moderntranscription which served as the basis for Arberry’s translation. Charles Perry hasre-visited the manuscript and discovered many possible errors and amendmentsthat affect the interpretation of these essential recipes for the understanding ofmedieval Arab cookery. He has produced a new English translation incorporatingthese amendments and fully annotating his variations with the ‘authorised’version. Scholars will now have a definitive text on which to work. 128p.

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Linguistics

Grammatical Case in the Languagesof the Middle East and EuropeActs of the International ColloquiumVariations, Concurrence et Evolution des casdans Divers Domaines Linguistiques, Paris,2-4 April 2007edited by Michèle Fruyt, Michel Mazoyer,and Dennis Pardee

The volume contains twenty-eight studies ofvarious aspects of the case systems of Sumerian, Hurrian, Elamite, Eblaite,Ugaritic, Old Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Indo-European, the languages of theBisitun inscription, Hittite, Armenian, Sabellic, Gothic, Latin, Icelandic, Slavic,Russian, Ouralien, Tokharian, and Etruscan. The volume concludes with a paperon future directions. 420p.

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient OrientalCivilization 64, 2011


The Development of Arabic as aWritten LanguageSupplement to the Proceedings of theSeminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40,2010edited by M.C.A. MacDonald

Highlights include: The development of Arabic asa written language (Christian Julien Robin); Aglimpse of the development of the Nabataeanscript into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material (Laïla Nehmé); Theevolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet Muhammad and theOrthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom ofSaudi Arabia (Ali Ibrahim Al-Ghabban); The relationship of literacy andmemory in the second/eighth century (Gregor Schoeler); The Use of the Arabicscript in magic (Venetia Porter); The Old Arabic graffito at Jabal Usays: A newreading of line 1 M.C.A. Macdonald). 179p, illus.

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Personal Names in Sogdian Sourcesby Pavel Borisovich Lurje

This volume continues the Middle Iranian portionof the Iranisches Personennamenbuch. It dealswith personal names attested in published textsin the Sogdian language, an eastern Iranianvernacular which has come down to us from textscomposed between the first centuries CE and the11th century in the Sogdian heartland and alongthe route of the Great Silk Road. Over 1,600 names and terms are collected,arranged alphabetically, and include all personal names found in Sogdian textspublished to date, as well as adjectives denoting origin, nicknames, and titlesthat were also used as personal names. A standard entry begins with the namein transliteration, its transcription, and any indications of the person’s gender.Next are provided quotations from the texts in which the name appears. Theseare followed by notes on the prosopography of the bearer of the name and thename’s etymology, as well as remarks on finer details. Namesakes are includedin a single entry. 527p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Iranische Onomastik 8, 20109783700168386, paperback – $104.00. Special Offer $83.00

Bactrian Personal Namesby Nicholas Sims-Williams

Bactrian was the principal language ofadministration in what is now Afghanistan fromthe time of the Kushan empire (1st to 3rdcenturies C.E.) until the early Islamic period. Thesurviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents,coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attesta large number of personal names, whose variouslinguistic origins - Persian, Sogdian, Indian, Hunnic, Turkish, and of coursenative Bactrian - mirror the variety of peoples and religions which combined toform the unique culture of this region during the 1st millennium C.E. In thiscomprehensive study, Nicholas Sims-Williams analyses the etymology,structure and meaning of the names themselves and where possible identifiesthe persons who bore them. It will be of interest both to specialists inonomastics and to linguists and historians concerned with the languages andculture of pre-Islamic Afghanistan and neighbouring regions. 199p.

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Linguistics


Persian Language in Historyedited by Mauro Maggi and Paola Orsatti

The volume - of interest to students of Persian,Iranian philology, and comparative and generallinguistics - contains fourteen papers that cover adiversity of themes relating to the history of thePersian language, including Middle Persian.Editions of so far unpublished texts and newlanguage materials are also included. Part I looksat the Historical and Descriptive Grammar of Persian; Part II discusses MiddlePersian; Part III, Non-standard New Persian; Part IV, Literary New Persian andPart V explores Dialectology. For more detailed information about the contents,please see our website. 364p.

Reichert Verlag, Beiträge zur Iranistik 33, 20119783895006913, hardback – $115.00. Special Offer $92.00

Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtungund DialekteBeiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 inErlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischeredited by Shabo Talay and Hartmut Bobzin

This volume contains a selection of 15contributions stemming from a conference of thesame name held in July 2008 in honor of theErlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer.Wolfdietrich Fischer, who held the chair of Oriental Philology at the Universityof Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1964 to 1995, provided impetus in hisdissertation on the study of the colloquial Arabic for the world-renowned Arabdialectology in Germany, and with additional works on Arabic philology,grammar and poetry shaped German Arabic studies and brought theminternational acclaim. The contributions are devoted to these priorities, and thevolume is divided thematically into three chapters. German text. 276p, 3 illus.

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Encountering IslamJoseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Meccaby Paul Auchterlonie

For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships basedin North African ports terrorized Europeanshipping, enslaving hundreds of thousands ofChristians. This is the fascinating story of oneEnglishman’s experience of life as both Christianslave and Muslim soldier.

Captured by Algerian pirates in 1678, Joseph Pitts was sold as a slave in Algiersand underwent forced conversion to Islam. Sold again, he accompanied histhird master to Mecca, becoming the first Englishman known to have visitedthe Muslim Holy Places. Granted his freedom, Pitts became a soldier beforeventuring on a daring escape while serving with the Algiers fleet.

Encountering Islam contains a faithful rendering of the definitive 1731 editionof Pitts’s book, together with critical historical, religious and linguistic notes.The introduction tells what is known of Pitts’s life, and places his work againstits historical background, and in the context of current scholarship on captivitynarratives and Anglo-Muslim relations of the period. 368p, illus.

Arabian Publishing, 20129780955889493, hardback – $96.00. Special Offer $77.00

Modern Islam and the Middle East



Dubai HighA Culture Tripby Michael Schindhelm and Aurore Belkin

In early 2007, writer and theatre director MichaelSchindhelm was appointed by the Dubaiauthorities as consultant on a projected operahouse, and in early 2008 found himself with abroader remit as director of the newly foundedDubai Culture and Arts Authority. His diary of2008 is a partly fictionalized account of his first twelve months of both workingand living in Dubai. It is a meditation, from a cultural perspective, on thenature of this extraordinary city and its project to reinvent itself according tonew rules of its own devising. From the outset there were profound culturalissues to be faced and ultimately, his projects were undone by the globalfinancial crash of late 2008.

Despite his woes, the author retains some sympathy for the Dubai project. Heremains optimistic, seeing in Dubai and other Gulf States a glimmer of hope forinternational cultural dialogue, leading to increased understanding betweenthe Arab world and the West. 237p, illus.


Sons of SinbadThe Photographsby Alan Villiers

Alan Villiers (1903-82) was a renowned Australiansailor, writer and photographer. Originallypublished in 1940, Sons of Sindbad is his accountof sailing with the Arabs in their dhows insouthern Arabia, along the East African coast andin the Arabian Gulf, to record a nautical andcultural tradition that even then was disappearing. Arabian Publishing, inassociation with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, has nowrepublished this sailing and adventure classic in an abridged form and a largeformat, and with many more photographs, previously unpublished, from theMuseum’s Villiers Collection.

This book depicts the experiences of the sailors and divers and the hardshipsthey faced in their perilous environment. Villiers’ powerful photographs andwords form a fine tribute to the skills and endurance of the Arab sailors, and afitting valediction to the age of sail before the onset of oil and modernization.224p, b/w photos.


Seen in the YemenTravelling with Freya Stark and Othersby Hugh Leach

Seen in the Yemen brings the people, architectureand landscapes of this ancient culture alive to thereader through the medium of the author’sremarkable black-and-white photographs, takenin the 1970s, and here reproduced in duotone. Hisbook is also a tribute to one of the most famousof all Arab and Asian travellers, the late Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993). In themid-1970s, at the age of eighty-three, she made two visits to the author, whowas then serving in Sana’a. Their travels together through north Yemenmarked the start of a long friendship.

Yemen today, like the rest of Arabia, is undergoing rapid and inevitable change.Thisbook records a time when town and country had only recently embarked on thedecades of upheaval, and much was visually unchanged. The author’s artistic eyeimparts an unforgettable aura of romance and nostalgia to his pictures which, likeFreya Stark’s, will cast their spell over readers present and future. 308p, illus.




Non-Muslims in Muslim MajoritySocietiesWith Focus on the Middle East and Pakistanby Kajsa Ahlstrand and Göran Gunner

In a world where almost all societies are multi-religious and multi-ethnic, we need to study howsocial cohesion can be achieved in differentcontexts. In some geographical areas, as in theMiddle East and the Indian subcontinent, peopleof different religious belonging have, through the ages, lived side by side,sometimes in harmony and sometimes in dissonance. In other geographicalregions, as in Scandinavia, societies have been quite religiously homogeneousbut only recently challenged by immigration.

In order to discuss the situation for Non-Muslims in Muslim majority societies,a consultation was convened with both Muslim and Christian participants fromPakistan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Sweden. Some of the participants work inacademic settings, others in faith-based organizations, some in jurisprudenceand others with theological issues. This book presents articles that discussissues such as freedom of religion, minority rights, secular and religiouslegislation, and inter-religious dialogue in Muslim majority societies. 166p.

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Art and Architecture of TwelverShi’ismby James W. Allan

Twelver Shi’ism is the dominant faith in southernIraq and Iran and it has had a major historical rolealso in India, in particular in the Deccan and inLucknow, but its distinctive art and architecturehave received little attention and seldom appearin books on the arts of the Islamic World. Thisbook looks first at the history of the great Shi’i shrines of Iran and Iraq, asubject almost completely untouched in the standard works on Islamicarchitecture; at the role of Shi’i and, unexpectedly, Sunni (orthodox Islamic)patronage in their development; at the collecting of relics, and the use ofinscriptions and symbols to identify religious buildings; and at the way inwhich different secondary Shi’i religious buildings (e.g. tekiyehs, ashur khanehsand kerbalas) appeared in Iran and in India. It then turns to the impact ofShi’ism on the craft industries, highlighting in particular the role of shrines inpromoting art. 182p.

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Die Syrische SteppeMobile Viehzucht, internationaleEntwicklungshilfe und globale Märkteby Andreea Bretan

The Syrian desert has for 50 years been the focusof a debate on overgrazing, environmentalprotection, and rural development. State andinternational institutions blame the mobilelivestock herders who live and make theirlivelihood in the steppe for pollution and the progressive land degradation. In aconcentrated action, 60% of the steppe is supposed to be afforested by grazingprotection reserves. This has far-reaching consequences for Syrian pastoralnomads. They will have to travel around these areas, may not set up campthere, and will lose control over the decision of when they can graze the re-grown resources. The growing pressure on the few remaining free steppe areasleads to conflicts and economic crises.

The study provides the bandwidth, but also limitations of the flexibleadaptation of nomadic livestock enterprises and includes a discussion on theeconomic and political conditions that frame the relations between nomadsand those settled in what is now Syria. German text. 208p, 5 b/w illus, 15 colillus, 6 charts, 13 tbls.

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Conflicting NarrativesWar, Trauma and Memory in Iraqi Cultureedited by Stephan Milich, FriederikePannewick and Leslie Tramontini

This volume deals with the Iraqi culturalproduction under and after Baathist rule, aresearch field which, in comparison to Iraqihistory and politics, has attracted relatively scantscholarly attention. The contributors depict theimpact of dictatorship, sanctions, and successive wars on Iraqi culture, analyzethe predominant narratives and counter-narratives in Iraqi culture, as well asconsidering the effect of the demographic shift to exile and diaspora. Furthercontributions deal with the fragmentation of Iraq’s political culture and artisticrepresentations of diverse identities and historical memories. And last but byno means least, the volume asks how the strategies of those intellectuals whosupported and legitimized official politics during the Baathist rule can beapproached and studied critically with a view to gaining a betterunderstanding of how official culture functioned. 280p.

Reichert Verlag, Literaturen im Kontext. Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch 35, August 2012


Why Muslims Participate in JihadAn Empirical Survey of Islamic Religiosity inIndonesia and Iranby Dicky Sofjan

Firmly embedded in the Islamic religious thought,practice and ethos, jihad (colloquially, ‘Islamicholy war’) is far from being an anachronism. Inthe aftermath of September 11, statesman,laymen and scholars and would be researchershave struggled to explain and understand why Muslims would be willing toparticipate in jihad. Is there some form of logic behind the decision? To whatextent does rational instrumentalism determine the variation in the level ofwillingness to participate? Can socioeconomic status indicators tell ussomething about the profiles of the jihad participants and its prospectivedoers? Does identity politics have any significant bearing on the Muslims’ levelof participation? Based on empirical survey on Islamic religiosity in Indonesiaand Iran, this study sets out to examine these pertinent issues. It delves intothe various dimensions of religiosity, while explaining to what extent and howreligious affection affects Muslim participation in jihad. 210p.

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Europa und Palästina 1799–1948/Europe and Palestine 1799–1948Religion – Politik – Gesellschaft /Religion – Politics – Societyedited by Barbara Haider-Wilson andDominique Trimbur

The encounter of Occident and Orient is one of themajor topics of our time. This volume focuses onthe Palestinian realm from 1799 to 1948, a periodin which the ordinary interest for the land of the Bible and Christian historywas connected to a much greater cultural and political discourse, carried out bythe western churches and European societies in general.

From 1516/17 Palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in thenineteenth century, this small territory became an issue for world politics. Themaintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire constituted one of theguidelines of the European powers. This did not hinder any of them, however,from taking part in a competition for influence in Palestine. The theme Europeand Palestine thus connects European and non-European history from thestandpoint of a modern international history and the newly refocused churchand religious histories. German and English text. 376p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Archiv für Österreichische Geschichte 142, 20109783700168041, paperback – $89.00. Special Offer $71.00

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Anatolian Iron Ages 5edited by A Çilingiroglu and G Darbyshire

This volume focuses on the archaeology of Anatoliabetween the collapse of the Hittite empire and thePersian conquest. It ranges from the discussion ofbroad problems of chronology and culturalinteraction to the presentation of new materialfrom both major and less well known sites.Although most of the papers relate to the area of present-day Turkey, asignificant feature is the inclusion of papers placing Anatolian archaeology inits wider context. 240p.

British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, BIAA Monographs 31, 20059781898249153, hardback – $100.00. Special Offer $29.98

Saddling the DogsJourneys through Egypt and the Near Eastedited by Diane Fortenberry and DeborahManley

The papers here cover a range of journeys in Egypt,Greece and east as far as Persia and are linked bythe light they shed on the experience of travel inthese regions from the 17th to the early 20thcentury. Each of them is of interest for what it reveals about the realities oftravel in Egypt, the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East at different times.181p.

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The Cities of Pamphyliaby John D Grainger

Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek countryfrom the early Iron Age until the Middle Ages. Inthat land there were nine cities which can bedescribed more or less as Greek, and this book is aninvestigation of their history. John Grainger bringstogether a wide variety of exiguous andfragmentary sources to tell the cities’ story. He considers the processes of cityfoundation, settlement, urbanisation and evolution, and the cities’ mutualrelations. 270p, 16 plates, 41 b/w illus.

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Towards Reflexive Method inArchaeologyThe example of Catalhöyükedited by Ian Hodder and Team Members

In the early 1990s the University of Cambridgereopened excavations at the Neolithic site ofCatalhöyük in central Turkey, abandoned since the1960s. The aim of the volume is to discuss some ofthe reflexive or postprocessual methods that have been introduced at the sitein the work there since 1993. These methods involve reflexivity, interactivity,multivocality and contextuality or relationality. 300p, b/w plates.

BIAA/McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Monograph Series, 20009781902937021, hardback – $70.00. Special Offer $29.98

Catalhöyük PerspectivesThemes from the 1995-99 Seasonsedited by Ian Hodder

In this synthetic volume we most clearly describe thestories we have been telling ourselves during the datarecovery/interpretation process. This volume thusprovides a contextualization of the work carried out inVolumes 3 to 5 it records the framework of thoughtwithin which the data were collected and studied, but it is also the result of theinterpretation that occurred in the interaction with data. 300p.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Çatalhöyük Research Project 6, 2005


Inhabiting ÇatalhöyükReports from the 1995-99 seasonsedited by Ian Hodder

Volume 4 deals with various aspects of thehabitation of Çatalhöyük. Part A discusses therelationship between the site and its environment;Part B looks at evidence from human remains whichinform us about diet and lifestyle; Part C looks at theways in which houses and open spaces in the settlement were lived in. A pictureis built up of how people moved through and lived in the natural and culturalenvironment of the places we subsume under the name of ‘Çatalhöyük’. 446p.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Çatalhöyük Research Project 4, 20059781902937229, hardback – $125.00. Special Offer $29.98


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Changing Materialities at ÇatalhöyükReports from the 1995-99 Seasonsedited by Ian Hodder

Volume 5 deals with other aspects of the materialculture excavated in the 1995-99 period. Inparticular it discusses the changing materiality oflife at the site over its 1100 years of occupation. Itincludes a discussion of ceramics and other firedclay material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone and basketry. Acentral question concerns change through time, and the degree and speed ofthis change. 560p, 268 b/w illus, 246 tbls and CD-ROM.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,Çatalhöyük Research Project 5, 2005


Historical Topography of Samarraby Alastair Northedge

This is the first fundamentally new work to comeout in half a century on Samarra, in Iraq. Northedgesets out to explain the history and development ofthis enormous site using both archaeological andtextual sources to weave a new interpretation ofhow the city worked: its four caliphal palaces, fourFriday mosques, cantonments for the military and for the palace servants,houses for the men of state and generals. 426p, 91 plates, 116 b/w illus.

British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Samarra Studies 1, 20089780903472227, paperback – $80.00. Special Offer $19.98

The Asvan Sites 3, The Early BronzeAgeby A. G. Sagona

The three sites discussed in this volume provide aseries of overlapping sequences that flesh out thecultural developments in East-Central Anatoliaduring most, if not all, of the third millennium BC.The ceramic evidence, forming the greater part ofthe material remains, is generously illustrated. 260p, with 160 figs and 3 colplates.

British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, BIAA Monographs 18, 19949781898249023, paperback – $63.00. Special Offer $25.98

Tille Höyük 4The Late Bronze Age and the Iron AgeTransitionby G. D. Summers

This is the first archaeological documentation of thecontinuity of settlement at Tille Höyük from theLate Bronze Age to the Iron Age. As the only site inthe Ataturk Dam region to document closely thistransition, it should be essential reading for those concerned with this periodin the Near East. 203p, with 74 figs and 29 plates.

British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, BIAA Monographs 15, 19939781898249016, hardback – $70.00. Special Offer $29.98

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