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		<title>Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arts in Turkey: How ancient became modern. By Arnold Reisman. Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2009. Pp. xvii, 165, with col. illustrations; includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 143920537X.
Post-Ottoman Turkey: Classical music and opera. By Arnold Reisman. Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2009. Pp.147, with illustrations; includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1439205388.
These two books form a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/11/138/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The politics of women’s rights in Iran. By Arzoo Osanloo. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xix, 258, with appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. ISBN: 978-0-691-13546-5 (hardcover), 978-0-691-13547-2 (paperback).
This book is the product of a project Arzoo Osanloo conducted focusing on women’s rights in their daily lives in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic manuscript tradition: Ten centuries of book arts in Indiana University collections. Edited by Christiane Gruber. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. xviii, 281, with illustrations and maps. ISBN: 9780253353771.
All books before the invention of the printing press were copied by hand and the book-making process, including binding and designing, was entirely manual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/11/132/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prophet’s ascension: Cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic miʿrāj tales. Edited by Christian Gruber and Frederick Colby. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. 440, with bibliographical references and index. $59.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780253353610.
This book grew out of two panel discussions, one at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, and the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lalami on Moroccan bookstores and Caldwell&#8217;s &#8220;Reflections on the Revolution in Europe&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leila Lalami writes about one of her favorite bookstores in Rabat, with a nice photo of what real bookstores used to look like &#8211; and some still do:  http://lailalalami.com/2009/support-your-bookstore/
Also check out Lalami&#8217;s timely review of Christopher Caldwell&#8217;s book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, in the Dec. 14, 2009, issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamdani&#8217;s &#8220;Between revolution and state,&#8221; review by M. St. Germain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This work examines the most important works of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, an influential Islamic theologian and jurist under the Fatimids. The introduction states that the author will examine the significance of the Fatimid revolution and state during its own time, based on already known sources.]]></description>
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		<title>Chehabi&#8217;s &#8220;Distant relations,&#8221; review by C. Rockwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premise of the book is that while the media make much of the current relations between Iran and the Lebanese Hizballah, this relationship did not spring out of nowhere. The book therefore proceeds to study the history of religious, cultural, and political relations between Iranians and Lebanese.]]></description>
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		<title>Habib&#8217;s &#8220;Female homosexuality in the Middle East,&#8221; review by R. Roded</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This study aims minimally to present some evidence from medieval Arabic sources that describe homosexual desire, practice, and identity, challenging the notion that homosexuality, and in this case female homosexuality, is a western construct of the nineteenth century.]]></description>
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		<title>Nojumi&#8217;s &#8220;Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan,&#8221; review by A. Satterfield</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/11/nojumis-rise-of-the-taliban-in-afghanistan-review-by-a-satterfield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neamatollah Nojumi gives us a glimpse into the deep and complicated history of Afghanistan, helping the reader understand more clearly how the Taliban rose to power.]]></description>
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