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Selected Onomastic Writings,Rüdiger Schmitt, edited by Winfried Breidbach and Philip Huyse, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000, ISBN: 0–933273–42–8, 303pp., $48.00 (Mostly in German).Hamid al‐Din al‐Kirmani: Isma'ili Thought in the Age of al‐Hakim,Paul E. Walker, London: I.B Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1999, ISBN 1 85043 321 3, xiv + 168pp., £25.00.Intellectual Traditions in Islam,ed. Farhad Daftary, London and New York: I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000, ISBN 1–86064–435‐X, xvii + 252 pp.The Persian Presence in the Islamic World,ed. Richard G. Hovannisian and George Sabagh, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN: 0–521–59185–6 (hb), 267 pp.La Science dans le monde Iranien à I'époque islamique,Études réunies et présentées par ή Vesel, H. Beikbaghban et B. Thierry de Crussol des Epesse, Teheran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Bibliothèque Iranienne 50, 1998, xxiv + 430pp, including general index, list of illustrations, and Persian table of contents.Geschichte der Stadt Qom im Mittelalter (650–1350): politische und wirtschaftliche Aspekte,Andreas Drechsler, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1999, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 224, ISSN: 0939–1940, ISBN 3–87997–276–1, 377 pp.Al‐Khayyam Mathématicien,R. Rashed et B. Vahabzadeh, Paris: Librairie Scientifique et Technique, Albert Blanchard, 1999, ISBN 2–85367–210–7, x + 429 pp., incl. Arabic text, French translation, commentaries, appendices, indices, and glossary.Omar Khayyam the Mathematician,R. Rashed & B. Vahabzadeh, New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000, Persian Heritage Series, No. 40, ISBN 0–933273–46–0, x + 268, including English translation, appendices, indices.Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah cAbbas: Ideology, Imitation and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles,Sholeh A. Quinn, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000, ISBN 0–87480–643–7, (hardcover) 197 pp., 4 tables, 2 appendices, index, $32.50.The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete,Abraham of Crete, annotated and trans. by George Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1998, vi + 202 pp., including maps, glossary, bibliography, and index, cloth $26.95.History of the Wars (1721–1738),Abraham of Erevan, annotated and trans, by George Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1999, viii+112 pp., including maps, bibliography, and index, paperback $19.95.Education, Religion, and the Discourse of Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran, Monica M. Ringer, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2001, ISBN: 1–56859–131–4 (pb), 310 pp.Die globale kapitalistische Expansion und Iran. Eine Studie der Iranischen Politischen Ökonomie (1500–1980),Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Münster, Hamburg, and London: Lit Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3–8258–4440–0 (hb), DM 89.80, ISBN 3–8258–4439–0, (pb), DM 48.80, 684 pp., appendices, bibliography, index.The CIA Documents & the Overthrow of Dr. Musaddiq of Iran,ed. Gholam‐reza Vatandoust, Tehran: RASA Publications, 2000.Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah,Baqer Moin, London: Tauris Publishers, 1999, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, ISBN: 0–312–26490–9, 352 pp., $27.95Women, Work, & Islamism: Ideology & Resistance in Iran,Maryam Poya, London & New York: Zed Books, 1999, ISBN: 1–85649‐ 681–3.Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran,Ziba Mir‐Hosseini, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, ISBN 0–691–01004–8, xxiv + 305 pp., cloth, $55.00, paper, $18.95.Religious Minorities in Iran,Eliz Sanasarian, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xviii + 229 pp., tables, photographs, $59.95 (cloth).Fathers and Sons: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi,[Abolqasem] Firdawsi, translated from the Persian by Dick Davis, Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 2000, 310 pp.Literarische Verwendung persischer Termini und Redewendungen im Werke Sadeq Hedayats: ein Kompendium,Fakhrezzaman Schirazi‐Mahmoudian, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Iranica, Bd. 4,1999, 981 pp., DM 176.Histoire du cinema Iranien. 1900–1999,Mamad Haghighat and Frédéric Sabouraud, Paris: Cinéma du Réel, Bibliotheque Publique d'Information et Centre Georges Pompidou, 1999, ISBN: 2–84246–041–3, 247 ppA Study of European, Persian and Arabic Loans in Standard Sorani,Jafar Hasanpoor, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1999, Reports on Asian and African Studies (RAAS), 1, ISBN 91–506–1353–7, ISSN 1404–0743, 176 pp.Amoo Norooz and Other Persian Stories,ed. Ahmad K. Jabbari, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000, ISBN: 1–56859–065–2, (hardcover), 108 pp., illustrations.

Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797–1889: A Documentary Record, annotated translation and commentary by George Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1997, 578 pp., notes, glossaries, index, ISBN 0–89003–123–1.The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early CaliphateWilferd Madelung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xviii + 387 pp., bibliography, index.Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought, Louise Marlow, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiii + 198 pp.Fâtima von Qom. Ein Beispiel für die Verehrung heiliger Frauen im Volks‐glauben der Zwölfer‐Schia, Zohreh Sadeghi, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 203, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1996, 213 pp.Religious Authority in Shicite Islam from the Office of Mufti to the Institution of Marjac, Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation, 1996, xiii + 338pp., references, glossary and index.’Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1089 C.E.): An Early Sūfi Master, A.G. Ravan Farhadi, Curzon Sufi Series, ed. Ian Richard Netton, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996, xiv + 158 pp.Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century B.C.: A Study in Cultural ReceptivityMargaret C. Miller, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiv + 331 pp., 150 illustrations, 2 maps, ISBN 0–521–49598–9, $100.00.The Pahlavi Translation Technique as Illustrated by HōmYašt, Judith Joseph‐son, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 2, Uppsala: Uppsala Universitetsbibliothek, 1997, 214 pp.Farraxvmart i Vahraman, The Book of A Thousand Judgments (A Sasanian Law Book), introduction, transcription, and translation of the Pahlavi text, notes, glossary and indexes by Anahit Perikhanian, translated from Russian by Nina Garsoian, Persian Heritage Series No. 39, Costa Mesa, California and New York: Mazda Publishers, 1997, in association with Bibliotheca Persica, 432 pp.The Decline of Iranshahr: Irrigation and Environments in the History of the Middle East, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1500, Peter Christensen, trans. Steven Sampson, Odense: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1993, 351 pp.Bukhara: The Medieval AchievementRichard N. Frye, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1996, xiv + 211 pp., index, illustrations.The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma“ilis, Farhad Daftary, London: I. B. Tauris, 1995, 213 pp.L'Iran face à la domination MongoleDenise Aigle, ed., Tehran: Institut Française de recherche en Iran, 1997.The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy, Reuven Amitai‐Preiss and David O. Morgan, ed., Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999, xiv + 363 pp.Genghis Khan. The History of the World‐ConquerorAta‐Malik Juvayni, trans. and ed. J.A. Boyle, with an introduction by David O. Morgan, Manchester: University Press and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997, lxvii + 763 pp., 3 maps.Tamerlane's Tableware: A New Approach to the Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth‐ and Sixteenth‐Century Iran, Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason, and Gauvin A. Bailey, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, in association with the Royal Ontario Museum, 1996, 256 pp., 89 black‐and‐white plates, 17 color plates, numerous tables.A Study of Jean Chardin's Description of Isfahan(in Japanese), Masashi Haneda, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1996, viii + 413 pp., 22,660 yen.Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al‐Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896Abbas Amanat, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press and Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1997, xviii + 536 pp., 7 figures, 33 plates, map, bibliography, index.Les Allemands en Perse pendant la première guerre mondiale d'après les sources diplomatiques françaises, Oliver Bast, Paris: Peeters et Institut d'études iraniennes, 1997.General Semino dar khidmat‐i Iran dar “asr‐i Qajar va jang‐i HaratMansureh Ettehadieh (Nezam‐Mafi) and Said Mir Muhammad Sadiq, eds., introduction by Jean Calmard, Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Tehran: Nashr‐i Tarikh‐i Iran, 1997.A Monumental Manifestation of the Shi“ite Faith in Late Twelfth‐Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad‐i “Alawiyan, Hamadan, Raya Shani, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, xi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 169 pp., 108 figures (photographs, sections, elevations and drawings).Lost Treasures of Persia: Persian Art in the Hermitage Museum, Vladimir Loukonine & Anatoli Ivanov, Washington: Mage Publishers, 1996, 279 pp.Islamic Arts, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, London: Phaidon Press, 1997, 447 pp., 227 illustrations, 3 maps, glossary, bibliography, index.

The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800, Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom, Yale University Press, Pelican History of Art Series, 1994, 348 pp., 2 maps, 150 color plates, 150 b/w illustrations, $65.La Géographic administrative de l'empire sassanide: les té-moignages sigillographiques, Res Orientales I; publié par le Groupe pour l'Étude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et de 1'Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, Rika Gyselen, Paris, 1989, 166 pp., plates, maps, bibliography, indices, 1200 BEF.No Friends But the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds, John Bulloch and Harvey Morris, Oxford University Press, 1992, 238 pp.The Kurds: A Concise Handbook, Mehrdad R. Izady, Taylor and Francis, Inc., 1992, 268 pp.The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, Myron Weiner and Ali Banuazizi, eds., Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994, xv + 488 pp., illustrations.Islamic Manuscripts in theNewYork Public Library, Barbara Schmitz (with contributions by Latif Khayyat, Svat Soucek and Massoud Pour-farrokh), New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press and The New York Public Library, 1992.The Boundaries of Modern Iran, Keith McLachlan, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 150 pp., index, illustrations, $49.95.Iran and Iraq: The Threat from the Northern Gulf, Anthony H. Cordesman, Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 380 pp., $64.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback).Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic, Ervand Abrahamian, London: I. B. Tauris and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, xi + 188 pp., $45.00 cloth, $16.00 paper.Iran's Economy under the Islamic Republic, Jahangir Amuzegar, London: I. B. Tauris, 1993.Iran as Imagined Nation: The Construction of National Identity, Mostafa Vaziri, New York: Paragon House, 1993, 246 pp., $46.95.Derwische im Vorhof der Macht: sozial und Wirtschafts-geschichte Nordwestirans in 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, Monika Gronke, Freiburger Islamstudien XV, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1993, x + 436 pp., DM 194.Persian Cooking for a Healthy Kitchen, Najmieh Batmanglij, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1994, 200 pp. 95 recipes, 87 color photographs, $32.50.Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West, Daryush Shayegan, transl. John Howe, London: Saqi Books, 1992, vii + 188 pp., index (original French: Le regard mutilé, schizophrénie culturelle: pays tra-ditionnels face à la modernité, Paris: Albin Michel, 1989).Ties That Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet, Leonard M. Helfgott, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press,1994, ix + 358 pp., 11 b&w photos, 6 line illus., bibliography (p. 327), index (p. 347), $39 (cloth).Islam and the Post-Revolutionary State in Iran, Homa Omid, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, x + 263 pp., $65.00.