G. R. Hawting. The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 168 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-65165-3.
Reviewed by Walid Saleh (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (February, 2005)
In the Fog of History
Majid Fakhry. An Interpretation of the Qur'an: English Translation of the Meanings. New York: New York University Press, 2002. xi + 647 pp. $23.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-2724-9.M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. The Qur'an: A New Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xliii + 464 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-280548-5.
Kumiko Yamamoto. The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xxiv + 191 pp. Price not listed (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-12587-2.
Reviewed by Raziuddin Aquil (Fellow in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (November, 2004)
