Minna Rozen. History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-1566. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002. xix + 414 pages. $155.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-12530-8.
Reviewed by Sara Nur Yildiz (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (March, 2003)
Julia Clancy-Smith, ed. North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World: From the Almoravids to the Algerian War. London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2001. 202 pp. $41.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7146-8184-9; $41.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7146-5170-5.
Reviewed by David J. Wasserstein (Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (February, 2003)
Michael Cook. The Koran: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 164 pp. $8.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-285344-8.
Reviewed by Khaleel Mohammed (Brandeis University) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (February, 2003)
