Reviews

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 Caliphate Wilferd 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 Shi^cite Islam from the Office of Mufti to the Institution of Marja^c , 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 Receptivity Margaret 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 Hōm Yašt, 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 Achievement Richard 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 Mongole Denise 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‐Conqueror Ata‐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, 1831–1896 Abbas 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 Harat Mansureh 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.