Book reviewed in this article:Islam, the People and the State: Essays on Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East.By Sami ZubaidaThe Just Ruler (al‐sul?ān al‐ādil) in Shrite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence.By Abdulaziz AbdulhusseinMaterialien zur arabischen Literaturgcschichte.Teil II. By Rudolf SelheimThe Imamate tradition of Oman.By John C. WilkinsonIbn Sina: Remarks and Admonitions: Part One: Logic.Translated from the original Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes. By Shams C. InatiUnderstanding Islam and Muslims in the Philippines.Edited by Peter GowingWhen the Words Bum: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry 1945–1987.Translated and edited by John Mikhail AsfourExpectation of the Millenium: Shi(ism in History. Edited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, and Seyyed Vali Reza NasrOttoman Population, 1830–1914: Demographic and Social Characteristics.By Kemal H. KarpatState Politics and Islam.Edited by Mumtaz AhmadLaw and Justice in Contemporary Yemen: People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic.By S. H. AminIslamic Economic Co‐operation.By Masudul Alam ChoudhurySocial History and Evolution in the Interrelationship of Adat and Islam in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan.By Michael G. PeletzPalace Walk.A novel by Naguib MahfouzThe Fertile Crescent, 1800–1914 A Documentary Economic History.Charles IssawiMuhammad's Mecca: History in the Qur(ān.By W. Montgomery WattTheoretical Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance.Edited by Mohsin S. Khan and Abbas MirakhorThe Soviet Union and the Middle East: A Documentary Record of Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey 1917–1985.By Basil Dmytryshyn and Frederick CoxMuhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.By Martin LingsThe Lord as Guru: Hindi Sants in the Northern Indian Tradition.By Daniel GoldSaints and Virtues.Edited by John Stratton HawleyHistoric Cities of Asia: An Introduction to Asian Cities from Antiquity to Pre‐Modern Times.Edited by M. A. J. BegThe Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility 1574