I had the great pleasure of attending the author Elif Safak’s Room for Rumi event last night which brought her engaging new novel: The Forty Rules of Love: A novel of Rumi to life through a literary exchange. It was a stimulating discussion about mysticism, faith, sufism, writing, hope and love. The Asia House literature festival (9-26th May) is a jam packed event covering stories and literary journeys from many
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Imagining the past: historical fiction in New Kingdom Egypt / Colleen Manassa. Als die Götter auch noch Mensch waren : eine Anthologie altorientalischer Literatur / Sabina Franke (Hrsg.) New results and new questions on the reign of Suppiluliuma I / edited by Stefano de Martino, Jared L. Miller. Byzantium Arab-Byzantine coins and history: papers presented at the 13th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table held at
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sole della Mesopotamia: considerazioni incomplete / Claudio Saporetti 4th century Karia : defining a Karian identity under the Hekatomnids / edited by Olivier Henry. Beyond hearth and home: women in the public sphere in neo-Assyrian society / by Sherry Lou Macgregor. The Cyrus cylinder and ancient Persia : a new beginning for the Middle East / John Curtis ; with an introductory essay by Neil MacGregor
Ancient Near Eastern civilizations Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996 (Vol. 3 & Vol.4) Ebla and its landscape / edited by Paolo Malthiae & Nicolò Marchetti Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita / Maria Vittoria Tonietti. The world of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms: a political and military history / Trevor Bryce. Linguistics studies in Phoenician: in memory of J. Brian Peckham / edited by Robert D. Holmstedt and Aaron Schade. The elements of
Islam Pointing the finger : Islam and Muslims in the British media / [edited by] Julian Petley and Robin Richardson. Fundamental religio-political concepts in the sources of Islam / by Souran Mardini Who speaks for Islam? : what a billion Muslims really think / John L Esposito, Dalia Mogahed Muslims and others in sacred space / edited by Margaret Cormack Beyond dogma : Rumi’s teachings on friendship with God and
Islam Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba : the life and works of a controversial thinker / edited by Camilla Adang, Maribel Fierro, Sabine Schmidtke Modern Islamic thought in a radical age : religious authority and internal criticism / Muhammad Qasim Zaman The Bloomsbury companion to Islamic studies / edited by Clinton Bennett [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Classical Islam : a sourcebook of religious literature / edited and translated
Islam The emergence of Islam : classical traditions in contemporary perspective / by Gabriel Said Reynolds The lineaments of Islam : studies in honor of Fred McGraw Donner / edited by Paul M Cobb Scripture and exegesis in early Imāmī-Shiism / by Meir M Bar-Asher Fatwa on terrorism and suicide bombings / Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri foreword by John L Esposito introduction by Joel S Hayward Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban :
Ancient Indian influence on Japanese culture : a comparative study of civilizations / Yoshihiro Kaburagi. Abibhakta Bāṃlāra kr̥shaka saṃgrāma / Susnāta Dāśa South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock / edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea. Nepal : nation-state in the wilderness : managing state, democracy, and geopolitics / by Lok Raj Baral. Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik
Sustainable pastoralism in the Himalayas India chronic poverty report : towards solutions and new compacts in a dynamic context Wandering hermit : the Himalayas / Shakti Singh. The verses : Urdu/Hindi-English Pilgrimage tourism / Nirmala Sati, I.K. Mansoori. The hymns of Yajurveda = Yajurvedaḥ Management of water resources in Himalayan ecosystem : a case study / Khalid Rayaz. Women in terrorism : case of the LTTE / Tamara Herath An
Sambandha / Rājendra ‘Rājeśa’. 1857, Narahatạ kī vīrān̐ganā / Vinoda Kumara Śrīvāstava. Patthara galī : [kahānī-saṅgraha] / Nāsirā Śarmā. Mahākavikālidāsaviracitam, Abhijñānaśākuntalam : Prabhopetam / sampādaka, samīkshaka evaṃ vyākhyākāra, Śivabālaka Dvivedī, Ratnā Tivārī, Pratyushavatsalā Divedī. Nirālā kā kāvya rāga se vidroha taka / Avadheśa Kumāra. Muṃśī Premacanda aura Dalita samāja : rāshtṛīya bahasa ke āīne meṃ vivecanā / Ratnakumāra Sāmbhariyā. Āja ke g̲ẖama ke nāma / Faiza Ahamada Faiza ; sampādaka,
