Religion: general

Rashid al-Din Hamadani's (d.

Now back in print after 25 years: A small but unusually exhaustive collection of magical texts from some of the most important ancient Egyptian manuals and stelae, translated and organized by the renowned Dutch Egyptologist J.

In the Persianate world, wisdom literature has a long history, dating back to pre-Islamic times.

Born into a family of scholars and literati in Samarqand, Muhammad 'Sultan' Mutribi Samarqandi (d.

Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "e;enthusiasm"e; in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period.

In the Islamic world, the writing of biographical reference works has a very long tradition.