JOHN DEREK LATHAM (1927–2005)

 John Derek Latham (he always used Derek as his first name) was born in South Lancashire on 8 April 1927. Derek graduated from Oxford University in 1949 with double honours in Classical Moderations (Mods) and Oriental Studies (Arabic and Persian, first class). He continued his studies at Oxford under Hamilton Gibb being awarded a D.Phil. in 1956 for this thesis entitled Prolegomena to a Study of Andalusian Influences in the Social Life of North-West Africa, and a D.Litt. in 1981 for his original contributions to the advancement of learning.

Derek was an excellent teacher, working at the University of Manchester until 1981 (he attained the position of Reader in Arabic in 1973), and from 1982 to his retirement in 1988, he was Iraq Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Head of the Muir Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He also served as Curator of Middle East Collections and Associate Professor of the Hoover Institution, 1957-58, and was Visiting Fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford University in 1975. As can be seen from the publications listed below, Derek was a prolific scholar, publishing dozens of articles on Arabic language and literature, on North African and Andalusian studies, on Islamic studies and on mediaeval Islamic archery. His most significant articles on the Maghrib were collected and published as From Muslim Spain to Barbary: Studies in the History and Culture of the Muslim West (London: Variorum, 1986). 

Derek was an first-rate Arabist and an accomplished translator of mediaeval Arabic; his collaboration with the experienced archer, W.F. Paterson, resulted in an excellent version in English of a Mamluk work on archery, published as Saracen Archery in 1970 (London: Holland Press), while his work with his Manchester colleague and medical doctor, Haskell Isaacs, led to their edition and translation of Isaac Judaeus’s Arabic treatise On Fevers (Cambridge, Middle East Centre, 1981).  Derek continued to publish after his retirement, notably an important series of articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam and he also served as co-editor of the two volumes of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature devoted to the Abbasid era, that is Abbasid Belles Lettres and Religion, Learning and Science in the `Abbasid Period, both of which appeared in 1990.  Derek also published over 150 book reviews, many of them in the Bulletin of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies, of which he was editor from 1974 to 1989. He served on the advisory boards of many journals, as President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 1986-87 and as Chair of the Middle East Libraries Committee, 1971-79.

Throughout his career, Derek was a popular colleague, a conscientious supervisor, a generous host and was always supportive of young academics and librarians. In retirement, Derek returned to Manchester (he had retained the family home at Timperley in Cheshire) where he became a J.P., an appointment of which he was very proud, serving for many years in Manchester Magistrates’ Court in Crown Square. After a short period of ill health, Derek died in Manchester in early 2005 at the age of 77. 

The published works of J. Derek Latham:  In Memoriam 

Ed. Elizabeth Newton and Paul Auchterlonie  

Books 

(With W. F. Paterson) Saracen Archery: An English Version and Exposition of a Mameluke Work on Archery (ca. 1368) with Introduction, Glossary and Illustrations, (London: Holland Press, 1970): pp. xl, 219. 

Kitāb al-ḥummayāt li-Isḥāq ... al-Isrā’īlī/Isaac Judaeus: On Fevers (The Third Discourse: On Consumption), together with an Appendix containing a Facsimile of the Latin Version of the Discourse, ed. and trans. by J. D. Latham, H. D. Isaacs, et al. [Arabic Technical and Scientific Texts, 8] (Cambridge: Middle East Centre, 1981): pp. xxv, 122. 

From Muslim Spain to Barbary: Studies in the History and Culture of the Muslim West (London: Variorum, 1986): pp. xi, 348. 

Abbasid Belles Lettres, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, co-ed with J. Ashtiany, T.M. Johnstone, R.B. Serjeant & G.R. Smith (Cambridge, 1990): pp. xv, 517. 

Religion, Learning and Science in the ‘Abbasid Period, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, co-ed. with M. J. L. Young & R. B. Serjeant (Cambridge, 1990): pp. xxi, 587. 

articles

“Towards a study of Andalusian immigration and its place in Tunisian history”, Cahiers de Tunisie , 5 (1957): 203-52. 

“The Andalus in North Africa”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam (s.v. Al-Andalus) (Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1957, second edition), I: 496-7. 

“Observations on the text and translation of Al-Jarsifi's treatise on ḥisba”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 5 (1960): 124-43. 

“The content of the laḥn al-‘awāmm of Abū ‘Alī ‘Umar al-Sakūnī [Ms]”, Primer Congreso de Estudios Arabes: Actas(1964): 293-307. 

(With W. F. Paterson) “An analysis of arrow weights in an Islamic military manual”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 10 (1965): 253-61. 

“The reconstruction and expansion of Tetuan: The period of Andalusian immigration”, Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of [Sir] Hamilton A. R. Gibb, ed. G. Makdisi (Harvard, 1965): 386-408. 

“Reflections on the tā’ marbūṭa in Spanish toponyms of Arabic origin”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 12 (1967): 91-9. 

“Keshtebān: A Persian loanword in Arabic”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1968): 65-7. 

“The meaning of maydān as-sibāq”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 13 (1968): 241-8. 

“Infierno, mal lugar: an Arabicism?”, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 45 (1968): 177-80. 

“Some technical aspects of archery in the Islamic miniature”, Islamic Quarterly, 12 (1968): 226-34. 

“Notes on the Mamlūk horse-archer”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 32 (1969): 257-67. 

“Isaac Israeli's Kitāb al-ḥummayāt and the Latin and Castilian texts”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 14 (1969): 80-95. 

“Archers of the Middle East: the Turco-Iranian background”, Iran (1970): 133-40. 

(With Helen W. Mitchell) “The bibliography of the work of S. M. Stern”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 15 (1970): 226-38. 

“The interpretation of some verses by Jamīl”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 15 (1970): 219-25. 

(With Ian Michael) “lnfierno, mal lugar: further remarks”, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 47 (1970): 289-95. 

“Apropos of archery in the Maghrib: the oriental background”, Revue de l’Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée, numéro spécial (1970): 123-30. 

“Ibn ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf on the law of marriages: a matter of interpretation”, Islamic Quarterly, 15 (1971): 1-16. 

“The strategic position and defence of Ceuta in the later Muslim period”, Islamic Quarterly, 15 (1971): 189-204. 

“Arabic literature”, Guide to Oriental Literatures, D. M. Lang, ed., (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971): 1-48. 

“The rise of the Azafids of Ceuta”, Israel Oriental Studies, [S. M. Stern Memorial Volume], 2 (1972): 30-53. 

“Arabic into medieval Latin”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 17 (1972): 30-67. 

“Towns and cities of Barbary: the Andalusian influence”, Islamic Quarterly, 16 (1972): 189-204. 48-52. 

“Arabic Series”; “Festschriften”; “Muslim Spain”; “The Maghrib”; “Classical Arabic Literature”, in Middle East and Islam: a Bibliographical Introduction [Biblioteca Asiatica, 9]:  eds. D. Hopwood and D. Grimwood-Jones (Zug, 1972):  27-38; 39-45; 73-83; 84-8; 291-309. 

“Contribution à l'étude des immigrations andalouses et leur place dans l'histoire de la Tunisie”, eds. M. de Epalza and R. Petit Recueil d'études surles Moriscos andalous en Tunisie (Madrid-Tunis:  Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, 1973): 21-63. 

“The later ’Azafids”, Revue de l’Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée, 15-16 [Mélanges Le Tourneau], (1973): 109-25. 

(With M. A. El Kafrawy) “Perspectives of Abū l-’Atāhiya”, Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973): 160-76. 

“Western views of Islam”, Impact International (22 June-12 July): 1973, 11. 

“On the strategic position and defence of Ceuta in the later Muslim period”, Orientalia Hispanica sine Studia F. M. Pareja Octogenario dicata I, i, ed. J. M. Barral (Leiden: Brill, 1974), 445-64. 

(With A. N. Hourani) “The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies”, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 1 (1974): 3-4. 

“Bibliography of S. M. Stern, compiled by J. D. Latham and Helen W. Mitchell, revised and emended by J. D. Latham, July 1973”, Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry. Studies by Samuel Miklos Stern, ed. L. P. Harvey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), 231-45. 

“The world of Islam festival programme”, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 2 (1975): 94-9. 

“Arabic into medieval Latin (2): Letter C, M. L. D”: Journal of Semitic Studies, 21 (1976): 120-37. 

“Muçt‘afa de Cardenas et l’apport des ‘Morisques’ à la société tunisienne” in, Les Africains, ed. Ch.-A. Julien, et al., volume Vll (Paris: Editions J. A., 1977): 199-229. 

“Festschrifts and commemorative volumes” in Arab Islamic Bibliography, eds. D. Grimwood-Jones, D. Hopwood and J. D. Pearson (with assistance of J. P. C. Auchterlonie, J. C. Latham and Y. Safadi) (London: Harvester, 1977), 134-39. 

“ ‘Mahmud’ and ‘Laudable’ ”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (1977): 31-40. 

(With W. F. Paterson) “Archery in the lands of Eastern Islam” in Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. R. Elgood, (London:Scholar Press, 1978), 78-88. 

“Towards the interpretation of al-Saqaṭī’s Observations on Grain and Flour-milling”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 23 (1978): 64-87. 

“The interpretation of a passage on scales (mawāzīn) in an Andalusian ḥisba manual” [Studies in Honour of F. F. Bruce] Journal of Semitic Studies, 22, ii (1978): 283-90. 

“Towards a better understanding of al-Mutanabbī’s poem on the battle of al- Ḥadath”, Journal of Arabic Literature, 10 (1979): 1-22. 

“Muslim Spain”, “The Maghrib”, “Islamic Law”, “Arms, Armour and Armies”, “Islamic Theology”, “Classical Arabic Literature”, (Zug, 1976): 62-77; 78-83; 84-91; 101-4; 115-22; 335-52, in  Middle East and Islam; a Bibliographical Introduction (Bibliotheca Asiatica, 15) (Zug:IDC) (Revised and much enlarged edition of the 1972 publication by D. Hopwood and D. Grimwood-Jones), ed. D. Grimwood-Jones. 

“Loanwords from the Arabic in the Latin translation of the Calendrier de Cordoue”, Middle East Studies and Libraries: a Felicitation Volume for Professor J. D. Pearson (London: Mansell, 1980): 103-13. 

“Al-Ḳulay‘a”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980): V 361-2. 

“Āfrāg”, “Azafī, Banū ’l-” “Bardala”, “Balyūnash”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Supplement (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980): 45-6; 111-13; 125-26; 124-25. 

“Ibn al-Aḥmar's Kitāb mustawda‘ al-alāma [On the Sign-Manual]: Towards a commentary on the author's introduction”, in Studia Arabica et Islamica: Festschrift for Iḥsān ’Abbās, ed. Wadād al-Qāḍī, (Beirut: American University, 1981): 313-32. 

“Arabic and Islamic Studies in the UK,” New Books Quarterly on Islam and the Muslim World, I, ii-iii, (1981): 37-46. “Bubashtru (Bobastro)”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Supplement (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981): 152-3. 

“New light on the scansion of an old Andalusian muwaššaḥ”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 27 (1982): 61-75. 

In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Supplement (Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1982): “Ḥunayn”; “Ibn ‘Askar”; “Ibn Rushd al-Djadd”; “Ibn al-Ḳaṭṭān”; “Ibn aI-Sarrādj”: pp? 

“Hunting, fowling, Islamic”, in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer. 

“The beginnings of Arabic prose literature: the epistolary genre”, in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, ed. A. F. L. Beeston et al. volume I, (Cambridge: 1983): 154-79. 

“The prosody of an Andalusian muwashshaḥ re-examined”, Arabian and Islamic Studies: Articles presented to R. B. Serjeant on his retirement from the Sir Thomas Adams's Chair of Arabic, ed. R. L. Bidwell & G. R. Smith (Cambridge: 1983): 86-99. 

“Some observations on the bread trade in Malaga (ca. AD 1200)”, [C .F. Beckingham Festschrift] Journal of Semitic Studies, 29 (1984), 111-22. 

“The Parker report”, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 13 (1986): 3-14. 

“Muslim Spain”, “The Maghrib”, “The Maghrib”, “Classical Arabic literature”, in ed. P. Auchterlonie Middle East and Islam: A Bibliographical Introduction: Supplement 1977-1983 [Bibliotheca Asiatica 20]: (Zug, 1986):34-7, 38-40; 201-5. 

“Observations on some Arabic words and their meanings”, in A Miscellany of Middle Eastern Articles. In Memoriam Thomas Muir Johnstone, ed. A. K. Irvine, R. B. Serjeant, and G. R. Smith (1988: place?): 189-200. 

“Mandīl, Awlād or Banū”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, (Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1988 second edition): 404-5. 

“Arabic into medieval Latin (3): Letters D-F, M. L. D.”, [E. Ullendorff Festschrift], Journal of Semitic Studies, 34 (1989): 459-69. 

“Mawqi‘ Sabta al-Istrātījī wa-wasā'il difā‘i-hā fī awākhir al-fatra l-Islāmiyya”, in Dirāsāt fī Tārikh Madīnat Sabta l-Islāmiyya, ed. Amīn T. Ṭibi (Tunis, 1989): 19-39. 

“Banū al -‘Azafī Aṣḥāb Sabta”, in Dirāsāt fī Tārikh Madīnat Sabta l-Islāmiyya, ed. Amīn T. Ṭibi (Tunis, 1989): 63-114. 

“ ‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres”  in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, (Cambridge, 1990). 

“Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ and early ‘Abbasid prose”, in ‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres, ed. J. D. Latham, J. Ashtiany et al. (Cambridge, 1990): 48-77. 

“The rise of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain”, section “Al-Andalus:  Where three worlds met” in The UNESCO Courier, (Dec. 1991): 24-7. [Trans]. into 34 languages]. 

“The elegy on the death of Abū Shujā‘ Fātik by al-Mutanabbī”, Arabicus Felix:Luminosus Britannicus. Essays in honour ofA. F. L. Beeston, etc., ed. A. Jones (Oxford:  1991), 90-107. 

“Man li bi-rasan: Comments on the metre of an Andalusian Muwassaḥ”, F. Corriente & A. Saenz-Padillos (edd.), Poesía estrófica: Actas del Primer Congreso internacional sobre Poesía Estrófica... (Madrid... 1991, etc., 217-24. [This paper contains some printing errors, of which the most serious is the omission of 14 vital words at p. 222]). 

“Mufawada”, Encyclopaedia of Islam (1991) VII: 310-12. “Muḳaddam b. Mu‘āfa”, ibid., 492. “Mukhatara”, ibid., 518-19. 

“Mūsā b. Abī ‘l-‘Afiya”, Encyclopaedia of Islam , VII (1992): 671-2. “Muṣhāraka”, ibid., 671-2. “Naṣrids”, ibid., 1020-28. [Extended article] “Al-Nāẓūr”, ibid., 1056-7. 

“Of Andalusian lineage”, The Maghreb Review 16 (1994): 56-73. 

“Ṣā’ifa 2. In Muslim-Christian Warfare in Spain”, Encyclopaedia of Islam  2 (1995): VIII, 869-71. “Salaf” [in Islamic law], ibid., 899-900. “Salam” [in Islamic law], ibid., 914-15. 

“A total way of life” [On the Sharī‘a], Manchester Justice: Journal of the Manchester City Magistrates' Court, (1996, Spring/Summer): 4f. 

“Ebn al-Modaffa‘ ”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, (1997) VIII: 39-42. 

“Twenty-five years on”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 25 (1998): 217-19. 

“Al-Thughūr 2. In al-Andalus”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, (1999) X: 447-49. 

“Al-Mutanabbī: Some reflections and notes on his Egyptian valedictory” in I. R. Netton (ed.), Studies in honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Vol. 1, etc. (Leiden: 2000), 15-31. (NB Publ. date appears on vo. of title-page as 1998 and 1999!) 

“Arabic into medieval Latin (4): Letters I-L, M. L. D”, in Balim-Harding and C. Imber (edd.) The Balance of Truth. Essays in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Lewis (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2000), 255-57. 

“Urdjudhūna”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, X (2000): 873. 

“TB and its treatment in medieval Islam” Chapter 2 in R. Tapper and K. McLachlan (edd.) Technology, Tradition and Survival:  Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia (London, Portland, Oregon:  Frank Cass, 2003), 36-50.  

Reviews

“J. Berque, Al-Yousi, Problèmes de la culture marocaine au XVII ème siècle (Le Monde d'Outre-mer, Passé et Présent, 1ère série: Etudes II)”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 4 (1959) 404-5. 

“The Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies, The Way Prepared: A Reading Book in Modern Arabic”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 5 (1958): 425-6. 

“J.F.P. Hopkins, Medieval Muslim Government in Barbary, etc.”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (1958):22. 

“The Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies, A Selected Word List of Modern Literary Arabic”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 5 (1959): 426-7. 

“H.T.Norris, The Early Islamic Settlement in Gibraltar”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (1961): 91. 

“Ch. Pellat (ed. & tr.), Le Calendrier de Cordoue. Nouvelle édition [de celle de R. Dozy] accompagnée d'une traduction française annotée, Medieval Iberian Peninsula Texts and Studies, l)”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 8 (1961): 300-302. 

“M.C.Lyons, An Elementary Classical Arabic Reader”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 10 (1962): 132-7. 

“A. F. L. Beeston (tr.), Baiḍāwī’s Commentary on Surah 12 of the Qur’ān”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 11 (1963): 130-1. 

“J. M. Landau, Etudes sur le théâtre et le cinéma arabes (Etudes Arabes et Islamiques)”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 11 (1965): 133-4. 

“W. M. Watt, A History of Islamic Spain (Islamic Surveys, 4)”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 11 1965): 275-7. 

“Ch.-E.Dufourcq, L'Espagne catalane et le Maghrib aux Xlllème et XIVème siècles, etc.”, Studi Medievali, 3a Série, Vlll, (1966): 1153-56. 

“J. F. P. Hopkins, Arabic Periodical Literature 1961”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 12 (1966): 315. 

“S. and N. Ronart, Concise Encyclopaedia of Arabic Civilization: The Arab West”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 12 (1966): 313-15. 

“S. M. Stern (ed.), Documents from Islamic Chanceries  (Oriental Studies, III)”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 12 (1965): 311-13. 

“A. J. Arberry, Poems of Al-Mutanabbi, etc.”, Journal of Semitic Studies, 14 (1967): 283-85).  

“A. F. L. Beeston, Written Arabic: an Approach to the Basic Structures”, 1968, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society(1971): 185-7. 

“Idem, Arabic Historical Phraseology. Supplement to Written Arabic”, 1969, (ibid.). 

“N. J. Coulson, Succession in the Muslim Family”, Islamic Quarterly, 15 (1971): 205-6. 

“W. Fischer (ed.), Festgabe für Hans Wehr sum 60. Geburstag”, etc., Journal of Semitic Studies, 16 (1969): 279-81. 

“I. M. Lapidus, Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages”, 1967 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (1971): 62-4. 

“P. Holt, A. Lambton, R. Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam”, 1972, Journal of Semitic Studies, 17 (1972): 294-300. 

“Journal of Arabic Literature”, 1, 2, (1970, 1971), Islamic Quarterly, 16 (1970): 110-11. 

“Ch.-A. Julien, L'Afrique du Nord en marche”, etc. (3rd edn), 1972, Islamic Quarterly, 16 (1972): 214-15. 

“R. I. Lawless, A Bibliography of Works on Algeria Published in English since 1954”, 1972 Islamic Quarterly, 16 (1972): 215-16. 

“W. McLeod, Composite Bows from the Tomb of Tut’ankhamūn” (Tut’ankhamūn's Tomb Series), 1970, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 15 (1972): 225-6. 

“J. D. Pearson and A. Walsh, Index Islamicus: Third Supplement, 1966-1970”, etc., 1972 Islamic Quarterly, 16 (1972): 216-18. 

“J. D. Pearson, Index lslamicus: Fourth Supplement”, (Part 1) 1971-72, 1973 (ibid. 221). 

“D. Talbot Rice, Islamic Painting: a Survey”, 1971 (ibid., 111-14). 

“D. S. Richards (ed.), Islam and the Trade of Asia”, &c. (Papers on Islamic History, II), 1971 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 35 (1972). 

“J.-C. Vadet, L'esprit courtois en Orient clans les cinq premiers siècles de l'Hégire”, 1969 Journal of Semitic Studies, 17 (1972): 291-94. 

“S. Digby, War-horse and Elephant in the Dehli Sutianate: a Study of Military Supplies” (Orient Monographs), 1971, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (1973):36. 

“N. S. Doniach, The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage”, 1972, Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973): 112-14. 

“H. A. R. Gibb, The Life of Saladin from the Works of ’Imad ad-Dīn and Bahā' ad-Dīn”, 1973 Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973): 115. 

“M. Manzanares de Cirre, Arabistas espanoles del siglo XIX”, 1972, Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973): 189-91. 

“S. M. Stern (ed. & tr.), Aristotle on the World State”, 1970 (1968 imprint), Journal of Semitic Studies, 18 (1973): 191-2. 

“J. A. Wakin, The Function of Documents in Islamic Law”, 1972 Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973): 115-17. 

“W. M. Watt, The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe” (Islamic Surveys, 9), 1972 Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973): 191-2. 

“J. A. Williams (ed.), Themes of Islamic Civilisation”, 1971, Islamic Quarterly, 17 (1973) 192-3. 

“A. Al-Udhari (ed.), TR [Poetry periodical]”, I, i 1974, Islamic Quarterly, 18 (1974): 59-60. 

“D. M. Dunlop, Arab Civilisation to A.D. 1500” (Arab Background Series), 1971, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society  (1974): 62-3. 

“H. Biezais (ed.), The Myth of the State”, etc., 1972 (ibid., 106-7). 

“G. F. Hourani (ed.), Essays on Islamic Philosophy and Science”, 1975 Islamic Quarterly, 18 (1974): 107-9. “A. L. Ivry (tr. and comm.), Al-Kindi's Metaphysics”, etc. (ibid.,106-7). 

“J. T. Monroe, Hispano-Arabic Poetry”, etc. 1974 (ibid., l 03-6). 

“R. Arié, L'Espagne musulmane au temps des Narides” (1232-1492), 1974 (1973 imprint), Journal of Semitic Studies, 20 (1975): 278-81. 

“J. Grand' Henry, Le parler arabe de Cherchell” (Algérie) (Publications de l’Instiut Oriental de Louvain, 5), 1972 (ibid. 135-39). 

“R. P. Scheindlin, Form and Structure in the Poetry of al-Mu’tamid ibn ’Abbad” Publ. de Goeje Fund, XXIV), 1974, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 38 (1975): 631-33. 

“P. Chalmeta Gendrón, El ‘señor del zoco' en Espana... Contribución al estudio de la historic del Mercado”, 1974 (1973 imprint) Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (1976): 39. 

“R. I. Lawless, Algerian Bibliography: English Language Publications 1830 -1973”, 1976 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 3 (1976): 128-9. 

G. D. Salim, American Doctoral Dissertations on the Arab World 1883-1974, Second edition, 1976, Bulletin Of The British Society For Middle Eastern Studies, 4 (1977): 125. 

“M. Lings, The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination”, 1977 The Maghreb Review, 2 (1977): 23-4. 

“Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord”, 13 (1974), 14 (l 975), Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, (1978): 136-7). 

“M. K. Masud, Islamic Legal Philosophy: a Study of Abū Isḥāq al-Shātibī’s Life and Thought” (Publications of the Islamic Research lnstitute, 36), 1977 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 42 (1979): 383-85. 

“J. W. Witherell, The United States and Africa: Guide to the US Official Documents and Government Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785-1975”, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 6 (1979): 70-1. 

“M. Zoghby, Islam in sub-Saharan Africa: .a Partially Annotated Guide”, 1978 (ibid, 69-70). Pearson, H. & J. D., The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New edition Index Volumes I - III, 1979, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 6 (1979): 142-3. 

“F. Cordele, A Grammatical Sketch of the Spanish Arabic Dialect Bundle”, 1977, Journal of Semitic Studies, 25 (1980): 141-47. 

“D. R. Hill (tr.), The Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitāb al-Ḥiyal) by the Banū ... Mūsā bin Shākir”, 1979, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 43 (1980): 366-68. 

“K. Schwarz, Der Vordere Orient in den Hochschu/schriften Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schwein: eine Bibliographic von Dissertationen und Habilitationsschriften (1885-1978)” (Islamkundliche Materialen, 5), 1980, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 7 (1980): 59-60. 

“D. Sourdel, L'Islam medieval” (L'Historien, 39), 1979, The Maghreb Review, 5 (1980): 38-9. 

“G. D. Selina, Arab-World Newspapers in the Library of Congress: a List” (Near East Series), 1980, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 8 (1980): 72-3. 

“Libyan Studies Bulletins: Current Awareness Service” (Publications of the Libyan Studies Centre: Bibliographic Series, 3), 1980, ibid., 73. 

“A. F. L. Beeston (ed. & tr.), The Epistle of Singing Girls of Jāhiẓ” (Approaches to Arabic Literature, 2), 1980, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1981): 208-9. 

“M. Brett and W. Forman, The Moors: Islam in the West” (London: Obis), 1960, The Maghreb Review, 6 (1981): 41-2. 

“G. Bosch et al., Islamic Bindings and Bookmaking”, etc., 1981, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 8 (1982): 147-79. 

“M. Cock Early Muslim Dogma: a Source-critical Study”, 1981 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (1982): 179-81. 

J. T. Monroe, “Kharjas in Arabic and Romance: Popular poetry in Muslim Spain?” ed. A. T. Welch and P. Cachia inIslam: Past Influence and Present Challenge, Journal of Arabic Literature, 14 (1983): 85-95. 

“Amin, A. H. M., Catalogue des documents d'archives du Caire”, etc., 1981 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies: 1983. 

“Azmeh, A., lbn Khaldūn: an Essay in Reinterpretation”, 1982 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1983): 298-300. 

“Brice, W.C., An Historical Atlas of Islam”, 1981 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 10 (1983): 180-81. 

“Soudan, K. (ed.), Westarabische Tropik: Naẓm IV des Tanasī”, 1980 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1983). 

“Ziadeh, F. J., (ed.), K.adab al-qāḍī [Judges' handbook]”, 1979, Muslim World, 62 (1983): 56-58. 

“Ashtiany, Julia, The Arabic Documents in the Archives of the British Political Agency Kuwait 1904-1949” ([ British Academy] Oriental Documents V), 1982, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 10 (1983): 80-82. 

“Brice, W. C. (ed.), An Historical Atlas of Islam”, 1961, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 10 (1983): 180-81. 

“Khouja, M. W. (ed.), The Challenge of Energy”, etc., 1981, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 11 (1984): 96. 

“Yarshater, E. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 3: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods”, 1983, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 11 (1984): 97-8. 

“Chalmeta, P. & Corriente, F. (edd.), lbn al-‘Aṭṭār, Kitāb al-wathā'iq ... Formulario notarial hispano-arabe”, etc., 1983, Journal of Semitic Studies 30 (1985): 322-4. 

“Sezgin, F., Geschichte des arabischer Schrifttums, Bd. IX: Grammatik”, etc., 1984, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 12 (1985): 238-9. 

“Makdisi, G., The Rise of Colleges ... in Islam and the West”, 1981, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (1985): 48. 

“Hopkins, J. F. P., Letters from Barbary 1576-1774” ([British Academy] Oriental Documents VI), 1982, International Journal for Middle Eastern Studies 18 (1986): 99-100. 

“Hopkins, S., Studies in the Grammar of Early Arabic”, etc., 1984 Journal of Semitic Studies, 31 (1986): 276-80. 

“A. Y. Al-Hassan & Hill, D. R., Islamic Technology”, etc., 1986, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 14 (1988): 203-4. 

“M L. Avila, La sociedad hispanomusulmana al final del Califato”, etc. 1985, The Maghreb Review, 13 (1988): 230-1. 

“S. A. Ronebakker (ed.), Hatimi and his Encounter with Mutanabbi”, etc., 1984 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society(1988): 171-2. 

“W. M. Grinner (tr.), The History of al-Tabarī”, Vol. II: Prophets and Patriarchs”, 1987 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 14 (1988): 194-5. 

“R. I. Burns, Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia”, etc., 1984, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1988): 177-8. 

“F.-A. De Montêquin, Muslim Architecture of the Iberian Peninsula”, etc., 1987, Al-Masāq, 1 (1988): 49-51. 

“Middle East Institute, The, Middle East Organisations in Washington D.C.”, 1986, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 15 (1988): 172-3. 

“M. G. Morony (tr.), The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XVIII: Between Civil wars”, etc., 1987, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 14 (1988): 84-7. 

“M. Perlrnann (tr.), The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. IV: The Ancient Kingdoms”, 1987, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 14 (1988): 194-5. 

“F. Rosenthal (tr.), The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad”, etc., 1985, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 14 (1988): 84-7. 

“G. Saliba (tr.), The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XXXV: The Crisis of the Abbasid Caliphate”, 1985 (ibid.). 

“D. Wasserstein, The Rise and Fall of the Party Kings... in Islamic Spain, 1002-1086”,1985, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 51 (1988): 334-6. 

“J. A. Williams (tr.), The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XXVII: The Abbasid Revolution”, 1985, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 14 (1988): 94-7. 

“W. Behn, Index Islamicus 9665-1905”, etc., 1989, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 16 (1989): 77-8. 

“C. Burnett (ed.), Adeiard of Bath: An English Scientist and Arabist”, etc., 1987, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1989): 324-5. 

“F. Cresti, Documenti sul Maghreb dal XVII al XIX secolo”, etc., 1988, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 22 (1989): 512-13. 

“M. de Epalza & J. Bta. Vilar, Pianos y mapas hispánicos de Argelia: Siglos XVI-XVIII”, etc., Vol. I, 1988 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 16 (1989): 89-90. 

“Paz Férnandez, Mudéjares: Repertorio bibliografico”, etc., 1988 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 16 (1989): 22021. 

“M. Kably, Société, pouvoir et religion au Maroc à la fin du ‘Moyen-Age' XIV-XVe siècle”, 1986 The Maghreb Review, 14 (1989): 119-21. 

“D. A. King, A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library” 1986 MESA Bull., 23 (1989): 107-8. 

“W. M. Watt & M. V. McDonald (firs.), The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. VI: Muhammad at Mecca”, 1988; “Vol. VII: The Foundation of the Community”, etc., 1987 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 16 (1989): 52-3. 

“J. A. Williams (tr.), Al- Ṭabarī: The Early ’Abbāsī Empire”, etc., 2 vols., 1988, 1989 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 16 (1989): 53-6. 

“C. E. Bosworth, Bahā' al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī and his Literary Anthologies”, 1989 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 17 (1990): 217-19. 

“Paz Fernandez, Moriscos: Repertorio bibliográfico”, 1989 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 17(1990): 229-30. 

“A. A. Sachedina, The Just Ruler...in Shi‘ite Islam”, etc., 1988 Muslim World, 80 (1990): 278-9. 

“D. Sourdel & J. Bosch Vilá, Regierung and Verwaltung des Voderen Orients in Islamischer Zeit: Teil 2”, 1988 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 17 (1990): 181-2. 

“Ü. Yücel, al-Suyūf al islāmiyya”, etc., 1988 Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 17 (1990): 244-5. 

“F. Corriente, Poesía estrófica... atribuida al místico granadino aš-Šuštarī”, 1988, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies with change of title to British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (1991): 140-41. 

“M. de Epalza et al., Baños árabes en el país valenciano”, 1989 Al-Masāq, 4 (1991): 75-6. 

“M. Marín (ed.), Estudios Onomástico-Biográficos de Al-Andalus” [periodical], 1, 1988; M. L. Avila (ed.), 11, 1989 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 18 (1991): 148-9. 

“Ma -J. Rubiera Mata, Bibliografía de la literatura hispano-árabe”, 1988, ibid., 147-8. 

“ ‘A. Dh. Ṭāhā, The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain”, 1989 Al-Masāq, 4 (1991): 61-3. 

“Al-Masāq: Studia Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea”, ed. D. A. Agius & M. de Epalza, Vols. 1-3, 1988-90, Journal of Semitic Studies, 37 (1992): 136f. 

“F. de Blois, Burzoy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalīah wa Dimnah”, 1990 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd Ser., vol. 2 (1992): 85-8. 

“P. Guichard, L'Espagne et la Sicile musulmane aux XIe et XIIIe siècles”, 1990, Al-Masāq, 5 (1992): 72-4. 

“G. J. Roper, Index Islamicus 1981-85”, etc., 1991 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 19 (1992): 227-8. 

“Ma. -J Rubiera Mata, Introduccion a la literature hispano-àrab”, 1989, Al-Masāq, 5 (1992): 71-2. 

“S. P. Stetkevych, Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the Abbasid Age”, 1991, Journal of Semitic Studies  37 (1992): 122-5. 

“L. P. Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500”, 1990, Journal of Semitic Studies, 38 (1993): 334-9. 

“R. Arié, Etudes sur la civilisation de l'Espagne musulmane”, 1990 Journal of Semitic Studies, 39 (1994): 134-6. 

“A. Hamori, The Composition of Mutanabbī's Panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawia”, 1992, ibid., 384-8. 

“G, Khan, Arabic Papyri: Selected Material from the Khaliii Collection”, 1992, ibid., 374-81. 

“R. G. Khoury, Chrestomathie de papyrologie arabe”, etc., 1993, ibid., 381-4. 

“D. J. Wasserstein, The Caliphate in the West”, etc., 1993, The International History Review, XVI (1994): 563-5. 

“Y. Poled, Conditional Structures in Classical Arabic”, 1992, Mediterranean Language Review, 8 (1994): 121-3. 

“C. Melville & A. Ubaydii, Christians and Moors in Spain: Volume lll: Arabic Sources”, 1992 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 22 (1995): 148-52. 

“D. M. Varisco, Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Sciences”, etc., 1994, Isis, 86 (1995): 476-7). 

“H. D. Isaacs, British Medical Journal”. 310 (1995, March): 593. 

“S. K. Jayyu (ed.), The Legacy of Muslim Spain”, 1992, Journal of Semitic Studies, 41 (1996): 179-85. 

“G. Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections”, 1993, ibid., 164-69. 

“G. Khan, Bills, Letters and Deeds: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th Centuries”, 1993, ibid., 158-63. 

“A. Harnmoudi, Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism”, 1997, InternationalJournal of African Historical Studies, 30 (1997): 610-12. 

“I. Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Vol. 1, Pt 1: Political and Military History; Pt 2: Ecclesiastical History”, 1995 Journal of Semitic Studies, 43 (1998): 387-91. 

“Castillo Castillo et al., (edd.), Qurṭuba: Estudios andalusies”, 1, 1996 Journal of Semitic Studies, 44 (1999): svv. Short Notices, 170. 

“R. Arié, Aspects de l’Espagne musulmane. Histoire et culture”, 1997 Al-Masāq, 11 (1999): 174-6). 

“F. Corriente, A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Hd01, xxix), 1997, Journal of Semitic Studies 45 (2000): 200-09. 

“J. A. Abu-Haidar.  Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provençal Lyrics”, 2001, Journal of Semitic Studies 48 (2003): 201-06. 

“R. Lorch (ed.) Thābit ibn Qurra:  On the Sector-Figuire and Related Texts”, 2001, Journal of Semitic Studies 48 (2003): 401-03.  

Obituaries

S. M. Stern, Boletín de la Asociación Española de Orientalistas, 6 (1970): 11-12. 

Sir Hamilton Gibb, The Times, 30 October 1971. 

The Raja of Mahmudabad, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, I (1974): 41-3. 

Revd R. J. McCarthy, SJ, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 8 (1980): 76-9. 

Revd Dr F. M. Pareja, SJ, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 11 (1984): 107-8. 

Sir Geoffrey Arthur, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 12 (1985): 119-20. 

Dr Haskell Dawood Isaacs, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 21(1994): 331-2.