| Section | 
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                        | Editorial
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                            The Sphero-conical Vessel: A Difficult Interpretation between Historical Sources and Archaeology | 
                            Stéphane Pradines | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                
                    
                        | Articles
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                            Medieval Islamic Fire Grenades: Further Evidence from a Military Context | 
                            David Nicolle | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            A Note on “Grenades” as Fire-starter Flasks | 
                            Donald Whitcomb | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Note on a Use of Sphero-conical Vessels in Mamluk Era Damascus | 
                            Elodie Vigouroux | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Sphero-conical Vessels from the Ayyubid Wall in Cairo: A Typology (11th–15th c.) | 
                            Julie Monchamp | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Sphero-conical Vessels from Baalbek: A Diverse and Challenging Collection | 
                            Valentina Vezzoli | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            A Late Military Use of the Sphero-conical in the 19th Century Sudan | 
                            Stéphane Pradines | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                
                    
                        | Book Reviews
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                            Recherches archéologiques à Adoulis (Érythrée), by F. Anfray and C. Zazzaro. Presses Universitaires du Midi 2016. 116pp., Illustrations and maps. Pb. €23. ISBN-13: 9782810704668. | 
                            Timothy Insoll | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Qurans of the Umayyads: A First Overview, by François Déroche. Brill, 2014. xiv, 194 pp., 45 illus., Pb. €55,00/$71.00. ISBN-13: 9789004255654. | 
                            Sarah Bowen Savant | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Fustat I under the direction of Roland-Pierre Gayraud Bone Carvings from Fustat- Istabl ʿAntar. Excavations of the Institut français d’archéologie orientale in Cairo (1985-2003), by Elzbieta Rodziewicz, with preface by Sylvie Denoix. | 
                            Myriam Wissa | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Persian Archery and Swordsmanship: Historical Martial Arts of Iran, by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani. Niloufar Books. 2013. Hb., 392pp. B&W with colour gallery. $174.95. ISBN-13: 9783000390548. | 
                            Denys Toichkin | 
                            Feb 1, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-modern Islamic Society, by Adrian Gully. Edinburgh University Press, 2008. 232 pp., Hb. £55/$130.00. ISBN-13: 9780748633739. | 
                            Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya | 
                            Feb 9, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour. A Lifetime’s Passion, by Robert Hales. 400 pp., 850+ colour and 150 black and white illus., Hb. £75.00. ISBN-13: 9780992631505. | 
                            Bede Dwyer | 
                            Feb 9, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation and Landscape in Islamic Egypt, by John Cooper, American University in Cairo Press, 2014. 392 pp., 5 tables, 15 b/w photos, 68 b/w line drawings, 12 color line drawings. Hb. $75.00, ISBN-13: 9789774166143. | 
                            Stephane Pradines | 
                            Feb 9, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            The Archaeology of Medieval Spain 1100–1500, edited by Magdalena Valor and Avelino Guitiérrez. Equinox 2014. 354pp., 145 colour photographs and maps. Hb. £75.00 / $95.00, ISBN-13: 9781845531737; Pb., £35.00 / $49.95, ISBN-13: 9781781792520. | 
                            Rebecca Bridgman | 
                            Feb 9, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            A Crusader, Ottoman, and Early Modern Aegean Archaeology: Built Environment and Domestic Material Culture in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Cyclades, Greece (13th-20th Century AD), by Athanasios K. Vionis. | 
                            George Manginis | 
                            Feb 9, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                
                    
                        | Note
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                            Chinese Ware in Islamic Tiberias | 
                            David Stacey | 
                            Feb 13, 2017 | 
                        
                    
                
                    
                        | In Memoriam
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                             | 
                            Juan Zozaya Stabel-Hansen | 
                            Manuel Retuerce Velasco, translated into English by Jose Carvajal Lopez | 
                            Feb 9, 2017 |