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A History of the Armenian People , vol. 1: Pre‐History to 1500 A.D. , George A. Bournoutian, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1993, xviii + 174 pp., 18 maps, 10 tables, 13 plates, $14.95 (paperback). Iranian Nationality and the Persian Language , Shahrokh Meskoob, trans. Michael J. Hillmann, ed. John Perry, foreword and interview with the author by Ali Banuazizi, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1993, 191 pp. Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History , Marshall G. S. Hodgson, ed. Edmund Burke III, Cambridge University Press, 1993, xxi + 328 pp. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century , Thomas W. Lenz and Glenn D. Lowry, Los Angeles and Washington: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1989, 396 pp., $79.95. The History of al‐Tabari , Volume XI, The Challenge to the Empires — A.D. 633–635/A.H. 12–13 , trans. and annot. Khalid Yahya Blank‐inship, Bibliotheca Persica, ed. Ehsan Yar‐Shater, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, xxxvi + 261 pp., 2 genealogical tables, 2 maps, index, $54.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relahonships in Islamic Thought , Sachiko Murata, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, x + 397 pp., 2 appendices, 3 indices, postscript and bibliography, no price listed. Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change , ed. Jo‐Ann Gross, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992, xiv + 224 pp., three maps, published in the Central Asia Book Series, library cloth edition $39.95, paperback $18.95. Iran and the Arab World , ed. Hooshang Amirahmadi and Nader Entessar, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 264 pp. Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers , Farzaneh Milani, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992, xix + 295 pp. Selections from the Writings of E. G. Browne on the Babi and Baha'i Religions , ed. Moojan Momen, Oxford: George Ronald, 1987, 499 pp., £17.50/$29.50. The Political History of Modern Iran: From Tribalism to Theocracy , Mehran Kamrava, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1992, 177 pp. Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran , Henry Corbin, trans. N. Pearson, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977 (pb. repr., 1989), Bollingen Series 91:2, xviii + 374 pp. The United States and Iran, 1946–1951: The Diplomacy of Neglect , James F. Goode, St. Martin's Press, 1989, 161 pp. Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution , David Menashri, New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1990, 410 pp, $47.50 hardback, $24.94 paperback. Oil, State and Industrialization in Iran , Massoud Karshenas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xviii + 308 pp. Ambiguous Relations: Kin, Class and Conflict among Komachi Pastoralists , Daniel J. Bradburd, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, xxx + 240 pp., $29.95. Daneshvar's Playhouse , Simin Daneshvar, trans. Maryam Mafi, Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1989, pp. 183. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "The Limits of Settlement Growth: A Theoretical Outline," by Roland Fletcher.