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Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History . Albany: SUNY Press, 1982. 272 pp. $33.50

provides a long introduction on the diplomatic features of the texts and their economic as well as legal import; I was, for example, much taken by Dr. Gronke's careful study of the coins and monetary terms mentioned in the texts. In short, this is a book for the student of ancillary sciences, for the economic and social historian, for the student of rural and urban relations, for the textual critic, and for the researcher preparing for a journey among Arabic or Persian manuscript collections. An enormous amount of thought and labor has gone into this study, and it remains a reproach to us Americans that the ultimate value of such apparently unglamorous work on texts is still lost on our students. It is a pleasure to recommend this important book without reservation; we are all in Dr. Gronke's debt.