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Current IssueAL-ʿUSUR AL-WUSTA, VOLUME 25 (2017)Front MatterLetter from the editorsMEM AWARDSRemarks by Fred M. Donner, Recipient of the 2016 MEM Lifetime Achievement AwardARTICLESImportant New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Benjamin Kiessling, Matthew Thomas Miller, Maxim G. Romanov, &#38; Sarah Bowen SavantThe Numismatic Evidence for the Reign of Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn (254–270/868-883)Luke TreadwellThe Abbasid “Golden Age”: An ExcavationMichael CoopersonConflict and Community in the Medieval CaucasusAlison M. VaccaReflections on the Identity of the Arabian Conquerors of the Seventh-Century Middle EastRobert G. Hoyland CONFERENCE REPORTSSpatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000-1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text  (Tübingen, 30 March to 1 April 2017) Zayde Antrim, Jean-Charles Ducène, and Kurt FranzNew Insights into Early Islamic Historiography: A Substantial Conference Report (Göttingen, June 25-26, 2015)Yoones Dehghani Farsani and Jens Scheiner BOOK REVIEWSPeter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Philip WoodJoshua Mabra, Princely Authority in the Early Marwānid State:  The Life of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān (d. 86/705) Matthew S. GordonLyall Armstrong, The Quṣṣāṣ of Early Islam Pamela KlasovaChristophe Picard, La Mer des Califes: Une histoire de la Méditerranée musulmane Matthew S. GordonChase Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years Brian UlrichMona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History Sabahat F. AdilAbolfazl Khatibi, Āyā Firdawsī Maḥmūd-i Ghaznavī rā hajv guft? Hajv’nāmah-i mansūb bih Firdawsī: Bar’rasī-yi taḥlīlī, taṣḥīḥ-i intiqādī, va sharḥ-i bayt’hā  [Did Ferdowsi Satirize Mahmud of Ghazni? The Satire Attributed  to Ferdowsi: Analysis, Textual Criticism, and Commentary]Theodore S. BeersThomas Würtz, Islamische Theologie im 14. Jahrhundert. Auferstehungslehre,  Handlungstheorie und Schöpfungsvorstellungen im Werk von Saʿd ad-Dīn at-Taftāzānī Christian Mauder IN MEMORIAMAnna Dolinina (1923—2017)Marina TolmachevaGünter Lüling (1928—2014)Fred M. Donner ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin MEM or renew your MEMbership: An invitation from Middle East MedievalistsBack Matterhttp://islamichistorycommons.org/mem/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2017/11/UW-25.pdf