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AL-ʿUSUR AL-WUSTA, VOLUME 27 (2019)Front Matter Table of Contents Letter from the EditorsMEM AWARDS Remarks by Donald Whitcomb, Recipient of the 2018 MEM Lifetime Achievement AwardARTICLES In Search of the Early Islamic EconomyMichael Bonner Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-AghānīPamela KlasovaA Newly Discovered Letter of the Early Arabic Alphabet: A Distinction between Final Jīm and Final Ḥāʾ/Khāʾ and its Nabatean OriginsMarijn van PuttenNourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular LiteratureRachel SchineAn Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāmaAustin O’MalleyREVIEW ESSAYWomen, Identity, and Power: A Review Essay of Antony Eastmond, Tamta’s WorldZaroui PogossianCONFERENCE REPORTS Mysticism and Ethics in Islam (American University of Beirut, 2-3 May 2019)Louise Gallorini BOOK REVIEWS Daniel Alan Brubaker, Corrections in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts: Twenty ExamplesHythem SidkyJennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic EgyptMarie LegendreMathieu Tillier, L’invention du cadi: La justice des Musulmans, des Juifs et des Chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’IslamSteven JuddHans-Peter Pökel, Der unmännliche Mann: Zur Figuration des Eunuchen im Werk von al-Ǧāḥiẓ (gest. 869)Ignacio SánchezScott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative: Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750-1050Ryan J. LynchAdam Talib, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of ComparisonRachel SchineWilliam Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IXJanna BianchiniJoel Blecher, Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a MillenniumL. W. Cornelis van Lit, O.P.Thomas A. Carlson, Christianity in Fifteenth-Century IraqJonathan Parkes AllenKhaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic PhilosophyColeman ConnellyIN MEMORIAMSperos Vryonis, Jr. (1928-2019)Gary LeiserKenneth Holum (1939-2017)Gideon Avni, Elizabeth Conner, Alan WalmsleyMichael Bonner (1952-2019)Steven Judd, Alison Vacca, Robert Haugh, Noah Gardiner, Antoine Borruthttps://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/al-usur-al-wusta/current-issue/&#160;