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Problems in the Literary Source Material. Edited by and Lawrence I. Conrad. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 1. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 428. $29.95.

This volume constitutes the first publication of an interdisciplinary project set up by the editors and entitled Late Antiquity to Early Islam. Its aims, we are told in the preface, are "to promote and facilitate communication among specialists in the various fields," the object of study being the Near East from the late sixth to the mid-eighth century, and "to provide opportunities for ...