Ross Brann (Editor) Languages of Power in Islamic Spain. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 1997. Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University, Number 3. 1883053285 x/220 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in dark red cloth, with gilt-lettered black compartments to spine and front cover. Words in various alphabets appear stamped in bright gold along front spine edge. Book is new. "Revised versions of presentations made at a conference ... held November 4-5, 1994 at Cornell University." Contents: "The "Qasidah" and the Poetics of Ceremony: Three 'ID Panegyrics to the Cordoban Caliphate" by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych; "Philologians and Poets in Search of the Hebrew Language" by Angel Saenz-Badillos; "Representation and Identity in Medieval Spain: Beatus Manuscripts and the Mudejar Churches of Teruel" by D. Fairchild Ruggles; "Textualizing Ambivalence in Islamic Spain: Arabic Representations of Isma'il ibn Naghrilah" by Ross Brann; "The Arabicization and Islamization of the Christians of Al-Andalus: Evidence of Their Scriptures" by Hanna Kassis; "Ambivalence in Medieval Religious Polemic: The Influence of Multiculturalism on the Dialogues of Petrus Alphonsi" by Barbara Hurwitz Grant;  "Longing, Belonging, and Pilgrimage in Ibn 'Arabi's "Interpreter of Desires" ("Tarjuman al-Ashwaq")" by Michael A. Sells; "Practical Intelligence: Don Juan Manuel" by Ciriaco Moron Arroyo.