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BOOK REVIEWS 95 would have been helpful. And Krebs offers the good news that a sequel is on its way, entitled Africa Collecting Europe: Patronage, Religious Material Culture and the Assertion of Local Power in Ethiopia, 1470–1530. David Abulafia Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Dsa1000@cam.ac.uk © 2022 David Abulafia https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2022.2049037 The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers, Carole Hillenbrand, 2022 [Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture], Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, xiv + 397 pp., £95.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781474485944 Islam and the Crusades: Collected Papers, Carole Hillenbrand, 2022 [Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture], Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, xvii + 398 pp., £95.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781474485906 Carole Hillenbrand is among the foremost scholars researching the history of the medieval Near East. She is perhaps best known for her ground-breaking study The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives, published back in 1999, which became – and remains – a major point of refer- ence for any scholar interested in this field. In a career spanning many decades, she has pub- lished extensively on a range of subjects connected to this region and it is a measure of the sheer scale of her research that it requires three large volumes to collate her