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ajiss-1138	Pirbhai, M. Reza	Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion, and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate By Blain H. Auer (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. 237 pages.)	2013.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1149	40	41	The book presents a far richer yet concise alter- native, making it a valuable addition to the scholarly understanding of the Delhi Sultanate in particular and of Islamic modes of political legitimation more generally. By describing shari‘ah as “codified in a restricted body of legal rules,” for example, the author not only skirts a large contingent of specialized studies on Islamic law that disagrees, but falls into the very assumptions about Islamic law held by previous approaches otherwise critiqued (p. 135).	cache/ajiss-1138.pdf	txt/ajiss-1138.txt