[CONTENTS]

Editor's Letter

A New Reading of Muslim Intellectual History

Phantom Averroism.
Friedrich Niewöhner

The Vanishing of the East: A Dead Past.
Levent Yilmaz

Reading Medieval Texts and Intellectual History

'The Showings Are Full of Mysteries': Translating Julian of Norwich.
Elizabeth Spearing

New Interpretation of Medieval and Renaissance Sources in Poland.
Waldemar Kowalski

The Creation of the Concept of the Rare Book

The Emergence of Historical Bibliography as a Discipline: The Case of the British Library.
Ian Willison

Department of Serious Fun

Doctor Syntax's Dream: The Battle of the Books.
William Combe (ed. Elizabeth Spearing)

The Creation of Concepts in Political Theory

The Invention of Modern Equality.
Siep Stuurman

West Views East, South Views North

Humboldt, Abel-Rémusat et le chinois: du mystère au savoir.
Denis Thouard

From 'Cultural Cannibalism' to Metalinguistic Novel-Writing.
Susanne Klengel

Spinoza in English, 1700-1900

Wayne I. Boucher, (ed.), Spinoza: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Discussions. 
A Review Essay by Wiep van Bunge

The Mind-Body Debate

Studies of Descartes's Philosophy in Japan.
Chiaki Kagawa

Intellectual History and Modern Brain Science.
Roger Smith

A Mystery

Atonement Before Guilt: The End of History and the Endings of Mystery Stories.
Paul Richard Blum

Announcements

A New Research Project: Cartesianism, Spinozism, and Empiricism, 1650-1750.
Wiep van Bunge

Academic Notices

Members' Publications

Recent Theses in Intellectual History

Web Sites of Interest

Guidelines for Contributors