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- Obituary: Patricia L. Baker  Sheila Blair <blairsh@bc.edu> - Abdul-Hamid II Collection at the Library of Congress  Jeff Spurr <spurr@fas.harvard.edu> - The Walters Art Museum: Assistant/Associate Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books  "Christiane J. Gruber" <chgruber@INDIANA.EDU> - Conference Announcement: Shamanism and Healing Rituals in Contemporary Islam and Sufism  Pedram Khosronejad <pk18@st-andrews.ac.uk> - Query: Images of Hagar  Reinhard & Laura Krauss <krauss@jps.net> - Call for Papers: Two Panels at Kalamazoo 2009  Jennifer Borland <jrborland@gmail.com> - Rebuilding a Bosnian Mosque  Andras Riedlmayer <riedlmay@fas.harvard.edu>