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179the coverage of any one area comprehensive enough to provide a basis for futureresearch. (B) Students new to the field will, likewise, need to do a great deal ofbackground reading before being able to place most of the articles in a coherentresearch framework. (C) Practitioners will find the implications for teachingminimal.These facts have to bear some relevance for the evaluation. Toulmin (ibid.:97)calls these facts Data, i.e., ‘the facts that we appeal to as a foundation for the claim’.Other lexical phrases act as signaling devices of the grounds for evaluation:[C#10] (Claim) Some parts of the book are confusing, (Grounds) probablybecause of the author's brevity. (Data) (A) At the end of Chapter 8, Surjanshows that the use of incomplete basis sets leads to some mathematicalinconsistencies. However, the reader is told nothing about their practicalconsequences, or how to get around them in actual calculations. (B) In Section10.4, students will be confused by the sudden insertion of extra electroninteractionterms to convert the electronic Hamiltonian into the Fockian. (C) Thediscussion of quasi-particle transformations in Chapter 16 contains too manygaps to be very useful to inexperienced readers.[E#17] (Claim) While this represents an impressive bibliographic effort, andprovides a convenient introduction to much of the relevant literature which willbe unfamiliar to nonspecialists, the information nonetheless remains inadequateto sustain the thesis, and much of Abu-Lughod's analysis seems superficial, if notmisleading. (Warrant) To substantiate this last point, let me mention that inarguing that "similarities between East and West . . . outweighed differences,"Abu-Lughod observes that in the East and the West alike merchants utilizedmoney, credit, and partnerships, and that they were allowed to possess capital(pp. 15-18). (Data) These seem rather general and broad criteria for allegingsimilarity, especially in view of the important differences that are ignored. Forexample, the absence of evidence that any advance in business practices hadoccurred within the Muslim world for at least a century before 1350 is nowherementioned.