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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 35 Number 1 Summer 2001

Table of Contents

Editorial 1

Essays

 
2000 Presidential Address: “Thoughts About Pennies and
Other Monies”
Jere L. Bacharach

2

Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Research: Promise or Pitfall? Ruth Roded

15

For a “Foreign Audience:” The Challenges of Teaching Arabic Literature in the American Academy Magda M. Al-Nowaihi

24
Shedding Some Light on Contemporary Musicians in Palestine Yara el-Ghadban 28

The Ottoman Story Today Virginia Aksan

35
Turkey and the World Since World War II Ilter Turan
40

Recent Documentaries on Atatürk Resat Kasaba

43
The King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives Fahd al-Semmari 45
Thematic Conversations, MESA 2000
    
Representations of the Ottomans Virginia Aksan
    
Religion as Explanation: Putting Islam First Louis J. Cantori
     Issues in Teaching and Research in Medieval Islamic Studies 
         Josef W. Meri
     Insiders/Outsiders: Emic/Etic Study of Women and Gender in      the New Millennium Sherifa Zuhur and Amaney Jamal
47
2000 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards 52
Notices of the Best Dissertation of the Year Award,
     1998-99 and 1999-2000 (Foundation for Iranian Studies)
55
   

Anthropology, Sociology & Women’s Studies

 

Nicholas Awde, ed. and trans., Women in Islam: An Anthology from
the Qur’an and Hadiths
(David J. Duncan)

57

Fatma Müge Göçek, ed., Political Cartoons in the Middle East (Lisa Pollard)

58

Shaziae Pirzada and Anjali Puri, Vignettes: The Women of Bahrain
(Christine Eickelman)

59

Maryam Poya, Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran (Val Moghadam)

60
   

Pre-Islamic History

Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook, eds., Amarna Diplomacy:
The Beginnings of International Relations (William G. Dever)

61
Richard Parkinson, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (Kaila Bussert)
62
   

Religion, Philosophy, & Law

 
Farhad Daftary, ed., Intellectual Traditions in Islam (Neguin Yavari)
63
Linda S. George, The Golden Age of Islam (Muhammad S. Eissa)
64
J. R. Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam:
From Polemic to History
(Michael Bonner)
65
Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter, eds., Max Weber and Islam
(Hakan Karateke)
66
Tilman Nagel, The History of Islamic Theology: From Muhammad to the Present (Qamar-ul Huda)
67
Mordechai Nisan, Identity and Civilization: Essays on Judaism,
Christianity and Islam
(Rebecca B. Molloy)
69

 

Sayyid Qutb, Social Justice in Islam (Kamran A. Bokhari)
70

John Renard, ed., Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life (Asma Afsaruddin)

71
Neal Robinson, Islam: A Concise Introduction (Steve Tamari) 72
Sabine Schmidtke, Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im ZwölferschiitischenIslam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Die Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abi Gumhur al-Ahsa’i (um 838/1434-35-nach 906/1501) (Devin Stewart) 73
Ibn Warraq, ed., The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book (Christopher Melchert) 74
Ibn Warraq, ed. and trans., The Quest for the Historical Muhammad
(Fred M. Donner)
75
   

Literature & Literary Criticism

 
Adalet Agaoglu, Curfew (Sibel Erol) 76
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, In Search of Walid Masoud (Allen Hibbard) 78
Out El Kouloub, Three Tales of Love and Death (Maggie Nassif) 79
Thomas Rain Crowe, In Wineseller’s Street: Renderings of Hafez (Christine Van Ruymbeke) 80
Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories (Christine Dykgraaf) 81
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (Omid Safi) 82
Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men (Persis M. Karim) 83
Geert Jan van Gelder, God’s Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature (Mohamed-Saleh Omri)
84
   

Art, Culture & Society

 
Steven C. Caton, Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology (Weston Burnett) 85
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (Shirine Hamadeh) 86
Andrea Pampanini, Cities from the Arabian Desert: The Building of Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia (Sharon Nagy) 87
Henri and Anne Stierlin, Splendours of an Islamic World: Mamluk Art in Cairo, 1250-1517 (Noha Sadek) 88
The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship (Vickie Langohr) 89

 

Pre-Modern History

 
M. S. Asimov and C. E. Bosworth, eds., History of the Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV: The Age of Achievement: AD 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century (Beatrice Forbes Manz) 90
Gerrit Bos, intro. and trans., Ibn al-Jazzar on Fevers: A Critical Edition of Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir (Provisions for the Traveler and Nourishment for the Sedentary), Book 7, Chapters 1-6 (Nahyan Fancy) 91
Leo de Hartog, Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World (Jonathan Skaff) 92
Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Some Observations on the Influence of Byzantine Institutions on Ottoman Institutions (Linda T. Darling) 93

Benjamin Lellouch and Stephane Yerasimos, Les traditions apocalyptiques au tournant de la chute de Constantinople (Gottfried Hagen)

94
Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker, The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi’i Witness. An Edition and English Translation of Ibn al-Haytham’s Kitab al-Munazarat (Paula Sanders) 95
M. A. Daly, Carl F. Petry, and Cary F. Petry, eds., The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. I: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 (Kenneth M. Cuno) 96
Donald Quataert, ed., Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922 (Elizabeth Thompson) 97
Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (David Waines) 98
Erik J. Zürcher, ed., Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925 (Rhoads Murphey) 99
   
Islam in the Modern World

 

Kilian Rudolf Bälz, Versicherungsvertragsrecht in den Arabischen Staaten.Der Versicherungsvertrag im islamischen Recht und den modernen arabischen Zivilrechtskodifikationen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des ägyptischen ZGB (1948) und des jordanischen ZGB (1976) (Baudouin Dupret) 100
Juan R. I. Cole, Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha’i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East (Colin Paul Mitchell) 101
Elizabeth Özdalga, ed., Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia: Change and Continuity (Charles C. Kolb) 102
Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism (Martin Riexinger) 103
Ralph H. Salmi, Cesar Adib Majul, and George K. Tanham, Islam and
Conflict Resolution: Theories and Practices
(Paula Stiles)
105
Elizabeth Sirriyeh, Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defense, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World (David Buchman)
106
   

Israel & the Arab World

 
Aharan Klieman, Compromising Palestine: A Guide to Final Status Negotiations (Nu’man Kanafani) 107
Laila Parsons, The Druze Between Palestine and Israel, 1947-49 (Ronald R. Krebs) 108
Jacqueline Portugese, Fertility Policy in Israel: The Politics of Religion, Gender and Nation (Larissa Remennick) 109
Nissim Rejwan, Israel in Search of Identity: Reading the Formative Years (Esther Fuchs) 110
Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization (Bernard J. Firestone) 111
Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Samuel Heilman) 112
Idith Zertal, From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel (Frank Felsenstein) 113
   

Modern Politics

 
Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (Abbas Alnasrawi) 115
Marvine Howe, Turkey Today: A Nation Divided Over Islam’s Revival (Alev Çinar) 116
Masoud Kamali, Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process (Mehrzad Boroujerdi) 117

Joseph Kostiner, ed., Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity (Jefferson Gray)

118
Paul J. Magnarella, ed., Middle East and North Africa: Governance, Democracy, and Human Rights (Yahia H. Zoubir) 119
Lenore G Martin, New Frontiers in Middle East Security (P. R. Kumaraswamy) 120
Talal Nizameddin, Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy (O. M. Smolansky) 121
   

Economics

 

Bradford L. Dillman, State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-Seeking and Failed Development (Clement M. Henry)

122
U. Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith, eds., Hadrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s (Beatrice Nicolini) 124
Masoud Kavoossi, The Globalization of Business and the Middle East: Opportunities and Constraints (E. Mine Çınar) 124
Remonda Bensabat Kleinberg and Janine A. Clark, eds., Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World (Parvin Alizadeh) 125
James Toth, Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992 (Barbara K. Larson) 127

 

 

Modern History

 
Joel Beinin, The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (Nicola Pratt) 128
R. Stephen Humphreys, Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age (John Obert Voll) 129
Sylvia Kedourie, Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic (Hakan Yilmaz) 130
Esref Kusçubasi, The Turkish Battle at Khaybar (Virginia Aksan) 131
   

Resources

 

Nahid `Awni, `Anistuuna: Egyptian Colloquial (Christopher Stone)

133
Abdallhaqq Bewley and Aisha Bewley, trans., The Noble Qur’an: A New Rendering of Its Meaning in English (Rebecca B. Molloy) 134
Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, eds., New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Deborah L. Wheeler) 135
John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford History of Islam (Ahmed H. Ibrahim) 136
Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt (Michael T. Thornhill) 137
Winifred P. Lehmann, Esther Raizen, and Helen-Jo Jakosz Hewitt, Biblical Hebrew: An Analytical Introduction (M. O’Connor) 138
Clayton R. Newell, Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991 (Stephen Pelletiere) 138
Mohammed Sawaie, `Azmat al-mus’t alah & al-carabi fi al-qarn al-tasica casar:Muqaddima tarixiyyah cammah (La Crise de la Terminologie Arabe au XIXe Siècle: Introduction Historique Générale)(John Eisele) 139
Avraham Sela, ed., Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East (Philip Mattar) 140
Wheeler M. Thackston, Introduction to Syriac: An Elementary Grammar With Readings from Syriac Literature (John H. Marks) 141
   

Audiovisuals

 
Cairo: 1001 Years of Art and Architecture  (A. Kevin Reinhart) 142
The English Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman (Thomas B. Stevenson) 144
Hollywood Harems (Larry Lepionka) 145
Minds in Black (Moshe Amon) 146
   

In Memoriam

148
Charles Issawi (Sevket Pamuk)  
Lorenzo Kent Kimball (Adel Allouche)  
   
Correspondence 150