Books Received for Review
October 5, 1995 to January 5, 1996

Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies) 370 pages, Foreword by Mahmoud Ayoub, notes, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7914-2664-5

Ahmed, Akbar S. Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway. 260 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. London: Penguin, 1995. ,6.99 (Paper) isbn 0-14-025020-4

Allan, J.A. & Chibli Mallat, eds. Water in the Middle East: Legal, Political, and Commercial Implications. (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) 358 pages, tables, maps, notes, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1995. $75 (Cloth) isbn 1-85043-645-2

Atabaki, Touraj & Solmaz Rustamova-Towhidi. Baku Documents: Union Catalogue of Persian, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish, and Arabic Serials and Newspapers in the Libraries of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 332 pages, , index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1995. $75 (Cloth) isbn 1-85043-836-6

Ayubi, Nazih N. Over-Stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East. 514 pages, tables, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1995. (Cloth) isbn 1-85043-827-7

Boutwell, Jeffrey and Everett Mendelsohn. Israeli-Palestinian Security: Issues in the Permanent Status Negotiations. 124 pages, maps, tables, figure, bibliography, index. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995. $10 (Paper) isbn 0-87724-003-5

Brynen, Rex, Baghat Korany, & Paul Noble, eds. Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World. (Theoretical Perspectives Vol.1) 349 pages, tables, figures, notes, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995. $23.95 (Paper) isbn 1-55587-579-3

Buck, Christopher. Symbol and Secret: Qur'an Commentary in the Bahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i Iqán. (Studies in the Bábi and Bahá'i Religions Vol. 7) 326 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix. Los Angeles: Kalimát Press, 1995. $32.50 (Paper) isbn 0-933770-80-4

Bunson, Margaret. A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. 291 pages, chronology, maps, illustrations, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-19-509989-3

Dadrian, Vahakn N. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia, to the Caucasus. 452 pages, notes, appendix, bibliography, indices. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995. $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-57181-016-1

Davis, M. Jane, ed. Politics and International Relations in the Middle East: Continuity and Change. 158 pages, notes, figures, bibliography, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1995. $63.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-85898-234-0

Diamond, Larry, Juan J. Linz, & Seymour Martin Lipset, eds. Politics in Developing Countries: Comparing Experiences with Democracy. (Second Edition) 591 pages, maps, tables, notes, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995. $23.50 (Paper) isbn 1-55587-541-6

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, ed. The European Opportunity. (An Expanding World Vol. 2) 360 pages, maps, tables, figures, notes, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1995. $99.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-501-7

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, ed. Children in the Middle East. 477 pages, map, tables, b&w photographs, notes, appendices. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. $22.95 (Paper) isbn 0-292-72490-X

Fletcher, Joseph F., edited by Beatrice Forbes Manz. Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 280 pages, bibliography, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1995. $82.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-469-X

Gillespie, Kate & Clement M. Henry, eds. Oil in the New World Order. 339 pages, maps, tables, notes, appendices, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1367-4

Goldman, Shalom. The Wiles of Women, The Wiles of Men. 189 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. $16.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7914-2684X

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck & Wadi Z. Haddad. Christian-Muslim Encounters. 508 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. $29.95 (Paper) isbn 0-8130-1356-9

Hafez, Kai. Orientwissenschaft in der DDR: Zwischen Dogma und Anpassung, 1969-1989. (Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Instituts) 547 pages, tables, appendices, bibliography. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1995. (Paper) isbn 3-89173-038-1

Hallaq, Wael B. Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 329 pages, notes, indexes. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1995. $89.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-456-8

Hanaway, William L. & Brian Spooner. Reading Nasta`Liq: Persian and Urdu Hands from 1500 to the Present. (Bibliotheca Iranica Literature Series No. 3) 278 pages, illustrations, list of sources, bibliography. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1995. $24.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-56859-033-4

Hanna, Sami A. A Modern Cultural History of Bahrain: Contributors and Contributions. 103 pages, map, photograph, bibliography. British Columbia: Sami A. Hanna, 1991. (Paper) isbn

Hanes, W. Travis, III. Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization: The Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1945-1956. (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies. #30) 190 pages, map, bibliography, index. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. $55 (Cloth) isbn 0-313-29341-4

Hashim, Ahmed. The Crisis of the Iranian State: Domestic, Foreign and Security Policies in post-Khomeini Iran. (Adelphi Paper No. 296) 80 pages, notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. $23 (Paper) isbn 0-19-828023-8

Issawi, Charles. The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery, Selected Essays by Charles Issawi. (Princeton Series on the Middle East) 239 pages, tables, maps, illustrations, b&w photos, notes. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1995. (Paper) isbn 1-55876-103-9

Jabbur, Jibrail S. Lawrence I. Conrad trans. The Bedouins and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East. (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies) 670 pages, illustrations, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. $29.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-7914-2851-6

Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim, trans. by Issa J. Boullata. The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood. 186 pages,. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1995. $22 (Cloth) isbn 1-55728-349-4

Jennings, Anne M. The Nubians of West Aswan: Village Women in the Midst of Change. (Women and Change in the Developing World) 177 pages, maps, figure, b&w illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995. $17.95 (Paper) isbn 1-55587-592-0

Kechichian, Joseph A. Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independant Foreign Policy. 409 pages, maps, appendices, figures, bibliography, index. Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1995. (Paper) isbn 0-8330-2332-2

Lobmeyer, Hans Günter. Opposition und Widerstand in Syrien. (Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Instituts) 438 pages, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1995. (Cloth) isbn 3-89173-040-3

Long, Robert D., ed. The Man on the Spot: Essays on the British Empire History. (Contributions in Comp. Colonial Studies # 31) 246 pages, notes, appendix, index. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. (Cloth) isbn 0-313-29524-7

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics. 273 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. $17 (Paper) isbn 0-520-20072-1

Neff, Donald. Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945. 350 pages, appendices, map, notes, bibliography, index. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995. $25 (Cloth) isbn 0-88728-262-8

Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf, ed. Family, Gender, and Population in the Middle East: Policies in Context. 260 pages, tables, figures, notes. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1995. (Paper) isbn 977-424-368-4

Parker, Ann & Avon Neal. Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimmage. 155 pages, glossary, color photographs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. $50 (Cloth) isbn 1-56098-546-1

Perthes, Volker. The Political Economy of Syria under Asad. 298 pages, tables, notes, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1995. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-85043-910-9

Reich, Bernard, ed. Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation: A Documentary History. 304 pages, chronology, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. $24.95 (Paper) isbn 0-275-95430-7

Roy, Olivier. Afghanistan: From Holy War to Civil War. (The Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series) 142 pages, maps, color plates, glossary, bibliography, index. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995. $24.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-87850-076-6

Samman, Ghada, trans. by Nancy N. Roberts. Beirut '75. 115 pages. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1995. $20 (Cloth) isbn 1-55728-383-4

Schnell, Izhak, Michael Sofer, & Israel Drori. Arab Industrialization in Israel: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Periphery. 204 pages, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. $55 (Cloth) isbn 0-275-94856-0

Schwartz, Moshe, Susan Lees, & Gideon M. Kressel, eds. Rural Cooperatives in Socialist Utopia: Thirty Years of Moshav Development in Israel. 264 pages, tables, figures, notes, index. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-275-95309-2

Seikaly, May. Haifa: Transformation of a Palestinian Arab Society, 1918-1939. 284 pages, fore. by Walid Khalidi, maps, tables, appen., bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1995. (Cloth) isbn 1-85043-958-3

Shaker, Sallama. State, Society, and Privatization in Turkey, 1979-1990. 101 pages, tables, bibliography, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. $13 (Paper) isbn 0-943875-75-7

Shindler, Colin. Israel, Likud, and the Zionist Dream: Power, Politics, and Ideology from Begin to Netanyahu. 324 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. $39.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-85043-969-9

Somakian, Manoug J. Empires in Conflict: Armenia and the Great Powers 1895- 1920. (International Library of Historical Studies) 276 pages, foreward by Martin McCauley, maps, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1995. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-85043-912-5

Stewart, Frank Henderson. Honor. 175 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. $11.95 (Paper) isbn 0-226-77408-2

Stewart, Harry M. Egyptian Shabtis. (Shire Egyptology 23) 64 pages, b&w illustrations, chronology, bibliography, index. Buckinghamshire, UK: Shire Publications, 1995. ,3.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7478-0301-3

Susser, Asher & Aryeh Shmuelevitz, eds. The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World: Essays in Honour of the late Professor Uriel Dann. 246 pages, notes, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1995. $39.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-7146-4601-6

Tiger Media, Inc. Lines in the Sand: The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East. CD-ROM for IBM & Macintosh. Calgary: Tiger Media, Inc., 1995. $49.95 isbn 0-9680027-0-6

Troupeau, Gérard. Etudes sur le christianisme arabe au Moyen Age. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 290 pages, notes, index. Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1995. $89.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-560-2

Vandewalle, Dirk, ed. Qadhafi's Libya: 1969-1994. 256 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-12587-9

Zerubavel, Yael. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. 340 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. $32.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-226-98157-6