Books Received for Review 
from the August 1998 Newsletter

Abdul-Husn, Latif. The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward. 170 pages, bibliography, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. $42.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-55587-665-X

Abinader, Elmaz. Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon. 303 pages. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. $14.95 (Paper) isbn 0-299-15734-2

Adams, Barbara and Krzysztof M. Cialowicz. Protodynastic Egypt. illustrations, chronology, index. Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1997. isbn 0-7478-0357-9

Afkhami, Gholam Reza. Iran’s Atomic Energy Program: Mission, Structure, Politics: An Interview with Akbar Etemad. (A Series in Iran’s Economic and Social Development) Bethesda: Iranbooks, 1997.

Afkhami, Mahnaz and Erika Friedl. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation. 222 pages, bibliography, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-8156-2760-2

Agius, Dionisius A. and Ian Richard Netton, eds. International Medieval Research: Across the Mediterranean Frontiers. (Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress) 411 pages, index. Turnhout, Brepols: Brepols, 1997. isbn 2-503-50600-3

Ahmed, Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin. 274pages, plates, maps, references, index. New York: Routledge, 1997. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-415-14966-5

Ajami, Fouad. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey. 344 pages, source notes, index. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. $26.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-375-40150-4

Al-Azmeh, Aziz. Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred Muslim, Christian and Pagan Politics. 296 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1997. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-053-2

al-Ghabra, Shafeeq. Kuwait. (Arabic) Ibn Khaldun Center, 1995. (Paper) isbn 977-279-014-9

al-Ghabra, Shafeeq. Israel and the Arabs. 200 pages, notes. Beirut, Lebanon: Al-Mu’asasat al-Arabiyyat lil-Dirasat wal-Nashr, 1997. (Paper)

al-Hakim, Tawfiq. In the Tavern of Life & Other Stories. 232 pages, trans. by William Maynard Hutchins. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. $18.95 (Paper) isbn 0-89410-649-X

al-Qa’id, Yusuf. War in the Land of Egypt. (New International Fiction Series) 192 pages. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 1998. $12.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56656-227-9

al-Tabari. The History of al-Tabari, Volume XXXIX: Biographies of the Prophet’s Companions and Their Successors. (Series in Near Eastern Studies) 357 pages, translated by Ella Landau-Tasseron, tables, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. (Paper) isbn 0-7914-2820-6

Ali, Wijdan. Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity. 225 pages, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1526-X

Allworth, Edward A., ed. The Tartars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland. (Central Asia Book Series) 375 pages, second edition, revised and expanded, bibliography, index. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth)

Alvia, Sajida S., Chief Editor & Project Director. Urdu for Children: Book One. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997. isbn 0-7735-1620-4

Anderson, June. Return to Tradition: The Revitalization of Turkish Village Carpets. 88 pages, color photos, line drawings, map, bibliography, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. $24.95 (Paper) isbn 0-295-97689-6

Arat, Zehra F., ed. Deconstructing Images of "The Turkish Woman". 342 pages, figures and tables, bibliography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $55.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17544-2

Arnon, Arie, Israel Luski, Avia Spivak and Jimmy Weinblatt. The Palestinian Economy: Between Imposed Integration and Voluntary Separation. 278 pages, tables, figures, appendix, references, index. New York: E.J. Brill, 1997. (Cloth) isbn 90-04-10538-7

Aronoff, Myron J. Power and Ritual in the Israel Labor Party: A Study in Political Anthropology. (Comparative Politics Series) 288 pages, graphs, tables, bibliography, index. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993 $28.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56324-106-4

Asali, Kamil J., ed. Jerusalem in History: 3,000 B.C. to the Present Day. 301 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Kegan Paul International, 1997. $29.00 (Paper) isbn 0-7103-0559-1

Bagadar, Abubaker, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff and Deborah S. Akers, eds. Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writers. 171 pages, additional trans. by Abdul-Aziz Al-Sebail, glossary. Boulder: Three Continents Press, 1998. $13.95 (Paper) isbn 1-55587-775-3

Baha, Abdu’l. The Wisdom of the Master: The Spiritual Teachings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. 119 pages, illustrations, endnotes, bibliography. Los Angeles: Kalimát Press, 1997. $10.00 (Paper) isbn 1-883991-23-4

Bahu, Sultan. Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu. 154 pages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. $14.95 (Paper) isbn 0-520-21242-8

Baker, Alison. Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women. (SUNY Series in Oral and Public History) 341 pages, illustrations, appendices. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3622-5

Balfour-Paul, Jenny. Indigo in the Arab World. 283 pages, notes, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, appendix, index. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1997. $45.00 isbn 0-7000-0373-X

Ballas, S. and R. Snir, eds. Studies in Canonical and Popular Arabic Literature. 121 pages. Toronto, Canada: York Press Ltd, 1998. $19.95 isbn 1-896761-04-6

Balz, Kilian Rudolf. Versicherungsvertragsrecht in den Arabischen Staaten. Karlsruhe, Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft e.V., 1997. isbn 3-88487-665-1

Bartelt, Dana, Yossi Lemel, Fawzy El Emrany, Sliman Mansour. Both Sides of Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Political Poster Art. 160 pages, illustrations, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. $29.95 (Paper) isbn 1-885449-04-6

Bashear, Suliman. Arabs and Others in Early Islam. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 8) 143 pages, bibliography, index. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1997. $24.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-87850-126-6

Bayat, Asef. Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran. 232 pages, chronology, photographs, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $17.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10859-1

Behdad, Sohrab and Farhad Nomani, eds. Islam and Public Policy. (International Review of Comparative Public Policy V. 9) 310 pages. Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1997. isbn 0-7623-0268-2

Bengio, Ofra. Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq. (Studies in Middle Eastern History) 266 pages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-19-511439-6

Bodman, Herbert L. and Nayereh Tohidi, eds. Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. 311 pages, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 1-55587-578-5

Bournoutian, George A., translation & commentary. Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797-1889. 578 pages, chronology, commentary, appendix, glossaries, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1998. (Cloth) isbn 1-56859-068-7

Bozkurt, Askim. AuBenpolitische Dimensionen des Kurdenproblems in der Turkei. (Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft des Vorderen Orients) Hamburg, Germany: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1997. isbn 3-89173-047-0

Brand, Laurie A. Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making. 350 pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995 $17.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10097-3

Brooker, Paul. Defiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age. 226 pages, appendices, notes and references, bibliography, index. New York: New York University Press, 1998. $37.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-3147-1311-4

Brustad, Kristen, Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘Allum Al-‘Arabiyya: A Textbook for Arabic, Part II. 448 pages, audiocassettes, compact disks, videocassette, answer key. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1997. $42.50 (Paper) isbn 0-87840-350-7

Buchta, Wilfried. Die iranische Schia und die islamische Einheit 1979-1996. (Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft des Vorderen Orients) 418 pages, Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1997. isbn 3-89173-046-2

Carapico, Sheila. Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia. (Cambridge Middle East Series 9) 256pages, tables, map, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-521-59098-1

Chartouni-Dubarry, May, ed. Le Couple Syro-Libanais Dans Le Processus de Paix. (Les Cahiers de L’Ifri, no. 22) 76 pages, Paris: Institut francais des relations internationales, 1998. $35.00

Chiffoleau, Sylvia. Medecines et Medecins en Egypte: Construction d’une identite professionnelle et projet medical. (Etudes sur le Monde Arabe) 325 pages, bibliography Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan, 1997. isbn 2-7384-6005-4

Chittick, William C. The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Cosmology. (SUNY Series in Islam) 483 pages, notes, bibliography, indices. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. $24.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3404-4

Choksy, Jamsheed K. Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society. 207 pages, preface, illustrations, notes, bibliography, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $46.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-231-10684-X

Cooper, John, Ron Nettler and Muhammad Mahmoud, eds. Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond. 228 pages, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. $55.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-175-X

Curtis, Glenn E. Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies. 567 pages, tables, figures, bibliography, glossary, index, contributors. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1997. (Cloth) isbn 0-8444-0938-3

Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh, Robert Hillenbrand, J.M. Rodgers, eds. Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia: New Light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empires. 191 pages, plates, photographs. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. $69.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-045-1

Danielson, Virginia. The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) 273 pages, preface, illustrations, glossary, notes, references, index. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. $17.95 (Paper) isbn 0-226-13612-4

Deringil, Salim. Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909. 260 pages, map, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-307-8

DeYoung, Terri. Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq. 333 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3732-9

Dowty, Alan. The Jewish State: A Century Later. 351 pages, maps & tables, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. $35.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-520-20941-9

Drescher, Seymour and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. A Historical Guide to World Slavery. 429 pages, illustrations, index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. (Cloth) isbn 0-19-512091-4

Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain and Neil Caplan, eds. Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace. (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies) 268 pages, figures, bibliography, references, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. $16.95 (Paper) isbn 0-253-21159-X

El Saadawi, Nawal. The Nawal El Saadawi Reader. 292 pages, introduction, index London: Zed Books, 1998. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 1-85649-514-0

Elazar, Daniel J. and Shmuel Sandler, eds. Israel at the Polls 1996. (Cass Studies in Israeli History, Politics and Society) 279 pages, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co., 1998. $22.50 (Paper) isbn 0-7146-4421-8

Elmusa, Sharif S. Water Conflict: Economics, Politics, Law and Palestinian-Israeli Water Resources. 408 pages, illustrations, tables, appendix, references, index. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0-88728-268-7

Elon, Amos. A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East. 332 pages, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $24.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-231-10742-0

Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). Gulf Energy and the World: Challenges and Threats. 183 pages, contributors, notes, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1997. $55.00 (Paper) isbn 1-86064-211-X

Entelis, John P., ed. Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa. (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies) 256 pages, b&w photos, notes, references, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. $15.95 (Paper) isbn 0-253-21131-X

Ezrahi, Yaron. Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel. 308 pages, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. $16.95 (Paper) isbn 0-520-21416-1

Facey, William. Back to Earth: Adobe Building in Saudi Arabia. 215 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Riyadh: Al-Turah, 1997. isbn 1-900404-13-3

Fahmy, Khaled. All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. (Cambridge Middle East Studies 8) 330 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-521-56007-1

Farmanfarmaian, Manucher and Roxane Farmanfarmaian. Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince. 514 pages, family tree, prologue, appendix, notes, index. New York: Random House, 1997. $35.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-679-44055-0

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, ed. Against Islamic Extremism: The Writings of Muhammad Sa‘id al-’Ashmawy. 144 pages, introduction, glossary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1546-4

Freedman, Robert O., ed. The Middle East and the Peace Process: The Impact of the Oslo Accords. 450 pages, bibliography, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. $29.95 (Paper) isbn 0-8130-1554-5

Friedl, Erika. Children of Deh Koh: Young Life in an Iranian Village. 306 pages, appendix, glossary. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. (Paper) isbn 0-8156-2757-2

Gershoni, Israel and James Jankowski, eds. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. 372 pages, notes, glossary, works cited, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $18.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10695-5

Gheissari, Ali. Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century. 272 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. $18.95 (Paper) isbn 0-292-72804-2

Ghoussoub, Mai. Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within. 187 pages. London: Saqi Books, 1998. $22.95 (Paper) isbn 0-86356-090-3

Goffman, Daniel. Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642-1660. (Publications on the Near East) 328 pages, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. $50.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-295-97668-3

Goldscheider, Calvin. Israel’s Changing Society: Population, Ethnicity, and Development. 271 pages, tables, figures, preface, acknowledgements, references. Boulder: Westview, 1996 $22.00 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3391-1

Graf, David F. Rome and the Arabian Frontier: from the Nabataeans to the Saracens. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 348 pages, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997. $93.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-658-7

Gran, Peter. Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History. 440 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996 (Paper) isbn 0-8156-2693-2

Greffenius, Steven. The Logic of Conflict: Making War and Peace in the Middle East. 224 pages, graphs, tables, bibliography, index. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. $62.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-56324-073-4

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and John L. Esposito, eds. Islam, Gender, and Social Change. 259 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. $45.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-19-511356-X

Hambly, Gavin R.G., ed. Women in the Medieval Islamic World. (The New Middle Ages) 566 pages, illustrations, bibliography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-21057-4

Hamdi, Mohamed E. The Making of an Islamic Political Leader: Conversations with Hasan Al-Turabi. 129 pages, Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. $49.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-8133-3512-4

Hamdi, Mohamed E. The Politicisation of Islam: A Case Study of Tunisia. (State, Culture, & Society in Arab North Africa) 204 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. $49.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-8133-3458-6

Harney, Desmond. The Priest and the King: An Eyewitness Account of the Iranian Revolution. 206 pages, prologue, introduction, notes, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $39.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-319-8

Heiss, Mary Ann. Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain and Iranian Oil, 1950-1954. 328 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $22.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10819-2

Hibbard, Scott and David Little. Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy. 176 pages, foreword by William B. Quandt, notes. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1997. $8.95 (Paper) isbn 1-878379-71-2

Hiro, Dilip. Dictionary of the Middle East. 367 pages, maps, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $17.95 (Paper) isbn 0-312-17435-7

Hoiris, Ole and Sefa Martin Yurukel, eds. Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East. Preface, introduction, appendix, list of contributors, index. Oakville, CT: AARHUS University Press, 1997. isbn 87-7288-691-9

Hopkins, Nicholas S. and Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Arab Society: Contemporary Views: Class, Gender, Power, and Development. 583 pages, statistical abstract, map. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. $24.95 (Paper) isbn 977-424-404-4

Hoyland, Robert G. Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 13) 827 pages, maps, bibliography, index. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1997. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-87850-125-8

Hunt, Lucy-Anne. The Mingana and Related Collections. 93 pages. Birmingham, U.K.: The Mingana Collection, 1997. $10.00 (Paper) isbn 0953143902

Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin and Ramazan Sesen, Cevat Izgi. Osmanli Astronomi Literaturu Tarihi. bibliography, indices, tables. Istanbul Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture, 1997. (Cloth) isbn 92-9063-070-1

Issawi, Charles. Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts. (Studies in Middle Eastern History) 150 pages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. $27.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-19-511813-8

Jabar, Faleh A., ed. Post-Marxism and the Middle East. 256 pages, introduction, notes, list of abbreviations, list of contributors. London: Saqi Books, 1997. $60.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-86356-961-7

Jacoby, David. Trade, Commodities and Shipping in the Medieval Mediterranean. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 340 pages, preface, addenda & corrigenda, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. $98.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-620-X

Jerichow, Anders. Saudi Arabia: Outside Global Law and Order: A Discussion Paper. 171 pages, chronology, bibliography, addresses, maps & statistics. Concord, MA: Curzon, 1998. $25.00 (Paper) isbn 0-7007-0959-2

Joffe, E.G.H., M.J. Hachemi and E.W. Watkins, eds. Yemen Today: Crisis and Solutions. 284 pages, maps, tables, appendix, participants. London: Caravel Press, 1997. $24.99 (Paper) isbn 1-902159-00-4

Jones, Alan, ed. The Jaysh al-tawshih of Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib. (E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series No. 33) 312 pages. Oakville, CT: Gibb Memorial Trust/David Brown Book Co., 1997. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-906094-42-9

Jreisat, Jamil E. Politics without Process: Administering Development in the Arab World. 261 pages, tables, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. $52.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-55587-333-2

Kapitan, Tomis, ed. Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 392 pages, map, bibliography, index. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. $27.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56324-878-6

Karam, Azza M. Women, Islamisms, and the State: Contemporary Feminisms in Egypt. 284 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $69.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17501-9

Kedar, Benjamin Z. and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, eds. Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land. 348 pages, index. New York: New York University Press, 1998. $45.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-8147-4680-2

Keshavarz, Fatemeh. Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi. (Studies in Comparative Religion) 206 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. $29.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-57003-180-0

Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. 285 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $29.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-231-10514-2

Khalileh, Hassan S. Islamic Maritime Law: An Introduction. (Studies in Islamic Law and Society) 197 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Boston & Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998. (Cloth) isbn 90-04-10955-2

Khoury, Dina Rizk. State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 253 pages, glossary, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-521-59060-4

Khuri, Richard K. Freedom, Modernity, and Islam: Toward a Creative Synthesis. (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) 424 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8156-2698-3

Khusraw, Nasir. Knowledge and Liberation in a Muslim World: An Introduction to Ismaili Philosophical Theology. 129 pages, trans. by Faquir M. Hunzai, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. $32.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-860674-217-9

Ladjevardi, Habib, ed. Memoirs of M.E. Amirteymour Kalali. (Harvard Iranian Oral History Series IV) preface, appendixes, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1997. isbn 0-932885-17-9

Lane, Rose Wilder. Islam and the Discovery of Freedom. 86 pages, introduction & commentary by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad. Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 1997. isbn 0-915957-68-X

Le Gall, Michel and Kenneth Perkins. The Maghrib in Question: Essays in History and Historiography. 304 pages, tables, contributors, abbreviations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. $40.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-292-76576-2

Lees, Susan H. The Political Ecology of the Water Crisis in Israel. 208 pages. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. $36.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-7618-0969-4

Levey, Zach. Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960. 218 pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8078-2368-6

Looney, Robert E. The Pakistani Economy: Economic Growth and Structural Reform. 199 pages, tables and figures, appendix, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997. isbn 0-275-94737-8

Lowe, Lisa and David Lloyd, eds. The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. 597 pages. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. $23.95 (Paper) isbn 0-8223-2046-0

MacMaster, Neil. Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62. 307 pages, maps, tables, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. (Cloth) isbn 0-312-16501-3

Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce, ed. Middle East Contemporary Survey. (Volume XIX 1995) 717 pages, maps, sources. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. $99.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-8133-3411-x

Magnus, Ralph H. and Eden Naby. Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid. (Nations of the Modern World: Middle East) 274 pages, photographs, maps, chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. $30.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-86531-513-2

Maoz, Moshe and Ilan Pappe, eds. Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within. 236 pages, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-012-5

Martin, Richard C. and Mark R. Woodward. Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu‘tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol. 192 pages, preface, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1997. $14.99 isbn 1-85168-147-7

Massignon, Louis. Essay on the Origins of the Technical Language of Islamic Mysticism. 253 pages, appendix, bibliography, index. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. $45.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-268-00928-7

Matar, Muhammad Afifi. Quartet of Joy: Poems by Muhammad Afifi Matar. 79 pages, glossary, explanatory notes. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. $10.00 (Paper) isbn 1-55728-488-1

McGowan, Daniel and Marc H. Ellis, eds. Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine. 160 pages, sources, contributors, bibliography. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1998. $15.00 (Paper) isbn 1-56656-291-0

Meital, Yoram. Egypt’s Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967-1971. 256 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1533-2

Menashri, David, ed. Central Asia Meets the Middle East. 239 pages, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co., 1998. $46.50. (Cloth) isbn 0-7146-4600-8

Mercier, Eric. Aden: Un parcours interrompu. (Collection Villes du Monde Arabe Vol. no. 3) 163 pages. 60 FF student price; 120 FF public price. Tours, France: URBAMA, 1997.

Messaoudi, Khalida. Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism. (Critical Authors & Issues) 282 pages, interviews with Elisabeth Schemla, appendix, glossary. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. $14.95 (Paper) isbn 0812216571

Mirzai, Abdol G. Farda dar Esarat-e Dirouz [The Future Held Captive by the Past]: Critical Historical Essays by Abdol G. Mirzai. (Persian Language Publications Series, No. 10.) 522 pages, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1998. $15.00 (Paper) isbn 1-56859-071-7

Moghadam, Valentine M. Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East. 258 pages, tables, figures, references, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. $55.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-55587-7850-0

Moosa, Matti. The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction. 455 pages, 2nd edition, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. $24.95 (Paper) isbn 0-89410-684-8

Mostofi, Abdollah. The Administrative and Social History of the Qajar Period, Vol. I, II, III. 1347 pages, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1997. $89.00 isbn 1-56859-041-5

Naciri, Mohamed and Andre Raymond, eds. Sciences Sociales et Phenomenes Urbains dans le Monde Arabe. (Actes due colloque de l’Association de Liaison) Casablanca: Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud, 1997.

Naficy, Majid. Modernism and Ideology in Persian Literature: A Return to Nature in the Poetry of Nima Yushij. 144 pages, bibliography. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. $27.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-7618-0862-0

Naqvi, Tahira. Attar of Roses and Other Stories of Pakistan. 144 pages, glossary. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. $15.95 (Paper) isbn 0-89410-809-3

Nassar, Issam. Photographing Jerusalem: The Image of the City in 19th Century Photography. (East European Monographs CDLXXXII) 61 pages, photographs, appendices New York: St. Martin’s Press 1997. $23.00 (Paper) isbn 0-88033-379-0

Nedoroscik, Jeffrey A. The City of the Dead: A History of Cairo’s Cemetary Communities. 135 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pubishing Group 1997. isbn 0-89789-5333-9

Nicolini, Beatrice. The Island of Zanzibar. History and Strategy in the Indian Ocean (1799-1856). Beirut: Dar al-Nahar, 1997. (Paper)

O’Ballance, Edgar. The Palestinian Intifada. 252 pages, chronology, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-21172-4

Olson, Robert. The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations from World War I to 1998. (Kurdish Studies Series, No. 1) 105 pages, maps, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers 1998. (Cloth) isbn 1-56859-067-9

Ozdalga, Elisabeth. The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey. (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) 99 pages, glossary, bibliography, index, illustrations. Surrey, U.K.: Curzon Press, 1998. $35.00 isbn 0-7007-0983-5

Partrick, Theodore Hall. Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church. 226 pages, bibliography, index. Greensboro, NC: Fisher Park Press, 1996 isbn 0-9652396-0-8

Peres, Shimon and Robert Littell. For the Future of Israel. 222 pages, illustrations. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. $22.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8018-5928-X

Peskowitz, Miriam B. Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History. 249 pages, preface, acknowledgements, epilogue, notes, bibliography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $17.95 (Paper) isbn 0-520-20967-2

Philipp, Thomas and Ulrich Haarmann, eds. The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 306 pages, illustrations, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-521-59115-5

Posusney, Marsha Pripstein. Labor and the State in Egypt, 1952-1994: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring. 327 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. $17.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10693-9

Pulcini, Theodore. Exegesis as Polemical Discourse: Ibn Hazm on Jewish and Christian Scriptures. (American Academy of Religions Number 2) 210 pages, works cited, index. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1998. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7885-0395-2

Redaelli, Riccardo. The Father’s Bow: The Khanate of Kalat and British India. 244 pages, notes, sources, bibliography, appendices, maps, illustrations. Firenze: Il Maestrale, 1997. 32000 IL isbn 88-86715-12-9

Rejwan, Nissim. Arabs Face the Modern World: Religious, Cultural, and Political Responses to the West. 256 pages, notes, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1559-6

Richani, Nazih. Dilemmas of Democracy and Political Parties in Sectarian Societies. 183 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17450-0

Riphenburg, Carol J. Oman: Political Development in a Changing World. 264 pages, illustrations, selected bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-275-96144-3

Rooke, Tetz. In My Childhood: A Study of Arabic Autobiography. 303 pages, appendix, references, index. Stockholm, Sweden: Almquist & Wiksell International, 1997. isbn 91-22-01766-6

Ryding, Karin C., ed. Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalil ibn Ahmad. 160 pages, foreword, introduction, contributors. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998. $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-87840-663-8

Sadiq, Mohammad. The Turkish Revolution: A Perspective on Ideological Change in Turkey. 198 pages, preface, bibliography, index. Delhi, India: Macmillan India Limited, 1997. isbn 0333 93008 8

Samarqandi, "Mutribi" al-Asamm. Conversations with Emperor Jahangir. (Bibliotheca Iranica Literature Series No. 4) 98 pages, index. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1998. $12.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56859-679-5

Saul, Samir. La France et l’Egypte de 1882 a 1914: Interets economiques et implications politiques. 787 pages. Paris, France: Comite pour l’histoire economique et financiere, 1997. isbn 2-11-088978-0

Savage, Elizabeth. A Gateway to Hell, A Gateway to Paradise: The North African Response to the Arab Conquest. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 7) 205 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0-87850-112-6

Schmidtke, Sabine, ed. and translator. A Mu‘tazilite Creed of Az-zamahsari (D. 538/1144). 83 pages. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. isbn 3-515-06793-0

Schulze, Kirsten E. Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon. (St. Antony’s Series) 213 pages, notes and references, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $65.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17604-X

Sela, Avraham and Moshe Maioz, eds. The PLO and Israel: From Armed Conflict to Political Solution, 1964-1994. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $45.00 (Cloth) isbn 00-312-12906-8

Shafik, Nemat, ed. Economic Challenges Facing Middle Eastern and North African Countries: Alternative Futures. 266 pages, figures, tables, foreword by Heba Handoussa, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $68.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17632-5

Shafik, Nemat, ed. Prospects for Middle Eastern Economics: From Boom to Bust and Back? 325 pages, figures, tables, foreword, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $68.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17633-3

Shapland, Greg. Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East. 183 pages, abbreviations and conversion factors, bibiography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-16522-6

Sheikholesami, A. Reza. The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran, 1871-1896. (Studies in Near Eastern Culture and Society, 9) 246 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997. $29.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7885-0323-5

Sick, Gary and Lawrence Potter. The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion. 356 pages, tables, maps, contributors, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $18.95 (Paper) isbn 0-312-17567-1

Smith, G. Rex. Studies in the Medieval History of the Yemen and South Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 310 pages, addenda & corrigenda, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. $94.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-641-2

Sonyel, Salahi R. Cyprus The Destruction of a Republic: British Documents, 1960-1965. 199 pages, notes, select bibliography, index. Cambridgeshire: Eothen Press, 1997. $35.00 (Paper) isbn 0-906719-40-2

Starrett, Gregory. Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt. 324 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley University of California Press, 1998. $22.00 (Paper) isbn 0-520-20927-3

Stewart Howe, Kathleen. Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine. 144 pages, photographs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $29.95 (Paper) 0-89951-095-7

Stierlin, Henri and Anne Stierlin. Splendours of an Islamic World: The Art and Architecture of the Mamluks. 219 pages, illustrations, appendices, chronologies, map, glossary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $59.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-219-5

Stone, Martin. The Agony of Algeria. 263 pages, preface & acknowledgements, bibliography, index, maps, tables. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $16.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10911-3

Suny, Ronald Grigor, ed. Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change: Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. 543 pages, tables, maps, index. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. $27.95 (Paper) isbn 0-472-06617-X

Tabachnick, Stephen Ely. T. E. Lawrence. (Twayne’s English Author Series 543) 171 pages, chronology, notes and references, bibliography, index. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. $28.95 isbn 0-8057-7800-4

Tabbaa, Yasser. Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo. 209 pages, illustrations, tables, index, works cited. University Park: Penn State Press, 1997. $55.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-271-01562-4

Tanter, Raymond. Rogue Regimes: Terrorism and Proliferation. 322 pages, notes, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press 1998., $29.95 isbn 0-312-17300-8

Tapper, Richard. Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan. (Cambridge Middle East Studies 7) 429 pages, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, indices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $69.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-521-58336-5

Tignor, Robert L. Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya. 437 pages, bibliographical note, index. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. $55.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-691-01584-8

Toledano, Ehud R. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East. 198 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. $18.00 (Paper) isbn 0-295-97642-X

Tucker, Judith. In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. 232 pages, map, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. $40.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-520-21039-5

Turner, Howard R. Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction. 248 pages, photos, drawings, maps, tables, bibliography, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997. $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-292-78149-0

Varisco, Daniel Martin. Medieval Folk Astronomy and Agriculture in Arabia and Yemen. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 338 pages, preface, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. $98.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-651-X

Vatin, Nicolas. Sultan Djem. 379 pages, appendix, index, bibliography. Ankara: Imprimerie de la societe Turque d’Histoire, 1997. isbn 975-16-0832-5

Walbridge, Linda S. Without Forgetting the Imam: Lebanese Shi’ism in an American Community. 242 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. isbn 0-8143-2675-7

Walker, Barbara K. and Sema G. Kormali. To Set Them Free: The Early Years of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. 272 pages, a bilingual (Turkish/English) biography; maps, photographs. Brattleboro: Pro Lingua Associates Publishers, 1997. $16.00 isbn 0-86647-101-4

Wehling, Fred. Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967-1973. 225 pages, tables, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-17566-3

Wright, Jr., J.W. and Everett K. Rowson, eds. Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature. 239 pages, contributors, preface, acknowledgements, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $18.50 (Paper) isbn 0-231-10507-X

Yapp, M.E. Politics and Diplomacy in Egypt: The Diaries of Sir Miles Lampson 1935-1937. (Oriental and African Archives) 510 pages, plates, maps, glossary, appendices, bibliographical note. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. $185.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-19-726155-8

Yared, Nazek S. Improvisations on a Missing String. 112 pages, trans. by Stuart A. Hancox. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. $12.00 (Paper) isbn 1-55728-496-2

Yared, Nazek S. Arab Travellers and Western Civilization. 252 pages, trans. by Sumayya Damluji Shahbandar, notes, bibliography, index. London: Saqi Books, 1996. $69.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86356-336-8