The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin is a biannual publication of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc., issued in Winter and Summer. Views expressed in the Bulletin are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Association. Copyright, 1995 by the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. Distributed by the Cambridge University Press ISSN 0026-3184

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 29 Number 1 July 1995

Table of Contents

 

Is There a Future for Middle East Studies? (1994 MESA Presidential Address) Rashid Khalidi 

 1 

Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia-Herzegovina Andras Riedlmayer 

 7 

Turks in Germany: Overview of the Literature Jenny B. White 

12 

Musics of Algeria: Selected Recordings Dwight Reynolds 

16 

Islamic Economics: The Surest Path? Arun Kapil 

22 

Arab Astronomy, Recovered Renaissance C.S.F. Burnett 

25 

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Competition, 1994

28 

Albert Hourani Book Award 

30 

Research & Teaching Resources 

32 

Gophers & Other Information Servers 

32 

New E-mail Discussion Lists 

34 

Updates

36 

Scholarly Societies, Periodicals & Publication Series

37 

Modern History & Politics: Maghreb Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904), (John Ruedy) 

41 

Michael M. Laskier, North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (Fred Astren) 

42 

Harvey E. Goldberg, The Book of Mordekhai: A Study of the Jews of Libya. Selections from the Higgid Mordekhai of Mordechai Hakohen (Norman A. Stillman) 

43 

Ali Abdtillatif Ahmida, The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonization, and Resistance, 1830-1932 (Weston F. Cook, Jr.) 

44 

Modern History & Politics: Central Middle East

  

Kirk J. Beattie, Egypt During the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society (Vernon Egger) 

45 

Mohamed Abdel Ghani El-Gamasy, The October War: Memoirs of Field Marshal El-Gamasy of Egypt (Avraham Sela) 

46 

Ebba Augustin, ed. Palestinian Women, Identity and Experience (Bassam K. Abed) 

47 

Shaul Ephraim Cohen, The Politics of Planting: Israeli- Palestinian Competition for the Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery (Garth Katner  

48 

Robert B. Satloff, From Abdullah to Hussin: Jordan in Transition (Eugene Rogan) 

49 

Youssef M. Choueiri, ed. State and Society in Syria and Lebanon (David Waldner) 

50 

Canan Balkir & Allan M. Williams, ed. Turkey and Europe (Marcie J. Patton) 

51

Ann Zwicker Kerr, Come With Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey (Helena Cobban) 

53 

Ellis Goldberg, Resat Kasaba & Joel S. Migdal, ed. Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society(Glenn E. Robinson)  

54 

Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islams and Modernities (Irene L. Gendzier) 

  54

Fatima Mernissi, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Marilyn Booth) 

55 

Heather Deegan, The Middle East and Problems of Democracy (Glenn E. Robinson)  

57 

Dan Tschirgi, ed. The Arab World Today (Joe Stork) 

58 

Bassam Tibi, Conflict and War in the Middle East, 1967 91: Regional Dynamic and the Superpowers (Tareq Y. Ismael) 

59 

Lillian Craig Harris, China Considers the Middle East(Andrew C. Hess

60 

Modern History & Politics: Gulf & Arabian Peninsula Haim Shemesh, Soviet-Iraqi Relations, 1968 1988: In theShadow of the Iraq-Iran Conflict (Ahmad A. R.Shikara) 

61 

Amatzia Baram & Barry Rubin, ed. Iraq s Road to War (Robert D. Burrowes)

62 

Jehan S. Rajab, Invasion Kuwait: An Englishwoman s Tale (Jason Thompson)

63 

Geoff Simons, Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam (Salwa Ismail) 

64 

W. Thom Workman, The Social Origins of The Iran-Iraq War (Pete W. Moore) 

65 

Tareq Y. Ismael & Jacqueline S. Ismael, The Gulf War and the New World Order (Paul Kingston)

67 

  Ronnie Miller, Following the Americans to the Persian Gulf:Canada, Australia and the Development of the New World Order (Rex Brynen)

68 

Richard Schofield, ed. Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States (Malcolm C. Peck)

69 

Joseph Kostiner, The Making of Saudi Arabia, 1916-1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State (Rosemarie Said Zahlan)

70 

Joseph A. Kechichian, ed. Political Dynamics and Security in the Arabian Peninsula Through the 1990s (Rear Admiral
Harold J. Bernsen, USN (RET)) 

71 

Modern History & Politics: Iran & Central Asia 

  

H.B. Paksoy, ed. Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History (Adeeb Khalid)

72 

Stephen Frederick Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (Rudi Mathee)

73 

Marvin G. Weinbaum, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Resistance and Reconstruction (Kamal Ali Beyoghlow)

74 

Barnett R. Rubin, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System(Richard S. Newell)

75 

Economics & Geography 

 

Abbas Alnasrawi, The Economy of Iraq: Oil, War, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950 2010 (Robert
Looney)

76 

Thierry Coville, ed. L'economie de l'Iran islamique: entre l'etat et le marche (Farhad Nomani)

77 

Peter Rogers & Peter Lydon, ed. Water in the Arab World: Perspectives and Prognoses (Donald Malcolm Reid)

  78

History & Historiography before 1900 

  

Albrecht Noth, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (Muhammad Qasim Zaman) 

80 

Aiman Ibrahim, Der Herausbildungsprozess des arabisch- islamischen Staates (Paul M. Cobb)

81 

G. Rex Smith, trans. & annot. The History of al- Tabari, Vol XIV: The Conquest of Iran (M. Reza Afshari)

81 

Claude Addas, Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi (Gabriel Lahood)

82 

Farhad Daftary, The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma ilis (James E. Lindsay)

83 

Clifford Edmond Bosworth, The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/861 to 949/1542-3) (M.A.J. Beg)

85 

Carl F. Petry, Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qan suh al-Ghawri in Egypt (Matthew S. Gordon 

86 

Weston F. Cook, Jr., The Hundred Years War for Morocco: Gunpowder and the Military Revolution in the Early
Muslim World (Jacob Abadi)

88 

Ronald C. Jennings, Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571-1640 (Daniel J. Sahas)

88 

Rika Gyselen, ed. Circulation des Monnaies, des Marchandises et des Biens, (Muhammad Al-Faruque) 

89 

Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Egypt s Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf & Architecture in Cairo (16th &
17th Centuries) (Daniel Crecelius)

90 

R.S. O'Fahey, comp. The Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africato c. 1900 (Jay Spaulding)

91 

Raoul Curiel & Rika Gyselen, ed. Itineraires d Orient, Hommages a Claude Cahen (Charles Issawi)

92

Art History & Architecture 

  

Milo Cleveland Beach, The New Cambridge History of India: Mughal and Rajput Painting (Amina Okada)

93 

Robert Hillenbrand, ed. The Art of the Saljuks in Iran and Anatolia: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Edinburgh in 1982 (Scott Redford) 

94 

Michael Meinecke, Die Mamlukische Architektur in Agypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 92311517) (Marianne Barrucand)

95 

Marie Lukens Swietochowski & Stefano Carboni, with essays by A. Morton & Tomoko Masuya, Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s (Eleanor Sims 

97 

Yves Porter, Peinture et Arts du Livre: Essai sur la litterature technique indo-persane (David J. Roxburgh) 

98 

Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore 

  

Lee Horne, Village Spaces: Settlement and Society in Northeastern Iran (Patty Jo Watson) 

99 

Beth Baron, The Women s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society and the Press (Kirsten E. Schulze)

100 

Valentine M. Moghadam, ed. Identity Politics & Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in InternationalPerspective (Julie Peteet)

101 

Ursula Kingsmill Hart, Behind the Courtyard Door: The Daily Life of Tribeswomen in Northern Morocco (Susan Schaefer Davis)

102 

Joanna Kai, ed. Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists (Diana Abu-Jaber)

103 

Paul Dresch, Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen (Alexander Knysh) 

104 

Daphne Tsimhoni, Christian Communities in Jersualem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social, and Political Study (LaVerne Kuhnke 

105 

John H. Melkon Rose, Armenians of Jerusalem: Memories of Life in Palestine (LaVerne Kuhnke) 

107 

Bozkurt Guvenc, Turk Kimligi: Kultur Tarihinin Kaynaklar (Carter Vaughn Findley)

107 

Sandra Shaw, ed. Doctor Mary in Arabia: Memoirs by Mary Bruins Allison, MD (Eleanor Abdella Doumato)

108 

Lewis Pyenson, Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940 (Dale F. Eickelman)

109 

Frances Trix, Spiritual Discourse: Learning with an Islamic Master (Walter Feldman) 

111 

Religious & Legal Studies 

 

H.T. Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World (Michael A. Sells)

112 

Richard W. Bulliet, Islam: The View from the Edge (Mangol Bayat) 

113 

F.E. Peters, A Reader on Classical Islam (Nicholas Heer)

114 

Ya hya Ibn Sharaf Al-Nawawi, Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam (Devin J. Stewart)

115 

Ali Dashti, 23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad (Linda S. Walbridge

116 

Leonard Lewisohn, ed. The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism  (Jamal J. Elias)

117 

Bruce B. Lawrence, trans. & annot. Morals for the Heart: Conversations of Shaykh Nizam ad-din Awliya (Alan A. Godlas)

118 

Barbara Freyer Stowasser, Women in the Qur'an, Traditions and Interpretation (Tamara Sonn)

119 

Language & Literature 

  

Grace Martin Smith, The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet (Talat Sait Halman)

120 

Hadrat `Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, The Secret of Secrets (Bruce B. Lawrence)

121 

Michael A. Sells, trans. Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes, `Alqama, Shanfara, Labid, `An`ara, Al- A`sha and Dhu al-Rumma (Adel S. Gamal)

122 

Victoria Rowe Holbrook, The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance (Talat Sait Halman)

124 

Saddeka Arebi, Women and Words in Saudi Arabia, The Politics of Literary Discourse (Eleanor A. Doumato)

125 

Samia Mehrez, ed. Egyptian Writers Between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim & Gamal al-Ghitani (Roger Allen)

126 

Keneth Whitehead & Kevin Anderson, trans. For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech (Miriam Cooke) 

127 

Out el Kouloub, Ramza (Beth Baron)

128 

Karin C. Ryding & Abdelnour Zaiback, Formal Spoken Arabic, Fast Course (Rkia Elaroui Cornell)

129 

Ibn Kamal Pasha, Ta Riib Al-Kalima Al-a Ghamiyyay (Dr. Lutz Edzard) 

130 

Reference Works 

  

Edna Lauden & Liora Weinbach, Multi-Dictionary, Hebrew- Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew (Sadok Masliyah)

131 

Michael E. Bonine, Eckart Ehlers, Thomas Krafft & George Stober, eds. The Middle Eastern City and Islamic Urbanism: An Annotated Bibliography of Western Literature (Jon W. Anderson)

132 

Lutz Ilisch, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tubingen: Palastina IVa Bilad as-Sam I (Michael L. Bates)

133 

Briefly Noted 

134 

Audiovisuals 

  

Quest for Change: Civil Society in the Middle East (Herbert L. Bodman) 

137 

Islamic Fundamentalism and Democracy (Vernon Egger) 

138 

Not Without My Veil: Women in Oman (Aida A. Bamia)

139 

Terrorism and Kebab (Carrie Rosefsky Wickham)

140 

Muslims in France (Bruce B. Lawrence) 

141 

Muslims in Bulgaria (Bruce B. Lawrence)

142 

Software & Multimedia 

  

The Sono-Qur'an, recited by Sheikh Mahmud Sadiq Al-Minshawi  (Sherman A. Jackson)

143 

Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem (Sinan Antoon)

145 

TextPert 3.7 Arabic (Joseph N. Bell, Peter Zemanek)

146

al-Qari' al-Ali (Joseph N. Bell, Peter Zemanek)

146 

Corrections & Apologies 

148

   Cover: Haram al-Ibrahim, Hebron. Photo: Manoug. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Library, 
Harvard University.