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The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin is a biannual publication of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc., issued in July and December. Views expressed in the Bulletin are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Association. Copyright 2003 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 38 Number 2 December 2004
Table of Contents
| From the Editor’s Keyboard | 161 |
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Essays |
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Al-Ghazali's Method of Doubt, Sobhi Rayan |
162 |
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The Ismaili Ginan Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent, Karim Gillani |
175 |
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Conducting Research in Lebanon: An Overview of Historical Sources Outside of Beirut (Part II), Nadya Sbaiti and Sara Scalenghe |
187 |
| Filtering the Past, Building the Future: A Conference on Archaeology, Tradition, and Politics in the Middle East, Bradley J. Parker | 196 |
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REVIEWS |
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| The Politics of Afghan Women’s Liberation, Nancy E. Gallagher | 201 |
| Two Approaches to Introductory Middle East History, Steven Judd | 205 |
| The Sounds of Actually-Existing Cosmopolitans: Music From Southeastern Europe at the Intersections of Oneselves, Western European, and Ottoman Turkish Legacies, Sonia Tamar Seeman | 208 |
| Zionism 101: Dreams and Realities, Gil Troy | 214 |
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Societies, Cultures and Traditions of the
Middle East |
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| Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘, ed. Islam at the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought to Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (Arthur F. Buehler) | 218 |
| James A. Billa and John Alden Williams. Roman Catholics and Shi`i Muslims: Prayer, Passion and Politics (Maria M. Dakake) | 219 |
| Rainer Bruknner. Die Schia und die Koranfälschung (Walid A. Saleh) | 222 |
| David Cook. Studies in the Muslim Apocalyptic (Sajjad H. Rizvi) | 224 |
| Carl W. Ernst. Following Muhammad: An Introduction to Islam in the Contemporary World (Th. Emil Homerin) | 226 |
| Peter C. Hennigan. The Birth of a Legal Institution: The Formation of the Waqf in Third-Century A. H. Hanafi Legal Discourse (Scott C. Lucas) | 228 |
| Josef Horovitz. The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and Their Authors, ed. by Lawrence I. Conrad (Matthew S. Gordon) | 230 |
| Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection (James Pavlin) | 231 |
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Modern History and Culture |
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| Cem Behar. A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Ilyas Mahalle (Fariba Zarinebaf) | 234 |
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Linda Boxberger. On the Edge of the Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the India Ocean, 1880s-1930s (Alexander Knysh) |
236 |
| Nissim Dana. The Druze in the Middle East: Their Faith, Leadership, Identity and Status (Rula Abisaab) | 237 |
| Benjamin C. Fortna. Imperial Classroom: Islam, The State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire (Ruth A. Miller) | 240 |
| Christophe Jaffrelot, ed. Pakistan: Nationalism Without a Nation? (Maqsood Choudary) | 241 |
| Sarah D. Shields. Mosul Before Iraq: Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells (Najwa al-Qattan) | 243 |
| Martin Strohmeier. Crucial Images in the Presentation of Kurdish National Identity: Heroes and Patriots, Traitors and Foes (Mohammed M.A. Ahmed) | 245 |
| Abbas Vali. Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism (Michael M. .Gunter) | 247 |
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Contemporary Society, Politics and Economics |
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| Yoel Cohen. The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu and the Bomb (Avner Cohen) | 251 |
| David A. McMurray. In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown (Laurie A. Brand) | 253 |
| Yael Navaro-Yashin. Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Sabri Sayar) | 254 |
| Amal Obeidi. Political Culture in Libya (John P. Entelis) | 257 |
| Hugh Roberts. The Battlefield Algeria 1988-2002: Studies in a Broken Polity (Joe Stork) | 259 |
| Boaz Shoshan, ed. Discourse on Gender/Gendered Discourse in the Middle East (Marilyn Booth) | 261 |
| Frederic Volpi. Islam and Democracy: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria (Joe Stork) | 263 |
| Quintan Wiktorowicz, ed. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Stacey Philbrick Yadav) | 264 |
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The Middle East and the World |
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| Shlomo Brom and Yiftah Shapir, eds. The Middle East Military Balance 2001-2002 (Sanford R. Silverburg) | 268 |
| Bahman Aghai Diba. The Caspian Sea in the Twenty-First Century: The Positions and Views of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, with Special Reference to Iran (Hovann H. Simonian) | 269 |
| Moshe Gat. Britain and the Conflict in the Middle East, 1964-1967: The Coming of the Six-Day War (Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg) | 271 |
| Fred Halliday. Islam & the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (Hussam S. Timani) | 272 |
| Rebecca B. Kook. The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African American s in the United States and the Palestinian Citizens in Israel (Ronald R. Krebs) | 274 |
| Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss, eds. Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (Michaela Hertkorn) | 276 |
| Lenore G. Martin and Dimitris Keridis, eds. The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy (Ziya Öni) | 278 |
| David Miller, ed. Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq (Meliha Altunisik) | 280 |
| Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari, eds. Turkish Studies in the United States (Ilter Turan) | 282 |
| Tariq Ramadan. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (David Smock) | 283 |
| Barry Rubin. The Tragedy of the Middle East (Kirk J. Beattie) | 285 |
| Abdul Aziz Said and Meena Sharify-Funk, eds. Cultural Diversity and Islam (Svend White) | 287 |
| Keiko Sakai, ed. Social Protest and Nation-Building in the Middle East and Central Asia (Abdulkader Sinno) | 288 |
| Ofira Seliktar. Divided We Stand: American Jews, Israel, and the Peace Process (Stephen Rosenthal) | 290 |
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Language, Literature, Art, Architecture and Music |
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| Muhsin Al-Famli, translated by Yasmeen S. Hanoosh. Scattered Crumbs, A Novel (Kamran Rastegar) | 294 |
| Mary Catherine Bateson. Arabic Language Handbook (John Eisele) | 296 |
| Richard S. Harrell with Mohammed Abu-Talib and William S. Carroll. A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic (Youssef Yacoubi) | 298 |
| Annemarie Schimmel. Make a Shield from Wisdom: Selected Verses from Nasir-i-Khusraw’s Divan (Alice C. Hunsberger) | 300 |
| Oz Shelach. The Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments (Kamran Rastegar) | 301 |
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Films |
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| Beat of Distant Hearts (Algeria/UK) (Lina Beydoun) | 304 |
| Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (U.S.) (Noah Haiduc-Dale) | 306 |
| Qudad: Reinventing a Tradition (Yemen) (Kevin M. Paulus) | 307 |
| Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place (Syria) (Mirna Lattouf) | 308 |
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In Memoriam |
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| Mahfoud Bennoune (1936-2004) | 311 |
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News and Views |
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| Audited Financial Statement, 2003 | 313 |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, 2004 | 319 |
| Corrections | 320 |
| Cover Photo: “Times Square Anti-War Protest” ©2004 by Serge J-F. Levy www.sergelevy.com | |
