| 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, 1993 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 27 Number 2 December 1993
Table of Contents
| Some Recent Thinking on Slavery in Islamic Africa and the Middle East, John Edward Philips | 157 |
| Islamic Liberalism Strikes Back, Dale F. Eickelman | 163 |
| The Quran Recited, Mahmoud Ayoub | 169 |
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| Library of Congress catalogues | 172 |
| Johns Hopkins University Press Journals | 172 |
| History News SERVER | 173 |
| Electronic mailing lists | 173 |
Egyptian National STI NETwork |
174 |
| Networking on the Internet | 175 |
| News Services | 175 |
| Is there e-mail to... ? | 176 |
| What s on the Internet? | 177 |
New Journals/Series |
178 |
Archives & Collections |
178 |
Book Reviews |
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| Edmund Burke, III, ed., Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (John Waterbury) | 181 |
| Akbar S. Ahmed, Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise (Gregory Starrett) | 182 |
| Ernest Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason and Religion (Gregory Starrett) | 182 |
| Lila Abu-Lughod, Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Paul Dresch) | 183 |
| Benedicte Grima, The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women: “The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me” (Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper) | 184 |
| Elise G. Young, Keepers of the History: Women and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Mary N. Layoun) | 185 |
| Orayb Aref Najjar, Portraits of Palestinian Women (Ayeda Ayed) | 186 |
| Julie Marcus, A World of Difference: Islam and Gender Hierarchy in Turkey (Jenny B. White) | 188 |
| Barbara Daly Metcalf, Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi’s Bihishti Zewar. A Partial Translation with Commentary (Carla Petievich) | 188 |
| Alan Dundes, ed., The Evil Eye, A Casebook (Mahmoud Omidsalar) | 190 |
| Martin Van Bruinessen, Agha, Shaikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (Daniel Bradburd) | 191 |
| David Menashri, Education and the Making of Modern Iran (Patricia J. Higgins) | 192 |
| Ali Akbar Mahdi & Abdolali Lahsaeizadeh, Sociology in Iran (Georges Sabagh & Mohamed Tavakol) | 193 |
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| Alan Richards & John Waterbury, A Political Economy of the Middle East: State, Class, and Economic Development (Nemat Shafik) | 195 |
| Gary Gereffi & Donald L. Wyman, eds., Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Marcie J. Patton) | 195 |
| Masudul Alam Choudhury, The Principles of Islamic Political Economy: A Methodological Inquiry (Sohrab Behdad) | 197 |
| Graham P. Chapman & Kathleen M. Baker, eds., The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East (James A. Miller) | 198 |
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| Lawrence I. Conrad, ed., The Formation and Perception of the Modern Arab World: Studies by Marwan R. Buheiry (Dina Rizk Khoury) | 201 |
| Fred H. Lawson, The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad Ali Period (Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim) | 202 |
Yahya M. Sadowski, Scuds or Butter? The Political Economy of Arms Control in the Middle East (Rolin Mainuddin) |
203 |
| Anita Shapira, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force 1881-1948 (John J. McTague) | 204 |
| Philippa Strum, The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex and the Palestinian Revolution (Elise G. Young) | 205 |
| Elizabeth Warnock Fernea & Mary Evelyn Hocking, eds., Israelis and Palestinians: The Struggle for Peace (Mouin Rabbani) | 205 |
| Mordechai Nisan, Toward a New Israel: The Jewish State and the Arab Question (Ian Lustick) | 207 |
| Ian Black & Benny Morris, Israel’s Secret Wars: A History of Israel’s Intelligence Services (Zaha Bustami) | 208 |
Ensio Siilasvuo, In the Service of Peace in the Middle East, 1967-1979 (Augustus Richard Norton) |
209 |
| Alasdair Drysdale & Raymond Hinnebusch, Syria and the Middle East Peace Process (James A. Paul) | 210 |
| Clement H. Dodd, ed., Turkish Foreign Policy: New Prospects (Marcie J. Patton) | 211 |
| John Bulloch & Harvey Morris, No Friends but the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds (Vera Beaudin Saeedpour) | 212 |
| Marie Bennigsen Broxup, ed., The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance towards the Muslim World (Paul A. Goble) | 213 |
| Mansoor Moaddel, Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution (Ali Mirsepassi) | 214 |
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| Anoushiravan Ehteshami & Gerd Nonneman with Charles Tripp, War and Peace in the Gulf: Domestic Politics and Regional Relations into the 1990s (Joseph A. Kechichian) | 217 |
| Farhang Rajaee, ed., The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression (Sanford R. Silverburg) | 218 |
| Miron Rezun, Saddam Hussein s Gulf Wars: Ambivalent Stakes in the Middle East (Moyara de Moraes Ruehsen) | 219 |
| Dilip Hiro, Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War (Malcolm C. Peck) | 220 |
| Charles F. Doran & Stephen W. Buck, eds., The Gulf, Energy, and Global Security: Political and Economic Issues (Djavad Salehi-Isfahani) | 221 |
Michael J.Mazarr, Don M.Snider & James A. Blackwell, Jr., Desert Storm: The Gulf War and What We Learned (Rolin Mainuddin) |
222 |
| Kenneth L. Vaux, Ethics and the Gulf War: Religion, Rhetoric, and Righteousness (H.A. Bedau) | 223 |
| Edward Ingram, Britain s Persian Connection, 1798 1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia (Briton C. Busch) | 223 |
| John C. Wilkinson, Arabia s Frontiers: The Story of Britain s Boundary Drawing in the Desert (J.C. Hurewitz) | 224 |
David H. Finnie, Shifting Lines in the Sand: Kuwait's Elusive Frontier with Iraq (Louay Bahry) |
226 |
| Madawi Al Rasheed, Politics in an Arabian Oasis: The Rashidi Tribal Dynasty (J.E. Peterson) | 227 |
| Leslie McLoughlin, Ibn Saud: Founder of a Kingdom (William Ochsenwald) | 228 |
| Ian Skeet, Oman: Politics and Development (John Duke Anthony) | 228 |
| Nagat El-Sanabary, Education in the Arab Gulf States and the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide (Dale F. Eickelman) | 229 |
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| Susan Gilson Miller, trans. & ed., Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan
Scholar in France 1845 1846. The Voyage of Muhammad As- Saff r (Julia Clancy-Smith) |
231 |
| John Ruedy, Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation (Donald C. Holsinger) | 232 |
| John Entelis & Philip C. Naylor, eds., State and Society in Algeria (John Ruedy) | 233 |
| I. William Zartman, ed., Tunisia: The Political Economy of Reform (John P. Entelis) | 234 |
| Mira Zussman, Development and Disenchantment in Rural Tunisia: The Bourguiba Years (Eva Bellin) | 235 |
| Ronald Bruce St. John, Historical Dictionary of Libya, 2nd edition (Mary-Jane Deeb) | 236 |
Gabriel R. Warburg, Historical Discord in the Nile Valley (Robert L. Tignor) |
237 |
| Ali Salih Karrar, The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan (Robert L. Tignor) | 237 |
| Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Richard A. Lobban, Jr. & John Obert Voll, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Sudan, 2nd edition (Kenneth J. Perkins) | 239 |
Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Sudan - A Country Study (Lisa J. Arone) |
240 |
| Abdelwahab El-Effendi, Turabi s Revolution: Islam and Power in Sudan (Louis J. Cantori) | 241 |
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| `Abd Allah Ahmad Na`im, Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights & International Law (Hani H. Azzam) | 243 |
| Noah Ha Mim Keller, trans., The Reliance of the Traveller: A Classical Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (769/1368) (A. Kevin Reinhart) | 244 |
| Mohammad Ebn-e Monavvar, The Secrets of God s Mystical Oneness or The Spiritual Stations of Shaikh Abu Sa`id (Carl W. Ernst) | 245 |
| Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Mystical Poems of Rumi 2: Second Selection, Poems 201-400 (Bruce Lawrence) | 246 |
| Baha`u`lla h, The Seven Valleys, trans. by `Ali-Kuli Khan with Marzieh Gail (Juan R.I. Cole) | 247 |
| Geoffrey Roper, ed., World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 1 (A. Kevin Reinhart) | 248 |
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| Akram Diya al-`Umari, Madinan Society at the Time of the Prophet: I. Its
Characteristics and Organization, II. The Jihad Against the Mushrikun (Imtiyaz Yusuf) |
251 |
| Mona Abul-Fadl, Islam and the Middle East: The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry (Brannon M. Wheeler) | 252 |
| Gregory C. Kozlowski, The Concise History of Islam and the Origin of its Empires (Maya Schatzmiller) | 253 |
| Said al-Andalusi, Science in the Medieval World: Book of the Categories of Nations (Gregg De Young) | 254 |
| Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine, 634 1099 (Reuven Firestone) | 255 |
| S.N. Eisenstadt, Jewish Civilization: The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective (Leah R. Baer) | 256 |
| Muhammad b. Jarir al- Tabari , The History of al- Tabari (Tarikh al-rusul wa`l-mulu k), Volume XXXI: The War Between Brothers (Muhammad Qasim Zaman) | 257 |
| John Walbridge, The Science of Mystic Lights: Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi and the Illuminationist Tradition in Islamic Philosophy (Peter Heath) | 258 |
| J.G.J. ter Haar, Follower and Heir of the Prophet: Shaykh A hmad Sirhind (1564 1624) as Mystic (Marcia K. Hermansen) | 259 |
| Peter Thorau, The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century (Douglas E. Streusand) | 260 |
| Jacqueline Sublet, Les trois vies du sultan Baibars (Douglas E. Streusand) | 260 |
| Mehmed Fuad Koprülü, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources (Weston F. Cook, Jr.) | 261 |
| Shiro Ando, Timuridische Emire nach dem Mu`izz al-ansa b: Untersuchung zur Stammesaristokratie Zentralasiens im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert (Louise Marlow) | 263 |
| Kenneth M. Cuno, The Pasha s Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740 1858 (Nathan Brown) | 264 |
| Mikhayil Mishaqa, Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Nabil M. Kaylani) | 265 |
| Ingeborg Huhn, Der Orientalist Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als preussischer Konsul in Damaskus (1849 1861) (Linda Schatkowski Schilcher) | 266 |
| Cyril E. Black & L. Carl Brown, eds., Modernization in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors (Stephen C. Feinstein) | 267 |
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| John Renard, Islam and the Heroic Image: Themes in Literature and the Visual Arts (Jerome W. Clinton) | 269 |
| Barbara Schmitz, Islamic Manuscripts in The New York Public Library (Marianna S. Simpson) | 270 |
| Abolala Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts: Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection (Massumeh Farhad) | 271 |
| Lisa Golombek & Maria Subtelny, eds., Timurid Art and Culture: Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century (Terry Allen) | 272 |
| Thierry Hentsch, Imagining the Middle East (Walter G. Andrews) | 272 |
| Raymond Lifchez, ed., The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey (Ethel Sara Wolper) | 273 |
| A.V.G. Betts, ed., Excavations at Jawa 1972 1986: Stratigraphy, Pottery and Other Finds (Abier Ziadeh Shamma) | 274 |
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| Adonis, An Introduction to Arab Poetics (Rasheed El-Enany) | 277 |
| Alec G. Hargreaves, La Litt‚rature Beur: Un Guide Bio-Bibliographique (Mustapha Hamil) | 278 |
| Evelyne Accad, Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East (Linda Orr) | 279 |
| Stephan Guth, Zeugen einer Endzeit: Fünf Schriftsteller zum Umbruch in der ägyptischen Gesellschaft nach 1970 (Hilary Kilpatrick) | 280 |
| Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (Hilary Kilpatrick) | 281 |
| Anton Shammas, ed., The Middle East (Issa J. Boullata) | 282 |
| Primrose Arnander & Ashkhain Skipwith, The Son of a Duck is a Floater and other Arab sayings with English equivalents (Elizabeth M. Bergman) | 283 |
| Wiebke Walther, Tausend und eine Nacht: Eine Einführung (Fedwa Malti-Douglas) | 284 |
| Ross Brann, The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Benjamin Hary) | 285 |
| Jeffrey Heath, From Code-Switching to Borrowing: Foreign and Diglossic Mixing in Moroccan Arabic (Elizabeth M. Bergman) | 286 |
| Aleya Rouchdy, ed., The Arabic Language in America (Rkia Elaroui Cornell) | 287 |
| Recep Albayrak Hacaloglu, Azeri Turkcesi Dil Kilavuzu (E.H. Gilson) | 289 |
| Nahid Rachlin, Married to a Stranger (Alireza Anushiravani) | 290 |
Audiovisuals |
291 |
| Lindsay Miller, Islam in America (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 291 |
| Remaking the World (Kathryn V. Johnson) | 291 |
| Ed Griffin-Nolan, Lines in the Sand (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 292 |
| Barbara Michaels & Anne Marie Kocherhaus, Nomads on the Savanna (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 293 |
| Ned Johnson & Louis Werner, Voice of the Whip (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 293 |
Miscellanea |
294 |
| NewWorldTransliterator: Macintosh Middle Eastern-language Transliteration Font (A. Kevin Reinhart) | 294 |
| Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij, New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies (Marcia R. Annis) | 294 |
| Global Explorer World Atlas on CD-ROM (Jon W. Anderson) | 295 |
Briefly Noted |
297 |
Degrees Received |
301 |
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302 |
MESA Financial Report |
305 |
In Memoriam |
308 |
Communications |
308 |
Corrections |
311 |
Editorial |
312 |
| Cover: Frontispiece from a Quran—ink, color and gold on paper, made in Iran ca. 1550—praising the beauty of holy scripture, from the Vever collection (S1986.82r) of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, on exhibit in The Divine Word of Islam through February 6, 1994 at the Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. Courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Published in Glen D. Lowry & Milo C. Beach, An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington, Seattle & London: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the University of Washington Press, 1988. isbn 0-295-96678-5 | |
