Editor’s Note

Islamic Art and Architecture in The Encyclopaedia of Islam,2nd ed., Sheila S. Blair & Jonathan M. Bloom

Coffeehouse-Communism to Dara: The Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VI, Fascicles 1-6, Stephen F. Dale

PROTA: The Project for the Translation of Arabic, Roger Allen

The Fundamentalism Project Observed

Traditionalism, the Perennial Philosophy and Islamic Studies, Carl W. Ernst

New Recordings of Turkish Classical Music,  Walter Feldman

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Art & Architecture

Henry Glassie, Turkish Traditional Art Today (Reviewed by Sara G. Moment Atis)

Sheila R. Canby, ed. Persian Masters: Five Centuries of Painting (Reviewed by Estelle Whelan)

Tarek Mohamed Refaat Sakr, Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Architecture in Cairo (Reviewed by Mohammed al-Asad)

Caroline Williams, Islamic Monuments in Cairo: A Practical Guide (Reviewed by Bernard O'Kane)

Premodern History & Historiography

Khalid Yahya Blankinship, The History of al-Tabari: AnAnnotated Translation, Vol. XI: The Challenge of the Epires: A.D. 633-635/A.H. 12-13 (Reviewed by Abdulkader I. Tayob)

Jean Maurice Fiey, Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus; Repertoire des Dioceses Syriaques Orientaux etOccidentaux (Reviewed by Richard B. Rose)

Charles Butterworth & Blake Andree Kessel, eds. The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe (Reviewed by Gabriel Lahood)

Rachel Arie, L'Occident musulman au bas moyen age (Reviewed by David J. Wasserstein)

Maya Shatzmiller, ed. Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria (Reviewed by Matthew S. Gordon)

Leslie P. Peirce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Reviewed by Aysegul Baykan)

Marshall G.S. Hodgson, Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History (Reviewed by Brian Johnson)

Modern History & Politics: North Africa

William Zartman & William Mark Habeeb, eds. Polity and Society in Contemporary North Africa (Reviewed by Bradford Dillman)

M. Riad El-Ghonemy, Land, Food and Development in North Africa (Reviewed by John Kolars)

Modern History & Politics

Erik J. Zurcher, Turkey: A Modern History (Reviewed by Roderic H. Davison)

Igor P. Lipovsky, The Socialist Movement In Turkey: 1960-1980 (Reviewed by Omer K. Alptekin)

Juan R.I. Cole, Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt’s 'Urabi Movement (Reviewed by Timothy Mitchell)

Zackary Lockman, ed. Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies (Reviewed by Ervand Abrahamian)

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954 (Reviewed by F. Gregory Gause, III)

Joel Gordon, Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt’s Free Officers and the July Revolution (Reviewed by Robert Vitalis)

Jamal R. Nassar, Palestine Liberation Organization: From Armed

Struggle to the Declaration of Independence (Reviewed by Rex Brynen)

Barry Rubin, Revolution Until Victory? The Politics and History of the PLO (Reviewed by Nahla Abdo)

Kamal Salibi, The Modern History of Jordan (Reviewed by Eugene L. Rogan)

Donald Harman Akenson, God’s Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster (Reviewed by Ian S. Lustick)

Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Reviewed by Don Peretz)

Abraham Ben-Zvi, The United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship (Reviewed by Dan Tshirgi)

David Schoenbaum, The United States and the State of Israel (Reviewed by Dan Tshirgi)

Michael J. Cohen & Martin Kolinsky, eds. Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s: Security Problems, 1935-39 (Reviewed by Fred H. Lawson)

David W. Lesch, Syria and the United States: Eisenhower’s Cold War in the Middle East (Reviewed by Joshua Landis)

Haifaa A. Jawad, Euro-Arab Relations: A Study in Collective Diplomacy (Reviewed by Pia Christina Wood)

Mohamed Rabie, The New World Order: A Perspective on the Post-Cold War Era (Reviewed by Fawaz A. Gerges)

Richard B. Parker, The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East (Reviewed by Khalil Dokhanchi)

Phebe Marr & William Lewis, Riding the Tiger: The Middle East Challenge After the Cold War (Reviewed by Steve Niva)

Albert Hourani, Philip S. Khoury & Mary C. Wilson, eds. The Modern Middle East: A Reader (Reviewed by Nathan Brown)

Modern History & Politics (Gulf)

Muhammad Faour, The Arab World After Desert Storm (Reviewed by F. Gregory Gause, III)

Ghazi A. Algosaibi, The Gulf Crisis: An Attempt to Understand (Reviewed by Eleanor A. Duomato)

Howard Teicher & Gayle Radley Teicher, Twin Pillars to Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East From Nixon to Bush (Reviewed by Burton I. Kaufman)

Ian Johnstone, Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action (Reviewed by Khalil Dokhanchi)

Omar Ali, Crisis in the Arabian Gulf: An Independent Iraqi View (Reviewed by Khalil Dokhanchi)

J.E. Peterson, Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia (Reviewed by William Ochsenwald)

Modern History & Politics (Iran & Afghanistan)

Mangol Bayat, Iran’s First Revolution: Shi'ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 (Reviewed by Mahmoud Sadri)

Habib Sabet, Sargozasht-e Habib Sabet be Qalam-e Khod-e Ishan [Memoirs of Habib Sabet] (Reviewed by Misgah Parsa)

Myron Weiner & Ali Banuazizi, eds. The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan (Reviewed by Marvin G. Weinbaum)

Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam (Reviewed by Jon W. Anderson)

Economics & Geography

Xuan Han Vo, Oil, the Persian Gulf States, and the United States (Reviewed by Cyrus Bina)

Jahangir Amuzegar, Iran’s Economy under the Islamic Republic (Reviewed by Karim Pakravan)

Rushdi Said, The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology and Utilization (Reviewed by Donald Malcolm Reid)

Amir Ben-Porat, The State and Capitalism in Israel (Reviewed by Donna R. Divine)

Religious & Legal Studies

Vernon Schubel, Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shi'i Devotional Rituals in South Asia (Reviewed by Arthur F. Buehler)

Josef van Ess, Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religioesen Denkens im fruehen Islam (Reviewed by M. G. Carter)

Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Reviewed by Brannon M. Wheeler)

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law (Reviewed by Marisa Escribano)

Mary Boyce, Zoroastrianism: Its Antiquity and Constant Vigor (Reviewed by William R. Darrow)

Anthropology, Sociology & Folklore

Fayad E. Kazan, Mass Media, Modernity, and Development: Arab States of the Gulf (Reviewed by Adeeb Khalid)

Allen Douglas & Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Arab Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Mass Culture (Reviewed by Michael W. Suleiman)

Linda L. Layne, Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan (Reviewed by Lois Beck)

Jenny B. White, Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey (Reviewed by Ruth Mandel)

Valentine M. Moghadam, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (Reviewed by Erika Friedl)

Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Reviewed by Christine Eickelman)

Rachel Simon, Change Within Tradition Among Jewish Women in Libya (Reviewed by Reeva S. Simon)

Teshome G. Wagaw, For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel (Reviewed by Garth Katner)

Marianne Heiberg, Geir Ovensen et al. Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A Survey of Living Conditions (Reviewed by Sarah Roy)

Said K. Aburish, Cry Palestine: Inside the West Bank (Reviewed by Sarah Roy)

Fred Halliday, Arabs in Exile: Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain (Reviewed by Georges Sabagh)

Louis Brenner, ed. Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (Reviewed by Robert Launay)

Robert B. Cunningham & Yasin K. Sarayrah, Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society (Reviewed by Eleanor Abdella Duomato)

M.R. Ghanoonparvar & Faridoun Farrokh, eds. In Transition: Essays on Culture & Identity in Middle Eastern Societies (Reviewed by Nahla Abdo)

Literature & Language

Sabry Hafez, The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse: A Study in the Sociology of Modern Arabic Literature (Reviewed by Marilyn Booth)

Jaroslav Stetkevych, The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasib (Reviewed by Dimitry Frolov)

Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun (Reviewed by Wail Hassan)

Salwa Bakr, The Wiles of Men and Other Stories (Reviewed by Issa Peters)

Abdelrahman Munif, Variations on Night and Day (Reviewed by Roger Allen)

Michael Beard & Adnan Haydar, eds. Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition (Reviewed by Trevor Le Gassick)

Hanna Mina, Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family (Reviewed by Gordon L. Witty)

Nitza Ben-Dov, Agnon’s Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon (Reviewed by Eric Zakim)

Warren S. Walker & Ahmet E. Uysal, eds. Tales Alive in Turkey (Reviewed by Kemal Silay)

Ahmed Taher Hassanein & Kamar Mostafa Abdou, eds. The Concise Arabic-English Lexicon of Verbs in Context (Reviewed by Mahmoud Al-Batal)

Wheeler M. Thackston, An Introduction to Persian (Reviewed by Haleh Esfandiari)

Briefly Noted, New Editions & Reference Works

Audiovisuals Reviews

Ahmed A. Jamal, dir. & prod. Dancing Girls of Lahore (Reviewed by Sophia Ernst)

Grita Landoff, prod. A Little for My Heart and a Little forMy God (Reviewed by Sophia Ernst)

Shuukhrat Makkhmudov, dir. The Beaming One (Reviewed by Herbert L. Bodman)

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