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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 29 Number 2 December 1995
Table of Contents
| Jacques Berque (1910-1995), Dale F. Eickelman | 149 |
| Preaching Islam, Walter Armbrust | 151 |
| Imaging Israel, Deborah L. Wheeler | 155 |
| Introduction to Sufi Music and Ritual in Turkey, Irene Markoff | 157 |
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| Middle East Studies On-Line, Jon W. Anderson | 161 |
| Augustus Richard Norton, ed., Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume I,
(Robert D. Burrowes) |
173 |
| Susan Ossman, Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City, (David Mednicoff) |
174 |
| Resources for Research & Teaching | 170 |
| Diane Singerman, Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks
in Urban Quarters in Cairo, (Jenny B. White) |
175 |
| World Wide Web | 170 |
| New Gophers | 171 |
| Electronic Mailing Lists | 171 |
| New Periodicals | 171 |
| Marnia Lazreg, The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question, (Julia Clancy-Smith) | 176 |
| Yeshim Ternar, The Book and the Veil: Escape from an Istanbul Harem, (Leslie Peirce) | 177 |
| Margot Badran, Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of
Modern Egypt, (Mary Ann Fay) |
178 |
| Martin Stokes, The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey, (Walter Feldman) | 180 |
| Omar Khalidi, Indian Muslims Since Independence, (Akbar S. Ahmed) | 181 |
| Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, The Jews of Yemen: Highlights of the Israel Museum Collection, (Laurence D. Loeb) | 182 |
| Tamar Mayer, ed., Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, (Lisa Hajjar) | 183 |
| Uri Ram, The Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology: Theory, Ideology, and Identity, (Myron J. Aronof) | 184 |
| Samir Khalaf & Philip S. Khoury, eds., Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction, (Sharon Nagy) | 185 |
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| Farhad Nomani & Ali Rahnema, Islamic Economic Systems, (Sohrab Behdad) | 186 |
| Stanley Fischer, Dani Rodrik & Elias Tuma, eds., The Economics of Middle East Peace: Views from the Region, (Djavad Salehi-Isfahani) | 187 |
| Jean-Jacques P\202renn\212s, L eau et les hommes au Maghreb: Contribution \205 une politique de l eau M\202diterran\202e, (John Kolars) | 188 |
| Daniel Hillel, Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East, (Thomas Naff) | 189 |
| Sharif S. Elmusa, A Harvest of Technology: The Super Green Revolution in the Jordan Valley, (Peter J. Doan) | 190 |
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| Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Algeria: A Country Study, (Amine Tehami) | 192 |
| Mounia Bennani-Chra\213bi, Soumis et rebelles au Maroc: les jeunes au Maroc, (Henry Munson, Jr.) | 193 |
| John Ruedy, ed., Islamism and Secularism in North Africa, (James A. Miller) | 194 |
| Frank Tachau, ed., Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa, (Clement M. Henry) | 195 |
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| Bahgat Korany, Paul Noble and Rex Brynen, eds., The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World, (Abdallah M. Battah) | 196 |
| William L. Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East, (Mahmoud Haddad) | 198 |
| Serif Mardin, ed., Cultural Transitions in the Middle East, (Birgit Sch\204bler) | 199 |
| Paul Salem, Bitter Legacy: Ideology and Politics in the Arab World, (Michael B. Bishku) | 200 |
| Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. & Jon Woronoff, eds., Historical Dictionary of Egypt, (Donald Malcom Reid) | 201 |
| Denis J. Sullivan, Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt: Islamic Development, Private Initiative, and State Control, (Armando Salvatore) | 202 |
| Mordechai Bar-On, The Gates of Gaza: Israel s Road to Suez and Back 1955-1957, (Marie-Jo\211lle Zahar) | 203 |
| Mark Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, (Henry Chambers) | 204 |
| Rosemary Sayigh, Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon, (Bassam K. Abed) | 205 |
| Laura Zittrain Eisenberg, My Enemy s Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948, (Kirsten E. Schulze) | 206 |
| Elie A. Salem., Violence and Diplomacy in Lebanon: The Troubled Years, 1982-1988, (Axel Havemann) | 207 |
| Youssef M. Choueir, ed., State and Society in Syria and Lebanon, (David Waldner) | 208 |
| Eugene L. Rogan & Tariq Tell, eds., Village, Steppe, and State: The Social Orgins of Modern Jordan, (Timothy J. Piro) | 209 |
| Graham E. Fuller & Ian O. Lesser, A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West, (Ahmad S. Moussalli) | 210 |
| Michael W. Suleiman, eds., U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton, (Richard L. Jasse) | 211 |
| Sara Steinmetz, Democratic Transition and Human Rights: Perspectives on US Foreign Policy, (Andrew A. Workman) | 212 |
| Javaid Saeed, Islam and Modernization: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey, (Valentine M. Moghadam) | 213 |
| Clement H. Dodd, The Cyprus Issue: A Current Perspective, (M. Hakan Yavuz) | 214 |
| Vamik D. Volkan & Norman Itzkowitz, Turks & Greeks, Neighbours in Conflict, (Ozay Mehmet) | 215 |
| Metin Heper & Ahmet Evin, eds., Politics in the Third Turkish Republic, (Frank Tachau) | 216 |
| Millard J. Burr & Robert O. Collins, Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile, (William A Mitchell) | 217 |
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| Michael Field, Inside The Arab World, (Don Peretz) | 218 |
| F. Gregory Gause III, Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States, (Robert Vitalis) | 219 |
| Robert E. Looney, Manpower Policies and Development in the Persian Gulf Region, (Valentine M. Moghadam) | 220 |
| Daniel Silverfarb, The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1941-1950, (Nance F. Kittner) | 221 |
| Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Saudi Arabia: A Country Study, (Gwenn Okruhlik) | 222 |
| Andrew Wheatcroft, The Life and Times of Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa: Ruler of Bahrain 1942-1961, (Sharon Nagy) | 223 |
| Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Persian Gulf States, (Nader Entessar) | 225 |
| Prithvi Ram Mudiam, India and the Middle East, (Peter L. Schmitthenner) | 226 |
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| Nikki R. Keddie, ed., Debating Revolutions, (Donald Quataert) | 227 |
| Mostafa Elm, Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran s Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath, (Mark Gasiorowski) | 228 |
| Hamid Zanganeh, ed., Islam, Iran, and World Stability, (Anja Pistor-Hatam) | 229 |
| Ehsan Naraghi, From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution, (Mohsen M. Milani) | 230 |
| Shireen T. Hunter, The Transcaucasus in Transition: Nation Building and Conflict, (Maruizio Pistoso) | 231 |
| Peter Ferdinand, ed., The New States of Central Asia and Their Neighbours, (Maruizio Pistoso) | 232 |
| Hafeez Malik, ed., Central Asia: Its Strategic Importance and Future Prospects, (Maruizio Pistoso) | 233 |
| Diego Cordovez & Selig S. Harrison, Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal, (Colonel Nick Pratt) | 234 |
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| Leila Tarazi Fawaz, An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860, (Linda T. Darling) | 235 |
| A.J. Abraham, The Awakening of Persia: The Reign of Nasr al-Din Shah, 1848-1896, (Stephen P. Blake) | 236 |
| Virginia H. Aksan, An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783, (Robert Olson) | 237 |
| Rifa at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, (Leslie Peirce) | 238 |
| Avigdor Levy, eds., The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, (Walter F. Weiker) | 239 |
| Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages, (Jeffrey T. Kenny) | 240 |
| Bernard Lewis, Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, in the Age of Discovery, (Jacob Neusner) | 241 |
| Stephen Frederick Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750, (Rudi Matthee) | 242 |
| Toby E. Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, (David E. Boersma) | 243 |
| Boaz Shoshan, Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo, (Julia Clancy-Smith) | 244 |
| Edward W. Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century, (Ismail H. Abdalla) | 245 |
| Nehemia Levtzion, Islam in West Africa: Religion, Society, and Politics to 1800, (Ismail H. Abdallah) | 245 |
| Mark Pinson, ed., The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, (John D. Treadway) | 246 |
| Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, ed., Approaches to the History of the Middle East: Interviews with Leading Middle East Historians, (Jacob Abadi) | 247 |
| George A. Bournoutian, A History of the Armenian People, Volume 1, Pre-History to 1500 A.D., (Ronald Grigor Suny) | 248 |
| Jean Aubin, \220mirs Mongols et Vizirs Persans dans les Remous de l Acculturation, (Beatrice Forbes Manz) | 249 |
| Bertold Spuler, The Age of the Caliphs: A History of the Muslim World, (Fakhreddin Azimi) | 251 |
| David Ayalon, Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries, (Reuven Amitai-Preiss) | 252 |
| Khalid Yahya Blankinship, The End of the Jihad State, (Mahmood Ibrahim) | 253 |
| Tarif Khalidi, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period, (George N. Atiyeh) | 254 |
| Han J.W. Drijvers, History and Religion in Late Antique Syria, (Richard B. Rose) | 255 |
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| Majid Fakhry, Philosophy, Dogma and the Impact of Greek Thought in Islam, (Joseph Aieta, III) | 256 |
| Michel Chodkiewicz, Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi, (Gabriel Lahood) | 257 |
| Esther Peskes, Muhammad B. Abdalwahh b (1703-92) im Widerstriet: Untersuchungen zur Rekonstruktion der Fr\201hgeschichte der Wahh b ya, (Alexander Knysh) | 258 |
| Chibli Mallat, The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi i International, (Andrew J. Newman) | 259 |
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| Julia Ashtiany, Media Arabic, (Rkia Elaroui Cornell) | 260 |
| Roger Allen, The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction, (Emily A. Haddad) | 261 |
| Muhammad al-Maghut, Joy Is Not My Profession: Selected Poems of Muhammad al-Maghut, (Mansour Ajami) | 262 |
| Assia Djebar, Loin de M\202dine: Filles d Isma\210l, (Evelyne Accad) | 263 |
| Ibn Kamal Pasha, Ris la f tahq q ta rib al-kalima al- a jam yya, (Lutz Edzard) | 265 |
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| Islam Is the Answer, (Christopher S. Taylor) | 267 |
| Islam Is the Solution, (Christopher S. Taylor) | 267 |
| Jihad in America, (Christopher S. Taylor) | 268 |
| Testimonies: Israeli Soldiers in the Intifada, (Eleanor Abdella Doumato) | 269 |
| Up to the South: Lubnan - Talaeen a Junuub, (Akram Fouad Khater) | 270 |
| Hostage of Time, (Akram Fouad Khater) | 271 |
| In the Name of God, (Richard C. Martin) | 273 |
| Briefly Noted | 274 |
| Recent Ph.D. Degrees in Middle East Studies | 275 |
| In Memoriam | 287 |
| MESA Financial Report | 290 |
| Communications & Corrections | 294 |
