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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 30 Number 2 December 1996
Table of Contents
| The Inclusion Imperative (1996 MESA Presidential Address) Farhad Kazemi | 147 |
| The Gulf/2000 Project Gary Sick | 154 |
| Imagined Cyber Communities, Iranians and the Internet Haleh Nazeri | 158 |
| Political Islam John P. Entelis | 165 |
| Listening to Umm Kulthum Virginia Danielson | 170 |
| Research & Teaching Resources | 174 |
| On the Internet | 174 |
| New Publications | 177 |
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| Charles Issawi, The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery, Selected Essays (Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam) | 179 |
| Sadek Wahba, ed., The Economics of the Middle East: A Selected Bibliography (Patrick Clawson) | 180 |
| Ziaul Haque, RIBA: The Moral Economy of Usury, Interest, and Profit (Farhad Nomani) | 181 |
| Mohamed Aslam Haneef, Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought: A Selected Comparative Analysis (Timur Kuran) | 182 |
| Nicholas Dylan Ray, Arab Islamic Banking and the Renewal of Islamic Law (Elias G. Kazarian) | 183 |
| Volker Perthes, The Political Economy of Syria under Asad (Abbas Alnasrawi) | 184 |
| Subidey Togan & V.N. Balasubramanyam, eds., The Economy of Turkey Since Liberalization (E. Mine Cinar) | 185 |
| Richard H. Adams, Jr., The Effects of International Remittances on Poverty, Inequality, and Development in Rural Egypt (Nora Ann colton) | 186 |
| Itzhak Schnell, Michael Sofer & Israel Drori, Arab Industrialization in Israel: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Periphery (Raja Khalidi) | 187 |
| Fatemeh E. Moghadam, From Land Reform to Revolution: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Iran, 1962-1979 (Amir Ismail Ajami) | 188 |
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| Robert T. Harrison, Gladston’s Imperialsm in Egypt: Techniques of Domination (Vernon Egger) | 190 |
| W. Travis Hanes, III, Imperial Diplomacy in the Era of Decolonization: The Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1945-1956 (Bushra Hamad) | 191 |
| Nathan A. Pelcovits, The Long Armistice, UN Peacekeeping and the Arab Israeli Conflict: 1948-1960 (John D. Hymes, Jr.) | 192 |
| Malise Ruthven, Freya Stark in Southern Arabia (William Ochsenwald) | 193 |
| Joseph A. Kechichian, Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (Mary Ann Tetrault) | 193 |
| Sami A. Hanna, A Modern Cultural History of Bahrain: Contributors and Contributions (Robert Geran Landen) | 195 |
| David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds (Robert Olson) | 196 |
| M. Sukru Hanioglu, The Young Turks in Opposition (Justin McCarthy) | 197 |
| Metin Heper, Historical Dictionary of Turkey (Omer K. Alptekin) | 198 |
| Sallam Shaker, State, Society, and Privatization in Turkey, 1979-1990 (Marcie J. Patton) | 199 |
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| Michael Bonner, Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier (Kate Lang) | 200 |
| C.E. Bosworth, The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and Culture (Stuart D. Sears) | 201 |
| G.R.D. King & Averil Cameron, eds., The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Land Use and Settlement Patterns (Gladys Frantz-Murphy) | 202 |
| Averil Cameron, ed., The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies (W.W. Clifford) | 203 |
| George F. Hourani, Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times (Herbert L. Bodman) | 204 |
| Steven M. Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Mark R. Cohen) | 205 |
| Stefan Heidemann, Das Aleppiner Kalifat (A.D. 1261): Vom Ende des Kalifates in Bagdad uber Alleppo zu den Restaurationen in Kairo (Jan Goldberg) | 206 |
| Patricia Risso, Merchants & Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean (Beatrice Nicolini) | 208 |
| Abu Al-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Said Al-Shammakhi, Kitab al-Siyar (John E. Long) | 209 |
| Haskell D. Isaacs, Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (David G. Hirsch) | 210 |
| Metin Kunt & Christine Woodhead eds., Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World (Christine Isom-Verhaaren) | 210 |
| Suraiya Faroqhi, Kultur and Alltag im Osmanischen Reich: Vom Mittelalter bis zum Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts (Donald Quataert) | 212 |
| L. Carl Brown, ed., Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East (Benjamin C. Fortna) | 212 |
| Justin McCarthy, Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 (Michael Robert Hickok) | 214 |
| Moshe Davis, American and the Holy Land (Hilton Obenzinger) | 215 |
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| David Thomas, Anti-Christian Polemic in Early Islam: Abu Isa al-Warraq’s “Against the Trinity” (Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘) | 216 |
| Hugh Goddard, Christians and Muslims: From Double Standards to Mutual Understanding (Jane I. Smith) | 217 |
| Hans-Georg Ebert, Das Personalstatut arabischer Lander: Problemfelder, Methoden, Perspektiven (Ann Elizabeth Mayer) | 218 |
| Norman Calder, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence ( A. Kevin Reinhart) | 218 |
| Gudrun Schubert, ed., Annaherungen: Der Mystisch-philosophische Briefwechsel Zwischen Sadr ud-Din-i Qonawi und Nasir ud-Din-i Tusi (Sabine Schmidtke) | 220 |
| A. Kevin Reinhart, Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Thought (Ebrahim E.I. Moosa) | 221 |
| Mehmed Fuad Koprulu, Islam in Anatolia after the Turkish Invasion (Omer K. Alptekin) | 222 |
| Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Juan Eduardo Campo) | 223 |
| Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘, Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World (Ghada Talhami) | 224 |
| Nimat Hafez Barazangi, M. Raquibuz Zaman & Omar Afzal, eds., Islamic Identity and the Struggle for Justice (Newell S. Booth, Jr.) | 225 |
| Valerie J. Hoffman, Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt (Dina Le Gall) | 226 |
| Julian Johansen, Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt: The Battle for Islamic Tradition (Nicholas S. Hopkins) | 227 |
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| Jibrail S. Jabbur, The Bedouins and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East (William Lancaster) | 228 |
| Belgin Tekce, Linda Oldham & Frederic C. Shorter, A Place to Live: Families and Child Health in a Cairo Neighborhood (Lucie Wood Saunders) | 229 |
| Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Men Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics (Amal Amire) | 230 |
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| Mahmoud Al-Batal, ed., The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Issues and Directions (William Granara) | 231 |
| Christiane Achour, Anthologie de la litterature algerienne de langue francaise (Silvia Nagy-Zekmi) | 233 |
| Nancy Du Pleissis, Notes des cahiers Marocaines [Notes form the Moroccan Journals] (Deborah A. Kapchan) | 234 |
| Hamdi Sakkout, Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad (Salaam Yousif) | 235 |
| Kaisser A. Afif, And the Word Became Poem (Shawkat M. Toorawa) | 236 |
| Elias Khoury, The Kingdom of Strangers (Allen Hibbard) | 237 |
| Daisy Al-Amir, Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman’s Tales of Alienation (Allen Hibbard) | 238 |
| Paul Sprachman, ed. and trans., Suppressed Persian: An Anthology of Forbidden Literature (Mahmoud Omidsalar) | 239 |
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| Paolo M. Costa, Studies in Arabian Architecture (Sharon Nagy) | 241 |
| Sheila S. Blair & Jonathan M. Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800 (William L .Hanaway) | 242 |
| Gulru Necipoglu, The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Carol Bier) | 243 |
| Carol Bier, The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg (Carolyn Kane) | 244 |
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| United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Refworld/Refmonde (Elia Zureik) | 246 |
| Alam E. Hammad, Encyclopedia of Computer Terms, English-Arabic (Paul Roochnik) | 247 |
| Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar & Richard W. Bulliet, eds., Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (Jon W. Anderson) | 248 |
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| The Road to Peace: Israelis and Palestinians (Lisa Alexander) | 249 |
| Lebanon: Bits and Pieces (Akram Fouad Khater) | 250 |
| The Fundamental Question (Walter Armbrust) | 251 |
| Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt (Roberta L. Dougherty) | 252 |
| Building with Mud (Herbert L. Bodman) | 253 |
| Iraqi Women: Voices from Exile (Sumaiya A. Hamdani) | 254 |
| Ashura at Skardu (Julie Flowerday) | 255 |
| Recent (1995) Ph.D. Degrees in Middle East Studies | 257 |
| In Memoriam | 271 |
| MESA Financial Report | 276 |
| Communications | 272 |
Cover photo: Buzkashi in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1971. |
