| 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, 1997 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 31 Number 2 December 1997
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 147 |
| The Tālebān in Afghanistan: A French Approach, Olivier Tirard-Collet | 148 |
Made in America: Historical and Contemporary Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States Anne K. Rasmussen |
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| Civil Society, Liberalism and the Corporatist Alternative: A Response, Augustus Richard Norton | 163 |
Book Reviews |
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| Peter W. Edbury, ed., The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation (Daniel E. Spector) | 165 |
| Wilferd Madelung, The Succession to Mu¢hammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate (James E. Lindsay) | 166 |
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| Daniel Brown, Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought (Earle H. Waugh) | 167 |
| Mahmud A. Faksh, The Future of Islam in the Middle East: Fundamentalism in Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia (David Commins) | 168 |
| Sh_h Wal_ All_h of Delhi, The Conclusive Argument from God: Sh_h Wal_ All_h of Delhi's Hujjat All_h al-B_ligha (Sabine Schmidtke) | 169 |
| Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, The Naqshbandi Sufi Way: History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain (Kathryn M. Coughlin) | 170 |
| Yitzhak Reiter, Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem Under British Mandate (Vernon Egger) | 171 |
| Michael Sells, Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poetic, and Theological Writings (Marcia K. Hermansen) | 172 |
| Tamara Sonn, ed., Islam and the Question of Minorities (Corinne Blake) | 173 |
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| Sheila R. Canby, The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi 'Abbasi of Isfahan (Massumeh Farhad) | 174 |
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| Fatollah Akbar, The Eye of the Ant: Persian Proverbs and Poems (Paul Losensky) | 176 |
| Mohamed Berrada, The Game of Forgetting (Magda M. Al-Nowaihi) | 177 |
| Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion (Peter Heath) | 178 |
| Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood (Judith Caesar) | 179 |
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| Mahmoud A. Elkhafif, The Egyptian Economy: A Modeling Approach (Hans Lofgren) | 180 |
| Aziz Haidar, On the Margins: The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy (Elias H. Tuma) | 181 |
| Clement M. Henry, The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (Hadi Salehi Esfahani) | 182 |
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| Sultan Muhammad Al-Qasimi, Les Relations entre Oman et la France (1715-1905) (Beatrice Nicolini) | 184 |
| Nazih N. Ayubi, Over-stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (Fred H. Lawson) | 185 |
| Michael N. Barnett, Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel (Fawaz Gerges) | 186 |
| Meron Benvenisti, City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem (Judith Mendelsohn Rood) | 187 |
| Benny Morris, Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War (F. Gregory Gause, III) | 188 |
| Malik Mufti, Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (Michael C. Hudson) | 189 |
| Barry Rubin, Joseph Ginat & Moshe Ma'oz, eds., From War to Peace: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1973-1993 (Rolin Mainuddin) | 190 |
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| Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, ed., The Muslims of America (Ayad Al-Qazzaz) | 191 |
| Marcia C. Inhorn, Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (Suad Joseph) | 192 |
| Charles S. Liebman & Elihu Katz, eds., The Jewishness of Israelis: Responses to the Guttman Report (Esther Fuchs) | 193 |
| Cynthia Nelson, Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart (Sherifa Zuhur) | 194 |
Audiovisuals |
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| Beyond the Veil: Are Iranian Women Rebelling? (Ellen-Fairbanks D. Bodman) | 196 |
| Chastie (Paradise) (Paula A. Michaels) | 197 |
| Five Pillars of Islam Series (Zamyat Kirby) | 198 |
| Morocco, Body and Soul Series (James A. Miller) | 199 |
| Yemen’s Cultural Drug: Q_t (Thomas B. Stevenson) | 201 |
In Memoriam |
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Correspondence & Corrections |
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Financial Report |
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