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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 26 Number 1 July 1992
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 1 |
| Dale F. Eickelman, “The Re-Imagination of the Middle East: Political and Academic Frontiers” | 3 |
| Yedida K .Stillman and Nancy Micklewright, “Costume in the Middle East” | 13 |
| Timothy Mitchell and Roger Owen, “Defining the State in the Middle East” (3rd of 3 workshop reports) | 39 |
Notes and Topics |
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| Jere L. Bacharach, The Tabari Translation Project | 45 |
| Scholarly Organizations Concerned with Middle Eastern Studies | 46 |
| Malcolm H. Kerr Award-Winning Dissertations, 1991 | 51 |
Book Reviews |
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| Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health (Israel Gershoni) | 57 |
| C. M. Hann, Tea and the Domestication of the Turkish State (Feroz Ahmad) | 59 |
| Baruch Kimmerling ed., The Israeli State ad society: Boundaries and Frontiers (Ovadia Shapiro) | 61 |
| Thierry Mauger, The Bedouins of Arabia (Soraya Altorki) | 63 |
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| Mohamed Mustafa Bazam, Arabia e Sardi nel Medioevo (Brian Johnson) | 66 |
| David Dean Commins, Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria (Hasan Kayali) | 67 |
| Leonor Fernandes, The Evolution of a Sufi Institution in Mamluk Egypt: The Khanqah (Ethel Sara Wolper) | 69 |
| R. S. O’Fahey, Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition (Michael A. Sells) | 71 |
| Daniel Panzac, La Peste dans l’Empire Ottoman, 1700-1850 (Alan Fisher) | 72 |
| Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari, vol. 3 (Michael Fishbein) | 74 |
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| Akbar S. Ahmed, Resistance and Control in Pakistan (Larry P. Goodson) | 78 |
| Abraham Ashkenasi, Nationalism and National Identity (Gudrun Krämer | 79 |
| Rex Brynen, Sanctuary and Survival: The PLO in Lebanon (Itamar Rabinovich) | 80 |
| Asghar Fathi ed., Iranian Refugees and Exiles Since Khomeini (Valentine M. Moghadam) | 82 |
| Robert O. Freedman, Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet Policy since the Invasion of Afghanistan (Joseph A. Kechichian) | 84 |
| Robert O. Freedman ed., The Intifada: Its Impact on Israel, the Arab World, and the Superpowers (Susan Ziadeh) | 85 |
| Dilip Hiro, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict; and Ian Brown, Khomeini’s Forgotten Sons: The Story of Iran’s Boy Soldiers (Mehrzad Boroujerdi) | 87 |
| F. Robert Hunter, The Palestinian Uprising: A War by Other Means (Sherifa Zuhur) | 90 |
| Massoud Karshenas, Oil, State, and Industrialization in Iran (Djavad Saleki-Isfahani) | 91 |
| Helen Chapin Metz ed., Israel: A Country Study (Joshua Teitelbaum) | 93 |
| Augustus Richard Norton and Martin H. Greenberg eds., The International Relations of the Palestine Liberation Organization (Bruce R. Kuniholm) | 94 |
| John Quigley, Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice (Max L. Gross) | 96 |
| Yusif A. Sayigh, Elusive Development: From Dependence to Self-Reliance in the Arab Region (Abbas Alnasrawi) | 97 |
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| Jean Christophe Attias, Le commentaire biblique: Mordekhai Komtino ou l’herméneutique du dialogue (William M. Brinner) | 99 |
| Michael Bear, Hedayat’s “Blind Owl” as a Western Novel (M. R. Ghanoonparvar) | 100 |
| Driss Chraibi, The Simple Past (Mustapha Hamil) | 102 |
| Daniel Crecelius ed., Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Arabic Manuscript Sources (Amy Singer) | 103 |
| Hans Daiber, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Daiber Collection (Sam I. Gellens) | 104 |
| E. Ehlers, Der Islamische Orient: Grundlagen zur Länderkunde eines Kulturraumes (Thomas Philipp) | 105 |
| M. R. Ghanoonparvar and John Gren eds., Iranian Drama: An Anthology (Alireza Anushiravani) | 107 |
| Gunhild Graf, Die Epitome der Universalchronik Ibs ad-Dawadaris im Verhältnis zur Langfassung (Reuven Aitai-Preiss) | 109 |
| Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (Edmund Burke, III) | 111 |
| Laila Ibrahim and M. M. Amin, Architectural Terms in Mamluk Documents (Nasser Rabbat) | 112 |
| Chibli Mallat and Jane Conners eds., Islamic Family Law (Farhat J. Ziadeh) | 113 |
| Guity Nashat ed., Middle Eastern History (Darrell Dykstra) | 115 |
| F. E. Peters, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation (David B. Burrell) | 116 |
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| P. Auchterlonie ed., Introductory Guide to Middle Eastern and Islamic Bibliography (Pierre A. MacKay) | 118 |
| C. Issawi, Issawi’s Laws of Social Motion (Jere L. Bacharach) | 118 |
| K. & M. Katakura, Japan and the Middle East (Joseph A. Kechichian) | 118 |
| George Makdisi, History and Politics in Eleventh-Century Baghdad (R. S. Humphreys) | 119 |
| Peace and International Conflict Resolution (Antony T. Sullivan) | 120 |
| Index Islamicus, 1981-1985 (Jere L. Bacharach) | 120 |
Audiovisuals Reviews |
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| Lifting the Fog: Intrigue in the Middle East (Curtis R. Ryan) | 121 |
| Nasser and the Egyptian Revolution (Donald Malcolm Reid) | 122 |
| Rivers of Fire (Ellen-Fairbanks Bodman) | 123 |
Recent Conferences |
125 |
News of Fellows and Scholars |
141 |
Communications |
150 |
In Memoriam |
153 |
| Uriel Dann Zuhair Jwaideh Claude Cajen Dorothy M. Stehle |
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| COVER: Palestinian Head Shawl. Embroidered, about 1930. The Textile Museum, Washington DC, 1984.26.2 detail. Gift of Richard H. Jones, in memory of his parents, Willard and Christina Jones. | |
