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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 27 Number 1 July 1993
Table of Contents
| Albert Hourani, 1915 1993, Rashid Khalidi | 1 |
| Arab Americans: Those Who Followed Columbus (1992 Presidential Address), Barbara C. Aswad | 5 |
| The Study of Islam in China: Some Recent Research, Dru C. Gladney | 23 |
| Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Competition, 1992 | 31 |
| Research Resources | 34 |
| ULASMAI - A Progress Report | 38 |
| On-Line Resources | 39 |
| Journals | 41 |
Book Reviews |
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| Hugh Kennedy, trans. & annot., The History of al-Tabari, Vol. XXIX: al-Mansur and al-Mahdi (Mahmood Ibrahim) | 43 |
| Derryl N. Maclean, Religion and Society in Arab Sind (Ismail K. Poonawala) | 44 |
| Julie Scott Meisami, trans., ed. & annot., The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Fav id): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes (Alireza Anushiravani) | 45 |
| Parviz Morewedge, ed., Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought (Deborah L. Black) | 46 |
| Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, ed., Transfer of Modern Science and Technology to the Muslim World (Clement Henry Moore) | 47 |
| Mohamed El Mansour, Morocco in the Reign of Mawlay Sulayman (Julia Clancy-Smith) | 48 |
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| Nader Entessar, Kurdish Ethnonationalism (Robert Olson) | 51 |
| Louise l Estrange Fawcett, ed., Iran and the Cold War: The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946 (Cosroe Chaqueri) | 52 |
| Shireen T. Hunter, Iran After Khomeini (Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr) | 53 |
| Yehuda Lukacs, ed., The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record 1967-1990 (Don Peretz) | 54 |
| Charles L. Geddes, ed., A Documentary History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Don Peretz) | 54 |
| Abraham Diskin, Elections and Voters in Israel (Gregory S. Mahler) | 55 |
| Joseph Maila, The Document of National Understanding: A Commentary (As ad AbuKhalil) | 56 |
| Fida Nasrallah, The Questions of South Lebanon (As'ad AbuKhalil) | 56 |
| Adam Garfinkle, Israel and Jordan in the Shadow of War: Functional Ties and Futile Diplomacy in a Small Place (Yehuda Lukacs) | 57 |
| Reuven Avi-Ran, The Syrian Involvement in Lebanon Since 1975 (As'ad AbuKhalil) | 58 |
| Aharon Klieman & Reuven Pedatzur, Rearming Israel: Defense Procurement Through the 1990s (Henri J. Barkey) | 59 |
| Selma Botman, Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952 (Joel Gordon) | 61 |
| Nazih N. Ayubi, The State and Public Policies in Egypt Since Sadat (Clement Henry Moore) | 62 |
| Derek Hopwood, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia: The Tragedy of Longevity (Michael W. Suleiman) | 63 |
| Graham E. Fuller, Islamic Fundamentalism in Afghanistan: Its Character and Prospects (Marvin G. Weinbaum) | 64 |
| William Maley & Fazel Haq Saikal, Political Order in Post-Communist Afghanistan (Marvin G. Weinbaum) | 64 |
| Shahid Javed Burki, Pakistan: The Continuing Search for Nationhood (David B. Edwards) | 65 |
| Ayesha Jalal, The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan s Political Economy of Defence (David B. Edwards) | 65 |
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| Phyllis Bennis & Michel Moushabeck, eds., Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader (Fouad Moughrabi) | 68 |
| Manfred W. Wenner, The Yemen Arab Republic: Development and Change in an Ancient Land (Meredith Reid Sarkees) | 69 |
| Richard Edmund Ward, India s Pro-Arab Policy (Robert Eric Frykenberg) | 70 |
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| Robert E. Looney, Economic Development in Saudi Arabia: Consequences of the Oil Price Decline (Abbas Al Nasrawi) | 72 |
| Peter W. Wilson, A Question of Interest: The Paralysis of Saudi Banking (J.W. Wright, Jr.) | 73 |
| Victor Lavy & Eliezer Sheffer, Foreign Aid and Economic Development in the Middle East: Egypt, Syria, and Jordan (Hadi Salehi Esfahani) | 74 |
| Mostafa Elm, Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran s Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath (Cyrus Bina) | 75 |
| Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, ed., Osmanliar ve Bati Teknolojisi: Yeni Arastirmalar Yeni Görüser (Duygu Köksal) | 76 |
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| Alan Duben & Cem Behar, Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880-1940 (Hasan Kayali) | 80 |
| Joost Hiltermann, Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories (Julie Peteet) | 81 |
| Andrew Rigby, Living the Intifada (Julie Peteet) | 81 |
| Sammy Smooha, Arabs and Jews in Israel: Change and Continuity in Mutual Intolerance (Elaine C. Hagopian) | 82 |
| Calvin Goldscheider, ed., Population and Social Change in Israel (Elia Zureik) | 83 |
| Majed Halawi, A Lebanon Defied: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a Community (John Gulick) | 85 |
| Farhad Kazemi & John Waterbury, eds., Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East (Eric Hooglund) | 86 |
| Mehrdad R. Izady, The Kurds: A Concise Handbook (Nader Entessar) | 87 |
| Gholam Reza Afkhami & Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, eds., The Oral History Collection of the Foundation for Iranian Studies (Mahmoud Omidsalar) | 88 |
| Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People s Republic of China (Linda Benson) | 89 |
| Raymond Delval, Les Musulmans en Amerique Latine et aux Caribes (Nancie L. Gonz lez) | 90 |
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| Muhammed Husayn Husayn Far h n , A Shi ite Pilgrimage to Mecca (1885-1886): The Safarnƒmeh of Mirzƒ Mohammed Hosayn FarƒhƒnŒ (Andrew J. Newman) | 91 |
| John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr) | 92 |
| Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Islam and the Third Universal Theory: The Religious Thought of Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi (Dirk Vandewalle) | 93 |
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| G. Bohas, J.-P. Guillaume & D.E. Kouloughli, The Arabic Linguistic Tradition (Ernest N. McCarus) | 94 |
| Karin C. Ryding, Formal Spoken Arabic: Basic Course (Mahmoud Al-Batal) | 95 |
| Raji M, Rammuny, Advanced Business Arabic, Part I (Mahmoud Al-Batal) | 96 |
| Simin Daneshvar, A Persian Requiem (Fatemeh Keshavarz) | 97 |
| Ahmad Saidi, trans. & annot., Ruba iyat of Omar Khayyam (Carl W. Ernst) | 98 |
| Natalie Kononenko Moyle, The Turkish Minstrel Tale Tradition (Walter Feldman) | 99 |
| Warren S. Walker & Ahmet E. Uysal, More Tales Alive in Turkey (Walter G. Andrews) | 100 |
| Hanan al-Shaykh, Women of Sand and Myrrh (Elise Salem Manganaro) | 101 |
| Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, Classes, Nations, Literatures (Miriam Cooke) | 102 |
| Billie Melman, Women s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion and Work (Sherifa Zuhur) | 103 |
| Lisa Lowe, Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Barbara Harlow) | 104 |
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| Barbara Brend, Islamic Art (Heghnar Zeitlian) | 106 |
| Juan Eduardo Campo, The Other Sides of Paradise: Explorations into the Religious Meanings of Domestic Space in Islam (Nasser Rabbat) | 106 |
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| Solo Instrumental Improvisation (Taq s m) in Arab Music (Scott L. Marcus) | 108 |
| Inkilab, Ltd., Uyan Ey Gözlerim/12 Sufi Hymns (Feza Tansug) | 112 |
Briefly Noted |
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Recent Conferences |
117 |
Ph.D.s Received |
147 |
Ph.D.s in Progress |
148 |
Ph.D.s in Progress Abroad |
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In Memoriam |
154 |
Communications |
155 |
Corrections |
156 |
COVER: Photo courtesy of The Centre for Lebanese Studies
