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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 28 Number 1 July 1994
Table of Contents
| The End of Civilization is Not So Bad (1993 MESA Presidential Address), John Obert Voll | 1 |
| Research Facilities and Document Collections in the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah, Dirk Vandewalle | 9 |
| Middle East and Islamic Studies in South Africa, Tamara Sonn | 14 |
Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Some Recent Historiography, Eleazar Birnbaum |
18 |
| Comparing Muslim Societies, Bruce Lawrence | 22 |
| Embracing the Contradictions of Living Islam, The Film, Carl W. Ernst | 25 |
| Ornament and Islamic Art, Carol Bier | 28 |
| Introduction to Traditional Iranian Dastgah Music, Margaret Caton | 31 |
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Competition, 1993 |
34 |
| Foundation for Iranian Studies, Dissertation of the Year Awards | 37 |
| Research & Teaching Resources | 38 |
| MESA Bulletin on-line | 38 |
| Gopher servers | 39 |
On-line information services & guides |
40 |
Electronic mailing lists |
41 |
| Corrections & Updates | 44 |
Journals/Serials |
45 |
| Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World | 48 |
Book Reviews |
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| Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (William O. Beeman) | 54 |
| Steven C. Caton, "Peaks of Yemen I Summon": Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (Donna Lee Bowen) | 54 |
| Sherifa Zuhur, Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt (Linda Layne) | 56 |
| Arlene Elowe Macleod, Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo (Evelyn A. Early) | 58 |
| Yael Azmon & Dafna N. Izraeli, eds., Women in Israel (Mira Ariel) | 59 |
| Esther K. Hicks, Infibulation: Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa (Nancy E. Gallagher) | 61 |
| Tahire Kocturk, A Matter of Honour: Experiences of Turkish Women Immigrants (Ruth Mandel) | 62 |
| Albert Hourani & Nadim Shehadi, eds., The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration (Akram F. Khater) | 63 |
| Alixa Naff, Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (Akram F. Khater) | 63 |
| Nancie L. Gonzalez, Dollar, Dove & Eagle: One Hundred Years of Palestinian Migration to Honduras (Fadwa El Guindi) | 65 |
| Donna Lee Bowen & Evelyn A. Early, eds., Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (Jon W. Anderson) | 66 |
| Robert Launay, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town (Vincent J. Cornell) | 67 |
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| Robert L. Tignor, Egyptian Textiles and British Capital: 1930-1956 (Ellis Goldberg) | 70 |
| Bent Hansen, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Egypt and Turkey (E. Mine Cinar) | 71 |
| Tim Niblock & Emma Murphy, eds., Economic and Political Liberalization in the
Middle East (Iliya Harik) |
72 |
| Iliya Harik & Denis J. Sullivan, eds., Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East (Valentine M. Moghadam) | 73 |
| Paul Rivlin, The Israeli Economy (Emma Murphy) | 75 |
M. Umer Chapra, Islam and the Economic Challenge (Mohammed Abdel-Haq) |
76 |
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| Francois Burgat & William Dowell, The Islamic Movement in North Africa (Henry Munson, Jr.) | 78 |
| Geoff Simons, Libya: The Struggle for Survival (Rachel Simon) | 79 |
| M.W. Daly & Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, eds., Civil War in the Sudan (Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban) | 80 |
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Roger Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East (William L. Cleveland) |
81 |
| Ann Mosely Lesch, principal author, Transition to Palestinian Self-Government: Practical Steps Toward Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Deborah L. Wheeler) | 82 |
| Martin Kolinsky, Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928 35 (John T. Crist) | 83 |
| Jacob M. Landau, The Arab Minority in Israel: 1967 1991 (Elaine C. Hagopian) | 84 |
| Yossi Beilin, Israel: A Concise Political History (Bernard Reich) | 85 |
| Nadim Shehadi & Dana Haffar Mills, eds., Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus (Herbert Bodman) | 86 |
| Dilip Hiro, Lebanon, Fire and Embers: A History of the Lebanese Civil War (Irene Gendzier) | 87 |
| Stanford J. Shaw, Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933 1945 (Feroz Ahmad) | 88 |
| Graham E. Fuller, Ian O. Lesser with Paul B. Henze & J.F. Brown, Turkey's New Geopolitics: From the Balkans to Western China (Hasan Kayali) | 89 |
| Michael Gunter, The Kurds of Iraq: Tragedy and Hope (Amir Hassanpour) | 90 |
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| Mordechai Abir, Saudi Arabia: Government, Society and the Gulf Crisis (Robert Geran Landen) | 92 |
Jill Crystal, Kuwait: The Transformation of an Oil State (F.S. Vidal) |
93 |
| Ibrahim Ibrahim, ed., The Gulf Crisis: Background and Consequences (Mary Ann Tetreault) | 94 |
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| Mehran Kamrava, The Political History of Modern Iran: From Tribalism to Theocracy (John Limbert) | 95 |
John Foran, Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution (Ahmad Sadri) |
96 |
| M. Reza Behnam, Cultural Foundations of Iranian Politics (Amir Ismail Ajami) | 97 |
| Kenneth Katzman, The Warriors of Islam: Iran's Revolutionary Guard (Mark Gasiorowski) | 98 |
| Asghar Schirazi, Islamic Development Policy: The Agrarian Question in Iran (M.G. Majd) | 99 |
| Tim McDaniel, Autocracy, Modernization, and Revolution in Russia and Iran (Majid Tehranian) | 100 |
| Charles Warren Hostler, The Turks of Central Asia (Adeeb Khalid) | 101 |
| Rosemary Hollis, ed., The Soviets, Their Successors and the Middle East: Turning Point (John P. Willerton) | 102 |
| Dale F. Eickelman, ed., Russia’s Muslim Frontiers, New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis (Paul A. Goble) | 103 |
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| Albrecht Hofheinz, Ali Salih Karrar, R.S. O'Fahey, Bernd Ratke & Einar Thomassen, eds., trans. & annots., The Letters of Ahmad Ibn Idris (Margaret Malamud) | 105 |
| R.W.J. Austin, trans., Ibn Al Arab : The Bezels of Wisdom (Alan A. Godlas) | 105 |
| Wilferd Madelung, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam (Richard B. Rose) | 106 |
Bernard G. Weiss, The Search for God's Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf al-Din al-Amidi (A. Kevin Reinhart) |
108 |
| Christine Schirrmacher, Mit den Waffen des Gegners: Christlich-muslimische Kontroversen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (M.G. Carter) | 109 |
| Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam (Iqbal Dawood Jhazbhay) | 110 |
Talal Asad, Geneologies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (David A. McMurray) |
111 |
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| F.E. Peters, The Distant Shrine: The Islamic Centuries in Jerusalem (David Regenspan) | 113 |
| Averil Cameron & Lawrence I. Conrad, eds., The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Problems in the Literary Source Material (James Sowerwine) | 114 |
| Fred M. Donner, trans. & annot., The History of al-Tabari, Vol. X: The Conquest of Arabia (Abdulkader I. Tayob) | 115 |
| Yusuf Ragib, Marchands d'etoffes du Fayyoum au IIIe/IXe siecle d'apres leurs archives (actes et lettres), III: Lettres des Banu Tawr aux Banu `Abd al-Mu'min (Michael L. Bates) | 115 |
| Oliver Leaman, Moses Maimonides (Maya Shatzmiller) | 116 |
| Maria Szuppe, Entre Timourides, Uzbeks et Safavides: Questions d'histoire politique et sociale de Herat dans la premiere moitie du XVIe siecle (Maria Eva Subtelny) | 117 |
| Anja Pistor-Hatam, Iran und die Reformbewegung im Osmanischen Reich: Persische Staatsmaenner, Reisende und Oppositionelle unter dem Einfluss der Tanz m t (Johannes Reissner) | 118 |
| Mostafa Edjtehadi, Zerfall der Staatsmacht Persiens unter Nasir ad-Din Schah Qajar (1848 1896): Einblicke in die Machtverhaeltnisse am Teheraner Hof nach den Tagebuechern Itimad as-Saltanas (Johannes Reissner) | 119 |
| Michael Adas, ed., Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging ofa Global Order
(William Ochsenwald) |
120 |
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| Gulru Necipoglu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Sussan Babaie) | 122 |
| Esin Atil, ed., Islamic Art and Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait (Mary McWilliams) | 123 |
| SSadek Mohamed-Moain, Die mamlukische Architektur der tadt Gaza (Doris Behrens-Abouseif) | 124 |
| Ross Burns, Monuments of Syria: An Historical Guide (Yasser Tabbaa) | 125 |
| Salma Samar Damluji, A Yemen Reality: Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone (Noha Sadek) | 126 |
| Carol Meyer, Glass from Quseir Al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade (Jessica Hallett) | 127 |
| Catherine B. Asher, Architecture of Mughal India (Perween Hasan) | 128 |
| Farzaneh Milani, Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers (Marilyn Booth) | 130 |
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| Afsaneh Najmabadi, ed., Women’s Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran (Margaret A. Mills) | 131 |
| Ruth Roded, Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sa'd to Who’s Who (Barbara R. von Schlegell) | 132 |
| Martin Kramer, ed., Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative (Elizabeth Fernea) | 133 |
| Hamid Dabashi, ed., Parviz Sayyad’s Theater of Diaspora. Two Plays: The Ass and The Rex Cinema Trial (Zohreh T. Sullivan) | 134 |
| Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem, Egyptian Drama and Social Change: A Study of Thematic and Artistic Development in Yusuf Idris’s Plays (Samar Attar) | 135 |
| Birgitta Ryberg, Yusuf Idris (1927-1991): Identitaetskrise und Gesellschaftlicher Umbruch (Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem) | 136 |
| Kamal Abdel-Malek, A Study of the Vernacular Poetry of A hmad Fu'ad Nigm (Marilyn Booth) | 137 |
| William Shehadi, Khalil Gibran: A Prophet in the Making (Mona Takieddine Amyuni) | 138 |
| Barbara K. Walker, trans. & intro., The Art of the Turkish Tale, Volume 1 (Walter G. Andrews) | 139 |
| Barbara K. Walker, trans. & annot., The Art of the Turkish Tale, Volume 2 (Walter G. Andrews) | 139 |
| Iqbal Ahmad, The Opium Eater and Other Stories (William L. Hanaway) | 140 |
| Muhammad Umar Memon, ed., Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories (William L. Hanaway) | 141 |
| W.F.G.J. Stoetzer, Theory and Practice in Arabic Metrics (Dmitry Frolov) | 142 |
| F.J. Cadora, Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study (Kristen Brustad) | 143 |
| Gilbert Lazard, A Grammar of Contemporary Persian (M.A. Jazayery) | 144 |
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| Robert Marshall, exec. prod., Mongol Hordes: Storm from the East (Paula Michaels) | 146 |
| Penny Dedmon, dir. & prod., RITES (John Parcels) | 148 |
| Maurice Thompson, prod., Guests of God (A. Kevin Reinhart) | 149 |
COVER: Syrian Pack Peddler, Mr. Abraham Mickwee. Birmingham, Alabama, late 1890s.
Donated by the Mickwee family
and courtesy of the Arab American Collection, Archives
Center C340, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington,
D.C. 20560.
