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Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Volume 30 Number 1 July 1996
Table of Contents
| Promoting Academic Freedom: Risks and Responsibilities (1995 MESA Presidential Address) Ann Mosely Lesch | 1 |
| Historical Research and Resources in Damascus Steve Tamari & Leila Hudson | 10 |
First International Congress of Professors of Persian Language and Literature, Tehran, January 3-5, 1996 Carl Ernst |
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| Report on “The Persian Gulf and the Changing Structure of the International System, ” Tehran, December 17-19, 1995 Lawrence G. Potter | 23 |
| Fundamentalism, Politicized Religion & Pietism Ian S. Lustick | 26 |
| Ottoman Historiography Engin Deniz Akarli | 33 |
| Recent Recordings of Traditional Music from the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia Kay Hardy Campbell | 37 |
| Teaching & Research Resources On the Internet New Periodicals New Programs |
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| 1995 Albert Hourani Book Award | 47 |
| 1995 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award | 49 |
| Foundation for Iranian Studies Dissertation of the Year Award, 1994-1995 | 53 |
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| Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, ed., Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry, (Devin J. Stewart) | 53 |
| Wheeler M. Thackston, A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading & Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century, (William L. Hanaway) | 54 |
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Folklore, Anthropology, Sociology |
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| Hasan M .El-Shamy, Folk Traditions of the Arab World, A Guide to Motif Classification, (Mahmoud Omidsalar) | 55 |
| Shalom Goldman, The Wiles of Women/The Wile of Men: Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife in Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, Islamic Folklore, (Nancy E. Berg) | 56 |
| Fatma Muge Gocek & Shiva Balaghi, eds., Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity and Power, (Eleanor Abdella Doumato) | 57 |
| Simona Sharoni, Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance, (Rhoda Kanaaneh) | 58 |
| Joseph J. Hobbs, Mount Sinai, (Barbara McKean Parmenter) | 59 |
| Pieternella van Doorn-Harder, Contemporary Coptic Nuns, (Richard Valantasis) | 60 |
| Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village, (Jenny B. White) | 61 |
| Martha Mundy, Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen, (Daniel Martin Varisco) | 62 |
| Leonardo A. Villalon, Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick, (Stephen A. Harmon) | 63 |
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| Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, (Asma Afsaruddin) | 65 |
| D. A. Spellberg, Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of `A’isha Bink Abi Bakr, (Christina W. Michelmore) | 66 |
| Wael B. Hallaq, Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam, (Susan A. Spectorsky) | 67 |
| Ersilia Francesca, Introduzione Alle Regole Alimentari Islamiche, (Anna Vanzan) | 68 |
| Rika Gyselen, ed., Au Carrefour des Religions: Mélanges offerts à Philippe Gignoux, (Jamesheed K. Chosky) | 68 |
| Shaul Shaked, From Zoroastrian Iran to Islam: Studies in Religious History and Intercultural Contacts, (Elton L. Daniel) | 69 |
| Christopher Buck, Symbol and Secret: Qur’an Commentary in the Baha`u’lla Kitab-iqan, (John S. Hatcher) | 70 |
| Akbar S. Ahmed, Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway, (Salim Mansur) | 72 |
| Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & Wadi Z. Haddad, eds., Christian-Muslim Encounter, (Hugh Goddard) | 73 |
| Ali Rahnema, ed., Pioneers of Islamic Revival, (John Cooper) | 82 |
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| Jane Dammen McAufliffe, trans., The History of al-Tabari, Vol. XXVIII. `Abbasid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al Mansur A.D. 753-763/A.H.136-146, (Rizwi S. Faizer) | 75 |
| Ihsan `Abbas, ed., Irshad al-arib ila ma`rifat al-adib, Mu`jam al-udaba by Yakut, (Christopher Melchert) | 76 |
| Fukuzo AMabe, The Emergence of the `Abbasid Autcracy: The `Abbasid Army, Khurasan and Adharbayjan, (Elton L. Daniel) | 77 |
| George N. Atiyeh., ed., The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, (James M. Dening) | 78 |
| RAndi Deghilhem., ed., Le Waqf dan l’Espace Islamique: Outil de Pouvoir Sociopolitique, (Judith Mendelsohn Rood) | 79 |
| Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under theComneni 1080-1261, (Ara Dostourian) | 80 |
| Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny, La Connaissance de l’Islam dans l’Occident Médiéval, (Joseph Aieta, III) | 81 |
| Suraiya Faroqhi, Pilgrims & Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans 1517-1583, (F.E. Peters) | 82 |
| Thierry Zarcone & Fariba Zarinebarf-Shahr, eds., Les Iraniens d’Istanbul, (Maurizio Pistoso) | 83 |
| Amy Singer, Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem, (Betty S. Anderson) | 84 |
| Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, (Dina Rizk Khoury) | 85 |
| Jacob M. Landau, Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to Cooperation, (A.H. Shissler) | 86 |
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| Mehmet Arif Olcen, Vetluga Memoir: A Turkish Prisoner of War in Russia, 1916-1918, (Virginia H. Aksan) | 87 |
| Metin Heper, Ayse Oncu & Heinz Kramer, eds., Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities, (Marcie J. Patton) | 88 |
| Eberhard Kienle, ed., Contemporary Syria: Liberalization Between Cold War and Cold Peace, (Robert Springborg) | 89 |
| Schirin H. Fathi, Jordan-An Invented Nation: Tribe-State Dynamics and the Formation of National Identity, (Betty S. Anderson) | 91 |
| Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition, (Joel Beinin) | 91 |
| Robert O. Freedman., ed., Israel under Rabin, (Frank Tachau) | 93 |
| Souad R. Dajani, Eyes Without Country: Searching for a Palestinian Strategy of Liberation, (Rachel M. Rumberger) | 94 |
| Ami Ayalon, The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History, (Hamid Mowlana) | 95 |
| Mahnaz Afkhami., ed., Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World, (Mary Ann Tetrault) | 96 |
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| Ibn Kamal Pasha, Al Tanih `ala Ghala.t al-Jahil wa-l-Nabih (Clarissa C. Burt) | 109 |
| Khaled Mattawa, trans., Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi (Clarissa C. Burt) | 110 |
| Manoucher Parvin, Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits (Tamara Sonn) | 111 |
| Monir Ravanipur, Satan’s Stones (Kamran Talattof) | 112 |
| Goli Taraqqi, Winter Sleep (William L. Hanaway) | 113 |
| Nancy E. Berg, Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq (Susan L. Einbinder) | 114 |
Audiovisuals |
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| Threads of Time: Handmade Textiles for Weddings in Fez (James A. Miller) | 115 |
| International Terrorism (Kenneth J. Perkins) | 116 |
| Palestine, 1890s-1990s (Kenneth J. Perkins) | 117 |
| Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, Islam Series (Charles A. Kennedy) | 118 |
| I am a Sufi, I am a Muslim (Omid Safi) | 120 |
Tolerance Dedicated to Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (Omid Safi) |
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Asiklar (Those Who Are in Love) (Deborah Stevens Decker) |
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Recent (1996) Doctoral Degrees in Middle East Studies |
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In Memoriam |
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| Communications & Correspondence | 143 |
| Cover: Illustration from an 18th century French encyclopedia. | |
