| 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 1 July 1997
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 1 |
| Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust? Abdallah Laroui | 3 |
Middle East Studies & Subaltern Studies Sabra J. Webber |
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| Middle East and North Africa Human Rights Activism in Cyberspace Nancy Gallagher | 17 |
| The Effects of International Labor Migration on the Maghrib Laurence Michalak | 30 |
| Civil Society, Liberalism and the Corporatist Alternative in the Middle East Louis J. Cantori | 34 |
| Goodbye, My Friend Gila Flam | 42 |
| Research & Teaching Resources for Middle East Studies | 44 |
| 1996 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award | 49 |
| Foundation for Iranian Studies Dissertation of the Year Award, 1995-1996 | 53 |
| 1996 Albert Hourani Book Award | 54 |
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| Lawrence Joffe, Keesing’s Guide to the Mid-East Peace Process (Ray A. Rafidi) | 56 |
| David Garnham & Mark Tessler, eds., Democracy, War and Peace in the Middle East (Fawaz A. Gerges) | 57 |
| Ted Swedenburg, Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past (Ellen Fleischmann) | 58 |
| M. E. Yapp, The Near East Since the First World War: A History to 1995 (Heather Sharkey-Balasubramanian) | 59 |
| Milton Viorst, Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World (James Jankowski) | 60 |
| Nikolaos Van Dam, The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society Under Asad and Ba’th Party (James L. Gelvin) | 61 |
| Yehuda Ben Meir, Civil-Military Relations in Israel (Bassam K. Abed) | 62 |
| Anthony H. Cordesman & Ahmed S. Hashim, Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment (Glenn E. Robinson) | 63 |
| Yitzak Nakash, The Shi’is of Iraq (Earle H. Waugh) | 64 |
| Musallam Ali Musallam, The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Saddam Hussein, His State and International Power Politics (Khaled Salih) | 65 |
| Abdul-Reda Assiri, The Government and Politics of Kuwait: Principles and Practices (Robert D. Burrowes) | 67 |
| Anthony H. Cordesman, Kuwait: Recovery and Security After the Gulf War (Eric Hooglund) | 68 |
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| J. A. Allan, Ed., Water, Peace and the Middle East: Negotiating Resources in the Jordan Basin (Martin Hvidt) | 68 |
| Omar Marashdeh, The Jordanian Economy (Charles R. Chittle) | 69 |
| The World Bank, Claiming the Future: Choosing Prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa (Massoud Karshenas) | 70 |
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| Diane Singerman & Homa Hoodfar, eds., Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View From the Household (Anita Fabos) | 72 |
| Dawn Chatty, Mobile Pastoralists: Development, Planning and Social Change in Oman (Calvin H. Allen, Jr.) | 73 |
| Anne Meneley, Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town (Christine Eickelman) | 74 |
| Sabra J. Webber, Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representations in North Africa (William Granara) | 75 |
| Andrew Shryock, Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (William Young) | 76 |
| William C. Young, The Rashayada Bedouin: Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan (Charles Lindholm) | 77 |
| Michael Gilsenan, Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society (Leila Fawaz) | 78 |
| Haggay Ram, Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran: The Use of the Friday Congregational Sermon (Patrick D. Gaffney) | 80 |
| Barbara Daly Metcalf, ed., Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (Andrew Shryock) | 81 |
| Yahya R. Kamalipour & Hamid Mowlana, eds., Mass Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook (Dale F. Eickelman) | 82 |
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| Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual (Warren C. Schultz) | 83 |
| Ricahrd Lorch, Arabic Mathematical Sciences: Instruments, Texts, Transmission (J.L. Berggren) | 84 |
| Michael Chamberlain, Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus 1190-1350 (Muhammad Al-Faruque) | 85 |
| Carl F. Petry, Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt’s Waning as a Great Power (Jonathan P. Berkey) | 86 |
| Klaus Kreiser, ed., Evliya Celebis Anatolienreise aus dem dritten Band des Seyahatname (Douglas A. Howard) | 87 |
| Habib Wada`a El-Hesnawi, Fazzan Under the Rule of the Awlad Muhammad: A Study in Political, Economic, Social and Intellectual History (Camron Michael Amin) | 88 |
| Dror Ze’evi, An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s (Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr) | 89 |
| Nelly Hanna, ed., The State and its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present (Vernon Egger) | 92 |
| Jane Hathaway, The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis (Dina Le Gall) | 91 |
| Abbas Amanat, Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (Ernest Tucker) | 92 |
| R.B. Serjeant, Society and Trade in South Arabia (William Ochsenwald) | 94 |
| Harvey E. Goldberg, ed., Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era (Seth Ward) | 94 |
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| Stefan Wild, ed., The Qur’an as Text (Asma Afsaruddin) | 95 |
| Muhammad Khair Ramadan Yusuf, Dalil al-Mu’allifat al-Islamiyya fi al-Mamlakat al-`Arabiyyat al-Sa`udiyya, 1400-1409H [The Guide to Islmaic Publicationsin the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1400-1409 AH] (William Ochsenwald) | 96 |
| Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam, from Jihad to Dhimmitude: Seventh-Twentieth Centuries (Chase F. Robinson) | 97 |
| Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick & David S. Powers, ed., Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas (Judith E. Tucker) | 98 |
| Laleh Bakhtiar, Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools (Wael B. Halaaq) | 100 |
| Jamal Malik, Colonization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan (Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr) | 101 |
| William E. Shepard, Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam (Jeffrey T. Kenney) | 102 |
| Martin Kramer, Arab Awakening & Islamic Revial: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East (Jeffrey T. Kenney) | 103 |
| Al-Ghazali, The Nine-Nine Beautiful Names of God (Kathryn M. Coughlin) | 104 |
| Al-Ghazali, Abstinence in Islam: Curbing the Two Appetites (Kathryn M. Coughlin) | 105 |
| Al-Ghazali, Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the soul and on Breaking the Two Desires: Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Kathryn M. Coughlin) | 105 |
| Amnon Netzer, ed., Padyavand (Janet Afary) | 106 |
| Robert H. Stockman, The Baha’i Faith in America: Early Expansion 1900-1912 (John S. Hatcher) | 107 |
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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. | |
