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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 1992 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 35 Number 1 Summer 2001
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 1 |
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Essays |
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| 2000 Presidential Address: “Thoughts About Pennies and Other Monies” Jere L. Bacharach |
2 |
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Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Research: Promise or Pitfall? Ruth Roded |
15 |
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For a “Foreign Audience:” The Challenges of Teaching Arabic Literature in the American Academy Magda M. Al-Nowaihi |
24 |
| Shedding Some Light on Contemporary Musicians in Palestine Yara el-Ghadban | 28 |
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The Ottoman Story Today Virginia Aksan |
35 |
| Turkey and the World Since World War II
Ilter Turan |
40 |
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Recent Documentaries on Atatürk Resat Kasaba |
43 |
| The King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives Fahd al-Semmari | 45 |
| Thematic Conversations, MESA 2000 Representations of the Ottomans Virginia Aksan Religion as Explanation: Putting Islam First Louis J. Cantori Issues in Teaching and Research in Medieval Islamic Studies Josef W. Meri Insiders/Outsiders: Emic/Etic Study of Women and Gender in the New Millennium Sherifa Zuhur and Amaney Jamal |
47 |
| 2000 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards | 52 |
| Notices of the Best Dissertation of the Year Award, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 (Foundation for Iranian Studies) |
55 |
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Nicholas
Awde, ed. and trans., Women in Islam: An Anthology from |
57 |
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Fatma Müge Göçek, ed., Political Cartoons in the Middle East (Lisa Pollard) |
58 |
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Shaziae Pirzada and Anjali
Puri, Vignettes: The Women of Bahrain |
59 |
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Maryam Poya, Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran (Val Moghadam) |
60 |
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Raymond Cohen and Raymond
Westbrook, eds., Amarna Diplomacy: |
61 |
| Richard
Parkinson, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
(Kaila Bussert) |
62 |
| Farhad
Daftary, ed., Intellectual Traditions in Islam
(Neguin Yavari) |
63 |
| Linda S.
George, The Golden Age of Islam (Muhammad S.
Eissa) |
64 |
| J. R.
Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History (Michael Bonner) |
65 |
| Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang
Schluchter, eds., Max Weber and Islam (Hakan Karateke) |
66 |
| Tilman
Nagel, The History of Islamic Theology:
From Muhammad to the Present (Qamar-ul Huda) |
67 |
| Mordechai
Nisan, Identity and Civilization: Essays on Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Rebecca B. Molloy) |
69
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| Sayyid
Qutb, Social Justice in Islam (Kamran A.
Bokhari) |
70 |
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John Renard, ed., Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life (Asma Afsaruddin) |
71 |
| Neal Robinson, Islam: A Concise Introduction (Steve Tamari) | 72 |
| Sabine Schmidtke, Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im ZwölferschiitischenIslam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Die Gedankenwelt des Ibn Abi Gumhur al-Ahsa’i (um 838/1434-35-nach 906/1501) (Devin Stewart) | 73 |
| Ibn Warraq, ed., The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book (Christopher Melchert) | 74 |
| Ibn
Warraq, ed. and trans., The Quest for the Historical Muhammad (Fred M. Donner) |
75 |
| Adalet Agaoglu, Curfew (Sibel Erol) | 76 |
| Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, In Search of Walid Masoud (Allen Hibbard) | 78 |
| Out El Kouloub, Three Tales of Love and Death (Maggie Nassif) | 79 |
| Thomas Rain Crowe, In Wineseller’s Street: Renderings of Hafez (Christine Van Ruymbeke) | 80 |
| Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories (Christine Dykgraaf) | 81 |
| Fatemeh Keshavarz, Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (Omid Safi) | 82 |
| Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men (Persis M. Karim) | 83 |
| Geert Jan van Gelder, God’s Banquet:
Food in Classical Arabic Literature (Mohamed-Saleh Omri) |
84 |
| Steven C. Caton, Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology (Weston Burnett) | 85 |
| D. Fairchild Ruggles, Gardens, Landscape and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (Shirine Hamadeh) | 86 |
| Andrea Pampanini, Cities from the Arabian Desert: The Building of Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia (Sharon Nagy) | 87 |
| Henri and Anne Stierlin, Splendours of an Islamic World: Mamluk Art in Cairo, 1250-1517 (Noha Sadek) | 88 |
| The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship (Vickie Langohr) | 89 |
| M. S. Asimov and C. E. Bosworth, eds., History of the Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV: The Age of Achievement: AD 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century (Beatrice Forbes Manz) | 90 |
| Gerrit Bos, intro. and trans., Ibn al-Jazzar on Fevers: A Critical Edition of Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir (Provisions for the Traveler and Nourishment for the Sedentary), Book 7, Chapters 1-6 (Nahyan Fancy) | 91 |
| Leo de Hartog, Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World (Jonathan Skaff) | 92 |
| Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Some Observations on the Influence of Byzantine Institutions on Ottoman Institutions (Linda T. Darling) | 93 |
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Benjamin Lellouch and Stephane Yerasimos, Les traditions apocalyptiques au tournant de la chute de Constantinople (Gottfried Hagen) |
94 |
| Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker, The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi’i Witness. An Edition and English Translation of Ibn al-Haytham’s Kitab al-Munazarat (Paula Sanders) | 95 |
| M. A. Daly, Carl F. Petry, and Cary F. Petry, eds., The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. I: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 (Kenneth M. Cuno) | 96 |
| Donald Quataert, ed., Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922 (Elizabeth Thompson) | 97 |
| Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (David Waines) | 98 |
| Erik J. Zürcher, ed., Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925 (Rhoads Murphey) | 99 |
| Islam in the Modern World |
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| Kilian Rudolf Bälz, Versicherungsvertragsrecht in den Arabischen Staaten.Der Versicherungsvertrag im islamischen Recht und den modernen arabischen Zivilrechtskodifikationen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des ägyptischen ZGB (1948) und des jordanischen ZGB (1976) (Baudouin Dupret) | 100 |
| Juan R. I. Cole, Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha’i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East (Colin Paul Mitchell) | 101 |
| Elizabeth Özdalga, ed., Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia: Change and Continuity (Charles C. Kolb) | 102 |
| Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism (Martin Riexinger) | 103 |
| Ralph H.
Salmi, Cesar Adib Majul, and George K. Tanham,
Islam and Conflict Resolution: Theories and Practices (Paula Stiles) |
105 |
| Elizabeth
Sirriyeh, Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defense, Rethinking and
Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World
(David Buchman) |
106 |
| Aharan Klieman, Compromising Palestine: A Guide to Final Status Negotiations (Nu’man Kanafani) | 107 |
| Laila Parsons, The Druze Between Palestine and Israel, 1947-49 (Ronald R. Krebs) | 108 |
| Jacqueline Portugese, Fertility Policy in Israel: The Politics of Religion, Gender and Nation (Larissa Remennick) | 109 |
| Nissim Rejwan, Israel in Search of Identity: Reading the Formative Years (Esther Fuchs) | 110 |
| Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization (Bernard J. Firestone) | 111 |
| Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Samuel Heilman) | 112 |
| Idith Zertal, From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel (Frank Felsenstein) | 113 |
| Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (Abbas Alnasrawi) | 115 |
| Marvine Howe, Turkey Today: A Nation Divided Over Islam’s Revival (Alev Çinar) | 116 |
| Masoud Kamali, Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process (Mehrzad Boroujerdi) | 117 |
Joseph Kostiner, ed., Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity (Jefferson Gray) |
118 |
| Paul J. Magnarella, ed., Middle East and North Africa: Governance, Democracy, and Human Rights (Yahia H. Zoubir) | 119 |
| Lenore G Martin, New Frontiers in Middle East Security (P. R. Kumaraswamy) | 120 |
| Talal Nizameddin, Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy (O. M. Smolansky) | 121 |
Bradford L. Dillman, State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-Seeking and Failed Development (Clement M. Henry) |
122 |
| U. Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith, eds., Hadrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s (Beatrice Nicolini) | 124 |
| Masoud Kavoossi, The Globalization of Business and the Middle East: Opportunities and Constraints (E. Mine Çınar) | 124 |
| Remonda Bensabat Kleinberg and Janine A. Clark, eds., Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World (Parvin Alizadeh) | 125 |
| James Toth, Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992 (Barbara K. Larson) | 127 |
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| Joel Beinin, The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (Nicola Pratt) | 128 |
| R. Stephen Humphreys, Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age (John Obert Voll) | 129 |
| Sylvia Kedourie, Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic (Hakan Yilmaz) | 130 |
| Esref Kusçubasi, The Turkish Battle at Khaybar (Virginia Aksan) | 131 |
Nahid `Awni, `Anistuuna: Egyptian Colloquial (Christopher Stone) |
133 |
| Abdallhaqq Bewley and Aisha Bewley, trans., The Noble Qur’an: A New Rendering of Its Meaning in English (Rebecca B. Molloy) | 134 |
| Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, eds., New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Deborah L. Wheeler) | 135 |
| John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford History of Islam (Ahmed H. Ibrahim) | 136 |
| Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt (Michael T. Thornhill) | 137 |
| Winifred P. Lehmann, Esther Raizen, and Helen-Jo Jakosz Hewitt, Biblical Hebrew: An Analytical Introduction (M. O’Connor) | 138 |
| Clayton R. Newell, Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991 (Stephen Pelletiere) | 138 |
| Mohammed Sawaie, `Azmat al-mus’t alah & al-carabi fi al-qarn al-tasica casar:Muqaddima tarixiyyah cammah (La Crise de la Terminologie Arabe au XIXe Siècle: Introduction Historique Générale)(John Eisele) | 139 |
| Avraham Sela, ed., Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East (Philip Mattar) | 140 |
| Wheeler M. Thackston, Introduction to Syriac: An Elementary Grammar With Readings from Syriac Literature (John H. Marks) | 141 |
| Cairo: 1001 Years of Art and Architecture (A. Kevin Reinhart) | 142 |
| The English Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman (Thomas B. Stevenson) | 144 |
| Hollywood Harems (Larry Lepionka) | 145 |
| Minds in Black (Moshe Amon) | 146 |
| 148 | |
| Charles Issawi (Sevket Pamuk) | |
| Lorenzo Kent Kimball (Adel Allouche) | |
| Correspondence | 150 |
