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 2002 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 36 Number 1 Summer 2002

Table of Contents

Essays

 
The Destruction of Cultural Memory
(2001 Presidential Address) R. Stephen Humphreys

1

History in Contemporary Practice: Syria’s Music Canon
Nancy E. Currey

9

Concerning the Archives Wendy M. K. Shaw

20
Conversation with a Revolutionary M. Reza Ghods and Thomas W. Foster 27
Mandatory Palestine Aviva Halamish 33

Contested Historical Interpretations of Palestine: The Mandate Period and the 1948 War Ann M. Lesch

35
On Charles Issawi and His Last Book Fatma Müge Göcek 39
Thematic Conversations, MESA 2001 42
   

Early Islam

 
Ahmed Ali, trans. Al-Qur’an: A Contemporary Translation (Khaleel Mohammed) 47
Michael Cook, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Jan Goldberg) 48
Subhash C. Inamdar, Muhammad and the Rise of Islam: The Creation of Group Identity (Ella Landau-Tasseron) 49
Kathryn Kueny, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam (Mark David Luce) 50
Daniel A. Madigan, The Qur’an’s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture (Christopher Melchert) 51
Lloyd Ridgeon, ed., Islamic Interpretations of Christianity (Tamer El-Leithy) 52
   

Pre-Modern Religion, Philosophy & Law

 
Edward Badeen, Zwei Mystische Schriften des ’Amar al-Bidlisi, (Richard McGregor) 53
Jonathan Berkey, Popular Preaching & Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East (David Waines) 54
Ismail Engin & Erhad Franz, ed., Aleviler/Alewiten, Vol.2: Inanc ve Geleneklet/Glaube und Traditionen (Hande Birkalan) 55
Jean Kellens, Essays on Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism (Paula Stiles) 56
Nasir Khusrau & Faquir M. Hunzai, Knowledge and Liberation in a Muslim World: An Introduction to Ismaili Philosophical Theology (Rachel T. Howes) 58
Alexander D. Knysh, Ibn ’Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam (Adnan A. Husain) 59
Jawid A. Mojaddedi, The Biographical Tradition in Sufism: The Tabaqat Genre from al-Sulami to Jami (John J. Curry) 60
Uri Rubin, Between Bible and Qur’an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image (Rebecca B. Molloy) 61
   

Modern Islam & Politics

 
Charles E. Butterworth & I. William Zartman, eds., Between the State and Islam (Mohammad Fadel) 62
Mirza Abul-Fadl Gulpaygani, The Brilliant Proof (Devin Stewart) 63
Mansoor Moaddel & Kamran Talattof, eds., Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought (Martin Riexinger) 65
Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Rebecca B. Molloy) 66
   

Modern Islam & Society

 
S. J. Ashtiyani, et. al., ed., Consciousness and Reality: Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu (Richard McGregor) 62
Mehmet Bayrakdar & Joseph GelotIslamochristiana 25 (Brenda Deen Schildgen) 65

Léon Buskens, Islamitisch recht en familiebetrekkingen in Marokko (Jan Goldberg)

69
Michael Gilsenan, Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East (Gabriel Said Reynolds) 70
Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Gabriel Said Reynolds) 71
Azzam Tamimi & John L. Esposito, eds., Islam and Secularism in the Middle East (Jan Goldberg) 72
   

Literature & Literary Criticism

 
Rashid Al-Daif, Dear Mr. Kawabata (Hosam Aboul-Ela) 74
Mahmoud Darwish, The Adam of Two Edens: Poems (Hosam Abou-Ela) 75

 

Nathalie Handal, ed., The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Rula Abisaab) 76

Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, & Michael Sells, eds., The Literature of al-Andalus (Th. Emil Homerin)

77
   

Art, Culture & Society

 
Nezar Al Sayyad, ed., Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment (James J. Connolly) 78

Abdulaziz A. Al-Sudairi, A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani (Leila Fawaz)

79
Monia Hejaiej, Behind Closed Doors: Women’s Oral Narrative in Tunis (Sabra Webbwer) 80
   

Pre-Modern History

 

Anne-Marie Eddé, La Principauté Ayyoubide d’Alep (579/1183-658/1260) (Niall Christie)

82
Tayeb El-Hibri, Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the ’Abbasid Caliphate (Jonathan E. Brockopp) 83
Matthew S. Gordon, The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.) (Kate Lang) 84
Roy P. Mottahedeh, Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society (Adam Sabra) 85
Maya Shatzmiller, The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marinid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco (Daniel J. Schroeter) 86
   

Israel & the Arab World

 
Asher Arain & Michal Shamir, eds., The Elections in Israel 1996 (Ruth Ben-Artzi) 87
Abe W. Ata, Intermarriage Between Christians and Muslims: A West Bank Study (Paula Stiles) 88
Yair Auron, The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (Arman Grigorian) 89
June Edmunds, The Left and Israel: Party-Policy Change and Internal Democracy (Mark A. Heller) 91

Fouad Moughrabi & Munir Akash, ed., The Open Veins of Jerusalem (Manal Jamal)

92
Ronald L. Nettler & Suha Taji_Farouki, eds., Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics (Salyid Abul Hasa Fizvi) 93
Israel Shahak, Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies (Shlomo Gazit) 94
Ira Sharkansky, Ambiguity, Coping, and governance: Israeli Experience in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking (Shmuel Sandler) 95
Israel Tal, National Security: The Israeli Experience (Efraim Inbar) 96
   

Modern Politics

 
Leonard Binder, ed., Ethnic Conflict and international Politics in the Middle East (Daniel Byman) 97

Alon Liel, Turkey in the Middle East: Oil, Islam, and Politics (Clement Henry)

98
Hafeez Malik, ed., Russian-American Relations: Islamic and Turkic Dimensions in the Volga-Ural Basin (Marianne Kamp) 99
Steven Wöndu & Ann Lesch, Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of The Abuja Conferences, 1992-1993 (Heather J. Sharkey) 101
   

Economics

 
Parvin Alizadeh, ed., The Economy of Iran: The Dilemmas of an Islamic State (Hadi Salehi Esfahani) 102

Ibrahim Warde, Islamic Finance in the Global Economy (Massoud Fazeli)

103

   

Modern History

 
Hassan N. Diab, Beirut: Reviving Lebanon’s Past (Sami E. Baroudi) 104
Andrew Mango, Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey (Feroz Ahmad) 106
Moshe Ma’oz, Joseph Ginat, & Onn Winckler, eds., Modern Syria: From Ottoman Rule to Pivotal Role in the Middle East (William L. Cleveland) 107
Francois Massoulie, Middle East Conflict (Hamoud Salhi) 108
Harold Tollefson, Policing Islam: The British Occupation of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Struggle over Control of the Police, 1882-1914 (Michael D. Berdine) 109
   

Resources

 
C. E. Bosworth, et. al., eds., The Encyclopaedia of Islam, CD-Rom Edition—English Version (Adnan A. Husain) 110
Giampaolo R. Capisani, The Handbook of Central Asia: A Comprehensive Survey of the New Republics (Houman A. Sadri) 111
Ahmad S. Moussalli, Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (Kyle T. Evered) 112
   
Albert Hourani (Leila Fawaz) 114

Malcolm Kerr (Ann Z. Kerr)

115
   

In Memoriam

118
Aptullah Kuran (Timur Kuran  Nancy Micklewright)  
Margaret Bentley Sevcenko (Nasser Rabbat)  
   

Correspondence

120
   
Index of Essays by Author, Vol. 31 (1997)-Vol. 35 (2001) 121
Index of Essays by Title, Vol. 31 (1997)-Vol. 35 (2001) 123
Index of Reviewed Books by Author, Vol. 31 (1997)-Vol. 35 (2001) 125
Index of Audiovisuals by Title, Vol. 31 (1997)-Vol. 35 (2001) 152
Index of Memoriams, Vol. 31 (1997)-Vol. 35 (2001) 154
   
Cover: photograph of Enver Pasha holding Mahpeyker, his daughter by Naciye Sultan (born in May 1917) from the private collection of Edhem Eldem