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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 2003 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 37 Number 1 Summer 2003
Table of Contents
| From the Editor’s Keyboard | 1 |
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Essays and MESA 2002 |
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2002 Presidential Address: Middle East Studies After September 11, 2001, Joel Beinin |
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The Western Indian Ocean as Cultural Corridor: Makran, Oman and Zanzibar through Nineteenth Century European Accounts and Reports, Beatrice Nicolini |
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The Historian on Language: Ibn Khaldun and the Communicative Learning Approach, Ghada Osman |
50 |
| The Sijills of Beirtu al-Muhrusa, Najwa Al-Qattan | 58 |
| Conducting Research in Lebanon: An Overview of Historical Sources in Beirut (Part I), Sara Scalenghe and Nadya Sbaiti | 68 |
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al-Muwashshahat and al-Qudud al-Halabiyya: Two Genres in the Aleppine Wasla, Jonathan H. Shannon |
82 |
| An Annotated Bibliography of the Scholarly Works of Solomon Bayevsky Hayim Y. Sheynin | 103 |
| Thematic Conversations at MESA 2002 | 119 |
| The 2002 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards in the Humanities and Social Sciences | 125 |
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Societies, Cultures and Traditions of the
Middle East |
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| Osman Bakar, Classification of Knowledge in Islam: A Study in IslamicPhilosophies of Science (Idris Samawi Hamid) | 129 |
| Patricia Crone and Fritz Aimmermann, The Epistle of Salim ibn Dhakwan (Maher Jarrar) | 131 |
| Heinz Halm, The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning (Tahera Qutbuddin) | 133 |
| Lloyd Ridgeon, ed., Islamic Interpretations of Christianity (Tamer El-Leithy) | 135 |
| Devin J. Stewart, Islamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelver Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System (Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad) | 138 |
| Colin Turner, Islam Without Allah? The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran (Kathryn Babayan) | 139 |
| Mohamed M. Yunis Ali, Medieval Islamic Pragmatics: Sunni Legal Theorists’ Models of Textual Communication (Anver M. Emon) | 141 |
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Modern History and Culture |
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| Shireen Mahdavi, For God, Mammon, and Country: A Nineteenth Persian Merchant, Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb, 1834-1898 (Reza Sheikholeslami) | 145 |
| Rudoph P. Mathee, The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver 1600-1730 (Stephen P. Blake) | 148 |
| Lorenz Muller, Islam und Menschenrechte: Sunitsche Muslime zwischen Islamismus, Sakularismus und Modernismus (Albrecht Hofheinz) | 149 |
| Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, Classical Palestinian Cookery (Elizabeth Price) | 152 |
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Contemporary Society, Politics and Economics |
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| John L. Esposito and John O. Voll, Makers of Contemporary Islam (Imtiyaz Yusuf) | 155 |
| Clive Jones and Emma Murphy, Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State (Rebecca Kook) | 156 |
| Alexei Vassiliev, ed., Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era (Touraj Atabaki) | 158 |
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Language, Literature and the Arts |
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| Daniel Beaumont, Slave of Desire: Sex, Love, and Death in The 1001 Nights (Stephen Sheehi) | 161 |
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Zeinab Ibrahim, Nagwa Kassabgy, and Sabiha Aydelott, eds., Diversity in Language: Contrastive Studies in English and Arabic Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Mohssen Esseesy) |
163 |
| Geoffrey Lewis, Turkish Grammar (Erdag Goknar) | 165 |
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Audiovisuals |
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| Palestine is Still the Issue (Ann M. Lesch) | 168 |
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In Memoriam |
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| Bruce Borthwick (Myron A. Levine) | 171 |
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News and Views |
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| Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Award | 173 |
| Letters to the Editor from Isaiah Friedman and Aviva Halamish | 174 |
| A Correction | 175 |
