Essays

Inshad Dini and Aghani Diniyya in Twentieth Century Egypt: A Review of Styles, Genres, and Available Recordings Michael Frishkopf

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Employees or Beneficiaries? Alyce Abdalla

The Quality of Theory and the Comparative Disadvantage of Area Studies Ian S. Lustick

The Arabic Language in Theory and Practice Roger Allen

The Case for Genocide Robert Krikorian

Anthropology, Sociology & Women’s Studies

Stina Katchadourian, ed., Great Need Over the Water: The Letters of Theresa Huntington Ziegler, Missionary to Turkey, 1898-1905 (Carolyn McCue Goffman)

Afsaneh Najmabadi, The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (Camron Amin)

Religion and Philosophy 

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Medicine of the Prophet (Daniel Martin Varisco)

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse (Andrew J. Newman)

Christopher Buck, Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha'i Faith (John Renard)

John Cooper, Ronald L. Nettler, & Mohamed Mahmoud, Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond (Jeffrey T. Kenney)

Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Style (Devin Stewart)

Mark Huband, Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam (Fawaz A. Gerges)

Mohammed `Abed al-Jabiri, Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique (Stephen Sheehi)

Adeeb Khalid, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Robert Crews)

Meir Litvak, Shi’i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘Ulama’ of Najaf and Karbala’ (Peter Sluglett)

Richard Martin & Mark R. Woodward, Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu’tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Keith Lewinstein)

Kamal Salibi, The Historicity of Biblical Israel: Studies in 1 & 2 Samuel (Victoria Erhart)

W. Montgomery Watt, A Short History of Islam (Maryna V. Kravets)

Islamic Law

Rainer Brunner, Annäherung und Distanz: Schia, Azhar und die Islamische Ökumene im 20. Jahrhundert (Devin Stewart)

Rüdiger Lohlker, Schari'a und Moderne: Diskussionen über Schwanger- schaftsabbruch, Versicherung und Zinsen (Irene Schneider)

Literature & Literary Criticism

Patricia Crone & Shmuel Moreh, The Book of Strangers: Medieval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia (Devin Stewart)

Tetz Rooke, In My Childhood: A Study of Arabic Autobiography (R. G. Khoury)

Art, Culture & Society

Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi, Grandmother’s Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing (Najwa Adra)

Godfrey Goodwin, Topkapi Palace: An Illustrated Guide to Its Life and Personalities (Linda T. Darling)

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Efraim Karsh & Inari Karsh, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 (William Ochsenwald)

Pre-Modern Political History

David Ayalon, Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study in Power Relations (Maya Shatzmiller)

C. E. Bosworth, The History of al-Tabari, Vol. 5: The Sasanids, the Byzantines,the Lakhmids, and Yemen (Touraj Daryaee)

Farhad Daftary, A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community (Seth Ward)

Linda Northrup, From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt 678-689 A.H./1279-1290 A.D. (Jonathan Berkey)

Pre-Modern Cultural & Social History

Michael Brett, Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib (Ronald A. Messier)

Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman & Bruce Masters, The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul (Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr)

Kate Fleet, European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Palmira Brummett)

John France & William J. Zajac, eds, The Crusades and Their Sources: Essays Presented to Bernard Hamilton (Colin Paul Mitchell)

Lucien Gubbay & Abraham Levy, The Sephardim: Their Glorious Tradition from the Babylonian Exile to the Present Day (Reeva S. Simon)

Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Warren C. Schultz)

Richard G. Hovannisian & Georges Sabagh, The Persian Presence in the Islamic World (Sholeh A. Quinn)

Donald R. Hill, Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology: From Philo to al-Jazari—From Alexandria to Diyar Bekr (Mohammed Abattouy)

Edward S. Kennedy, Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World (F. Jamil Ragep)

Martin Kramer, The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis (Reuven Firestone)

Joshua Prawer & Haggai Ben-Shammai, The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period, 638-1099 (Judith Mendelsohn Rood)

Israel & the Arab World

Uri Bialer, Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1963 (Edward A. Sayre)

Abraham Ben-Zvi, Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance (Rashid Khalidi)

Arnold Blumberg, The History of Israel (Itai Sneh)

Jonathan Goldstein, ed., China and Israel, 1948-1998: A Fifty Year Retrospective (Barry Rubin)

Efraim Inbar, Rabin and Israel’s National Security (Joseph Alpher)

Abdo Baaklini, Guilain Denoeux, & Robert Springborg, Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions (Farid el Khazen)

Nicolas Beau & Jean-Pierre Tuquoi, Notre Ami Ben Ali: L’Envers Du “Miracle Tunisien” (John P. Entelis)

Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, ed., The Iraqi Aggression Against Kuwait: Strategic Lessons and Implications for Europe (Matteo Legrenzi)

Deborah Gerner, ed., Understanding the Contemporary Middle East (As’ad AbuKhalil)

Geoffrey Kemp & Robert E. Harkavy, Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East (Chad F. Emmett)

Gerard J. Libaridian, The Challenge of Statehood: Armenian Political Thinking Since Independence (Levon Avdoyan)

David E. Long & Christian Koch, eds., Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century (Houchang Hassan-Yari)

John F. Standish, Persia and the Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect (Lawrence Potter)

Bassam Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder (John O. Voll)

Minorities and Citizenship

Ofra Bengio & Gabriel Ben-Dor, eds., Minorities and the State in the Arab World (Paul A. Silverstein)

Uri Davis, Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon (Ellis Goldberg)

Amke Dietert-Scheuer, Möglichkeiten der Konfliktlösung in der Türkischen Republik (Frank Tachau)

Nasim Ahmad Jawed, Islam’s Political Culture: Religion and Politics in Predivided Pakistan (Marvin G. Weinbaum)

Daniel E. Price, Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights (Joe Stork)

Economics

Jahangir Amuzegar, Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC’s Windfalls and Pitfalls (Abbas Alnasrawi)

Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, A Compendium of Legal Opinions on the Operations of Islamic Banks (Farhad Nomani)

Sarah Graham-Brown, Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq (F. Gregory Gause, III)

Modern History

Metin Heper, Ismet Inönü: The Making of a Turkish Statesman (Hasan Kayali)

Robert Holland, Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959 (Birol Yesilada)

Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (John P. Entelis)

Sarah Yizraeli, The Remaking of Saudi Arabia: The Struggle Between King Sa’ud and Crown Prince Faysal, 1951-1962 (Gwenn Okruhlik)

Seymour Drescher & Stanley Engerman, eds., A Historical Guide to World Slavery (Linda Northrup)

Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources (Ariel Salzmann)

Dariush B. Galani, An English Persian Dictionary (Firoozeh Khazrai)

Simin K. Habibian, One Thousand & One English-Persian Proverbs (Firoozeh Khazrai)

Wheeler M. Thackston, An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language (Devin Stewart)

Audiovisuals

Crimes of Honour (Eleanor Doumato)

Jaffa La Mienne (Akram Khater)

People of the Wind (Laurence Michalak)

Sun, Fire, River: Ajrak Cloth from the Soil of Sindh (Carl W. Ernst)

Virtual Cairo: A History (Caroline Williams)

In Memoriam

Ralph Harry Magnus (M. Siddieq Noorzoy)

Robert Mantran (Edhem Eldem)

Constantine Zurayk (Philip Mattar)

Correspondence & Corrections