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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 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 35 Number 2 Winter 2001
Table of Contents
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Essays |
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| Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively Asef Bayat |
151 |
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Women Writing/Women Written: The Case of Oriental Women in English Colonial Fiction Hager Ben Driss |
159 |
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Visions of the City: Urban Studies on the Gulf Nelida Fuccaro |
175 |
| Academic Irrelevance or Disciplinary Blind-Spot? Middle Eastern Studies and the Baha’i Faith Today Ismael Velasco | 188 |
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Review Essays |
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Approaches to Classical Arabic Poetry Roger Allen |
201 |
| The Heritage of Sufism Adnan A. Husain | 204 |
| Cultural Memory and Tradition Douglas C. Young | 208 |
| The October War Revisited Gal Luft | 210 |
| Turkey in the Modern World Robert Olson | 212 |
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Paula Haydar, trans., This Side of Innocence (Alexander E. Elinson) |
217 |
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Latifa Al-Zayyet, The Open Door (Judith Caesar) |
218 |
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Miriam Cooke, Hayati: My Life (Abdulla Al-Dabbagh) |
219 |
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Alice C. Hunsberger, Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (Saeed Yousef) |
220 |
| Vera Basch Moreen, trans., In Queen Esther’s Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature (Nancy Berg) | 221 |
| Robin Ostle, ed., Marginal Voices in Literature and Society: Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World (Issa J. Boullata) | 222 |
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Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah (Shaw Dallal) |
223 |
| Iman Farid Basyouny, Just a Gaze: Female Clientele of Diet Clinics in Cairo (An Ethnomedical Study) (Marcia C. Inhorn) | 224 |
| Randi Deguilhem, ed., Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World: Issues and Sources (Amira Sonbol) | 225 |
| Mai Goussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb, eds., Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East (Robert Nowatzki) | 226 |
| Tord Olsson, Elisabeth Özdalga and Catharina Raudvere, eds., Alevi Identity: Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives (Ahmet T. Karamustafa) | 227 |
| Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Lauren Onkey) | 228 |
| Lamia Rustum Shehadeh, ed., Women and War in Lebanon (Nancy W. Jabbra) | 229 |
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Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Women and Men in Late Eighteenth Century Egypt (Amira Sonbol) |
231 |
| Frédérick Bauden, ed., Le Voyage ŕ Smyrne: Un manuscrit d’Antoine Galland (1678) (Christine Isim-Verhaaren) | 232 |
| Salvatore Bono, Schiavi Musulmani nell’Italia Moderna (Steven Epstein) | 233 |
| George A. Bournoutian, annot. and ed., Armenians and Russia (1626-1796): A Documentary Record (Robert Olson) | 234 |
| Aleksandar
Fotic, Sveto Gora i Hilandar u Osmanskom carstvu
XV-XVII vek [Mount Athos and Hilandar in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-17th Centuries] (Michael Robert Hickok) |
235 |
| Alastair Hamilton, Alexander H. de Groot and Maurits H. van den Boogert, eds., Friends and Rivals in the East: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Levant from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century (Palmira Brummett) | 236 |
| Peter
Jackson, The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History (William Wood) |
237
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| Sevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Gabor Agoston) | 238 |
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James J.
Reid, Studies in Safavid Mind, Society, and Culture |
239 |
| Janina M. Safran, The Second Umayyad Caliphate: The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al-Andalus (Olivia Remie Constable) | 240 |
| John E. Woods, The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire (Adel Allouche) | 241 |
| Adil
Özdemir and Kenneth Frank, Visible Islam in Modern Turkey (Glenn Yocum) |
242 |
| Eliz Sanasarian, Religious Minorities in Iran (Houri Berberian) | 243 |
| Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Dialogues, Conflict Resolution, and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel (Russell A. Stone) | 244 |
| K. J. Asali, ed., Jerusalem in History (Theodore Pulcini) | 245 |
| George W. Gawrych, The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars (W. Andrew Terrill) | 246 |
| Efraim Karsh, ed., Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol. 1: Israel’s Transition from Community to State (Ilan Pappe) | 247 |
| Judith A. Klinghoffer, Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East: The Unintended Consequences (Anthony O. Edmonds) | 248 |
| David Mittelberg, The Israeli Connection and American Jews (Ofira Seliktar) | 249 |
| Ayre Rattner and Gideon
Fishman, Justice for All? Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Criminal Justice System (Samir Awad) |
250 |
| Nissim Rejwan, Israel’s Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective (Moshe Behar) | 251 |
| Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Ami Pedahzur) | 252 |
| Hooshang Amirahmadi, ed., The Caspian Region at a Crossroad: Challenges of a New Frontier of Energy and Development (Mary Ann Heiss) | 254 |
| Fred Halliday, Nation and Religion in the Middle East (Richard Bulliet) | 255 |
| Birthe Hansen, Unipolarity and the Middle East (Dalia Dassa Kaye) | 256 |
| Tim Niblock, “Pariah States” & Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Sudan (Ronald Bruce St John) | 257 |
| Ergün Özbudun, Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Ziya Önis) | 258 |
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Mary Ann Tetreault, Stories of Democracy, Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait (Karen Pfeifer) |
259 |
| As’ad AbuKhalil, Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (Usama Makdisi) | 260 |
| Richard Hovannisian, ed., Armenian Van/Vaspurakan (George Bournoutian) | 261 |
| Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb, War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications (Michael M. Gunter) | 262 |
| G. P. Makris, Changing Masters: Spirit Possession and Identity Construction Among Slave Descendants and Other Subordinates in the Sudan (Stephanie Beswick) | 264 |
| Resources |
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| Korkut M. Bugday, Osmanish: Einführung in die Grundlagen der Literatursprache (Erika H. Gilson) |
265 |
| Lokman I. Meho and Kelly L. Maglaughlin, compilers, Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography (Michael M. Gunter) | 266 |
| Esther Raizen, Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levels (Ronit Engel) | 267 |
| Harry Stroomer, Mehri Texts from Oman: Based on the Field Materials of T. M. Johnstone (Carmen Cross) | 268 |
| Tadeusz Sietochowski and Brian C.
Collins,
Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan (Shouleh Vatanabadi) |
269 |
| Joseph Zeidan, A Bibliography of Women’s Literature in the Modern Arab World: 1800-1996 (Carmen Cross) | 270 |
| The Day I Became a Woman (Hisae Nakanishi) | 271 |
| Murshidat: Female Primary Health Care Workers Transforming Society in Yemen (Beth Kangas) |
272 |
| A Wall of Silence (Linda T. Darling) | 273 |
| West Beirut (Elise Salem) | 274 |
| 276 | |
| David Montgomery Hart (Sarah Gordon Hart) | |
| M. A. Jazayary (Mehdi Marashi) | |
| Anne Cabot Ogilvy (Robin M. Brown and Bert de Vries) | |
| Recent (1999-2001) Doctoral Degrees in Middle East Studies | 279 |
| MESA Financial Report | 297 |
| Corrections | 303 |
| Cover, J. Callignon and John Smith, “Smyrne” (editor’s collection) | |
