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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 36 Number 2 Winter 2002
Table of Contents
| Editorial | 155 |
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Essays |
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The Thomas Cook
Archive for the Study of Tourism |
157 |
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Closed to Oriental Heroines: Ethos of the Colonial Text Hager Ben Driss |
164 |
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Rai’s Travels Ted Swedenburg |
190 |
| The Silk Road Wends its Way to Washington Mark Slobin | 194 |
| Negotiating Change in Bedouin Society and Education Ela Greenberg | 199 |
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New Additions to Crusade Literature in Translation Warren C. Schultz |
201 |
| Evolving Cuisine and Culture in Middle Eastern Cooking Joyce N. Wiley | 203 |
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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) | 206 |
| Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue, Sephardic Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Jonathan Schorsch) | 207 |
| Jonathan M. Bloom, Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (David J. Duncan) | 209 |
| Amnon Cohen, The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem (Eunjeong Yi) | 210 |
| Michael Cooperson, Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mum (Adam Sabra) | 211 |
| Birgitt Hoffman, Waqf im mongolishen Iran: Rasiduddins Sorge Nachrum um Seelenheit (Thomas T. Allsen) | 213 |
| Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (Steven Judd) | 214 |
| Arzina R. Lalani, Early Shi’i Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (Rainer Brunner) | 215 |
| Andrew Rippin, Ed., The Quran: Formative Interpretation (Shahab Ahmed) | 216 |
| R. W. Thomson, Ed. and Trans., The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos (Levon Avdoyan) | 218 |
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Modern History and Culture |
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| Kamal Abdel-Malek, ed., America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology 1895-1995 (Abdulla al-Dabbagh) | 221 |
| Furio Cerutti and Rodolfo Ragionieri, eds., Identities and Conflicts: The Mediterranean (Maia Carter) | 222 |
| Felice Dassetto, ed., Paroles d’islam: indifus, sociétés et discours dans l’Islam européen contemporain/Islamic Words: Individuals, Societies and Discourse in Contemporary European Islam (Martin Riexinger) | 223 |
| Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Getting God’s Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (Marcia C. Inhorn) | 225 |
| Dimitri Gondicas and Charles Issawi, eds., Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism (Christos Iacovou) | 226 |
| Richard G. Hovannisian and David N. Myers., eds., Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases (Lawrence Birken) | 228 |
| Douglas A. Howard, The History of Turkey (Howard Eisenstat) | 229 |
| Rafael Medoff, Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898-1948 (Steven Rosenthal) | 231 |
| Roel Meijer, ed., Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East (Aisha Sobh) | 232 |
| Willem van Shendel and Erik J. Zürcher, eds., Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century (Michael B. Bishku) | 234 |
| Faegheh Shirazi, The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture (Kathleen Howard Kinawy) | 235 |
| Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq (Reeva S. Simon) | 237 |
| Hind Wassef and Nadia Wassef, eds., Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women’s Movements, 1900-1960 (Ela Greenberg) | 238 |
| Rose Wilder Lane, Islam and the Discovery of Freedom (Stephen Cory) | 239 |
| Mai Yamni, Changed Identities: The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia (Aisha Sobh) | 240 |
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Contemporary Society, Politics and Economics |
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| Eugene Cotran and Mai Yamani, eds., The Rule of Law in the Middle East and the Islamic World: Human Rights and the Judicial Process (R. M. Gleave) | 243 |
| Laurence Deonna, On Persian Roads: Glimpses of Revolutionary Iran, 1985-1998 (Roksana Bahramitash) | 244 |
| Daniel J. Elazar and Shmuel Sandler, eds., Israel at the Polls, 1996 (Ami Pedahzur) | 245 |
| Meir Hatina, Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement (Awad Halabi) | 247 |
| Steve Heydemann, ed., War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East (F. Gregory Gause, III) | 248 |
| Azza M. Karam, Women, Islamisms, and the State: Contemporary Feminisms in Egypt (Kathleen Howard Kinawy) | 250 |
| Debbie Lovatt, ed., Turkey Since 1970: Politics, Economics and Society (Ayhan Akman) | 251 |
| Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Marzouqi, Human Rights in Islamic Law (Stephen Cory) | 252 |
| Shaul Mishal, Ranan D. Kuperman, and David Boas, Investment in Peace: The Politics of Economic Cooperation Between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority (Edward Sayre) | 254 |
| Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Harald Leusmann) | 255 |
| Wassim Shahin and Ghassan Dibeh, eds., Earnings Inequality, Unemployment and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (Sohrab Behdad) | 256 |
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Language, Literature and the Arts |
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| Yasin M. Alkalesi, Modern Iraqi Arabic: A Textbook (Paul Roochnik) | 260 |
| David M. Hart, Muslim Tribesmen and the Colonial Encounter in Fiction and on Film (Amy Elizabeth Young) | 261 |
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Rose Issa, Ru’in Pakbaz and Darius Shayegan, Iranian Contemporary Art (Erik Nakjavani) |
262 |
| Mhja Kahf, Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagent to Odalisque (Ruth Roded) | 264 |
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Audiovisuals |
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| Abdulaziz (James Onley) | |
| The Living Martyr: Inside the Hezbollah and Human Weapon: A Film on the History of Suicide Bombing (Noah Haiduc-Dale) | 267
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| Souha: Surviving Hell (Mirna Lattouf) | 269 |
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Women Like Us (Carrie Brown) |
272 |
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In Memoriam |
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| Laila ’Ali Ibrahim (Nasser Rabbat) | 275 |
| Salim Khaldieh (Aleya Rouchdy) | 276 |
| Gregory C. Kozlowski (Douglas Howland and Warren Schultz) | 276 |
| George M. Makdisi (Peggy Guinan) | 277 |
| Audited Financial Statement for 2001 | 280 |
