Books Received for Review from the 
February 2000 Newsletter

Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies No. 14 (1999). Tokyo, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0913-7858

Cultural Selection of the French Embassy in Jordan Jordanies Research and documentation: politics, economy & society Jordan: CERMOC, 1998

Egypte/Monde Arabe. Cairo: Cedej, 1998. (PB)

Press Archive: Newspapers and Periodicals of Iraq in the Press Archive of the Moshe Dayan Center. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University Press, 1998. ISBN 965-224-032-X

Press Archive: Newspapers and Periodicals of Syria in the Press Archive of the Moshe Dayan Center. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University Press, 1999. $5.00 (PB) ISBN 965-244-025-7

Sudan Cultural Digest Project: Coping With Dynamics of Culture and Change Sudanese Refugees in East Africa and Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Sudan (Research Report #2). 168 pages, appendices, maps, photos, tables. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1998.

Tarikh-e Moa’aser-e Iran. Tehran: The Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies, 1999. (PB)

Towards a Framework for Attainable health Policies for Sudan (Proceedings). 137 pages. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1999 (PB)

Abdel-Malek, Kamal and David C. Jacobson. Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature. Index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $49.95 (HB) ISBN 0-312-21978-4

Abraham of Erevan, transl by Bournoutian, George A. History of the Wars, 1721-1738 (Armenian Studies Series). 111 pages, introductory notes, maps, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. (PB) ISBN 1-568-59085-7

Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. 279 pages, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley University of California Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-520-21866-3

Abu-Nimer, Mohammed. Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies). 199 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. $17.96 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4154-7

Ahmed, Akbar S. Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World. 252 pages, glossary, references, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 1-86064-257-8

al-Ahmad, Abd. Oppression of Labor (Work) (translated title). 472 pages. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Center for Research & Administrative Studies, 1998.

al-Awfi, Saleh bin Abdullah bin Itaf. Legal Principles in Fashioning Contracts in International Trade.Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Center for Research & Administrative Studies, 1998.

al-Jabri, Mohammed Abed, transl by Aziz Abbasi. Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique (Middle East Monograph Series, No. 12). 130 pages. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999. $12.95 (PB) ISBN 0-292-70480-1

al-Jawziyya, Ibn Qayyim. Medicine of the Prophet. 318 pages, English-Arabic glossary, bibliography, index. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1998 $32.50 (PB) ISBN 0-946621-22-5

Amini, Iradj. Napoleon and Persia Franco-Persian Relations Under the First Empire. 228 pages, map, illustrations, foreword, appendices, notes, bibliography. Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 1999. $34.95 (HB) ISBN 0-934211-58-2

Amitai-Preiss, Reuven and David O. Morgan, eds. The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy (Islamic History and Civilization Studies and Texts, Vol. 24). 361 pages, maps, figures, notes on dates and transliterations, index. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11048-8

Amuzegar, Jahangir. Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC’s Windfalls and Pitfalls. 266 pages, tables, bibliography, index. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. $65.00 (HB) ISBN 1-86064-292-6

Amyuni Takieddine, Mona. La Ville Source D’Inspiration (Le Caire, Khartoum, Beyrouth Beiruter Texte und Studien, 63) 237 pages, bibliography, index. Stuttgart, Franz: Steiner Verlag 1998. $96.00 (PB) ISBN 3-515-06885-6

Anderson, G. Norman. Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy. 272 pages, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. $49.95 (HB) ISBN 0813016711

Arian, Asher and Michal Shamir, eds. The Elections in Israel, 1996. SUNY Series in Israel Studies. 318 pages, introduction, index. Albany State University of New York Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4238-1

Asali, K.J. Jerusalem in History. 295 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1990. $16.95 (HB) ISBN 0-940793-44-X

Badak HBhani, S. J. Nasir al-Din Tusi: Contemplation and Action, The Spiritual Autobiography of a Muslim Scholar. 120 pages, notes, bibliography, index, original text. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-295-97845-7

Bakar, Osman. Classification of Knowledge in Islam: A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Science. 312 pages, bibliography. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1998. $29.50 (PB) ISBN 0-946621-71-3

Bamyeh, Mohammed A. The Social Origins of Islam Mind, Economy, Discourse. Notes, bibliography, index. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-816632-64-2

Basyouny, Iman Farid. ‘Just a Gaze’ Female Clientele of Diet Clinics in Cairo: An Ethnomedical Study Cairo Papers in Cairo. Appendices, bibliography. Cairo, Egypt: Columbia University Press, 1998. $10.00 (PB) ISBN 977-424-479-6

Behrooz, Maziar. Rebels With a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. 239 pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 1999. $55.00 (HB) ISBN 1-86064-381-7

Bialer, Uri. Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-63. 282 pages, tables, appendices, notes, index. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing, 1999. $38.00 ISBN 0-333-71109-2

Blake, Stephen P. Half the World: The Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (Islamic Art and Architecture Series, No. 9). 206 pages, list of figures, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. (HB) ISBN 1-56859-087-3

Bosworth, C. E. (trans.). The History of al-Tabari, Volume 5: The Sasanids, the Byzantines, the Lakmids, and Yemen. (Series in Near Eastern Studies). 458 pages, tables, maps, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. $26.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4356-6

Botman, Selma. Engendering Citizenship in Egypt: The History and Society of the Modern Middle East.141 pages, notes selected bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999. $52.00 (HB)ISBN 0-231-11298-X

Bourqia, Rahma and Susan Gilson Miller. In the Shadow of the Sultan Culture, Power, and Politics in Morocco (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 31). 331 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-932885-20-9

Brett, Michael. Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib Variorum (Collected Studies Series) 300 pages, introduction, index. Aldershot Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999. (HB) ISBN 0-86078-772-9

Brewer, Anthony. Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey, 2nd ed. 300 pages, bibliography, index. London, New York: Routledge, 1997. $29.99 (PB) ISBN 0-415-04469

Buck, Christopher. Paradise and Paradigm Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha’i Faith. 402 pages, appendices, works cited, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. $27.95 (HB) ISBN 0-7914-4061-3

Burr, Millard J. and Robert O. Collins. Africa’s Thirty Years’ War Chad, Libya, and the Sudan, 1963-1993. 300 pages, bibliography, index, maps. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. $65.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8133-3566-3

Caton, Steven C. Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology. 315 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $50.00 (HB) ISBN 0-520-21082-4

Cheshin, Amir, Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem. 275 pages, notes, maps, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. $27.95 (HB) ISBN 0-674-80136-9

Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy. 370 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $40.00 (HB) ISBN 0-520-21717-9

Clinton, Jerome W. In the Dragon’s Claws: The Story of Rostam & Esfandiyar from the Persian Book of Kings. 141 pages, translation, introduction, further reading. Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 1999. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-934211-56-6

Conrad, Lawrence I., (Maribel Fierro, and Julio Samso [general eds.]). The Formation of al-Andalus: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, Vol. 47. 451 pages, index Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. $166.95 (HB) ISBN 0-86078-709-5

Danspeckgruber, Wolfgang F. with Charles R. H. Tripp. The Iraqi Aggression Against Kuwait: Stragetic Lessons and Implications for Europe (LCM Liechtenstein Series, No. 2) 339 pages, appendices. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. $85.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8133-8623-3

Dadrian, Vahakn N. The History of the Armenian Genocide Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus, 3rd ed. 452 pages, abbreviations, preface, appendix, bibliography, indexes. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997. $39.95 (HB) ISBN 1571810161

Dadrian, Vahakn N. Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict. 210 pages, appendix, bibliography, indexes. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999. $34.95 (HB) ISBN 1560003898

Davis, Joyce M. Between Jihad and Salaam: Profiles in Islam. 339 pages, notes, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-312-21781-1

DeLorenzo, Yusuf Talal, ed. and trans. A Compendium of Legal Opinions on the Operations of Islamic Banks Murabahah, Mudarabah, and Musharakah. 269 pages, index. London, UK: Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance, 1997. $300.00 (HB) ISBN 1-898420-35-1

Deonna, Laurence. On Persian Roads: Glimpses of Revolutionary Iran, 1985-1998. 161 pages. Pueblo, CO: Passegiata Press, 1999. $15.00 (PB) ISBN 1-57889-088-8

Devlin, John F. The Universe of Oil Selections from The Geopolitical Writings of Melvin A. Conant. 281 pages. Calgary: Canadian Energy Research Institute, 1999. $20.00 (PB) ISBN 1-896091-41-5

Diab, Hassan N. Beirut Reviving Lebanon’s Past. 144 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $55.00 (HB) ISBN 0-275-96210-5

Dolatyar, Mostafa and Tim S. Gray. Water Politics in the Middle East: A Context for Conflict or Co-operation. 255 pages, bibliography, index, maps, illustrations. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $65.00 (HB) ISBN 0-312-22382

Donno, Antonio. Ombre di Guerra Fredda Gli: Stati Initi nel Medio Oriente durante gli Anni die Eisenhower (1953). 754 pages, articles in Italian, bibliography in English, index. Naples, Italy: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1998. $70.00 (PB) ISBN 88-8114-584-7

Dorraj, Manochehr. Middle East at the Crossroads: The Changing Political Dynamics and the Foreign Policy Challenges. 306 pages, index. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. $34.50 (PB) ISBN 0-7618-1391-8

Eickelman, Dale F. and Jon W. Anderson. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies). 213 Pages, figures, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-253-21329-0

Eisele, John C. Arabic Verbs in Time Tense and Aspect in Cairene Arabic (Semitica Viva, 20). 264 pages, bibliography, index, tables. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-447-04062-9

El Saadawi, Nawal. A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi. 294 pages, preface, afterword, photos. New York, NY: Zed Books, 1999. (HB) ISBN 1-85649-679-1

El-Mikawy, Noha. The Buildings of Consensus in Egypt’s Transition Process. 160 pages, appendices, notes, index. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1999. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 977-424-498-2

El Tom, Mohamed El Amin A., ed. Proceedings of the Conference on the State and Future of Higher Education. 630 pages, schedule, final report, participants. Cairo: Association of Sudanese Academics, 1999 (PB) ISBN 977-5578-06-4

Eldem, Edhem. French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century: The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy. 321 pages, figures, tables, bibliography, index. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1999. (HB) ISBN 9004113533

Erlich, Haggai and Israel Gershoni.  The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths. 304 pages, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. $55.00 (HB) ISBN 1-55587-672-2

Faour, Muhammad. The Silent Revolution in Lebanon: Changing Values of the Youth. 225 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1998 (PB)

Faridu’d-Din ’Attar, presented by Peter Avery. The Speech of the Birds Concerning Migration to the Real. 560 pages, notes, appendices. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1998. $32.50 (PB) ISBN 0-946621-70-5

Feghali, Maksoud N. Spoken Lebanese. 213 pages, appendix, index. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 1998. $34.94 (PB) ISBN 1-887905-14-6

Fisher, John. Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East 1916-19. 354 pages, maps, appendices, illustrations, bibliography, index. London, UK: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1999. $37.50 (HB) ISBN 0-7146-4875-2

Fleet, Kate. European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 204 pages, glossary, bibliography, index, tables. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95 (HB) ISBN 0-521-64221-3

Floor, Willem. The Afghan Occupation of Safavid Persia, 1721-1729 (Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 19 [1998]). 389 pages, bibliography, index. Paris, France: Peeters Press, 1998. (HB) ISBN 2-910640-05-1

Foltz, Richard C. Religions of the Silk Road Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the 15th Century. 186 pages, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, maps. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $24.95 (HB) ISBN 0-312-21408-1

Freund, Wolfgang. Palestinian Perspectives: Controversies from the Promised Land, 1. 207 pages. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. $39.95 (PB) ISBN 3-631-34307-8

Ghani, Cyrus Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power. 434 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 1998. $45.00 (HB) ISBN 1-86064-258-6

Gieling, Saskia. Religion and War in Revolutionary Iran. 205 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 1999. $59.50 (HB) ISBN 1-86064-407-4

Goksu, Saime and Edward Timms. Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet. 367 pages, preface, bibliography, index, illustrations. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $39.95 (HB) ISBN 0-312-22247-5

Goldstein, Eric. The Internet in the Mideast and North Africa Free Expression and Censorship. 96 pages, appendices. New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, 1999. (PB) ISBN 1-56432-235-1

Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizon: A History of the Ottoman Empire. 352 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: Henry Holt, 1999. $32.50 (HB) ISBN 0-8050-4081-1

Gordon, Haim. Looking Back at the June 1967 War. 224 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $59.95 (HB) ISBN 0-275-96170-2

Graham-Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq. 380 pages. glossary, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Tauris Academic Studies, 1999. (HB) ISBN 1-86064-473-2

Gunter, Michael M. The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis. 181 pages, notes, selected bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $39.95 (HB) ISBN 0-312-21896-6

Hafez, Kai and Udo Steinbach, eds. Juden und Muslime in Deutschland Minderheitendialog als Zukunftsaufgabe. 94 pages, articles, conference reports in media, program, list of participants. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-89173-054-3

Hannoyer, Jean Guerres. Civiles Economies de la Violence, Dimensions de la Civilite 326 pages. Paris, France: Karthala, 1999. (PB) ISBN 2-86537-902-7

Herb, Michael. All in the Family Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies (SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies). 352 pages, figures, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4168-7

Hesse, Carla and Robert Post. Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia. 344 pages. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. $19.00 (PB) ISBN 1-890951-00-5

Hiro, Dilip. Sharing the Promised Land: A Tale of Israelis and Palestinians. 372 pages, maps, preface, appendices, notes, index. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 1-56656-319-4

Holland, Robert. Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959. 347 pages, illustrations, maps, sources, bibliography, index. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1998. $85.00 (HB) ISBN 0198205384

Hopkins, Nicholas S. and Kirsten Westergaard, eds. Directions of Change in Rural Egypt. 398 pages, contributors, index. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1998. $27.50 (PB) ISBN 977-424-483-4

Hovannisian, Richard G. and Georges Sabagh. The Persian Presence in the Islamic World. 266 pages, illustrations, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $64.95 (HB) ISBN 0-521-59185-6

Hovannisian, Richard G., ed. The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century 372 pages, maps, dynastic tables, bibliography, contributors, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $49.95 (HB) ISBN 0312101694

Humphreys, R. Stephen. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. 294 pages, one map, two tables, notes, bibliographic note, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $29.95 (HB) ISBN 0-520-21411-0

Inbar, Efraim. Rabin and Israel’s National Security. 276 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $32.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8018-6217-5

Jackson, Peter. The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 367 pages, maps, appendices, genealogical tables, glossary, bibliography, index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $64.95 (HB) ISBN 0521404770

Jawed, Nasim Ahmad. Islam’s Political Culture Religion and Politics in Predivided Pakistan. 312 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, tables. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-292-74080-8

Johansen, Baber. Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. (Studies in Islamic Law and Society, volume 7). 521 pages, index. Leiden: Brill, 1998. $144.50 (HB) ISBN 90-04-10603-0

Joseph, Suad. Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East). 318 pages, notes, references, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. $29.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8156-2817-X

Kahf, Mohja. Western Representations of the Muslim Woman From Termagant to Odalisque. 207 pages, bibliography, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-292-74337-8

Kamali, Masoud. Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process. 318 pages, preface, list of abbreviations, introduction, list of tables. Aldershot Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. (HB) ISBN 1-84014-44 9-1

Kanafani, Fay. Afaf Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman Autobiographies and Memoirs of Women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Glossary, index. Armonk, NY: The Maple Press Company, 1999. $59.95 (HB)

Kaner, Nazli. Samiha Ayverdi (1905-93) und die osmanische Gesellschaft: Zur Soziogenese eines ideologischen Begriffs (osmanli Arbeitsmaterialien zum Orient, Band 1). 136 pages, chronology, bibliography, index. Wuezburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 1998 (PB) ISBN 3-932004-80-9

Katouzian, Homa. Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran. 305 pages, preface, notes, index. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 1999. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 1-86064-290-X

Keddie, Nikki R. Qajar Iran and The Rise of Reza 1796-1925. 128 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. $16.96 (HB) ISBN 1-56859-084-9

Kedourie, Sylvia. Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic. 237 pages, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Com. Ltd., 2000. $57.00 (HB) ISBN 0-7146-5042-0

Khadduri, Majid and Edmund Ghareeb. War in the Gulf: 1990-1991 The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications. 299 pages, notes, index. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. $35.00 (HB) ISBN 0195083849

Klemm, Verena. Literarisches Engagement im arabischen Nahen Osten Konzepte und Debatten Mitteilungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt. 247 pages, foreword, bibliography, indexes. Wuerzburg: Ergon Verlag, 1998. $68.00 (PB) ISBN 3-932004-71-X

Kramer, Martin, ed. The Jewish Discovery of Islam Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis. 311 pages, preface, index. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University, 1999. (HB) ISBN 965-224-040-0

Kranz, Barbara. Das Antikenbild der modernen (Tuerkei Mitteilungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt, 2). 317 pages, bibliography, indices. Wuerzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 1998 (HB) ISBN 3-932004-71-X

Lecker, Michael. Jews and Arabs in Pre- and Early Islamic Arabia (Variorum Collected Studies Series). 350 pages, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999. $106.95 (HB) ISBN 0-86078-784-2

Lehmann, Winfred P., Esther Raizen, and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt. Biblical Hebrew An Analytical Introduction. 387 pages, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-930324-37-4

Levy, Habib; Hooshang Ebrami (ed.); George W. Maschke (transl.) Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran: The Outset of the Diaspora. 597 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. $45.00 (HB) ISBN 1-568-59086-5

Libaridian, Gerard J. The Challenge of Statehood: Armenian Political Thinking Since Independence. 162 pages, preface. Cambridge, MA: Paul & Company, 1999. $14.95 (PB) ISBN 1886434107

Lieberfeld, Daniel. Talking with the Enemy: Negotiation and Threat Perception in South Africa and Israel/Palestine. 171 pages, bibliography, index, tables, chronologies. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $55.00 (HB) ISBN 0-275-96555-4

Lohlker, Rudiger. Schari'a und Moderne Diskussionen zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch, zur Versicherung und zum ZinsAbhandlungen fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Bibliography.Stuttgart: Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, 1996. ISBN 3515065822

Lorcin, Patricia M. E. Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria. 323 pages, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris & Co.: Scholarly & Reference Div., 1999. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 1-86064-376-0

Louvish, Simon. The Days of Miracles and Wonders: An Epic of the New World Disorder Emerging Voices. 422 pages, glossary, timeline. New York, NY: Interlink Books, 1999. $16.00 (PB) ISBN 1-56656-316-X  

Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce. Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume XXI. 798 pages, index, maps. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. $99.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8133-3762-3

Magnarella, Paul J. Middle East and North Africa Governance, Democratization, Human Rights Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies. 240 pages, tables, maps. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999. $65.95 (HB) ISBN 1-84014-913-2

Mahjoub, Mohammad-Ja’far. ’Obayd zakani (Collected Works, Persian Text Series, No. 2). 544 pages, glossary, index of proper names. New York, NY: Bibliotheca Persica Press/ Eisenbrauns, Inc., 1999. $48.00 (HB) ISBN 0-033273-30-4

Manger, Leif. Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 26). 260 pages, index. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999. $75.00 (HB) ISBN 0-7007-1104-X

Mansel, Philip. Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire, 1453-1924. 528 pages, illustrations, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. $35.00 (HB) ISBN 0-312-14574-8

Marin, Manuela, ed. The Formation of al-Aldalus, Part I: History and Society: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, Vol. 46. 508 pages, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. $166.95 (HB) ISBN 0-86078-708-7

Matar, Nabil I. Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998. $32.50 (PB) ISBN 0-231-07605-3

Matvejevic, Predrag, transl. by Michael Henry Heim. Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape. 210 pages. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $29.95 (HB) ISBN 0-520-20738-6

McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz. The Shah’s Silk for Europe’s Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (Armenian Texts and Studies). 440 pages, appendices, bibliography, index, illustrations. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1999. $44.95 (HB) ISBN 0-7885-0571-8

Meijer, Roel. Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East. 196 pages. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999. $29.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7007-1056-6

Meriwether, Margaret L. The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840.  278 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0292752245

Meriwether, Margaret L. and Judith E. Tucker. A Social History of Women & Gender in the Modern Middle East: The Social History of the Modern Middle East Series. 220 pages, index, notes, references. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. $24.00 (PB) ISBN 0-8133-2101-8

Mertus, Julie A. Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War. 378 pages, list of tables, preface, maps, notes, chronology, appendices, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-520-21865-5

Meshkinpour, Hooshang. Az Orshalim ta Orshalim: From Jerusalem to Jerusalem (Persian Language Publications Series, No. 11). bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. (PB) ISBN 1-568-59088-1

Miller, Lloyd. Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Avaz (Persian Art and Culture Series). 360 pages, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999. $60.00 (HB) ISBN 0-7007-0664-X

Mills, Paul S. and John R. Presley. Islamic Finance Theory and Practice. 171 pages, notes, references, index. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. $75.00 (HB) ISBN 0-312-22448-6

Milstein, Rachel, Karin Ruhrdanz, and Barbara Schmitz, eds. Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qisas al-Anbiya. 245 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. ISBN 1-56859-064-4

Mittelberg, David. The Israel Connection and American Jews. 216 pages, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $55.00 (HB) ISBN 0-275-96421-3

Miyaji, Kazuo. Middle East Studies in Japan (Islamic Area Studies Working Paper Series, 16) 22 pages, appendix, bibliography. Tokyo, Japan: Islamic Area Studies Project, 1999. (PB)

Moussalli, Ahmad S. Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, 23). 400 pages, chronology, bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999. $75.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8108-3609-2

Moussalli, Ahmad S. Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy, and the Islamic State. 249 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. $49.95 (HB) ISBN 0-8130-1658-4

Nance, Paul J. The Nance Museum A Journey into Traditional Saudi Arabia. 194 pages, glossary, bibliography, appendices, index. Lone Jack, MO: Nance Museum Publishing, 1999. $39.95 (HB) ISBN 0-9671454-5-7

Nashat, Guity and Judith E. Tucker. The Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History. 160 pages, glossary, maps, chronology, index. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0253212642

Northrup, Linda S. From Slave to Sultan: The Career of Al-Mansur Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 A.H. /1279-1290 A.D.). 349 pages, maps, figures, bibliography, index. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-315-06861-9

Nyaba, Peter Adwok. The Politics of Liberation in South Sudan: An Insider’s View. 194 pages, maps, photos, index. Oxford, UK Oxford: African Books Collective, 1997. $18.00 (PB) ISBN 9970-02-102-8

O’Donnell, Terence. Seven Shades of Memory: Stories of Old Iran. 144 pages. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1999. $14.95 (PB) ISBN 0-934211-59-0

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Oueijan, Naji B. A Compendium of Eastern Elements in Byron’s Oriental Tales (Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 13). 200 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. $47.95 (HB) ISBN 0-8204-4173-2

Pappe, Ilan. The Israel/Palestine Question: Rewriting Histories. 278 pages, index. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. $85.00 (HB) ISBN 0-415-16947-X

Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. 224 pages, appendix, glossary, bibliography, chronology, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $27.50 (PB) ISBN 0-520-22248-2

Pirzada, Shaziae and Anjali Puri. Vignettes: The Women of Bahrain. 312 pages, preface, introduction, map of Bahrain, glossary of Arabic terms. Bahrain: Dar Akhbar Al Khaleej Press, 1998. $24.00 (HB)

Price, Daniel E. Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights: A Comparative Study. 221 pages, illustrations, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $59.95 (HB) ISBN 0-275-96187-7

Radjaie, Ali. Das profan-mystische Ghasel des Hafis in Rueckerts:Uebersetzzungen und in Goethes ‘Diwan’ (Zwischen Orient und Okzident, Bd 5). 361 pages, bibliography. Wuerzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 1998 (PB) ISBN 3-932004-82-5

Redford, Scott. The Archaeology of the Frontier in the Medieval Near East: Excavations at Gritille, Turkey (Archaeological Institute of America Monographs, New Series No. 3). 315 pages, appendix, bibliography, index, figures, tables, plates. Philadelphia: Archaeological Institute of America, 1998. $94.00 (HB) ISBN 0-924171-65-0

Rejwan, Nissim. Israel in Search of Identity: Reading the Formative Years. 186 pages, notes, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. (HB) ISBN 0-8130-1664-9

Roberson, B. A. The Middle East and Europe: The Power Deficit. 228 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998. $27.99 (PB) ISBN 0-415-14045-5

Robinson, Neal. Islam: A Concise Introduction. 216 pages, maps, diagrams, appendices, select bibliography, index. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-87840-224-1

Rubin, Uri, ed. The Life of Muhammad: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World.410 pages, preface, index. Aldershot Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. (HB) ISBN 0-86078-703-6

Rushby, Kevin. Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey Through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia and Yemen. 322 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-312-21794-3

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Sayigh, Yezid and Khalil Shikaki. Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions. 124 pages. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-87609-262-8

Schade-Poulsen, Marc. Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai (Modern Middle East Series No. 20). 250 pages, notes, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-292-77740-X

Schmidtke, Sabine. Correspondance Corbin-Ivanow Lettres echangees entre Henry Corbin et Vladimir Ivanow. 235 pages, bibliography, name index, title index. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 90-429-0739-8

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Shah-Kazemi, Reza. Algeria: Revolution Revisited. 193 pages. London, UK: Islamic World Report, 1997. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 1-8606-4368-X

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Shay, Anthony. Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World (Performing Arts Series, No. 5). 235 pages, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. $24.95 (HB) ISBN 1-56859-083-0

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Silverburg, Sanford R. and Bernard Reich. U.S. Foreign Relations with the Middle East and North Africa, A Bibliography: Supplement 1998 (The Scarecrow Area Bibliographies Series No. 3). 607 pages. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999. $95.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8108-3615-7       

Simons, Geoff. Iraq - Primus Inter Pariahs: A Crisis Chronology, 1997-98. 242 pages, preface, list of tables, list of figures. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $39.95 (HB) ISBN 0-312-22341-2

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Stein, Kenneth W. Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace. 324 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1999. $24.99 (PB) ISBN 0-415-92155-4

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Suleiman, Yasir. Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa: Studies in Variety and Identity. 290 pages. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999. $40.00 ( HB) ISBN0-7007-1078-7

Tamari, Salim. Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighbourhoods and Their Fate in the War. 288 pages, appendices, maps, b&w photographs. Jerusalem, Israel: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 1999. (PB)

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Tessler, Mark, ed. Area Studies and Social Change Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies). 200 pages, index, notes, tables. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. $39.95 (HB) ISBN 0-253-33502-7

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Walbridge, John. The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks (SUNY Series in Islam). 305 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. $26.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4360-4

Weiss, Bernard G. The Spirit of Islamic Law: the Spirit of the Laws. 211 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998. $45.00 (HB) ISBN 0-8203-1977-5

Woods, John E. The Aqquyunlu Clan, Confidence, Empire. 352 pages, 12 maps, 7 b&w photographs, 18 line drawings, notes, bibliography. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1999. $45.00 (HB) ISBN 0-87480-565-1      

Wright, J. W., Jr. The Political Economy of Middle East Peace: The Impact of Competing Trade Agendas Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy. Bibliography, index, tables, figures. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. $85.00 (HB) ISBN 0-415-18395-2        

Zeidan, Joseph T. Bibliography of Women's Literature in the Modern Arab World. Dublin, OH: Dr. Joseph T. Zeidan, 1999. $34.95 (PB)

Zuercher, Erik J. Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925. 168 pages. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 1999. $65.00 (HB) ISBN 1-86064-404-X

Zuhur, Sherifa. Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts in the Middle East. 324 pages, bibliography, notes, index, illustrations. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1998.