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Abraham, A. J.
Khomeini, Islamic Fundamentalism and the Warriors of God: An Islamic Reader.
120 pages, bibliography. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 1999. $20.00 (PB) ISBN
1-55605-293-6
Adelkhah, Fariba, trans. by Jonathan Derrick. Being Modern in Iran (CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies). 190 pages, glossary, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. $25.00 (HC) ISBN 0-231-11940-2 Alcalay, Ammiel. Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999. 330 pages, foreword, notes. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1999. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-872-86360-3 Algosaibi, Ghazi. Seven. 242 pages. New York: Saqi Books, 2000. $22.50 (HC) ISBN 0-86356-088-1 Ali, Tariq. The Book of Saladin. 367 pages, maps, note, glossary. New York: Verso, 1998. $15.00 (PB) ISBN 1-859-84231-3 Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi. Toward the Control of Oil Resources in the Caspian Region. 248 pages, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22863-5 Asali, K. J. Jerusalem in History. 303 pages, contributors, preface, bibliography, index. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 1-566-56304-6 Atabai, Badri. A Treasury of Iranian Fine Arts. 416 pages. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1998. $60.00 (HC) ISBN 0-936-34768-6 Athanassopoulou, Ekavi. Turkey: Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952. 274 pages, illustrations, foreword, preface, biography notes, bibliography, notes. Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1999. $59.50 (HC) ISBN 0-714-64855-8 Attar, Samar. Modern Arabic: Grammar in Context: An Advanced Course for Foreign Students. 269 pages. Beirut: Librairie du Liban/ Int’l Book Center, 1998. (PB) Ayalon, David. Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study
of Power Relationships. 376 pages, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. Jerusalem,
Israel: The Magnes Press, 1999. $38.00 (HC) ISBN Beckwith, Stacy N. Charting Memory: Recalling
Medieval Spain (Hispanic Issues, volume 21). 363 pages, acknowledgments, glossary,
contributors, index. New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 2000. $60.00 (HC) ISBN Bewley, Abdalhaqq and Bewley, Aisha. The Noble Qur’an: A New Rendering of its Meaning in English. 651 pages, preface. London, UK: Madinah Press, 1999. (HC) ISBN 1-874-21636-3 Bohrer, Frederick N., ed. Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930. 124 pages, foreword, further readings, index. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-295-97845-7 Bosworth, C. E., et. al. The Encyclopaedia of Islam: CD-ROM Edition. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 9-004-11040-2 Browne, Edward G. A Literary History of Persia, 4 volumes. 2324 pages, introduction by J. T. P. de Bruijn. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1997. $275.00 (HC) ISBN 0-936-34766-X Çelik, Yasemin. Contemporary Turkish Foreign Policy. 208 pages, preface, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-275-96590-2 Clarke, H. Wilberforce, trans. The Divan-i-Hafiz. 1180 pages, introduction by Michael Craig Hillmann. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1998. $85.00 (HC) ISBN 0-936-34780-5 Crone, Patricia and Shmuel Moreh, trans. The Book of Strangers Medieval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia (Princeton Series on the Middle East). 200 pages, maps, sources, index, illustrations. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1999. $16.95 (PB) ISBN 1-55876-215-9 Crowe, Thomas Rain. In Winesellers Street: Renderings of Hafez. 88 pages, preface. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1998. $12.95 (PB) ISBN 0-936-34767-8 de Hartog, Leo. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. 229 pages, preface, notes, bibliography, index. London, UK: Tauris Academic Studies, 2000. $16.95 (PB) ISBN 1-860-64375-2 Dennis, Anthony J. The Rise of the Islamic Empire and the Threat to the West. 156 pages, bibliography. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 1996. (PB) ISBN 1-55605-267-7 Deyhim, Mehrbanoo Nasser, trans. An Iranian in Nineteenth Century Europe: The Travel Diaries of Haj Sayyah, 1859-1877. 379 pages foreword, acknowledgments, bibliography. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1998. $28.00 (HC) ISBN 0-936-34793-7 Doumato, Eleanor Abdella. Getting God’s Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. 312 pages, acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000. $18.50 (PB) ISBN 0-231-11667-5 Eisele, John C. Arabic Verbs in Time: Tense and Aspect in Cairene Arabic (Semitica Viva, 20). 264 pages, tables, bibliography, index. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-447-04062-9 Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain and Caplan, Neil, eds. Review Essays in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume V (SUNY series in Israeli Studies). 321 pages, introduction, contributors. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-791-44422-8 El-Shamy, Hasan M., trans. and ed. Tales Arab Women Tell and the Behavioral Patterns They Portray. 561 pages, acknowledgments, preface, notes. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-253-33529-9 Eldem, Edhem; Goffman, Daniel; and Masters, Bruce. The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 244 pages, bibliography, index, illustrations, maps. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-64304-X Faroqhi, Suraiya. Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources. 262 pages, illustrations, references, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-521-66648-1 Firestone, Rabbi Tirzah. With Roots in Heaven: One Woman’s Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith. 348 pages, acknowledgments, glossary. New York: Penguin, 1998. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-452-27885-7 Frassetto, Michael and Blanks, David R., eds. Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Perceptions of Other. 235 pages, acknowledgments, contributors, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-21891-5 Fuller, Graham E. and Rend Rahim Francke. The Arab Shi’a: The Forgotten Muslims. 290, pages, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22178-9 Gerner, Deborah J., ed. Understanding the Contemporary Middle East: Introductions to the States of Regions of the Contemporary World. 421 pages, maps, tables, figures, photographs, contributors, index. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $22.00 (PB) ISBN 1-555-87725-7 Ghassemi, Mehdi. The Role of the Clergy in the Iranian National Movement. 286 pages, notes. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1999. $20.00 (PB) ISBN 0-936-34774-0 Gilani, Dariush B. An English-Persian Dictionary, Third Edition. 690 pages, Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishing, 1999. $35.00 (HC) ISBN 0-936-34795-3 Goitein, S. D. A Mediterranean Society: An Abridgment in One Volume. 525 pages, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-520-21734-9 Goldstein, Jonathan, ed. China and Israel, 1948-1998: A Fifty Year Retrospective. 215 pages, tables, preface, acknowledgments, abbreviations, bibliography, index, contributors. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-275-96306-3 Goodwin, Godfrey. Topkapi Palace: An Illustrated Guide to its Life and Personalities. 223 pages, genealogy, foreward, bibliography, illustrations, index. London, UK: Saqi Books, 2000. $29.50 (HC) ISBN 0-863-56067-9 Habibian, Simin K., compiler. 1001 Persian-English Proverbs: Learning Language and Culture Through Commonly Used Sayings. 246 pages, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 2000. $16.00 (PB) ISBN 0-936-34792-9 Hawting, G. R. The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam From Polemic to History (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 168 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $54.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-65165-4 Heide, Florence Parry and Gilliland, Judith Heide. The House of Wisdom. New York: DK Publishing, 1999. $16.95 (HC) ISBN 0-789-42562-9 Irwin, Robert. Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature. 462 pages, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. New York: Penguin, 1999. £25.00 (HC) ISBN 0-713-99153-4 Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The
Global Rise of Religious Violence. 331 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 2000. $27.50 (HC) ISBN Kamshad, Hassan. Modern Persian Prose Literature. 226 pages, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1996. $25.00 (PB) ISBN 0-936-34772-4 Karsh, Efraim and Karsh, Inari. Empire of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923. 409 pages, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. $29.95 (HC) ISBN 0-674-2552-0 Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh. Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946. 304 pages, illustrations, chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. $39.50 (HC) ISBN 0-691-00497-8 Keyder, Çaglar, ed. Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local. 201 pages, synopsis, index, contributors. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-847-69495-X Klieman, Aharon. Compromising Palestine: A Guide to Final Status Negotiations. 284 pages, maps, notes, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. $17.50 (PB) ISBN 0-231-11789-2 Lynch, Marc. State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan’s Identity. 327 pages, preface, acknowledgments, notes, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. $18.50 (PB) ISBN 0-231-11323-4 Mahdavi, Shireen. For God, Mammon, and Country: A Nineteenth-Century Persian Merchant. 286 pages, appendices, who’s who, sources, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-813-33642-2 Mattawa, Khaled and Akash, Munir, eds. Post Gibran Anthology of New Arab American Writing. 460 pages, acknowledgments, introduction, contributors. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-965-20313-1 Milton-Edwards, Beverley. Islamic Politics in Palestine. 256 pages, acronyms, preface, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. London, UK: Tauris Academic Studies, 1999. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 1-860-64475-9 Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics). 305 pages, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-691-01004-8 Mouro, Gladys. An American Nurse Amidst Chaos, 1975-1998: The Story of the American University Medical Center during the Lebanese Civil War. 217 pages, acknowledgments. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. $24.95 (HB) ISBN 0-815-66099-5 Nagel, Tilman. The History of Islamic Theology: From Muhammad to the Present, trans. by Thomas Thornton. 329 pages, chronology, notes, glossary, indexes, recommendations for further reading. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 2000. $28.95 (PB) ISBN 1-55876-203-5 Nazer, Hisham M. Power of a Third Kind: The Western Attempt to Colonize the Global Village. 200 pages, preface, bibliography, index. Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $23.95 (HC) ISBN 0-275-96489-2 Nizameddin, Talal. Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy. 296 pages, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22538-5 O’Malley, Brendan and Craig, Ian. The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion. 268 pages, preface, chronology, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. $29.95 (HC) ISBN 1-860-64439-2 Özbudun, Ergün. Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation. 169 pages, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 1-55587-735-4 Pal, Izzud-Din. Pakistan, Islam & Economics: Failure of Modernity. 195 pages, preface, glossary, bibliography, index. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999. $11.00 (HC) ISBN 0-195-79068-5 Peimani, Hooman. Iran and the United States: The Rise of the West Asian Regional Grouping. 152 pages, acronyms and abbreviations, preface, bibliography, index. Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-275-96454-X Poya, Maryam. Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran. 186 pages, acknowledgments, glossary, chronology, appendix, bibliography, index. London: Zed Books, 1999. $19.95 (OB) ISBN 1-856-49682-1 Quataert, Donald, ed. Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922: An Introduction (SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East). 358 pages, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $23.95 (PB) ISBN 0-791-44432-5 Qutb, Sayyid, trans. by John B. Hardie. Social Justice in Islam. 339 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publications International, 2000. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 1-889999-11-3 Reed, Fred A. Anatolian Junction: A Journey into Hidden Turkey. 288 pages, maps, acknowledgments, notes, index. Burnaby, B.C.: Talon Books, 1999. $16.95 (PB) ISBN 0-889-22426-9 Rouyer, Alwyn R. Turning Water into Politics: The Water Issue in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. 297 pages, acknowledgments, abbreviations, persons interviewed, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22611-X Rudolph, Ekkehard. Bestandsaufnahme: Kultur- u. sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung über die muslimische Welt in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam. 201 pages, appendices, bibliography, questionnaire. Hamburg, Germany: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-89173-055-1 Sawaie, Mohammed. La Crise de la terminologie Arabe au XIXe Siecle. 159 pages, introductions in French and English. Damascus Institut Français de Damas, 1999. (PB) Schulz, Helena Lindholm. The Reconstruction of Palestinian Nationalism: Between revolution and statehood. 194 pages, preface, acknowledgments, abbreviations, bibliography, index. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1999. $69.95 (HC) ISBN 0-719-05596-2 Shalom, Zaki. The Superpowers, Israel and the Future of Jordan, 1960-1963: The Perils of the Pro-Nasser Policy. 181 pages, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. $60.00 (HC) ISBN 1-902-21014-X Shamir, Ronen. The Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine. 216 pages, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $64.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-63183-1 Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum. Women and War in Lebanon. 363 pages, bibliography, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-8130-1707-6 Sicker, Martin. Reshaping Palestine: From Muhammad Ali to the British Mandate, 1831-1922. 200 pages, preface, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-275-96639-9 Swietochowsker, Tadeusz and Collins, Brian C. Collins Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan (Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No. 31). 160 pages, chronology, map, bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999. $40.00 (HC) ISBN 0-810-83550-9 Thackston, Wheeler M. Introduction to Syriac: An Elementary Grammar with Readings from Syriac Literature. 228 pages, preface, index. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 2000. $30.00 (PB) ISBN 0-936-34798-8 Tollefson, Harold. Policing Islam: The British Occupation of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Struggle (Comparative Colonial Studies). 200 pages, preface, maps, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-313-30714-8 Uvezian, Sonia. Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen: A Culinary Journey through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. 438 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999. $29.95 (HC) ISBN 0-292-78535-6 Wedel, Heidi. Lokale Politik und Geschlechterrollen: Stadtmigrantinnen in türkischen Metropolen (Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Instituts). 317 pages, tables, maps, bibliography. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-89173-056-X Wright, J. W., Jr. and Drake, Laura. Economic and Political Impediments to Middle East Peace: Critical Questions and Alternative Scenarios (International Political Economy Series). 253 pages, tables, figures, map, foreword, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $75.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22577-6 Yalfani, Mehri. Far from Home (Dur as Khaneh).
314 pages. Bethesda, MD: IBEX Publishers, 1998. $15.00 (PB) ISBN 0-936-34787-2 |
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