Books Received for Review from the
November 2000 Newsletter

Afary, Janet. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy,Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism . 448 pages, acknowledgments, chronology, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-231-10351-4

al-Daif, Rashid. Dear Mr Kawabata. 176 pages, foreword (Margaret Drabble) Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. $12.95 (PB) ISBN 0-704-38113-3

al-Hajji, Hayat Nasser. The Internal Affairs in Egypt During the Third Reign of Sultan Al-Nasir. 339 pages. Third edition of Ph.D. dissertation, 2000. (PB)

al-Sheikly, Sami Sattar. Das aegyptische Dorf Karnak im Werk von Yahya at-Tahir’Abdallah (1938-) (Asiatische und Afrikanische Studien, 75). 210 pages,bibliography. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2000. (PB) ISBN 3-906764-54-0

al-Udhar, Abdullah. Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology. 241 pages. New York, NY: Saqi Books, 1999. $19.50 (PB) ISBN 0-86356-047-4

Allen, Jr., Calvin H. and W. Lynn Rigsbee II. Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup toConstitution, 1970-1996. 251 pages, appendices, bibliography, index, glossary,tables, figures. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 2000. $57.50 (HC) ISBN 0-7146-5001-3

Amirahmadi, Hooshang. The Caspian Region at a Crossroad: Challenges of a New Frontier of Energy and Development. 299 pages, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22351-X

Arazi, Albert, Joseph Sadan and David J. Wasserstein. Compilation and Creation in Adab and Luga: Studies in Memory of Naphtali Kinberg (1948-1997) (Israel Oriental Studies XIX). 499 pages. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1999. (HC) ISBN 1-57506-045-0

Arnove, Anthony, ed. Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War. 216 pages, acknowledgments, authors, index. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. $16.00 (PB) ISBN 0-896-08619-4

Awde, Nicholas, ed. & transl. Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qur’an and Hadiths. 224 pages, tranlisterations, notes, references, indexes . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-21523-1

Badeen, Edward. Zwei mystische Schriften des ’Ammar al-Bidlisi (Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 68), Indexes, bibliography. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-515-07102-4

Bader-Saye, Scott. Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election (Radical Traditions: Theology in a PostCritical Key). 191, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder,CO: Westview Press, 1999. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-813-36706-9

Bakar, Osman. The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science. 266 pages, preface, appendix, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. $25.00 (PB) ISBN 0-946-62183-7

Bayat, Mangol. Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious thought in Qajar Iran (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East). 228 pages, acknowledgment, preface, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1982. $22.95 (PB) ISBN 0-815-62853-6

Benbassa, Esther and Aron Rodrigue. Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (Jewish Communities in the Modern World, No. 2). 313 pages, notes, sources, bibliography, index, maps. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-520-21822-1

Benvenisti, Meron. Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. 366 pages, notes, index, illustrations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. $26.25 (HC) ISBN 0-520-21154-5

Bernstein, Deborah S. Constructing Boundaries Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine (SUNY series in Israeli studies). 277 pages, tables, illustrations, preface, glossary, indexes. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $23.95 (HC) ISBN 0-791-44540-2

Binder, Leonard. Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle East. 396 pages, bibliography, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-8130-1687-8

Bono, Salvatore. Schiavi Musulmani Nell’Italia Moderna: Galeotti, vu’ cumpra’, domestici. 600 pages, bibliography. Naples, Italy: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1999. (PB) ISBN 88-8114-883-8

Bos, Gerrit, transl. Ibn al-Jazzar on Fevers: A critical edition of Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir. (The Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series). 217 pages, preface, glossaries, indexes, bibliography. London, UK: Kegan Paul International, 2000. $110.00 (HC) ISBN 0-710-30570-2

Bove, Paul A. Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power. 317 pages, notes, index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. $21.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8223-2522-5

Bugday, Korkut. Osmanisch: Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen der Literatursprache. 311 pages, foreword, bibliography, indexes, glossary. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999. $98.00 (PB) ISBN 3-447-04154-4

Bush, Ray. Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt. 184 pages, tables,illustrations, acknowledgments. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-813-33676-7

Butenschon, Nils A.; Davis, Uri; Hassassian, Manuel. Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East). 621 pages, illustrations, preface, contributors, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $39.95 (PB) ISBN 0-815-62829-3

Capisani, Giampaolo R. The Handbook of Central Asia: A Comprehensive Survey of the New Republics. 264 pages, appendix, bibliography, index. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2000. $75.00 (HC) ISBN 1-86064-429-5

Cattan, Henry. Jerusalem (first published in 1981). 229 pages, appendices, index. London, UK: Saqi Books, 2000. $22.50 (HC) ISBN 0-86356-933-1

Cattan, Henry (transl. and related by). The Garden of Joys: An Anthology of Oriental Anecdotes, Fables and Proverbs. 175 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Saqi Books, 2000. $15.95 (PB) ISBN 0-86356-354-6

Chasdi, Richard J. Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993. 265 pages, figures, tables, foreword, bibliography, indexes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-739-10057-2

Cohen, Raymond and Raymond Westbrook. Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. 307 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $48.00 (HC) ISBN 0-8018-6199-3

Cooperson, Michael. Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 217 pages, appendix, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-66199-4

Daftary, Farhad. Intellectual Traditions in Islam. 252 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2000. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 1-86064-435-X

Dagher, Carole H. Bring Down the Walls: Lebanon’s Post-War Challenge. 248 pages, acknowledgment, foreword, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $39.95 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22920-8

Dankoff, Robert and Robert Elsie. Evliya G elebi in Albania and Adjacent Regions (Kosovo, Montenegro, Ohri: The Relevant Sections of the Seyahantname). (Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century). 299 pages, bibliography, glossary, index, facsimile, plates. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2000. $94.50 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11624-9

Davidson, Olga M. Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics: Seven Essays Bibliotheca (Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series, No. 4). 158 pages, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000. (PB) ISBN 1-568-59098-9

De Jong, Frederick and Bernd Radtke. Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies & Polemics (Islamic History and Civilization, No. 29). 829 pages, indexes. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1999. $247.25 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11300-2

Dillman, Bradford L. State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-seeking and Failed Development State, Culture, and Society in Arab North Africa. 172 pages, tables, acknowledgments, notes, references, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-813-33757-7

Douwes, Dick. The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression. 244 pages, preface, glossary, annexes, bibliography, index. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2000. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 1-860-64031-1

Dupret, Baudouin; Berger, Maurits; al-Zwaini, Laila, eds. Legal Pluralism in the Arab World (Arab and Islamic Laws Series). 277 pages, preface, biographical notes, bibliography, index. The Hague, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 1999. $105.00 (HC) ISBN 9-041-11105-0

Edde, Anne-Marie. La Principaute Ayyoubide D’Alep (579/1183-658/1260)(Freiburger Islamstudien, Bd. 21). 727 pages, figures, bibliography, index. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. (PB) ISBN 3-515-07121-0

Edmunds, June. The Left and Israel: Party-Policy Change and Internal Democracy. 221 pages, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-333-73863-2

Eiland, Emmett. Oriental Rugs Today. 200 pages. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 1999. $34.9 (PB) ISBN 1-893163-03-2

El Khazen, Farid. The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976. 432 pages, tables, bibliography, index.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 0-674-08105-6

El Kouloub, Out. Three Tales of Love and Death. 137 pages, acknowledgment, introduction. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $24.95 (HC) ISBN 0-815-60627-3

El-Hibri, Tayeb. Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the ’Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 236 pages, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $64.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-65023-2

Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. 749 pages, chronology, bibliography, contributors, image sources, index. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999.$49.95 (HC) ISBN 0-195-10799-3

Fehervari, Geza. Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum. 399 pages, notes, bibliography, illustrations, index. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 2000. $95.00 (HC) ISBN 1-86064-430-9

Firestone, Reuven. Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam. 195 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $25.00 (HC) ISBN 0-19-512580-0

Frolov, Dmitry. Classical Arabic Verse: History and Theory of ’Arud (Studies in Arabic Literature). 375 pages, bibliography, index. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2000. $147.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-10932-3

Gawrych, George W. The Albatross of Decisive Victor: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 (Arab-Israel Contributions in Military Studies, Number 188) 400 pages, maps, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-313-31302-4

Ghanimah, Yusu Rizk-Allah. A Nostalgic Trip into the History of the Jews of Iraq. 224 pages, prologue, bibliography, endnotes, index. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. (PB) ISBN 0-761-81225-3

Ghoussoub, Mai and Emma Sinclair-Webb. Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East. 294 pages, index. London, UK: Saqi Books, 2000. $24.94 (PB) ISBN 0-86356-042-3

Goldschmidt, Jr., Arthur. Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. 297 pages, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $65.00 (HC)ISBN 1-55587-229-8

Greene, Molly. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean. 230 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. (HC) ISBN 0-691-00898-1

Guth, Stephan; Furrer, Priska; Burgel, Johann Christoph, eds. Conscious Voices: Concepts of Writing in the Middle East (Beiruter Texte und Studien). 332 pages, foreword, bibliography, index. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. $144.00 (PB) ISBN 3-515-07507-0

Hafez, Kai. Islam and the West in the Mass Media: Fragmented Images in a Globalizing World Political Communication. 299 pages, index. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000. $26.50 (PB) ISBN 1-57273-268-7

Halliday, Fred. Nation and Religion in the Middle East. 251 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 1-55587-935-7

Haqqi, Yahya. Blood and Mud: 3 Novelettes. 127 pages. Pueblo, CO: Passegiata Press, 1999. (PB) ISBN 1-578-89093-4

Hart, David M. Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco. 222 pages, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 2000. $24.50 (PB) ISBN 0-7146-8073-7

Hazony, Yoram The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul. 432 pages, appendix, notes, index. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. $28.00 (HC) ISBN 0-465-02901-9

Hillenbrand, Carole. The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. 648 pages, preface, acknowledgments, glossaries, illustrations, bibliography, index. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. $125.00 (HC) ISBN 1-579-58210-9

Hillenbrand, Carole. Studies in Honor of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Vol. 2: The Sultan’s Turret. 468 pages, index. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2000. $140.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11075-5

Hopwood, Derek. Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism (St. Antony’s Series). 204 pages, contributors. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22985-2

Howe, Marvine. Turkey Today: A Nation Divided Over Islam’s Revival. 310 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. $26.00 (HC) ISBN 0-8133-3764-X

Huff, Toby E. and Wolfgang Schluchter. Max Weber and Islam. 332 pages, bibliography, index. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999. $39.95 (HC) ISBN 1-56000-400-2

Iran Since the Revolution. Social Research 67.2 (2000). 367 pages. New York, NY: New School University, 2000. (HC) ISBN 0-74470-80815-2

Jabbari, Ahmad K. Amoo Norooz and Other Persian Stories. 101 pages. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000. $24.95 (HC) ISBN 1-568-59065-2

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (transl. By Roger Allen and Adnan Haydar). In Search of Walid Masoud (Middle East Literature in Translation). 289 pages. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $26.95 (HC) ISBN 0-8156-0646-X

Jerome M. Segal, Shlomit Levy, Nadar Izzat Sa’id, and Elihu Katz. Negotiating Jerusalem (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies). 341 pages, appendices, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $31.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4538-0

Kadri, Aissa. Parcours D’Intellectuels Maghrebins: Scolarite, Formation, Socialisation et Positionnements (Hommes et Societes). 426 pages. Paris, France: Karthala, 1999. $180.00 (PB) ISBN 2-86537-997-3

Kaiser, Hilmar. Marsovan 1915: The Diaries of Bertha Morley. 88 pages, glossary, index. Reading, UK: Taderon Press, 2000. $18.00 (PB) ISBN 0-9535191-4-0

Kanafani, Ghassan, transl. By Barbara Harlow & Karen E. Riley. Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories. 199 pages. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $13.95 (PB) ISBN 0-89410-890-5

Karsh, Efraim. Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol. 1: Israel’s Transition from Community to State (Israeli History, Politics and Society). 249 pages, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 2000. $57.50 (HC) ISBN 0-7146-4963-5

Katzman, Kenneth. U.S.-Iranian Relations: An Analytic Compendium of U.S. Politics, Laws and Regulations. 216 pages, index. Washington, DC: The Atlantic Council of the United States, 1999. (PB)

Kelly, Saul. Cold War in the Desert: Britain, the United States and the Italian Colonies,1945-52 (Cold War History Series). 207 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-23156-3

Kheirabadi, Masoud. Iranian Cities: Formation and Development. 132 pages, appendices, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8156-2860-9

Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi and Shouleh Vatanabadi (transl. and ed.). A Feast in the Mirror Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women. 233 pages. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-89410-889-1

Kolodziejczyk, Dariusz. Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations (15th-18th Century): An Annotated Edition of ’Ahdnames and Other Documents (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Vol. 18). 721 pages, bibliography, glossary, index, facsimiles, maps. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2000. $212.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11280-4

Köprülü , Mehmed Fuad. Some Observations on the Influence of Byzantine Institutions on Ottoman Institutes. 195 pages, preface, postscript, bibliography, index. Ankara, Turkey: Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1999.00 (PB) ISBN 9-751-61127-X

Kostiner, Joseph. Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity. 341 pages, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 1-55587-862-8

Kumaraswamy, P. R. Revisiting the Yom Kippur War: Israeli History, Politics and Society. 249 pages, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 2000. (PB) ISBN 0-7146-8067-2

Kupferschmidt, Uri M. Henri Naus Bey: Retrieving the Biography of a Belgian Industrialist in Egypt. 155 pages, preface, summary, illustrations, bibliography, index. Brussels, Belgium: Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen, 1999. (PB) ISBN 9-075-65216-X

Le Saout, Didier and Marguerite Rollinde. Emeutes et Mouvements Sociaux au Maghreb: Perspective Comparee (Hommes et Societes). 381 pages, bibliography. Paris, France: Karthala, 1998. $160.00 (PB) ISBN 2-86537-998-1

Lellouch, Benjamin and Stephane Yerasimos. Les Traditions Apocalyptiques au Tournant de la Chute de Constantinople (Varia Turcica, 33). 192 pages. Paris, France: L’Harmattan, 1999. (PB) ISBN 2-7384-8477-8

Lewis, Bernard. A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History. 469 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Random House, 2000. $35.00 (HC) ISBN 0-679-45191-9

Lewisohn, Leonard. The Heritage of Sufism, Vol. 1: Classical Persian Sufism from its Origins to Rumi (700-1300). 662 pages, bibliography, index, illustrations. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 1999. $29.95 (PB) ISBN 1-85168-188-4

Lewisohn, Leonard. The Heritage of Sufism, Vol. 2: The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150-1500). 430 pages, bibliography, index, illustrations. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 1999. $25.95 (PB) ISBN 1-85168-189-2

Lewisohn, Leonard and David Morgan. The Heritage of Sufism, Vol. 3: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750). 548 pages, bibliography, index, illustrations. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 1999. $42.95 (PB) ISBN 1-85168-193-0

Lindisfarne, Nancy. Dancing in Damascus: The Margins of Literature. 168 pages, notes.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $14.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-4636-0

Looking at Other Cultures: Works of Art as Icons of Memory (Taidehistoriallisia Tutkimuksia Konsthistoriska Studier, 22). 186 pages. Helsinki, Finland: Tiedekirja/

Lunt, James. The Arab Legion, 1923-1957. 256 pages, illustrations, preface, map, appendix, bibliography, index. London, UK: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1999. $35.00 (HC) ISBN 0-094-77640-7

Lyons, M. C. Identification and Identity in Classical Arabic Poetry (Gibb Literary Studies 2). 366 pages, sources, appendix, bibliography, index. Warminster, Wiltshire, UK: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1999. $59.00 (HC) ISBN 0-906-09438-0

Ma’oz, Moshe, Joseph Ginat and Onn Winckler. Modern Syria: From Ottoman Rule to Pivotal Role in the Middle East. 307 pages, index. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 1-898723-83-4

Mack, Beverly B. and Jean Boyd. One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’i, Scholar and Scribe. 198 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000. $13.95 (PB) ISBN 0-253-21398-3

Madelung, Wilferd & Walker, Paul. The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi’I Witness (Ismaili Texts and Translations, 1). 192 pages, preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2000. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 1-860-64551-8

Majd, Mohammad Gholi. Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran. 415 pages, illustrations, tables, preface, appendixes, notes, glossary. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2000. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 0-813-01731-9

Makdisi, Ussama. The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon. 259 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. $22.00 (PB) ISBN 0-520-218467-9

Mardin, Šerif. The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought: A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Thought (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East). 456 pages, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $26.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8156-2861-7

Matthee, Rudi and Baron, Beth. Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie. 291 pages, preface, contributors. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 1-568-59099-7

Matthee, Rudolph P. The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver 1600-1730 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 290 pages, plates, maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $64.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-64131-4

Meho, Lokman I and Nsouli, Mona A. Libraries and Information in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science). 368 pages, preface, indexes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. $79.50 (HC)

Meijer, Roel. Alienation or Integration of Arab Youth: Between Family, State, and Street. 223 pages. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000. $14.99 (PB) ISBN 0-7007-1255-0

Moaddel, Mansoor and Kamran Talattof. Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought. 382 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-21580-0

Moris, Zailan. Knowledge is Light: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 384 pages, biography. Chicago, IL: KAZI Publications, Inc., 1999. $25.95 (PB) ISBN 1-871031-07-9

Nawid, Senzil K. Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919-29: King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama. 278 pages, appendices, bibliography, index, tables, illustrations, glossary. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers. 1999. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 1-568-59072-5

Netzer, Amnon. Padyavand (Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series, Vol. 3). 606 pages. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999. $40.00 (HC) ISBN 1-568-59127-6

Nisan, Mordechai. Identity and Civilization: Essays on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 217 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. $32.00 (PB) ISBN 0-7618-1356-X

Nisan, Mordechai. Minorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self-Expression. 300 pages, preface, notes, index. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1991. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-899-50564-3

Noble, Frances Khirallah. The Situe Stories: Arab American Writing. 182 pages, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. $22.95 (HC) ISBN 0-8156-0657-5

Özdalga, Elisabeth. Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Transactions Vol. 9). 187 pages, Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000. $16.99 (PB) ISBN 0-7007-1147-3

Pamuk, Ševket. A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). 276 pages, maps, graphs, tables, preface, acknowledgments, appendices, bibliography, index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $69.95 (HC) ISBN 0-521-44197-8

Parsons, Laila. The Druze Between Palestine and Israel, 1947-49 (St. Antony’s Series). 180 pages, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-312-23107-5

Podeh, Elie. The Decline of Arab Unity: The Rise and Fall of the United Arab Republic. 292 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. $75.00 (HC) ISBN 1-902210-20-4

Quinn, Sholeh A. Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah ’Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles. 197 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2000. $32.50 (HC) ISBN 0-87480-643-7

Rahman, Fazlur, ed. by Ebrahim Moosa. Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism. 226 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2000. $27.95 (PB) ISBN 1-85168-204-X

Rahnema, Ali. An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati. 418 pages, preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, 1998. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 1-860-64552-6

Raizen, Esther. Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Level. 216 pages. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-292-77104-5

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. 274 pages, preface, acknowledgments, maps, appendices, notes, index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. $27.50 (HC) ISBN 0-300-08340-8

Reich, Bernard and David H. Goldberg. Political Dictionary of Israel. 528 pages, bibliography. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2000. $75.00 (HC) ISBN 0-8108-3778-1

Reid, James J. Studies in Safavid: Mind, Society, and Culture. 427 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 1-568-59089-X

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