Books Received for Review from the
May 2002 Newsletter

Abdul-Wali, Mohammed. They Die Strangers: A Novella and Stories from Yemen. 138 pps. Austin, TX: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2002. $14.95 (PB) ISBN 0-292-70508-5

Abu-Rabia, Aref. Bedouin Century: Education and Development among the Negev Tribes in the Twentieth Century. 224 pps., maps, tables, halftones, bibliography, index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 1-57181-832-4

Abulafia, David. Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100-1550 (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. $105.95 (HC) ISBN 0-86078-841-5

Aissaoui, Ali. Algeria: The Political Economy of Oil and Gas. 312 pps., tables, figures, index. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001. $29.50 (HC) ISBN 0-19-730027-8

al-Daif, Rashid (transl. Nirvana Tanoukhi). Passage to Dusk. 100 pps., introduction. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001. $12.95 (PB) ISBN 0-292-70507-7

Algar, Hamid. Imam Abu Hamid Ghazali: An Exponent of Islam in its Totality. 64 pps., bibliography, index. Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publications International, 2001. $5.95 (PB) ISBN 1-889999-15-6

Algar, Hamid. Roots of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. 181 pps., introduction, index, New York: Islamic Publications International, 2001. $14.95 (PB) ISBN 1-889999-26-1

Ammann, Ludwig. Die Geburt des Islam: Historische Innovation durch Offenbarung (Essener Kulturwissenschaftliche Vorträge 12). 111 pps., bibliography. Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein Verlag, 2001. $28.00 (PB) ISBN 3-89244-460-9

Antoun, Richard T. Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements. 192 pps., glossary, suggestions for further reading, index, Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2001. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7591-0041-1

Aruri, Naseer. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto Middle East Studies). 294 pps., index. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 0-7453-1776-6

Behnstedt, Peter. Sprachatlas von Syrien, Part II: Volkskundliche Texte (Semitica Viva 17). 661 pps., indices, bibliography. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000. $128.00 (HC) ISBN 3-447-04330-X

Behrooz, Maziar. Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. 239 pps., index, bibliography. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2000. (PB) ISBN 1-86064-381-7

Benamrouche, Amar. Grèves et conflits politiques en Algerie. 374 pps., bibliography, appendices. Paris, France: Éditions Karthala, 2000. $180.00 (PB) ISBN 2-84586-055-2

Bernal, Martin (ed. David Chioni Moore. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to his Critics. 550 pps., bibliography, index, maps. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8223-2717-1

Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid, Prospects for Resolving the Conflict. 142 pps., index. New York: Zed Books, 2002. $17.50 (PB) ISBN 1-84277-111-6

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. 270 pps., terminology, glossary, further reading, references, index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. $16.95 (PB) ISBN 0-300-09422-1

Bloom, Jonathan M. Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World. 200 pps., maps, bibliographic essay. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. (HC) ISBN 0300089554

Bornstein, Avram. Crossing the Green Line between the West Bank and Israel: The Ethnography of Political Violence. 192 pps., preface, notes, references, index. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. $36.50 (HC) ISBN 0-2122-3635-1

Bowen, Donna Lee and Evelyn A. Early. Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, 2nd ed. (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies). 411 pps., glossary, selected readings, index, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. $22.95 (PB) ISBN 0-253-21490-4

Bowersock, G. W., Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar. Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World. 280 pps., index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-674-00598-8

Boxberger, Linda. On the Edge of Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies). 292 pps., appendices, notes, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. $22.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-5218-2

Brunner, Rainer and Werner Ende, eds. The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture and Political History (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia). 400 pps., preface, contributors, bibliography and abbreviations, indices. Leiden: Brill, 2001. $114.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11803-9

Bozdogan, Sibel. Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (Studies in Modernity and National Identity). 369 pps., preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, figure sources, index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. $50.00 (HC) ISBN 0-295-98110-5

Brustad, Kristen, Mahmoud al-Batal and Abbas al-Tonsi. A Textbook for Arabic: Part Three. 480 pps. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. $44.95 (PB) ISBN 0-87840-272-1

Chaqueri, Cosroe. Origins of Social Democracy in Modern Iran. 352 pps., illustrations, maps, preface, chronology, notes, references, index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. $40.00 (HC) ISBN 0-295-98085-0

Cleary, Joe. Literature, Partition and the Nation State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cultural Margins). 263 pps., notes, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-521-65150-6

Cohen, Amnon. The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem: The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage. 310 pps., map, documents, bibliography, index. Leiden: Brill, 2001. $86.00 (HC) ISBN90-04-11918-3

Cross, Toni M. and Gary Leiser. A Brief History of Ankara. 159 pps., bibliography. Vacaville, CA: Indian Ford Press, 2000. (PB) ISBN 0-9655958-1-1

Dassetti, Felice. Paroles d’islam: Individus. Societes ey discours dans l’islam europeen contemporain. 316 pps. Bonchamp-les-Laval: Barneoud, 2000. $180.00 (PB) ISBN 9782706814372

Dessing, Nathal M. Rituals of Birth, Circumcision, Marriage, and Death among Muslims in the Netherlands (New Religious Identities in the Western World 2). 211 pps., bibliography, index. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Press, 2001. (PB) ISBN 90-429-1059-3

Dickinson, Eerik. The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (240/854-327/938) (Islamic History and Civilization). 148 pps., introduction, bibliography, index. Leiden: Brill, 2001. $46.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11805-5

Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict. 185 pps., bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 1-58826-016-X

El Fadl, Khaled M. Abou. And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourse. 204 pps., bibliography, index. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. $51.00 (PB) ISBN 0-7618-2084-1

Elkhadem, Saad. On Egyptian Fiction: Five Essays (Arabic Literature and Scholarship). 48 pps., index. Toronto: York Press Ltd., 2001. $9.95 (PB) ISBN 1-896761-21-6

Engelmann, Kurt E. and Vjeran Pavlakovic. Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints. 315 pps., index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. $30.00 (PB) ISBN 0-295-98047-8

Erlich, Haggai. The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile. 248 pps., bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 1-55587-970-5

Esposito, John L. with Natana J. DeLong-Bas. Women in Muslim Family Law. 256 pps., index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8156-2908-7

Esposito, John L., Darrell J. Fasching and Todd Lewis. World Religions Today. 562 pps., index, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. $45.00 (PB) ISBN 0-19-510253-3

Fay, Mary Ann, ed. Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East. 245 pps., charts, select bibliography, index. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 1-312-21966-0

Floor, Willem. Safavid Government Institutions. 311 pps., foreword, afterword, bibliography, index, tables. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2001. $29.95 (PB) ISBN 1-56859-135-7

Ghanoonparvar, M. R. Translating the Garden. 198 pps., bibliography, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001. $32.95 (HC) ISBN 0-292-72835-2

Gocek, Fatma Müge, ed. Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies). 277 pps., index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. $26.95 (HC) ISBN 0-7914-5798-4

Gonzalez, Valerie. Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2001. $37.50 (HC) ISBN 1-86064-691-3

Goodson, Larry P. Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban. 264 pps., maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2002. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 0-295-98050-8

Güclü, Yücel. The Question of the Sanjak of Alexandretta: A Study in Turkish-French-Syrian Relations (Publications of Turkish Historical Society 87). 368 pps., bibliography, index, appendices. Ankara, Turkey: Turkish Historical Society Printing House, 2001. (PB) ISBN 975-16-1403-1

Hale, William. Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774-2000. 375 pps., maps, bibliography, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 2000. $49.50 (HC) ISBN 0-7146-5071-4

Hannoum, Abdelmajid. Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, A North African Heroine (Studies in African Literature) 216 pps., bibliography, index. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. $59.95 (HC) ISBN 0-325-00253-3

Hart, David M. Muslim Tribesmen and the Colonial Encounter in Fiction and on Film. 131 pps., bibliography. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Het Spinhuis Publishers, 2001. (PB) ISBN 90-5589-205-X

Hart, David M. Qabila: Tribal Profiles and Tribe-state Relations in Morocco and on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier. 254 pps., bibliography. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Het Spinhuis Publishers, 2001. (PB) ISBN 90-5589-204-1

Hary, Benjamin H., John L. Hayes, and Fred Astren, eds. Judaism and Islam: Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction (Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies). 445 pps., acknowledgements, indices. Leiden: Brill, 2000. $147.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11914-0

Hathaway, Jane, ed. Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective. 304 pps., foreword, introduction, index, contributors. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001. $72.00 (HC) ISBN 0-275-97010-8

Hawting, G. R. (transl.) The History of al-Tabari, Vol. 17: The First Civil War (Bibliotheca Persica). 250 pps., bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. (PB) ISBN 0-7914-2394-8

Hewison, R. Neil. The Fayoum: History and Guide, 2nd Edition. 108 pps., illustrations, bibliography, index. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001. $14.95 (PB) ISBN 977-424-671-3

Hinnebusch, Raymond and Anoushiravan Ehteshami. The Foreign Policies of Middle East States (The Middle East in the International System). 380 pps., bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. (PB) ISBN 1-58826-020-8

Hinnells, John R. Zoroastrian and Parsi Studies: Selected Works of John R. Hinnells. 430 pps. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. $89.95 (HC) ISBN 0-7546-1501-4

Homerin, Thomas E. From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Farid, His Verse and His Shrine. 176 pps., prefaces, notes, glossary, select bibliography, index. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 977-197-930-2

Hopkins, Nicholas S., Sohair R. Mehanna, and Salah El-Haggar. People and Pollution: Cultural Constructions and Social Attention in Egypt. 188 pps., tables, illustrations, notes, works cited. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. $27.50 (HC) ISBN 977-424-572-5

Hoyland, Robert G. Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam. 324 pps., notes, bibliography, index, maps, plates. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. (PB) ISBN 0-415-19535-7

Human Rights Watch. Second Class: Discrimination against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools. 187 pps., appendices. New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, 2001. (PB) ISBN 1-56432-266-3

Ibrahim, Sun’allah (transl. by Mary St. Germain and Charlene Constable). The Committee. 166 pps. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. (HC) ISBN 0-8156-0726-1

Jacquard, Roland. In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood. 294 pps., appendix, glossary, notes, index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8223-2991-3

Jankowski, James. Nasser’s Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic. 234 pps., bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. $49.95 (HC) ISBN 1-58826-034-8

Jung, Dietrich and Wolfango Piccoli. Turkey at the Crossroads: Ottoman Legacies and a Greater Middle East. 232 pps., bibliography, index. New York: Zed Books, 2002. $25.00 (PB) ISBN 1-85649-867-0

Kechichian, Joseph A., ed. Iran, Iraq and the Arab Gulf States. 472 pps., tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index. New York: Palgrave, 2002. $69.95 (HC) ISBN 0-312-29388-7

Kedourie, Sylvia, ed. Turkey Before and After Ataturk: Internal and External Affairs. 282 pps., foreword, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1999. $49.50 (PB) ISBN 0-7146-8006-0

Kennedy, Hugh, ed. The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800): The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 400-1453. 271 pps., abbreviations, postscript, index. Leiden, Brill: 2001. $101.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-11794-6

Khater, Akram Fouad. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920. 258 pps., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 0-520-22740-9

Khuri, Fuad I. The Body in Islamic Culture. 189 pps., bibliography, index, appendix, illustrations. London: Saqi Books, 2001. $22.50 (PB) ISBN 0-86356-319-8

Kilito, Abdelfattah (transl. by Michael Cooperson). The Author & His Double: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture (Middle East Literature in Translation). 129 pps., index, bibliography. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. (PB) ISBN 0-8156-2931-1

Kimmerling, Baruch. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society, and the Military. 268 pps., bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-520-22968-1

Kirisci, Kemal and Gareth M. Winrow. The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of Trans-state Ethnic Conflict. 237 pps., tables, preface, abbreviations, bibliography, index. London, UK: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1997. $57.50 (HC) ISBN 0-7146-4746-2

Kuneralp, Synan. Son Dönem Osmanly Erkan ve Ricali (1839-1922): Prosopografik Rehber. 127 pps. Istanbul: Isis, 1999. (PB) ISBN 9784281181

Layoun, Mary N. Wedded to the Land?: Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis (Post-Contemporary Interventions). 225 pps., bibliography, index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8223-2545-4

Leaman, Oliver, ed. Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. 607 pps. preface, halftones, tables, index. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. $135.00 (HC) ISBN 0-415-18703-6

Lewis, Bernard. Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems. 224 pps., halftones, appendix. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. $19.95 (HC) ISBN 0-691-08928-0

Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. 266 pps., color illustrations, b/w photos, line drawings, map, glossary. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. $65.00 (HC) ISBN 0-520-22131-1

Madelung, Wilferd and Paul E. Walker (eds. and transls.). The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi’i Witness (Ismaili Texts and Translations). Bibliography, index. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris, 2001. (PB) ISBN 1-86064-773-1

Madelung, Wilferd and Toby Mayer, eds. and trans. Struggling with the Philosopher: A Refutation of Avicenna’s Metaphysics (Ismaili Texts and Translations). 256 pps., bibliography, index to English text, Arabic text. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. $37.50 (HC) ISBN 1-86064-693-X

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam (Variorum). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001. $105.95 (HC) ISBN 0860788555

Matin-Asgari, Afshin. Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah. 286 pps., bibliography, index, appendices. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2002. $28.00 (PB) ISBN 1-568-59079-2

Mazor, Yair. Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz (SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture). 206 pps., notes, bibliography, indices. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002 $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-7914-5308-1

McMurray, David A. In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown. 224 pps., bibliography, index. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8166-2507-7

McMurray, Jonathan S. Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the Construction of the Baghdad Railway. 168 pps., preface, abbreviations, conclusion, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001. $64.00 (HC) ISBN 0-275-97063-9

Menashri, David. Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power. 356 pps., bibliography, index, appendix. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 2001. $26.50 (PB) ISBN 0-7146-8121-0

Moore, Daniel. The Blind Beekeeper. 192 pps. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. $16.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8156-8133-X

Nasir-I Khusraw (ed. & transl. by Wheeler M. Thackston Jr.). Book of Travels (Safarnama): A Parallel Persian-English Text (Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series, No. 6). 172 pps., index, bibliography, maps. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2001. (PB) ISBN 1-568-59137-3

Nelson, Kristina. The Art of Reciting the Quran. 272 pps., appendices, notes, bibliography, postscript, index. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. $24.50 (PB) ISBN 977-424-594-6

Nicolas Vatin and Stephane Yerasimos. Les cimetieres dans la ville: Statut, choix et organisation des lieux d’inhumation dans Istanbul intr. 270 pps., maps, facsimiles. Istanbul: Institut Francais d’Etudes Anatoliennes-Georges Dumezil, 2001. (PB) ISBN 2906053600

Nojumi, Neamatollah. The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region. 260 pps., chronology, definitions and abbreviations, notes, index. New York: Palgrave, 2002. $18.95 (PB) ISBN 0-312-29584-7

Obeidi, Amal. Political Culture in Libya. 266 pps., index, bibliography, appendices. Richmond, England: Curzon Press, 2001. $50.00 (HC) ISBN 0-7007-1229-1

Owen, Roger, ed. New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). 341 pps., preface, bibliography, contributors, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 0-932885-26-8

Peri, Oded. Christianity Under Islam in Jerusalem: The Question of the Holy Sites in Early Ottoman Times (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage). 219 pps., foreword, conclusion, bibliography, index. Leiden: Brill, 2001. $74.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-12042-4

Podeh, Elie. The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000. 216 pps., bibliography, index, appendices. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. $58.00 (HC) ISBN 0-89789-755-2

Rahimieh, Nasrin. Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History. 191 pps., bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. $17.95 (PB) ISBN 0-8156-2837-4

Rashid, Ahmed. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. 281 pps., index, maps, appendix. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. $24.00 (HC) ISBN 0-300-09345-4

Richards, D. S., trans. The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad) (Crusade Texts in Translation). 265 pps., abbreviations, maps, appendix. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001. (HC) ISBN 0754601439

Saeed, Abdullah & Shahram Akbarzadeh. Muslim Communities in Australia. 244 pps., bibliography, index. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press Ltd., 2001. $44.95 (PB) ISBN 0-86840-580-9

Saghie, Hazim. The Predicament of the Individual in the Middle East. 224 pps., index. London: Saqi Books, 2001. $35.00 (HC) ISBN 0-86356-053-9

Salem, Ali, ed. A Drive to Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbors (Dayan Center Papers 128). 138 pps., notes. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University, 2001. (HC) ISBN 789652-24057

Shaham, Ron. Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt: A Study Based on Decisions by the Shari’a Courts 1900-1955 (Studies in Islamic Law). 264 pps., foreword, preface, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index. Leiden: Brill, 1997. $111.00 (HC) ISBN 90-04-10742-8

Sherman, A. J. Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948. Photos, notes, bibliography, index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. (HC) ISBN 0521791391

Shirley, Janet, trans.; Peter W. Edbury, intro. Guillaume de Machaut. The Capture of Alexandria (Crusade Texts in Translation). 218 pps., translator’s note, chronology, maps. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001. (HC) ISBN 0754601013

Silberstein, Laurence J. Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture. 275 pps., bibliography, index. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. (PB) ISBN 0-415-91316-0

Smith, Chad. Palestine and Arab-Israeli Conflict: Fourth Division. 341 pps., selected bibliography, index, chronology. Boston, MA: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. $39.95 (HC) ISBN 0-312-22756-6

Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (4th ed.): A History with Documents. 541 pps., bibliography, index, photos, maps. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. (HC) ISBN 0-312-22756-6

Snir, Reuven. Modern Arabic Literature: A Functional Dynamic Model (Arabic Literature and Scholarship). 92 pps., bibliography. Toronto: York Press Ltd, 2001. $15.95 (PB) ISBN 1-896761-20-8

Sobhani, Ayatollah Ja’far and Shah-Kazemi. The Doctrines of Shi’ism: A Compendium of Imami Beliefs and Practices. 240 pps., notes, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002. $37.50 (HC) ISBN 1-86064-780-4

Tabbaa, Yasser. The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival (Publications on the Near East). 210 pps., notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-295-98125-3

Telhami, Shilbley and Michael Barnett, eds. Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East. 207 pps., index. Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. $18.95 (HC) ISBN 0-8014-8745-5

Ten Grotenhuis, Elizabeth. Along the Silk Road (Asian Art & Culture). 144 pps., illustrations, further reading, index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2002. $24.95 (PB) ISBN 0-295-98182-2

Tottoli, Roberto. Biblical Prophets in the Quran and Muslim Literature. 213 pps., bibliograhy, index of names. Curzon Press, 2002. $50.00 (HC) ISBN 0-7007-1394-8

Tuchscherer, Michel. Le Commerce du Café: Avant l’ere des Plantations Coloniales. 410 pps., index. Cairo, Egypt: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2001. (PB) ISBN 2-7247-0295-6

Vassiliev, Alexei. Central Asia: Political & Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era. 277 pps., index. London, UK: Saqi Books, 2001. $55.00 (HC) ISBN 0-86356-913-7

Vasunia, Phiroze. The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander (Classics and Contemporary Thought). 346 pps., bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. $45.00 (HC) ISBN 0-520-22820-0

Vogelsang, Willem. The Afghans (The Peoples of Asia). 382 pps., illustrations, figures, maps, bibliography, index. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. $27.95 (HC) ISBN 0-631-19841-5

Wassef, Hind and Madia Wassef, eds. Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women’s Movements, 1900-1960. 160 pps., foreword, bibliography. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. $24.50 (PB) ISBN 977-424-602-0

Welchman, Lynn. Beyond the Code: Muslim Family Law and the Shari’ Judiciary in the Palestinian West Bank. 444 pps., tables, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. London: Kluwer Law International, 2000. $160.00 (HC) ISBN 9041188592

Werner, Christoph. An Iranian Town in Transition: A Social and Economic History of the Elites of Tabriz, 1747-1848 (Documenta Iranica et Islamica 1). 419 pps., bibliography, index. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000. (HC) ISBN 3-447-04309-1

Zubaida, Sami and Richard Tapper. A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. 302 pps., bibliography, index. New York, NY, I. B. Tauris, 2000. $15.95 (PB) ISBN 1-86064-603-4

Zuhur, Sherifa, ed. Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East. 456 pps., color plates, glossary, bibliography, index. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. $19.95 (PB) ISBN 977-424-607-1