Books Received for Review from the
February 2004 Newsletter

Adamec, Ludwig W. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. 616pp. HB $88.00 ISBN 0-8108-4852-X

Aldamer, Shafi. Saudi Arabia and Britain: Changing Relations, 1939-1953. Portland, OR: Ithaca Press, 2003. 277pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-86372-700-X

Babayan, Katheryn. Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiah: Cultural Landscape of Early Modern Iran. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 575pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-93288528-4

Berlin, Adele and Marc Zvi Brettler. The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 2208pp. HB $40.00 ISBN 0-19-529751-2

Bierman, Irene A. Napoleon in Egypt. Portland, OR: Ithaca Press, 2003. 187pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-86372-299-7

Brown, Daniel. A New Introduction to Islam. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 269pp. PB $27.95 ISBN 0-631-21604-9

Bunt, Gary R. Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. 237pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-7453-2098-8

Diamond, Larry and Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg. Islam and Democracy           in the Middle East. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 322pp. HB $45.00 ISBN 0-8018-7848-9

Ernst, Carl W. Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 272pp. HB $24.95 ISBN 0-8078-2837-8

Ghazy, Randa. Dreaming of Palestine: A Novel of Friendship, Love and War. New York: George Braziller, 2002. 182pp. HB $19.95 ISBN 0-8076-1522-6

Goldberg, Goira. Ben-Gurion against the Knesset. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 338pp. HB $64.50 ISBN 0-7146-5556-2

Heggy, Tarek. Culture, Civilization and Humanity. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 391pp. PB $26.00 ISBN 0-7146-5554-6

Huff, Toby E. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, 2^nd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 425pp. PB $30.00 ISBN    0-521-52994-8

Israeli, Raphael. Islamakazi: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 494pp. PB $27.95 ISBN 0-7146-8391-4

Kaegi, Walter E. Heraclitus, Emperor of Byzantium. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 359pp. HB $70.00 ISBN 0-521-81459-6

Kohlberg, Etan. Shi'ism. Williston, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 382pp. HB $137.95 ISBN 0 -86078-710-9

Lesch, David W. History in Dispute: The Middle East Since 1945: First Series.   Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2004. 369pp. HB $135.00 ISBN 1-55862-472-4

Mazzaoui, Michel. Safavid Iran and Her Neighbors. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 209pp. HB $32.50 ISBN 0-87480-757-3

Mermier, Franck. Mondialisation et nouveaux medias dans l'espace arabe. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2001. 438pp. PB $30.00 ISBN 2-7068-1745-3

O'Kane, Bernard. Early Persian Painting: Kalila and Dimma Manuscripts of the Late Fourteenth Century. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 335pp. HB $75.00 ISBN 1-86064-852-5

Onis, Ziya and Barry Rubin. The Turkish Economy in Crisis. Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. 204pp. PB $26.95 ISBN 0-7146-8397-3

Pintak, Lawrence. Seeds of Hate: How America's Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. 360pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 0-7453-2043-0

Quataert, Donald and Sabri Sayari. Turkish Studies in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University, 2003. 145pp. PB Journal ISBN 1-878318-17-9

Qureshi, Emran and Michael A. Sells. The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 400pp. PB $24.50 ISBN 0-231-12667-0

Richard, Jean. Francs et Orientaux dans le monde des croisades. Williston, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2003. 243pp. HB $111.95 ISBN 0-8607-8917-9

Rubin, Barry and Judith Colp Rubin. Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 354pp. HB $27.50 ISBN 0-19-516689-2

Sheffer, Gabriel. Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad. New York: Cambridge        University Press, 2003. 290pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 0-521-81137-6

Spicer, Beverly White. The Ka'bah: Rhythms of Culture, Faith and Physiology. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. 182pp. PB $52.00 ISBN 0-7618-2646-7

Thompson, Michael J. Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 224pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-7425-3107-4

Wolf, Anne. How Many Miles to Babylon: Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond  from 1300 to 1640. Portland: Liverpool University Press, 2003. 311pp. PB $20.00 ISBN 0-85323-668-2

Yaphe, Judith S. The Middle East in 2015: The Impact of Regional Trends on U.S. Strategic Planning. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2002. 235pp. PB $40.00 ISBN 0-7567-2553-4

Yavuz, M. Hakan. Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 328pp. HB $49.95 ISBN 0-19-516085-1