Books Received for Review from the
November 2004 Newsletter

Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 20-21, 2002-2003. Roma, IT: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2003. 268pp. PB NP

Abdullah, Thabit A.J. A Short History of Iraq: From 636 to the Present. London: Pearson Longman, 2003. 234pp. PB $16.00 ISBN 0-582-50579-8

Abdulmoati, Yousuf. Kuwait in the Eyes of Others: Features and Characteristics of     Kuwait's Society Before Oil. Kuwait: Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait, 2003. 158pp. PB NP ISBN 99906-56-04-5

Adelkhah, Fariba. Being Modern in Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 190pp. PB $19.50 ISBN 0-231-11941-0

Al-Askari, Jafar Pasha. A Soldier's Story, From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq: The Memoirs of Jafar Pasha Al-Askari. Portland, OR: Arabian Publishing Ltd., 2004. 294pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-9544792-0-3

Ansari, Humayun. ‘The Infidel Within’: Muslims in Britain since 1800. London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd, 2004. 438pp. PB $40.00 ISBN 1-85065-685-1

Barari, Hassan A. Israeli Politics and the Middle East Peace Process: 1988-2002. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. 198pp. HB $95.00 ISBN 0-415-32226-X

Behn, Wolfgang. HdO: Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus: Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980, Volume One, A-G. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 695pp. HB $199 ISBN 90-04-141170

Bianchi, Robert R. Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 384pp. HB $35.00 ISBN 0-19-517107-1

Bird, Christine. A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan. NewYork: Ballantine Books, 2004. 432pp. HB $25.95 ISBN 0-345-46892-9

Bohrer, Frederick N. Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 384pp. HB $90.00 ISBN 0-521-80657-7

Bonner, Michael, Mine Ener and Amy Singer. Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. 345pp. PB $23.95 ISBN 0-7914-5738-9

Borg, Alexander. HdO: Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English): With an Introductory Essay. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004. 492pp. HB $136.00 ISBN 90-04-13198-1

Bozarslan, Hamit. Violence in the Middle East: From Political Struggle to Self-Sacrifice. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publications, 2004. 160pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 1-55876-309-0

Brustad, Kristen, Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-Arabiyya with DVD's: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 520pp. PB $54.95 ISBN 1-58901-104-X

Brustad, Kristen, Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Alif Baa with DVDs: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds. Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 168pp. PB $39.95 ISBN 1-58901-102-3

Bulliet, Richard W. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 192pp. HB $24.50 ISBN 0-231-12796-0

Catherwood, Christopher. Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. 267pp. HB $26.00 ISBN 0-7867-1351-8

Cdok, Michael. Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Traditions. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2004. 510pp. HB $111.95 ISBN 0-86078-916-0

Chalcraft, John T. The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. 285pp. HB $75.00 ISBN 0-7914-6143-2

Cohen, Shana. Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2004. 177pp. PB $21.95 ISBN 0-8223-3387-2

Commins, David. Historical Dictionary of Syria, 2nd Edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. 376pp. HB $70.00 ISBN 0-8108-4934-8

Cook, Catherine, Adam Hanieh and Adah Kay. Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children. Sterling,VA: Pluto Press, 2004. 197pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 0-7453-2161-5

Crone, Patricia. God's Rule: Government and Islam, Six Centuries of Medieval Political Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 472pp. HB $39.50 ISBN 0-231-13290-5

Dalacoura, Katerina. Engagement or Coercion: Weighing Western Human Rights Policies towards Turkey, Iran and Egypt. London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2003. 82pp. PB $18.95 ISBN 1-86203-140-1

Daun, Holger and Geoffrey Walford. Educational Strategies Among Muslims in the Context of Globalization: Some National Case Studies. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 285pp. HB $99.00 ISBN 90-04-13675- 

Deguilhem, Randi and Abdelhamid Henia. Les fondations pieuses (waqf) en Mediterrane: enjeux de societe, enjeux de pouvoir. Kuwait: Kuwait Awqaf Public Foundation, 2004. 437pp. HB NP ISBN 99906-36-40-0

Dib, Kamal. Warlords and Merchants: The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2004. 333pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-86372-297-0

Dinstein, Yoram. The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 275pp. HB $95.00 ISBN 0-521-83436-8

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Marsha Pripstein Posusney. Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy & Society. Boulder, London: Lynne Reiner, 2004. 297pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 1-58826-134-4

Eickelman, Dale F. and Jon W. Anderson. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2nd Edition. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. 240pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-253-21605-2

Elsheshtawy, Yasser. Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban KaleidoScope in a Globalizing World. London, New York: Routledge, 2004. 210pp. HB $104.95 ISBN 0-415-30400-8

Erdener, Yildiray. 101 Turkish Idiomatic Expressions. Springfield, Virginia: Dunwoody Press, 2004. 203pp. HB $35.00 ISBN 1-931546-02-9

Fischer, Michael M.J. Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 474pp. PB $23.95 ISBN 0-8223-3298-1

Floor, Willem and Mohammad H. Faghfoory. The First Dutch-Persian Commercial Conflict: The Attack on Qeshm Island. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2004. 280pp. PB $45.00 ISBN 1-56859-118-7

Franz, Erhard. Yeziden: Eine alte Religionsgemeinschaft zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2004. 106pp. PB NP ISBN 3-89173-085-3

Gelber, Yoav. Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue: Cooperation, Conspiracy, or Collusion. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. 357pp. HB $75.00 ISBN 1-84519-044-0

Geyer, Georgie Anne. Tunisia: A Journey Through a Country that Works. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2004. 206pp. HB $27.95 ISBN 1-900988-43-7

Gil, Moshe. Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 828pp. HB $269.00 ISBN 90-04-13882-X

Gladney, Dru C. Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 400pp. PB $25.00 ISBN 0-226-29775-6

Golia, Maria. Cairo: City of Sand. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. 232pp. PB $27.00 ISBN 1-86189-187-3

Gorke, Andreas. Das Kitab Al-Amwal Des Abu 'Ubaid Al-Qasim B. Sallam: Entstehung un Uberlieferung Eines Fruhislamischen Rechtswerkes. Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, 2003. 204pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-87850-146-0

Guo, Li. Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Cocuments from Quseir. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 334pp. HB $147.00 ISBN 90-04-137475

Haak, Martine, Rudolph De Jong and Kees Versteech. Approaches to Arabic Dialects: A Collection of Articles Presented to Manfred Woidich on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 399pp. HB $144.00 ISBN 90-04-13206-6

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Barbara Freyer Stowasser. Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004. 274pp. PB $26.95 ISBN 0-7591-0671-1

Haj, Samira. The Making of Iraq: 1900-1963, Capital, Power, and Ideology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 215pp. HB $20.50 ISBN 0-7914-3241-6

Hanna, Nelly. In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 219pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-8156-3036-0

Harrell, Richard S. with Mohammed Abu-Talib and William S. Carroll. A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 395pp. CD $139.95 ISBN 0-87840-388-4

Heath, Jennifer. The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam. Mahwah, NJ: Hiddenspring, 2004. 465pp. HB $28.00 ISBN 1-58768-020-3

Henry, Clement M. and Rodney Wilson. The Politics of Islamic Finance. New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. 384pp. PB $30.00 ISBN 0-7486-1837-6

Hogan, Michael J. and Thomas G. Paterson. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, Second edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 366pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 0-521-83279-9

Holes, Clive. Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 419pp. PB $39.95 ISBN 1-58901-022-1

Ikhlassi, Walid. Whatever Happened to Antara? and Other Stories. Austin, TX: Center for Middle East Studies, University of Texas Press, 2004. 140pp. PB $13.95 ISBN 0-292-70282-5

Irwin, Robert. The Alhambra. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 213pp. HB $19.95 ISBN 0-674-01588-1

Ismael, Tareq Y. and Jacqueline S. Ismael. The Iraq Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 200pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 0-7453-2149-6

Jahanbegloo, Ramin. Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. 352pp. HB $75.00 ISBN 0-7391-0529-9

Joose, N. Peter. A Syriac Encyclopaedia of Aristotelian Philosophy: Barhebraeus (13th c.), Butyrum sapientiae, Books of Ethics, Economy and Politics. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004. 292pp. HB $135.00 ISBN 90-04-14133-2

Kanafani, Ghassan. All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories. Northampton, MA: Interlink World Fiction, 2004. 144pp. PB $12.95 ISBN 1-56656-548-0

Kaya, Ibrahim. Social Theory and Later Modernities: The Turkish Experience. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004. 180pp. PB $30.00 ISBN 0-85323-898-7

Kepel, Gilles. A War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 327pp. HB $23.95 ISBN 0-674-01575-4

Leon, Dan. Who's Left in Israel? Radical Political Alternatives for the Future of Israel. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. 189pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 1-903900-57-3

Lockman, Zachary. Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 360pp. HB $65.00 ISBN 0-521-62080-5

Lombard, Maurice. The Golden Age of Islam. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004. 278pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 1-55876-322-8

Lucas, Scott C. Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature and the Articulation of Sunni Islam: The Legacy of the Generation of Ibn Sa'd, Ibn Ma in, and Ibn Hanbal. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 423pp. HB $149.00 ISBN 90-04-13319-4

Mahler, Gregory S. Politics and Government in Israel: The Maturation of a Modern State. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2004. 400pp. PB $34.95 ISBN 0-7425-1611-3

Majdalawi, Farouk S. Islamic Administration Under Omar Ibn Al - Khattab. Amman, Jordan: Majdalawi Masterpieces Publications, 2002. 253pp. HB $22.00 ISBN 9957-03-013-2

Mannes, Aaron. Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 392pp. HB $29.95 ISBN 0-7425-3525-8

Massad, Joseph A. Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 396pp. PB $22.00 ISBN 0-231-12323-X

McLeod, W. H. Sikhs & Sikhism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 896pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 019-566892-8

Metcalf, Barbara D. Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. 365pp. HB $25.00 ISBN 019566666-6

Mina, Hanna. Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family. Northampton, MA: Interlink World Fiction, 2004. 196pp. PB $12.95 ISBN 1-56656-547-2

Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 664pp. PB $40.00 ISBN 0-521-009677

Nashif, Taysir N. Government, The Intellectual and Society in the Third World. Kolkatta: Academic Publishers, 2004. 80pp. HB NP ISBN 81-87504-61-7

Nicolini, Beatrice. Makran, Oman and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean (1799-1856). Leiden: Brill, 2004. 179pp. HB $100.00 ISBN 90-04-13780-7

Nigosian, S.A. Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. 200pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-253-21627-3

Olson, Robert. Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979-2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2004. 317pp. PB $35.00 ISBN 1-56859-114-4

Pearlstein, Richard M. Fatal Future: Transnational Terrorism and the New Global Disorder. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. 224pp. PB US$22.95 ISBN 0-292-70265-5

Perthes, Volker. Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. 343pp. HB $59.95 ISBN 1-58826-266-9

Rabadan, Moserrat Carrascosa. La jrefiyye palestina: El Cueno maravilloso palestino ed tradicion oral. Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico, 2003. 663pp. PB NP ISBN 9-681-21083-2

Reese, Scott S. Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 307pp. HB $121.00 ISBN 90-04-13779-3

Robins, Philip. A History of Jordan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 243pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 0-521-59117-1

Robinson, Francis. Islam and Muslim History in South Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 299pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 019566359-4

Robinson, Neal. Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text,   2nd Edition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 332pp. PB $26.95 ISBN 1-58901-024-8

Roraback, Amanda. Israel/Palestine in a Nutshell. Santa Monica, CA: Enisen Publishing, 2004. 136pp. PB $9.95 ISBN 097029084-5

Rugh, William A. Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 264pp. HB $49.95 ISBN 0-275-98212-2

Salvatore, Armando and Dale F. Eickelman. Public Islam and the Common Good. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 254pp. HB $111.00 ISBN 90-04-13621-5

Schulz, Helena Lindholm with Juliane Hammer. The Palestinian Diaspora: Formation of Identities and Politics of Homeland. New York: Routledge, 2003. 276pp. PB $27.95 ISBN 0-415-26821-4

Sedgwick, Mark. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 370pp. HB $35.00 ISBN 0-19-515297-2

Semmerling, Tim Jon. Israeli & Palestinian Postcards: Presentations of National Self. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. 232pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-292-70215-9

Shalem, Avinoam. The Oliphant: Islamic Objects in Historical Context. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004. 244pp. HB US$116.00 ISBN 90-04-13794-7

Shay, Shaul. The Shahids: Islam and Suicide Attacks. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 246pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-7658-0250-3

Shechter, Relli. Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 215pp. HB $59.95 ISBN 1-4039-6189-1

Sheehi, Stephen. Foundations of Modern Arab Identity. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. 272pp. HB $59.95 ISBN 0-8130-2732-2

Simon, Reeva Spector. Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny (Updated Version). New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 240pp. PB $24.50 ISBN 0-231-13215-8

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. 328pp. HB $35.00 ISBN 0-253-34304-6

Stora, Benjamin. Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 283pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-8014-8916-4

Suleiman, Yasir. A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East. New York, Cambridge, 2004. 270pp. HB $70.00 ISBN 0-521-83743-X

Sultan-Qurraie, Hadi. Modern Azeri Literature: Identity, Gender, and Politics in the Poetry of Mo'Juz. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. 244pp. PB $29.95 ISBN 1-878318-18-7

Tabachnick, Stephen E. Lawrence of Arabia: An Ecyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. 240pp. HB $59.95 ISBN 0-313-30561-7

Takahashi, Hidemi. Aristotelian Meteorology in Syriac: Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Books of Mineralogy and Meteorology. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 724pp. HB $249.00 ISBN 90-04-13031-4

Takeyh, Ray and Nikolas K. Gvosdev. The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. 186pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-275-97629-7

Wansbrough, John. Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. 340pp. HB $36.00 ISBN 1-59102-201-0

Weiss, Thomas G., M. E. Crahan and John Goering. Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge, 2004. 247pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 0-415-70063-9

Wheeler, Brannon M. Teaching Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 226pp. PB $19.95 ISBN 0-19-515225-5

Wilcox, Joseph D. A Middle East Primer for Students. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Education, 2004. 88pp. PB $12.95 ISBN 1-57886-163-2

Williams, Paul L. Osama's Revenge, The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. 261pp. HB $25.00 ISBN 1-59102-252-5

Yetiv, Steve A. Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 239pp. HB $35.00 ISBN 0-8014-4268-0

 Zahab, Mariam Abou and Olivier Roy. Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 92pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-231-13364-2

Zaid, Nasr Abu with Esther R. Nelson. Voice of an Exile: Reflections on Islam. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 232pp. HB $39.95 ISBN 0-275-98250-5

Zayani, Mohamed. Arab Satellite Television and Politics in the Middle East. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2004. 49pp. PB NP ISBN 9948-00-557-0