Books Received for Review from the
February 2005 Newsletter

Abou-bakr, Randa. Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Butrus and Mahmud Darwish: A Comparative Study. Hamburg: Reichert, 2004. 214pp. HB NP ISBN 3-89500-372-7

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas of Nationhoo: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2005. 319pp. PB $22.00 ISBN 0-226-00197-0

Ahmed, Mohammed M.A. and Michael M. Gunter. The Kurdish Question and the 2003 Iraq War. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2005. 285pp. PB $22.00 ISBN 1-56859-176-4

Ali, Ameer. Short History of the Saracens. London: Kegan Paul, 2004. 664pp. HB $212.50 ISBN 0-7103-0918-X

Ali, Tariq. Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. New York: Verso, 2004. 256pp. PB $12.00 ISBN 1-84467-512-2

Ambros, Arne A. A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic. Hamburg: Reichert, 2004. 384pp. HB ISBN 3-89500-400-6

Badran, Margot and Miriam Cooke. Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing, 2nd edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 512pp. PB $27.95 0-253-21703-2

Bilgin, Pinar. Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 246pp. HB ISBN 0-415-32549-8

Bird, Christine. A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan. New York: Ballantine Press, 2004. 405pp. HB $29.95 ISBN 0-345-46892-9

Bournoutian, George A. Two Chronicles on the History of Karabagh. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2004. 297pp. PB $ ISBN 1-568-59179-9

Cheetham, Tom. Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World. Albany: SUNY, 2005. 161pp. PB $21.95 ISBN 0-7914-6270-6

Chryssavgis, John. John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain.VT: Ashgate, 2004.  258pp. HB $89.95 ISBN 0-7546-5040-5

Cleveland, William L. A History of the Modern Middle East, 3rd Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. 588pp. PB $42.00 ISBN 0-8133-4048-9

Collins, John. Occupied by Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency. New York: New York University Press, 2004. 284pp. PB $20.00 ISBN 0-8147-1638-5

Cordesman, Anthony H. The Military Balance in the Middle East. Westport: Praeger, 2004.  272pp. HB $55.00 ISBN 0-275-98399-4

Cordesman, Anthony H. Energy Developments in the Middle East. Westport: Praeger, 2004. 272pp. HB $55.00 ISBN 0-275-98398-6

Crawford, Harriet. Sumer and the Sumerians, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.252pp. PB $31.99 ISBN 0-521-53338-4

Darraj, Susan Muaddi. Scheherazade’s Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing. Westport: Praeger, 2004. 159pp. HC ISBN 0-275-98176-2

De Blois, Francois. Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. 529pp. HB $90.00 ISBN 0-947-59347-0

Elgibali, Allaa. Investigating Arabic: Current Parameters in Analysis and Learning. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 223pp. HB $116.00 ISBN 9-004-13792-0

El-Shamy, Hasan M. Types of Folktales in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 1253pp. HB $75.00 ISBN 0-253-34447-6

Eppel, Michael. Iraq from Monarchy to Tyranny: From the Hashemites to the Rise of Saddam. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 310pp. HB $65.00 ISBN 0-8130-2736-5

Faath, Sigrid. Politische und gesellschaftliche Debatten in Nordafrika, Nah- und Mittelost Inhalte, Trager, Perspektiven. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2004. 506pp. PB NP ISBN 3-89173-086-1

Fakhry, Majid. History of Islamic Philosophy, 3rd Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 272pp. PB $29.50 ISBN 0-231-13221-2

Feldman, Shai and Yiftah S. Shapir. The Middle East Strategic Balance 2003-2004. Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. 263pp. PB $34.95 ISBN 1-84519-003-3

Fetzer, Joel S. and J. Christopher Soper. Muslims and the State in Britain, France and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 208pp. HB $60.00 ISBN 0-521-82830-9

Goldschmidt Jr., Arthur. Modern Egypt: The Formation of a Nation State. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. 242pp. PB $28.00 ISBN 0-8133-3886-7

Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan. Reading Arab Women’s Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story. Austin: University of Texas, 2003. 236pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 0-292-70545-X

Gruendler, Beatrice and Louise Marlow. Writers and Rulers: Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times. Hamburg: Reichert, 2004. 241pp. HB ISBN 3-89500-376-X

Halm, Heinz. Shi’ism, 2nd Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 216pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 0-231-13587-4

Hefner, Robert W. Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 357pp. PB $12.95 ISBN 0-691-12093-5

Hovannisian, Richard G. Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2004. 488pp. PB ISBN 1-568-59152-7

Hoyland, Robert. Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004. 363pp. HB $139.95 ISBN 0-86078-713-3

Hoyland, Robert. G. & Phillip F. Kennedy. Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honor of Alan Jones. Oxford: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004. 300pp. HB ISBN 0-906094-50-X

Ibrahim, Hassan Ahmed. Sayyid ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: A Study of Neo-Mahdism in the Sudan, 1899-1956. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 260pp. HB $120.00 ISBN 90-04-13854-4

Jahanbegloo, Ramin. Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity. London: Lexington Books, 2004. 216pp. PB $ 26.95 ISBN 0-7391-0530-2

Johnson, Chris and Jolyon Leslie. Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace. London: Zed Books (Palgrave), 2004. 256pp. PB $22.50 ISBN 1-84277-377-1

Jones, Clive. Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965: Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. 271pp. HB $69.95 ISBN 1-903900-23-9

Kaldas, Pauline and Khaled Mattawa. Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction. Fayettville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. 334pp. PB $24.95 ISBN 1-55728-781-3

Khalaf, Samir. Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 368pp. PB $18.50 ISBN 0-231-12477-5

Lawrence, Bruce B. New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 192pp. PB $16.50 ISBN 0-231-11521-0

Long, Jerry M. Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 272pp. PB $22.95 ISBN 0-292-70264-7

Main, Ernest. Iraq: From Mandate to Independence. London: Kegan Paul, 2004. 268pp. HB $161.50 ISBN 0-7103-0908-2

Marcinkowski, M. Ismail. Measures and Weights in the Islamic World: English Translation of Walther Hinz’s Handbook “Islamische Mabe Und Gewichte”. Malaysia: ISTAC, 2004. 98pp. PB ISBN 983-9379-27-5

Marcinowski, M. Ismail. Religion and Politics in Iraq: Shiite Clerics Between Quietism and Resistance. Singapore: Pustaka Nasional Pte Ltd, 2004. 131pp. PB ISBN 9971-77-513-1

Marr, Phebe. The Modern History of Iraq, 2nd Edition. Boulder: Westview, 2004. 392pp. PB $40.00 ISBN 0-8133-3615

Mason, Robert J. Shine Like the Sun: Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2004. 266pp. HB $65.00 ISBN 1-5689-096-2

McGinnis, Jon. Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 262pp. HB $121.00 ISBN 90-04-13960-5

Meyer, Karl E. Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. 272pp. PB $15.00 ISBN 1-58648-241-6

Moayyad, Heshmat and Franklin Lewis. The Colossal Elephant and His Spiritual Feats: The Life and Legend of a Popular Sufi Saint of 12th Century Iran. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2004. 460pp. PB $55.00 ISBN 1-56859-119-5

Moore, Dahlia and Salem Aweiss. Bridges over Troubled Water: A Comparative Study of Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians. Westport: Praeger, 2004. 237pp. HB $92.95 ISBN 0-275-98060

Moore, Pete W. Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 215pp. HB $70.00 ISBN 0-521-83955-6

Moussavi, Ahmad Kazemi. Shi’ite ‘Ulama and Politcal Power. Bethesda: IBEX Publishers, 2004. PB ISBN 1-58814-035-0

Omidsalar, Mahmoud and Iraj Afshar Hizar Hikayat-I Sufiyan. Anonymous’ Classical Text Related to Sufic Tales. Tehran: Society for Promotion of Persian Culture, 2003. HB

Palmer, Monte and Princess Palmer. At the Heart of Terror: Islam, Jihadists, and America’s War on Terrorism. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 286pp. HB $24.95 ISBN 0-7425-3602-5

Pannewick, Friederike. Martyrdom in Literature: Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East. Hamburg: Reichert, 2004. 369pp. HB ISBN 3-89500-382-4

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

Popp, Stephan. Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power. Hamburg: Reichert, 2004. 270pp. HB ISBN 3-89500-378-6

Rejwan, Nissim. Last Jews in Baghdad:  Remembering a Lost Homeland. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 272pp. HB $24.95 ISBN 0-292-70293-0

Roy, Oliver. Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah. Columbia University Press, 2004. 320pp. HB $29.50 ISBN 0-231-13498-3

Ryding, Karin G. and Abdelnour Zaiback. Formal Spoken Arabic: Fast Course with MP3 Files. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. 222pp. PB $39.95 ISBN 1-58901-106-6

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

Samuel, Yitzhak and Itzhak Harpaz. Work and Organizations in Israel. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 438pp. PB $29.95 ISBN 50734-4937

Scharfenort, Nadine. Dubai: Projekte und Visionen der urbanen Entwicklung und der Diversifizeierung. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2004. 158pp. PB ISBN 3-89173-087-X

Schwanitz, Wolfgang G. Germany and the Middle East: 1871-1945. Princeton: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2005. 300pp. PB $28.95 ISBN 1-55876-299-X

Shafak, Elif. The Saint of Incipient Insanities: A Novel. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004. 351pp. HB $25.00 ISBN 0-374-25357-9

Sharansky, Natan with Ron Dermer. The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. 303pp. HB $26.95 ISBN 1-58648-261

Sifry, Micah L. and Christopher Cerf. The Iraq War Reader. New York: Touchstone, 2003. 715pp. PB $16.00 ISBN 0-7432-5347-7

Silverstein, Paul A. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 284pp. PB ISBN 0-253-21712-1

Stafford, R.S. The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq. London: Kegan Paul, 2004. 235pp. HB $144.50 ISBN 0-7103-0893-0

Stern, Bernhard. The Scented Garden. London: Kegan Paul, 2004. 443pp. HB $212.00 ISBN 0-7103-0992-9

Stowasser, Karl and Moukhtar Ani. A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic, English-Arabic. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004. PB $32.50 ISBN 1-58901-105-8

Tahhan, Samir. Folktales from Syria. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 110pp. PB $13.95 ISBN 0-292-70630-8

Zahab, Mariam Abou and Oliver Roy. Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 88pp. HB $49.50 ISBN 0-231-13364-2