Books Received for Review from the
May 2005 Newsletter

 Aghaie, Kamran Scot. Martyrs of Karbala, The: Shi’i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 200pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 0-295-98455-4

Alam, Muzaffar. Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 200pp. PB US $25.00 ISBN 0-226-01101-1

Al-Amily, Hussain Mohammed. Book of Arabic Wisdom, The: Proverbs and Anecdotes. Northampton: Interlink Publishing Group, 2005. 212pp. PB US $20.00 ISBN 1-56656-582-0

Almon, Ian. Sufism and Deconstruction: Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ‘Arabi. London: Routledge, 2004. 166pp. HB US $97.00 ISBN 0-415-32043-7

Andrews, Walter G. and Mehmet Kalpakli. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman & European Culture & Society. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 440pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 0-8223-3424-0

Arian, Asher and Michal Shamir. The Elections in Israel: 2003. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2005. 267pp. HB US $49.95 ISBN 0-7658-0268-6

Arnold, Werner, Escher Anton and Carmella Pfaffenbach. Malula Und M’alloy. Germany: Ergon, 2005. 247pp. HB US $38.00 ISBN 3-89913-369-2

Aronson, Shlomo. Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 382pp. HB US $85.00 ISBN 0-521-83877-0

Artz, Lee and Yahya R. Kamalipour. Bring ’Em On: Media and Politics in the Iraq War. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 269pp. PB US $29.95 ISBN 0-7425-3689-0

Atabaki, Touraj and Erik J. Zurcher. Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Ataturk and Reza Shah. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 286pp. HB US $65.00 ISBN 1-86064-426-0

Ayish, Muhammad I. Arab World Television in the Age of Globalisation: Analysis of Emerging Political, Economic, Cultural & Technological Patterns. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2003. 121pp. PB ISBN 3-89173-071-3

Ayoub, Mahmoud M. Islam: Faith and History. Oxford: Oneworld, 2004. 242pp. PB US $19.95 ISBN 1-85168-350-X

Babaie, Sussan, Kathryn Babayan, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe and Massumeh Farhad. Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran. London, I.B. Tauris, 2004. 218pp. HB US $65.00 ISBN: 1-86064-721-9

Badakhchani, S.J. A Paradise of Submission: Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 287pp. HB US $55.00 ISBN 1-86064-436-8

Barazangi, Nimat Hafez. Woman’s Identity and the Qu’ran: A New Reading. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 192pp. HB US $59.95 ISBN 0-8130-2785-3

Bent, Theodore and Mrs. Theodore Bent. Southern Arabia. London: Kegan Paul, 2005. 455pp. HB US $212.50 ISBN 0-7103-0953-8

Brunner, Rainer. Islamic Ecumenism in the 20th Century: Azhar and Shi’ism between Rapprochement and Restraint. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 435pp. HB US $90.00 ISBN 90-04-12548-5

Buruma, Ian and Avishai Margalit. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. New York, Penguin, 2004. 165pp. HB US $21.95 ISBN 1-59420-008-4

Canby, Sheila R. Persian Painting. Northampton: Interlink Publishing Group, 2005. 128pp. PB US $19.95 ISBN 1-56656-573-1

Cesari, Jocelyne. When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 267pp. HB US $65.00 ISBN 0-312-29401-8

Chatterjee, Partha. The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 173pp. HB US $29.50 ISBN 0-231-13062-7

Chittick, William C., Trans. Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004. 347pp. PB US $25.95 ISBN 188775252-8

Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden: From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin, 2004. 712pp. PB US $16.00 ISBN: 0-14-303466-9

Cooke, Miriam and Bruce B. Lawrence. Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 325pp. PB US $21.50 ISBN 0-8078-5588-X

Crone, Patricia. God’s Rule, Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 462pp. HB US $39.50 ISBN 0-231-13290-5

Davari, Mahmood T. The Political Thought of Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari: Iranian Theoretician of the Islamic State. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 201pp. HB US $55.00 ISBN 0-415-34159-0

Davidson, Christopher M. The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival. Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2005. 333pp. HB US $59.95 ISBN 15-8826-274-X

Davies, Kristian. The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia & India. New York: LAYNFAROH, 2005. 298pp. HB US $70.00 ISBN 0-9759783-0-6

Dor, Daniel. Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 184pp. PB US $19.95 ISBN 0-253-21637-0

Dorronsoro, Gilles. Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1079-Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 385pp. HB US $29.50 ISBN 0-231-13626-9

Dupret, Baudouin. Standing Trial: Law and the Person in the Modern Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 382pp. HB US $75.00 ISBN 1-86064-997-1

Esack, Farid. The Qur’an: A User’s Guide. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005. 214pp. PB US $14.95 ISBN 1-85168-354-2

Falk, Avner. Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. 271pp. HB US $35.00 ISBN 0-299-20250-X

Farsoun, Samih K. Culture and Customs of the Palestinians. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004. 160pp. HB US $45.00 ISBN 0-313-32051-9

Florentin, Moshe. A Late Samaritan Hebrew: Linguistic Analysis of its Different Types. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 393pp. HB US $193.00 ISBN 90-04-13841-2

Fox, Jonathan. Religion, Civilization, and Civil War: 1945 Through the New Millenium. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. 299pp. HB US $75.00 ISBN 0-7391-0744-5

Frye, Richard N. A Greater Iran: 20th Century Odyssey. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2005. 368pp. HB US $34.00 ISBN 1-568-59177-2

Gall, Dina Le. A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. 285pp. HB US$45.00 ISBN 0-7914-6245-5

Ghanoonparvar, M.R. Reading Chubak. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2005. 209pp. PB ISBN 0-939214-62-8

Ginat, Rami. Syria and the Doctrine of Arab Neutralism: From Independence to Dependence. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. 360pp. HB US$69.5 ISBN 1-84519-008-4

Gleave, Robert. Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 482pp. HB US $115.00 ISBN 0-415-33814-X

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Barbara Freyer Stowasser. Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2004. 264pp. HB US $69.00 ISBN 0-7591-0670-3

Hajjar, Lisa. The Courting Conflict: Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza. Berkeley: University of California, 2005. 312pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 0-520-24194-0

Halliday, Fred. The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 374pp. PB US $21.99 ISBN 0-521-59741-2

Hammer, Juliane. Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland. Austin: University of Texas, 2005. 271pp. PB US $22.95 ISBN 0-292-70296-5

Heijkoop, Henk and Otto Zwartjes. Muwassah, Zajal, Kharja: Bibliography of Strophic Poetry and Music from al-Andalus and Their Influence in East and West. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 379pp. HB US $154.00 ISBN 900413822-6

Helmick, Raymond G. Negotiating Outside the Law: Why Camp David Failed. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 342pp. HB US $27.95 ISBN 0-7453-2219-0

Heradstveit, Daniel and Helge Hveem. Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004. 180pp. HB US $89.95 ISBN 0-7546-3968-1

Hoffmann, Stanley, with Frederic Bozo. Gulliver Unbound: America’s Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 153pp. HB US $21.95 ISBN 0-7425-3600-9

Hollander, Isaac. Jews and Muslims in Lower Yemen: A Study in Protection and Restraint 1918-1949. Leiden, Brill: 2005. 476pp. HB US $192.00 ISBN 90-04-14012-3

Huband, Mark. Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths: Power Politics and Western Adventurism in the Arab World. Boulder: Westview, 2004. 331pp. HB US $26.00 ISBN 0-8133-3753-4

Hunter, Shireen T., and Huma Malike. Modernization, Democracy, and Islam. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 357pp. HB US $29.95 ISBN 0-275-98530-X

Ismail, Salwa. Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 246pp. HB US $65.00 ISBN 1-86064-468-6

Joseph, Suad. Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Law, and Politics, Volume 2. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 837pp. HB US $249.00 ISBN 90-04-12818-2

Kamrava, Mehran. The Modern Middle East: Political History Since the First World War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 497pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 520-24150-9

Karchmar, Irving. Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel. Sag Harbor, NY: Bay Street Press, 2004. 226pp. PB US $13.99 ISBN 1-59457-723-4

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad and Kamran Talattof. Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 267pp. HB US $130.00 ISBN 90-04-13809-9

Kennedy, Hugh. When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty. Cambridge: De Capo, 2005. 352pp. PB US $26.00 ISBN 0-306-81435-8

Kurzman, Charles. The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 287pp. HB US $27.95 ISBN 0-674-01328-X

Layish, Aharon. Shari’a and Custom in Libyan Tribal Society: Annotated Translation of Decisions from the Shari’a Courts of Adjabiya. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 351pp. HB US $135.00 ISBN 90-04-14082

Levtzion, Nehemia and Jay Spaulding. Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2003. 160pp. PB US $22.95 ISBN 1-55876-304-X

Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: United States and the Middle East Since 1945. Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 2004. 419pp. PB US $19.95 ISBN 0-8078-5539-1

Lust-Okar, Ellen. Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 279pp. HB US $75.00 ISBN 0-521-83818-5

Mack, Beverly B. Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 302pp. PB US $27.95 ISBN 0-253-21729-6

Maghen, Ze’ev. Virtues of the Flesh: Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 298pp. HB US $124.00 ISBN 90-04-14070-0

Malik, Jamal. Muslims in Europe: From the Margin to the Centre. Munster: Lit Verlag, 2004. 260pp. PB US $39.95 ISBN 3-8258-7638-1

Maman, Aharon. Comparative Semitic Philology in the Middle Ages: From Sa’adiah Gaon to Ibn Barun (10th-12th C.). Leiden: Brill, 2004. 497pp. HB US $216.00 ISBN 90-04-13620-7

Mamdani, Mahmood. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror. New York: Pantheon, 2004. 304pp. HB US $24.00 ISBN 0-375-42285-4

Marlin, Robert O. What Does Al-Qaeda Want?: Unedited Communiques. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2004. 102pp. PB US $9.95 ISBN 1-55643-548-7

Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. London: Pluto Press, 2003. 298pp. PB US $26.95 ISBN 0-7453-2120-8

McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 358pp. PB US $19.95 ISBN 0-520-22810-3

Mellor, Noha. The Making of Arab News. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 161pp. PB US $23.95 ISBN 0-7425-3819-2

Migdal, Joel S. Boundaries and Belonging: States & Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 363pp. HB US $80.00 ISBN 0-521-83566-6

Mojab, Shahrzad and Nahla Abdo. Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2004. 253pp. PB  ISBN 975-6857-98-6

Mourad, Kenize. Our Sacred Land: Voices of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict. Oxford: Oneworld, 2004. 247pp. PB US $16.95 ISBN 1-85168-257-7

Neville, Leonora. Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 210pp. HB US $75.00 ISBN 0-521-83865-7

Novak, Michael. The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations is Not Inevitable. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 281pp. HB US $26.00 ISBN 0-465-05131-6

Pahlitzsch, Johannes and Lorenz Korn. Governing the Holy City: Interaction of Social Groups in Jerusalem between the Fatimid and the Ottoman Period. Reichert, 2004. 156pp. HB US $170.00 ISBN 3-89500-404-9

Perkins, Kenneth J. A History of Modern Tunisia. Camrbidge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 249pp. HB US$70.00 ISBN 0-521-81124-4

Perry, John R. Tajik Persian Reference Grammar, A. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 521pp. HB US $133.00 ISBN 0169-8524

Plekhanov, Sergey. A Reformer on the Throne: Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. London: Trident Press, 2005. 280pp. HB ISBN 1-900724-70-7

Pollard, Lisa. Nurturing the Nation: Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 287pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 0-520-24023-5

Porter, Venetia. Islamic Tiles. Northampton: Interlink, 2005. 128pp. PB US $19.95 ISBN 1-56656-572-3

Potter, Lawrence G. and Gary G. Sick. Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 224pp. HB US $59.95 ISBN 1-4039-6450-5

Precht, Henry. A Diplomat’s Progress: Ten Tales of Diplomatic Adventure in and Around the Middle East. Savannah, GA: Williams & Company, 2005. 233pp. PB US $14.95 ISBN 1-878853-46-5

Prior, Michael. Speaking the Truth: Zionism, Israel, and Occupation. Northampton: Interlink, 2005. 254pp. PB US$17.95 ISBN 1-56656-577-4

Quigley, John. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 360pp. PB US $22.95 ISBN 0-8223-3539-5

Qumsiyeh, Mazin B. Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 236pp. PB US $22.95 ISBN 0-7453-2248-4

Reed-Danahay, Deborah. Locating Bourdieu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 208pp. PB US $21.95 ISBN 0-253-21732-7

Reynolds, Gabriel Said. A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu: ‘Abd al-Jabbar and the Critique of Christian Origins. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 297pp. HB US $151.00 ISBN 90-04-13961-3

Richter, Carola. Das Mediensystem in Libyen - Akteure and Entwicklungen. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2004. 142pp. PB ISBN 3-89173-088-8

Rothenberg, Celia E. Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn. Oxford: Lexington, 2004. 148pp. PB US $22.95 ISBN 0-7391-0643-0

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

Said, Edward W. From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays. New York: Pantheon, 2004. 323pp. HB US $25.95 ISBN 0-375-42287-0

Salamandra, Christa. A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 199pp. PB US$21.95 ISBN 0-253-21722-9

Sedgwick, Mark. Saints and Sons: The Making and Remaking of the Rashidi Ahmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 255pp. HB US $112.00 ISBN 90-04-14013-1

Shoshan, Boaz. Poetics of Islamic Histiography: Deconstructing Tabari’s History. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 272pp. HB US $134.00 ISBN 90-04-13793-9

Sidahmed, Abdel Salam and Alsir Sidhamed. Sudan. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 180pp. HB US $55.00 ISBN 0-415-27417-6

Sijpesteijn, Petra M., and Lennart Sundelin. Papyrology and the History of Early Islamic Egypt. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 270pp. HB US $121.00 ISBN 90-041388-62

Simon, Reeva Spector and Eleanor H. Tejirian. The Creation of Iraq: 1914-1921. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 181pp. PB US $19.50 ISBN 0-231-13293-X

Spencer, Robert. The Myth of Islamic Intolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2005. 593pp. HB US $26.00 ISBN 1-59102-249-5

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

Sylvester, Judith and Suzanne Huffman. Reporting from the Front: The Media and the Military. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 266pp. PB US$26.95 ISBN 0-7425-3060-4

Taji-Farouki, Suha and Basheer M. Nafi. Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. 387pp. HB US $69.50 ISBN 1-85043-425-5

Tilley, Virginia Q. The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough Plan for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 140pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 0-472-11513-8

Weam, Namou. The Feminine Art: A Novel. Troy, MI: Hermiz Publishing, 2004. 256pp. PB US$13.95 ISBN 0-9752956-0-8

Wightwick, Jane and Mahmoud Gaafar. Mastering Arabic, with 2 Audio CDs. New York: Hippocrene, 2004. 370pp. PB US $24.95 ISBN 0-7818-1042-6

Winstone, H.V.F. Gertrude Bell. Northampton: Barzan Publishing, 2005. 504pp. HB ISBN 0-9547728-0-6

Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004. 354pp. HB US $24.95 ISBN 0-399-15193-1

Yavari, Neguin, Lawrence G. Potter and Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim. Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 400pp. HB US $39.50 ISBN 0-231-13472-X