Books Received for Review
May 1 - October 17, 1993

Negotiations in the Middle East: The Lessons of Fifty Years. (Occasional Papers Series)  Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, n.d.  $8.00 (Paper) ISBN 965-224-012-5.

Abir, Mordechai.  Saudi Arabia: Government, Society and the Gulf Crisis.  269 pages, index, glossary, bibliography, notes, tables, map.  New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1993.  $49.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-415-09325-2.

Aburish, Saiid K.  Cry Palestine: Inside the West Bank.  205 pages.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.  $49.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8133-1797-5.

Adas, Michael, ed., for The American Historical Association. Islamic & European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order.  (Critical Perspectives on the Past)  379 pages, maps, illustrations, tables, bibliographies, notes on contributors.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-55639-067-2.

Addleton, Jonathan S.  Undermining the Centre: The Gulf Migration and Pakistan.  232 pages, tables, bibliography, index.  Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1992.  œ18.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-19-577418-3.

Algaze, Guillermo.  The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization.  162 pages, illustrations, notes, sources, references, index.  Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1993.  n.p. (Cloth) ISBN 0-226-01381-2.

Algosaibi, Ghazi A.  The Gulf Crisis: An Attempt to Understand. 156 pages.  New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1993. $29.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-7103-0459-5.

Arjomand, Amir Said, ed.  The Political Dimensions of Religion. (SUNY Series of Near Eastern Studies)  293 pages, index, notes, tables.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.  $18.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-7914-1558.

Asad, Talal.  Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam.  335 pages, references, index.  Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.  $15.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-8018-4632-3.

Asani, Ali S.  The Harvard Collection of Ismaili Literature in Indic Languages: A Descriptive Catalog and Finding Aid. 689 pages, indices, appendix, bibliography.  Philadelphia, PA: Macmillan Publishing, 1992.  $95.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8161-0560-X.

Azmon, Yael & Dafna N. Izraeli, eds.  Women in Israel.  (Studies of Israeli Society, Vol. VI)  467 pages, Foreword by Cynthia Fuch Epstein, bibliography.  New Brunswick & London: Transaction Publishers, 1993.  $24.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-56000-587-4.

Azzam, Abd al-Rahman.  The Eternal Message of Muhammad. (Translated by Caesar E. Farah)  297 pages, index. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.  $7.95 (Paper) ISBN: 0-946621-48-9.

Balkir, Canan & Allan M. Williams, eds.  Turkey and Europe.  247 pages, tables, maps, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  n.p. (Cloth)  ISBN 1-85567-012-7.

Barnet, Michael N.  Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel.  378 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes, appendices, tables. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.  (Paper) ISBN 0-691-00095-6.

Beach, Milo Cleveland.  The New Cambridge History of India: Mughal and Rajput Painting.  (The New Cambridge History of India, Vol 1:3)  252 pages, plates, appendix, bibliographical essay, index.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  n.p. (Cloth)  ISBN 0-521-40027-9.

Beckwith, Christopher I.  The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia. 281 pages, appendix, glossary, bibliography, maps, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.  n.p. (Paper)  ISBN: 0-691-02469-3.

Ben-Dove, Nitza.  Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon.  (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies)  167 pages, notes, epilogue, bibliography, index.  Leiden & New York: E.J. Brill, 1993.  $57.25 (Cloth)  ISBN 9004098631.

Ben-Porat, Amir.  The State and Capitalism in Israel. (Contributions in Economic and Economic History, No. 147) 206 pages, pPreface, tables, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-313-28149-1.

Benbassa, Esther.  Une diaspora s‚pharade en transition, Istanbul XIXe-XXe siŠcles.  (Les ?ditions du Cerf, Paris) 299 pages, map, tables, bibliography, index.  Distributed in USA by State University of New York Press, 1993. Ff200.00 (Paper)  ISBN 2-204-04668-X.

Berger, Elmer.  Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity. (Forward by Don Peretz)  287 pages, index, bibliography, notes, maps.  Gainseville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993.  $39.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8130-1207-4.

Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, trans.  The History of al-Tabarii: Vol. XI The Challenge of the Empire.  (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies)  261 pages, abbreviations, translator's forward, tables, maps, notes.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.  $17.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-79140852-3.

Burgat, Franois & William Dowell.  The Islamic Movement in North Africa. (Middle East Monograph Series)  310 pages, Forward by Robert Fernea, tables, notes.  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1993.  $13.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-292-70793-2.

Burke, Edmund, III, ed.  Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History,  Marshall G.S. Hodgson. (Studies in Comparative World History)  328 pages.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.  $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN: 0-521-43253-7.

Calder, Norman.  Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence.  257 pages, bibliograpy, index.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-19-825813-5.

Carboni, Stefano & Tomoko Masuya.  Persian Tiles.  46 pages, black & white photos, select bibliography.  New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993.  $5.95 (Paper).

Cordesman, Anthony H.  After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East.  811 pages, tables, maps, appendix, index.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. $65.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8133-1692-8.

Cunningham, Robert B. & Yasin K. Sarayrah.  Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society.  209 pages, bibliography, index.  Westport, CT & London: Praeger Publishers, 1993.   $47.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-275-94402-6.

Cuno, Kenneth M.  The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858.  (Cambridge Middle East Library: 27)  277 pages, tables, appendices, notes,   bibliography, indices.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  $59.95 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-521-40478-9.

Daly, M.W. & Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, eds.  Civil War in the Sudan.  220 pages, tables, index.  London & New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  $69.50 (Cloth)  ISBN 1-85043-515-4.

Damluji, Salma Samar.  A Yemen Reality: Architecture Sculptured in Mud and Stone.  355 pages, photos, glossary, maps. Concord, MA: Paul & Company, 1991.  $130.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 1-873-938-00-4.

Denton,  Robert E., Jr., ed.  The Media and the Persian Gulf War.  (Praeger Series in Political Communication)  302 pages, charts, bibliography, index.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-275-94232-5.

Donner, Fred M., trans.  The History of al-Tabarii: Vol. X The Conquest of Arabia, The Riddah Wars.  (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies)  216 pages, abbreviations, translator's forward, maps, notes.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.  $17.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-7914-1072-2.

Dumont, Paul & Fran‡ois Georgeon, eds.  Villes Ottomanes … la Fin de l'Empire.  (l'Association pour le Developpement des Etudes Turques)  210 pages, bibliograpy, maps, tables, illustrations.  Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992.  n.p. (Paper) ISBN 2-7384-1516-4.

Eickelman, Dale F., ed.  Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis.  (Indiana Series in Arab & Islamic Studies)  206 pages, references, notes on contributors, index.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.  $12.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-253-20823-8.

Eralp, Atila, Muharrem Tnay & Birol Yesilada, eds.  The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey.  244 pages, tables, references, index, editors and contributors.    Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth)ISBN 0-275-93204-4.

Faour, Muhammad.  The Arab World After Desert Storm.  (Forward by Charles E. Nelson)  161 pages, map, appendices, notes, sources, index.  Washington, DC: United States Institute of   Peace Press, 1993.  $15.95 (Paper)  ISBN 1-878379-31-3.

Farley, Shirley Rogers, compiler & Patrick Peel, assistant. Papers of Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr., 1908-1954.  (Northwest and Whitman College Archives Inventory Publication # 2)  33 pages, photos, chronology, bibliography, index.  Walla Walla, WA: Northwest and Whitman College Archives, 1993. n.p. (Paper)

Ferdowsi, Abu'l-Qasem.  The Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh, ed.  (Persian Text Series, Vol. 3, Ehsan Yarshater, General Editor)  438 pages.  Costa Mesa, CA:     Mazda Publishers, 1992.  $65.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-939214-86-5.

Fischer, Stanley, Dani Rodrik & Elias Tuma, eds.  The Economics of Middle East Peace.  370 pages, Foreword by Joesph A. Califano, Jr., tables, charts, index.  Cambridge, MA: MIT      Press, 1993.  $42.50 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-262-06153-8.

Frangakis-Syrett, Elena.  The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700-1820).  375 pages, map, illustrations, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Athens: Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 1992.  n.p. (Paper) ISBN 960-85021-5-2.

Frangieh, Bassam Khalil.  Alienation and the Palestinian Novel. Introduction and review by Khalil Ahmed, references. Beirut: Institute of Arab Research, nd.  (Paper).

Freedman, Robert O., ed.  The Middle East After Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait.  374 pages, endnotes, contributors, bibliography, index.  Gainseville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993.  $49.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-800-226-3822.

Fuller, Graham & Ian O. Lesser, with Paul B. Henze & J.F. Brown. Turkey's New Geopolitics: From the Balkans to Western China.  (A RAND Study)  197 pages, Foreword by Ambassador    Morton Abramowitz, table, index.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.  $49.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8133-8659-4.

Fyzee, Asaf A.A., ed.  Outlines of Muhammadan Law, 4th ed..  520 pages, tables, diagrams, appendeces, select bibliography, preface.  Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.  $21.00     (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-19-560375-3.

Gilsenan, Michael.  Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East.  287 pages, afterword, references, selected bibliography.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  $19.95 (Paper)  ISBN 1850437432.

Glaser, Eduard.  My Journey through Arhab and Haashid.  (Yemen Translation Series #1, translation & Introduction by Daniel Martin Varisco)  32 pages, maps, translator's notes, bibliography, indices.  Westbury, NY: American Institute of Yemeni Studies, 1993.  $5.00 (Paper)  ISBN 1-882557-02-6.

Gold, Dore.  Israel as an American Non-NATO Ally: Parameters of Defense-Industrial Cooperation.  (Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University)  88 pages, notes.Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.  $22.00 (Paper)  ISBN: 0-8133-1416-X.

Goldberg, Harvey E., ed. & trans.  The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya.  226 pages, indices, appendices, maps, illustrations, biography.  London: Darf Publishers, Ltd., 1993. œ13.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-85077-231-2.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazback & Jane Idleman Smith.  Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America.  226 pages, photos, notes, bibliography, index. Gainseville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993.  $34.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8130-1217-1.

Harik, Iliya & Denis J. Sullivan, eds.  Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East.  (Indiana Series on Arab and Islamic Studies)  242 pages, notes, tables, contributors, index.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992.  $14.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-253-20748-7.

Harper, Prudence O., Joan Aruz, & Franoise Tallon, eds.  The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Treasures in the Louvre. (Foreword by Philippe de Montebello)  316 pages, maps, chronology, illustrations, appendix, concordance, bibliography, index.  New York, NY: Metropolitan Musem of Art, 1992.  $60.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8109-6422-8 (Abrams).

Hassanein, Ahmed Taher & Kamar Mostafa Abdou, compilers.  The Concise Arabic-English Lexicon of Verbs in Context.  726 pages, index.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press,    1991.  n.p. (Paper)  ISBN: 977-424-256-4.

Heiberg, Marianne & Geir Ovensen, et al.  Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A Survey of Living Conditions.  (FAFO-Report 151)  419 pages, tables, illustrations, references, notes, appendices.  Oslo, Norway: FAFO, 1993.  (Paper) ISBN 82-7422-105-2.

Heper, Metin, Aysenc & Heinz Kramer, eds.  Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities.  289 pages, tables, select bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's     Press, 1993.  $69.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-611-8.

Hicks, Esther K..  Infibulation: Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa.  298 pages, maps, tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index.  New Brunswick, NJ & London: Transaction Publishers, 1993.  $34.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-56000-077-5.

Hiro, Dilip.  Lebanon: Fire and Embers, A History of the Lebanese Civil War.  274 pages, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-312-09724-7.

Hofheinz, Albrecht, Ali Salih Karrar, R.S. O'Fahey, Bernd Radtke.  The Letters of Ahmad Ibn Idriis.  (Series in Islam and Society in Africa)  184 pages, bibliography, indices. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1993.  $49.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8101-1070-9.

Hostler, Charles Warren.  The Turks of Central Asia.  237 pages, tables, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Westport, CT & London: Praeger Publishers, 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-275-93931-6.

Hurwitz, Deena & Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, eds..  Walking the Red Line: Israelis In Search of Justice for Palestine.  208 pages, appendix, photos, map, illustrations.  Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1992.  $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-86571-233-6.

Ibrahim, Ibrahim, ed.  The Gulf Crisis: Background and Consequences.  354 pages, chronology, tables, index. Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1992. $15.95 (Paper)  ISBN  0-932568-23-8.

Jawad, Haifaa A.  Euro-Arab Relations: A Study in Collective Diplomacy.  302 pages, tables, appendices, bibliography, index.  Concord, MA: Paul & Company, 1992.  $56.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86372-129-X.

Jennings, Ronald C.  Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571-1640.  (New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization, XVIII) 428 pages, bibliography, tables, indices.  New York: New York University Press, 1993.  $60.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8147-4181-9.

Joff, George, ed.  North Africa: Nation, State and Region. (Routledge/SOAS Contemporary Politics and Culture in the Middle East)  304 pages, tables, index.  London: Routledge, 1993.  $65.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-415-09162-4.

Jomo K.S., ed.  Islamic Economic Alternatives: Critical Perspectives and New Directions.  196 pages, appendix, index.  Kuala Lumpur: Ikraq, 1993.  n.p. (Paper) ISBN: 0-333-54920-1.

Karsh, Efraim, Martin S. Navias, & Philip Sabin, eds. Non-Conventional Weapons Proliferation in the Middle East: Tackling the Spread of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Capabilities.  300 pages, abbreviations, contributors, tables, notes, index.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.  (Cloth)  ISBN 0-19-827768-7.

Kazarian, Elias G.  Islamic Versus Traditional Banking: Financial Innovation in Egypt.  260 pages, notes, tables, figures, glossary, interviews, bibliography.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.  $32.50 (Paper)  ISBN 0-8133-1831-9.

Keller, Noah Ha Mim, trans.  The Reliance of the Traveller: a Classical Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.  1232 pages. Dubai, U.A.E.: Sunna Books, 1991.  $40.00 ISBN 0-9638342-0-7.

Khalidi, Rashid, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih & Reeva S. Simon, eds.  The Origins of Arab Nationalism.  325 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.  $16.00 (Paper)  ISBN 0231074352.

Kolinsky, Martin.  Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928-35.  (Macmillan's Studies in Military and Strategic History)  295 pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  $65.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-312-09164-8.

Landau, Jacob M.  The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991.  237 pages, tables, bibliography, index.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.  35.0035.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-19-827712-1.

Landau, Jacob M.  Jews, Arabs, Turks: Selected Essays.  491 pages, illustrations, notes, tables, general index. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1993.  $40.00 (Cloth) ISBN 965-223-818-X.

Lewin-Epstein, Noah & Moshe Semyonov.  The Arab Minority in Israel's Economy: Patterns of Ethnic Inequality.  (Social Inequality Series)  169 pages, index, bibliography, tables, figures, appendices.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. $45.00 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-8133-1525-5.

Lewis, Bernard.  Islam and the West.  217 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.  $25.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-19-507619-2.

Lewis, Bernard.  Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East 2nd edition.  487 pages, notes, sources, index.  Chicago & La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 1993.  $26.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-8126-9217-9.

Lienhardt, Peter & Ahmed Al-Shahi, ed.  Disorientations: A Society in Flux, Kuwait in the 1950s.  (Middle East Cultures Series Vol. 19: Kuwait)  108 pages, Introduction by Ahmed Al-Shahi, notes.  Concord, MA: Ithaca Press, 1993. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86372-166-4.

Lings, Martin.  What is Sufism?  133 pages, indices.  Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.  $7.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-946621-41-1.

Lowrie, Arthur L., ed.  Islam, Democracy, the State and the West: A Round Table with Dr. Hasan Turabi.  (WISE Monograph Series (1))  100 pages.  Tampa, FL: World & Islam Studies Enterprise, 1993.  $10.00 (Paper) 

Macleod, Arlene Elowe.  Accommodating Protest: Working Women, The New Veiling, and Change in Cairo.  206 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.  $14.00 (Paper)  ISBN 0-231-07281-3.

Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce.  The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954.  (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)  253 pages, notes, sources, index.  Syracuse, NY:   Syracuse University Press, 1993.  $39.95 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-8156-2575-8.

Madelung, Wilferd.  Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam.  (Collected Studies Series CS364)  337 pages, addenda and corrigenda, index.  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1992.  $89.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-86078-310-3.

Malik, Hafeez.  Dilemmas of National Security and Cooperation in India and Pakistan.  320 pages, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  $69.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-312-08528-1.

ME. & R. Scott Appleby, eds.  Fundamentalisms and Marty, Martin the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. (The Fundamentalism Project, Vol. 3)  665 pages, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.  $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-226-50883-8.

Marty, Martin E. & R. Scott Appleby, eds.  Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family and Education. (The Fundamentalism Project, Vol. 2)  592 pages, index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.  $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-226-50880-3.

Meinecke, Michael.  Die Mamlukische Architektur in Agypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 923/1517) Teil I: Genese: Entwicklung und Auswirkungen der Mamlukischen Architektur; Teil II:   Chronologische Liste der Mamlukischen.  (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Kairo)  971 pages, illustrations, diagrams, notes, 142pps of b/w photos, register.  Gluckstadt, Germany: Verlag J.J. Augustin GmbH, 1992.   (Cloth)  ISBN 387030071X.

Menashri, David, ed.  Islamic Fundamentalism: A Challenge to Regional Stability.  (Occasional Paper Series)  86 pages, references.  Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1993.  $8.00 (Paper)  ISBN 965-224-014-1.

Metz, Helen Chapin, ed.  Somalia: A Country Study.  (Area Handbook Series. Foreword by Louis R. Mortimer)  282 pages, maps, photos, tables, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index.  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1993.  n.p. (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8444-0775-5.

Metz, Helen Chapin, ed.  Sudan: A Country Study.  (Area Handbook Series)  336 pages, maps, charts, tables, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index.  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1992.  n.p. (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8444-0750-X.

Meyer, Carol.  Glass from Quseir Al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade.  (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 53) 201 pages, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index.  Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 1992.  $35.00 (Paper)  ISBN 0-918986-87-7.

Mishaaqa, Mikhaayil.  Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries. (Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr.)  309 pages, photos, map, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography, index.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.  $21.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-88706-714-X.

Moghadam, Valentine M.  Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East.  (Women and Change in the Developing World)  311 pages, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993.  $17.95 (Paper)  ISBN 1-55587-354-5.

Munif, Abdelrahman.  Variations on Night and Day.  (Translated by Peter Theroux)  342 pages.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.  $FTP23.00 (Paper)  ISBN 0-394-57673-X.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.  An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines:.  (Foreword by H.A.R. Gibb)  322 pages, appendix, bibliographies, tables, illustrations, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $14.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-7914-1516-3.

Niblock, Tim & Emma Murphy, eds.  Economic and Political Liberalization in the Middle East.  302 pages, tables, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. $62.50 (Cloth)  ISBN 1-85043-600-2.

Nicholson, Paul T.  Egyptian Faience and Glass.  (Shire Egyptology)  80 pages, index, bibliography, glossary, maps, photos, illustrations, chronology.  Buckinghamshire: Shire   Publications, 1993.  œ3.95 (Paper) ISBN: 0-7478-0195-9.

Orlans, Harold, ed.  Lawrence of Arabia, Strange Man of Letters: The Literary Criticism and Correspondence of T.E. Lawrence. 334 pages, chronology, notes, Dramatis Personae, sources, bibliography, indices.  Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993.  $47.50 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8386-3508-3.

Owen, Roger.  State, Power & Politics in the making of The Modern Middle East.  302 pages, index, select bibliography, tables, notes, maps.  New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1992.  $18.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-415-07591-2.

Parker, Robert B.  The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East.  (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies)  273 pages, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, annotated bibliography, index.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.  $17.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-253-20781-9.

Pearson, Robert P. & Leon E. Clark.  Through Middle Eastern Eyes.  (Third Edition)  352 pages, maps, photos, illustrations, notes, index.  New York: The Apex Press, 1993.  $21.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-938960-31-8.

Peirce, Leslie P.  The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire.  (Studies in Middle East History)  374 pages, glossary, notes on translation, illustrations.  New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.  $19.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-19-508677-5.

Peters, F.E.  The Distant Shrine: The Islamic Centuries in Jerusalem.  (AMS Studies in Modern Society: Political and Social Issues: No. 22)  275 pages, maps, appendix, index. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1993.  $39.50 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-404-61629-1.

Pyenson, Lewis.  Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940.  377 pages, illustrations, glossary, index.  Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.  $45.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8018-4421-5.

Quandt, William B.  Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967.  (Foreword by Bruce K. MacLaury)  612 pages, map, appendices, notes, bibliography,     index.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1993. $38.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-520-08388-1.

Raagib, Yuusuf.  Marchands d'‚toffes du Fayyoum au IIIe/IXe siŠcle d'apr‚s leurs archives (actes et lettres), III: Lettres des Banuu Tawr aux Banuu ...  (Supplement aux Annales Islamologiques, Cahier 14)  80 pages, illustrations.  Cairo: Institut Fran‡ais d'Arch‘ologie Orientale, 1992.  n.p.  ISBN 2-7247-0120-8.

Rachlin, Nahid.  Married to a Stranger.  220 pages.  San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1993.  $9.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-87286-276-3.

Rachlin, Nahid.  Foreigner.  192 pages.  New York & London: W.W. Norton, 1978.  $8.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-39300961-0.

Ragep, F. J.  Nasiir Al-Diin Al-Tuusii's Memoir on Astronomy, Vol. I & II (al-Tadhkira fii`ilm al-hay'a).  (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 12)  371 pages, figures, illustrations, translations.  New York: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1993.  (Cloth)  ISBN 0-387-94051-0.

Rajaee, Farhang, ed.  The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression.  245 pages, tables, index.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993.  $39.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8130-1176-0.

Rudnicka-Kassem, Dorota.  Egyptian Drama and Social Change: A Study of Thematic and Artistic Development in Yuusuf Idriis's Plays.  200 pages, bibliography.  Cracow & Montreal: The Enigma Press, 1993.  n.p. (Cloth)  ISBN 83-900504-9-8.

Rumi, Jalal Al-Din; A.J. Arberry, trans.; Ehsan Yarshater, ed. Mystical Poems of Rumi 2: Second Selection, Poems 201-400. 178 pages.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. n.p.  ISBN 0226731529 .

Sakr, Tarek Mohamed Refaat.  Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Architecture in Cairo.  89 pages, index, notes, 193 b/w photos.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1992. $35.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 977-424-300-5.

Salibi, Kamal.  The Modern History of Jordan.  298 pages, map, preface, bibliography, index.  London & New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 1-85043-610-X.

Sandler, Shmuel.  The State of Israel, The Land of Israel: The Statist and Ethnonational Dimension of Foreign Policy. (Contributions in Political Science, Number 321)  296 pages, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.  $55.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-313-28822-4.

Satloff, Robert B., ed.  The Politics of Change in the Middle East.  (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)  238 pages, tables, index.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. $49.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8133-8672-1.

Schimmel, Annemarie.  The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaaloddin Rumi.  (Persian Studies Series, No. 8)  513 pages, Foreword by Ehsan Yarshater, illustrations, notes,    bibliography, indices.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.  n.p. (Cloth) ISBN 0-7914-1635-6.

Schubel, Vernon James.  Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shi'i Devotional Rituals in South Asia.  (Studies in Comparative Religion)  198 pages, photos, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.  Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.  $39.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-87249-859-X.

Shatzmiller, Maya.  Crusaders & Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria.  (The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453)  235 pages, preface, tables, notes,   bibliography, index.  Leiden & New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. $80.00 (Cloth)  ISBN 90-04-09777-5.

Shaw, Stanford J.  Turkey & the Holocaust: Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945.  424 pages, photos, bibliography, appendices. New York: New York University Press, 1993.  n.p. (Cloth) ISBN 0-8147-7960-3.

Shehadi, Nadim & Dana Haffar Mills.  Lebanon: A History of Conflict and Consensus.  (The Centre for Lebanese Studies in association with I.B. Tauris)  337 pages, Foreword by Albert Hourani, Nadim Shehadi, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  $69.50 (Cloth)  ISBN 1-85043-119-1.

Shmuel Moreh, translator.  Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabartii's Chronicle of the French Occupation, 1798.  186 pages, Introduction by Robert L. Tignor, map, illustrations. Princeton, NJ  & New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1993.  $14.95 (Paper)  ISBN 1-55876-070-9.

Sicherman, Harvey.  Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government, & Peace Forward by Barbi Weinberg.  188 pages, appendices, forward, preface.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.    $39.95 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-8133-8471-0.

Silberstein, Laurence J., ed.  Jewish Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Ideology, and the Crisis of Modernity.  (New Perspectives on Jewish Studies)  248 pages, index.  New York: New York University Press, 1993. $20.00 (Paper)  ISBN 0-8147-7967-0.

Simon, Rachel.  Change within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya.  (A Samuel and Althea Stroun Book)  221 pages, map, tables, photos, bibliography, index.  Seattle & London:   University of Washington Press, 1992.  n.p. (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-295-97167-3.

Smith, Barbara J.  The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920-1929.  (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)  258 pages, tables, maps, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.  Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.  $39.95 (Cloth)  ISBN:   0-8156-2578-2.

Smith, Grace Martin.  The Poetry of Yuunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet.  (University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 127)  146 pages, glossary, selected bibliography.  Berkeley & London: University of California Press, 1993.  (Paper)  ISBN 0-520-09781-5.

Soueif, Ahdaf.  In the Eye of the Sun.  791 pages, glossary. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.  n.p. (Paper)  ISBN 0-679-40948-3.

Sprinzak, Ehud & Larry Diamond, eds.  Israeli Democracy Under Stress.  (An Israel Democracy Institute Policy Study)  385 pages, Foreword by Arye Carmon, graphs, tables, index. Boulder, CO & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993. $16.95 (Paper)  ISBN 1-55587-380-4.

Teicher, Howard & Gayle Radley Teicher.  Twin Pillars to Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush.  418 pages, glossary, photos, bibliography, index.  New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993. $23.00 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-688-11254-4.

Thackston, Wheeler M.  An Introduction to Persian, Revised Third Edition.  287 pages, appendices, vocabularies, index. Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, 1993.  $25.00 (Paper)  ISBN 0-936347-29-5.

Tsimhoni, Daphne.  Christian Communities in Jersualem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social, and Political Study.  239 pages, notes, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, index.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. $55.00 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0275939219.

Tucker, Alan, ed.  The Berlitz Travellers Guide to Turkey 1993. (The Berlitz Travellers Guides)  726 pages, bibliography, maps, chronology, index.  New York: Berlitz Publishing Company, Inc., 1993.  $17.95 (Paper)  ISBN: 2-8315-1782-6.

Tucker, Judith E.  Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers. (Indiana Series in Arab and  Islamic Studies)  264 pages, index.  Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.  n.p. (Paper)  ISBN 0-253-20776-2.

Vali, Abbas.  Pre-capitalist Iran a Theoretical History.  290 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes.  New York: New York University Press, 1993.  $45.00 (Cloth)  ISBN: 0-8147-8773-8.

Vaner, Semih.  L'?mergence du Monde Turco-Persan: La Turquie et L'"Aire Turque" dans la Nouvelle Configuration Regionale. (C.E.M.O.T.I., No. 14 (June-December))  153 pages, photos, notes, tables.  Paris: AFEMOTI/CERI, 1992.  (Paper)  ISSN: 0764-9878.

Waever, Ole, Barry Buzan, Morten Kelstrup & Pierre Lemaitre. Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe. 221 pages, maps, tables, figures, references, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.  $18.95 (Paper)  ISBN: 0-312-10099-X.

Walker, Barbara K.  The Art of the Turkish Tale, Vol. 2. (Foreword by Talat Sait Halman)  262 pages, Illustrations by Helen Siegl, glossary, index.  Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1993.  $18.50 (Paper)  ISBN: 0-89672-317-8.

Walker, Barbara K.  The Art of the Turkish Tale,  Vol. 1. (Foreword by Talat Sait Halman)  250 pages, Illustrations by Helen Siegl, glossary, index.  Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1990.  n.p. (Paper)  ISBN: 0-89672-228-7+(v1).

Walker, Paul E.  Early philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Ab£ Yaþqþb al-Sijstþnþ.  (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)  203 pages, index, bibliography,    endnotes.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. $49.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-521-44129-3.

Walther, Wiebke.  Women in Islam: From Medieval to Modern Times. 282 pages, Introduction by Guity Nashat, illustrations, bibliographies, index, chronology.  Princeton & New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1993.  $16.95 (Paper) ISBN: 1-55876-153-9.

Welsh, Frances.  Tutankhamun's Egypt.  (Shire Egyptology)  80 pages, index, museums, bibliography, chronology, illustrations.  Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 1993. œ3.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-7478-0196-7.

Werman, Robert.  Notes from a Sealed Room: An Israeli View of the Gulf War.  192 pages.  Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.  $24.95 (Cloth)  ISBN 0-8093-1830-X.

Williams, Caroline.  Islamic Monuments in Cario: A Practical Guide.  (4th ed.)  312 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, glossary, calendar.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1993.  $34.95 (Cloth)  ISBN: 977-424-290-4.

Wilson, Peter Lamborn.  Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam.  167 pages, illustrations, photos, select bibliography.  San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1993. $12.95 (Paper)  ISBN 0-87286-275-5.