Books Received for Review
April 9 to October 3, 1996

Abu Rabi, Ibrahim M. & Jane I. Smith, eds.  The Muslim World Women in the Islamic Malestron, Ghada Talhami, guest editor.  (Volume LXXXVI No. 2, April 1996)  Hartford: Hartford Seminary, 1996.  $20 (Paper)

Aburish, Saïd K.  The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of The House of Saud  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $15.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-312-16119-0

Ahmad, Qeyamuddin.  The Wahhabi Movement in India  New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1994.  Rs.400 (Cloth)  isbn 81-7304-042-7

Ahrari, M.E., ed.  Change and Continuity in the Middle East Conflict Resolution and Prospects for Peace  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $59.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-12866-5

al-Shaykh, Hanan.  Beirut Blues  New York: Doubleday-Anchor, 1996.  $12.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-385-47382-6

al-Suwaidi, Jamal S., ed.  Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability  London, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn I-86064-143-I

Aliboni, Roberto, George Joffe and Tim Niblock.  Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region.  London: Cass, 1996.  $39.50 (Cloth)  isbn 0-7146-4686-5

Allan, J.A., ed.  Water, Peace and the Middle East: Negotiating Resources in the Jordan Basin (Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 1)  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $59.50 (Cloth)  isbn 1-86064-055-9

Almadhagi, Ahmed Noman.  Yemen and The USA: A Super-Power and a Small-State Relationship, 1962-1994 (Library of Modern Middle East Studies, Vol. 2)  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $59.50 (Cloth)  isbn 1-85043-772-6

Assiri, Abdul-Reda.  The Government and Politics of Kuwait: Principles and Practices  Kuwait: Abdul-Reda Assiri, 1996.  (Paper)

Bar-On, Mordechai.  In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement  Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996.  $24.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-878379-53-4

Barzilai, Gad.  Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East.  (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies)  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.  $23.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-7914-2944-X

Bell, Bowyer J.  Terror Out of Zion: The Fight for Israeli Independance  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996.  $24.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-56000-870-9

Berg, Nancy.  Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq  (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies)  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.  $18.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-7914-2980-6

Berkowitz, Michael.  Zionist Culture and West European Jewry Before the First World War  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.  $16.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-8078-4605-8

Berrada, Mohamed.  The Game of Forgetting  (Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation)  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.  $10.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-292-70845-9

Bonebakker, S.A. and Michael Fishbein.  A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature  (Quaderni di Studi Arabi. Studi e testi,)  Cafoscarina: Università degli Studi di Venezia, 1995.  isbn

Bonner, Michael.  Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier (American Oriental Series 81)  New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1996.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 0-940490-11-0

Bosworth, C. E.  The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and Culture (Variorum Collected Studies Series)  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.  $89.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-86078-583-1

Butovsky, Avriel.  The Languages of History: Selected Writings on the Middle East (Center for Middle Eastern Studies)  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.  $20 (Paper)

Cameron, Averil, ed.  The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam  v.III, n.1)  Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 0-87850-107-X

Canby, Sheila.  Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi Abbasi of Isfahan  London: Azimuth Editions Limited, 1996. (Cloth)  isbn 1-898-592-05-5

Chatty, Dawn.  Mobile Pastoralists: Development, Planning and Social Change in Oman  New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.  $17.50 (Paper)  isbn 0-231-10549-5

Clements, Frank A.  The Israeli Secret Services  (International Organizations Series)  New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1996.  $64.95 (Cloth)  isbn 1-56000-228-X

Clogg, Richard.  Anatolica: Studies in the Greek East in the 18th and 19th Centuries  (Variorum Collected Studies Series)  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.  $94.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-86078-543-2

Commins, David.  Historical Dictionary of Syria  (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 22)  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996.  $49.50 (Cloth)  isbn 0-8108-3176-7

Conrad,  Lawrence I., ed.  The World of Ibn Tufayl: Interdisplinary Perspectives on Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Islamic Philosphy Theology and Science: Texts and Studies)  New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.  $97 (Cloth)  isbn 90-04-10135-7

Cooke, Miriam.  War's Other Voices Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)  Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.  $15.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-8156-0377-0

Cooke, Miriam.  Blood into Ink: South Asian & Middle EAstern Women Write War.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.  $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8133-8661-6

Cordesman, Anthony H.  Perilous Prospects: The Peace Process and the Arab-Israeli Military Balance  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.  $25 (Paper)  isbn 0-8133-3074-2

de Ballobar, Conde.  Edited by Eduardo Manzano Moreno.  Diario de Jerusalen: 1914-1919  Madrid: Nerea Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 84-89569-02-9

Eberhardt, Isabelle.  Prisoner of Dunes  Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions Inc., 1995.  $24 (Paper)  isbn 0-7206-0944-5

Eberhardt, Isabelle.  In the Shadow of Islam  Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions Inc., 1995.  $17.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-7206-0895-3

Ebert, Hans-Georg.  Das Personalstatut arabischer Länder: Problemfelder, Methoden, Perspektiven (Leipziger Beiträge zur Orientforschung 7)  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996.  $42.95 (Paper)  isbn 3-631-50011-4

Edbury, Peter W.  The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation  Brookfield VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.  $59.95 (Cloth)  isbn 1-85928-291-1

Edwards, David B.  Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20063-2

Eickelman, Dale F. & James Piscatori.  Muslim Politics  (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.  $13.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-691-00870-1

El Azhary Sonbol, Amira.  Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History  (Mohamed El-Hindi Series on Arab Culture and Islamic Civilization)  Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.  $19.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-8156-0383-5

El-Hesnawi, Habib Wada.  Fazzan Under the Rule of the Awlad Muhammad: A Study in Political, Economic, Social and Intellectual History  Sebha, Malta: The Centre for African Research and Studies, 1990. (Paper)

Elkhafif, Mahmoud A.  The Egyptian Economy: A Modeling Approach  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.  $65 (Cloth)  isbn 0-275-95556-7

Esposito, John L. & John O. Voll.  Islam and Democracy  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.  $17.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-19-510816-1

Ferdowsi.  Translated by Reuben Levy.  The Epic of the Kings  (Persian Heritage Series)  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.  $19.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-56859-035-0

Finklestone, Joseph.  Anwar Sadat: Visionary Who Dared  Portland, OR: Cass, 1996.  $39.50 (Cloth)  isbn 0-7146-3487-5

Flamhaft, Ziva.  Israel on the Road to Peace: Accepting the Unacceptable  Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.  $17 (Paper)  isbn 0-8133-2774-1

Fuller, Graham E.  Algeria: The Next Fundamentalist State?  California: Rand Corporation, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-8330-2387-X

Gierlichs, Joachim.  Mittelalterliche Tierreliefs in Anatolien Und Mesopotamien Untersuchungen zur figürlichen Baudekoration der Seldschuken, Artuqiden (Istanbuler Forschungen Band 42)  Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag GmbH & Co., 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 3-8030-1763-7

Glosemeyer, Iris.  Liberalisierung und Demokratisierung in der Republik Jemen, 1990-1994  (Aktueller Informationsdienst Moderner Orient)  Hamberg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1995.  (Paper)  isbn 3-89173-041-1

Gluck, J. & Noel Siver, eds.  Surveyors of Persian Art: A Documentary Biography  Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1996.  $95 (Cloth)  isbn 4-89360-023-0

Goldberg, Harvey, ed.  Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.  $18.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-253-21041-0

Gorkin, Michael & Rafiqa Othman.  Three Mothers, Threee Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $25 (Cloth)  isbn 0-520-20329-1

Gundlach, Rolf, Manfred Kropp, & Annalis Leibundgut, eds.  Der Sudan in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Sudan Past & Present) (Nordostafrikanisch-Westasiatische Studien 1)  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996.  $57.95 (Paper)  isbn 3-361-48091-1

Haidar, Aziz.  On the Margins: The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $42 (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-12523-2

Hale, Sondra.  Gender Politics in the Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and State  Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.  $64 (Cloth)  isbn 0-8133-2431-9

Hanf, Theodor & Bernard Sabella in collaboration with Petra Bauerle.  A Date with Democracy: Palestinians on Society and Politics. An Empirical Survey  Freiburg im Breisgau: Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 3-928597-14-0

Hanna, Nelly, ed.  The State and its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present  New York: American University in Cairo Press, 1995.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 977-424-364-1

Hejaiej, Monia.  Behind Closed Doors: Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.  $17.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-8135-2376-1

Hiro, Dilip.  The Middle East  (International Government & Politics Series)  Phoenix: Oryx, 1996.  $34.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-57356-004-9

Holland, Matthew F.  America and Egypt from Roosevelt to Eisenhower  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996.  $55 (Cloth)  isbn 0-275-95474-9

Hollis, Rosemary & Nadim Shehadi, eds.  Lebanon on Hold: Implications for Middle East Peace  London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 1-86203-020-0

Hopfinger, Hans & Horst Kopp, eds.  Wirkungen Von Migrationen auf Aufnehmende Gesellschaften  (Schriften des Zentralinstituts, Vol. 34)  Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nurnberg, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 3-7686-9140-3

Ilan, Amitzur.  The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Arms Race: Arms, Embargo, Military Power and Decision in the 1948 Palestine War  New York: New York University Press, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8147-3758-7

Israelyan, Victor.  Inside the Kremlin during the Yom Kippur War  University Park: Penn State Press, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 0-271-01489-X

Janabi, Hatif.  Translated by Khaled Mattawa.  Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi  Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.  $14 (Paper)  isbn 1-55728-432-6

Jayyusi, Lena, ed.  The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan: An Arab Folk Epic  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.  $39.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-253-33034-3

Jeanes, Ike.  Forecast and Solution: Grappling with the Nuclear  Blacksburg: Pocahontas Press, Inc., 1996.  $25 (Paper)  isbn 0-936015-62-4

Johansen, Julian.  Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.  $80 (Cloth)  isbn 0-19-826757-6

Jones, Clive.  Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1989-92: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East  Portland: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1996.  $39.50 (Cloth)  isbn 0-7146-4625-3

Kapchan, Deborah.  Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (New Cultural Studies)  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.  $19.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-8122-1426-9

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad.  Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1995.  $45 (Cloth)  isbn 0-87480-492-2

Karsh, Efraim, ed.  Between War and Peace: Dilemmas of Israeli Security  Portland: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1996.  $32.50 (Cloth)  isbn 0-7146-4711-X

Keddie, Nikki R.  Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution  New York: New York University Press, 1995.  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8147-4663-2

Kedourie, Sylvia, ed.  Turkey: Identity,  Democracy,  Politics  Portland, OR: Cass, 1996.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 071464718-7

Khoury, Elias.  The Kingdom of Strangers  Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.  $16 (Paper)  isbn 1-55728-434-2

Knudsen, Olav F.  Strategic Analysis and the Mangement of Power: Johan Jorgen Holst, the Cold War and the New Europe  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 0-333-64465-4

Kok, Peter Nyot.  Governance and Conflict in the Sudan, 1985-1995: Analysis, Evaluation and Documentation (Mitteilungen 53)  Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 3-89173-043-8

Kramer, Martin.  Arab Awakening & Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996.  $34.95 (Cloth)  isbn 1-56000-272-7

Kreiser, Klaus, ed.  Evliya Celebi's Book of Travels: Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeeth Century, a Corpus of Partial Editions, vol III  New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.  $152.25 (Cloth)  isbn 90-04-10445-3

Kuklick, Bruce.  Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.  $29.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-691-02582-7

Kunt, Metin & Christine Woodhead, eds.  Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World  Essex: Longman Group UK, 1995.  £13.99 (Paper)  isbn 0-582-03827-8

Ladjevardi, Habib, ed.  Memoirs of Shapour Bakhtiar: Prime Minister of Iran ( 1979)  (Iranian Oral History Series, II)  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-932885-14-4

Lavergne, Marc, ed.  Monde Arabe: Le Retour du Local  (Peuples Méditerranéens No. 72-73)  Paris: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, 1995.  Ffr145 (Paper)

Lavergne, Marc.  La Jordanie  Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 2-86537-467-X

Levin, Aryeh.  Envoy to Moscow: Memoirs of an Israeli Ambassador 1988-92 (The Cummings Center Series)  London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1996.  $45 (Cloth)  isbn 0-7146-4597-4

Lockman, Zachary.  Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $25 (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20419-0

Mackey, Sandra.  The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation  New York: Dutton, 1996.  $26.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-525-94005-7

Madan, T.N., ed.  Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, and Power (Occasional Studies  No. 6)  New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1995.  Rs.290 (Cloth)  isbn 81-7304-090-7

Maier, John.  Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West  (SUNY Series, Ther Margins of Literature)  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.  $21.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-7914-3018-9

Malik, Jamal.  Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan  New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 81-7304-148-2

Marshall, P.J., ed.  The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.  $39.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-521-43211-1

McCarthy, Justin.  Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922  Princeton: Darwin Press, 1996.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 0-87850-094-4

Meinecke, Michael.  Patterns of Stylistic Changes in Islamic Architecture Local Traditions Versus Migrating Artists (Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization)  New York: New York University Press, 1996.  $75 (Cloth)  isbn 0-8147-5492-9

Metz, Helen Chapin, ed.  Turkey: A Country Study  (Area Handbook Series)  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1995.  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8444-0864-6

Miller, Judith.  God has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.  $30 (Cloth)  isbn 0-684-80973-7

Milton-Edwards, Beverly.  Islamic Politics in Palestine  London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996.  $59.50 (Cloth)  isbn 1-86064-049-4

Moghadam, Fatemeh E.  From Land Reform to Revolution: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Iran 1962-1979  London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  isbn 1-86064-0060

Moors, Annelies.  Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences  (Cambridge Middle East Studies 3)  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.  $59.67 (Cloth)  isbn 0-521-47497-3

Morier, James.  Haji Baba-ye Isfahani  (Biblitheca Iranica-Persian Language Publications Series-no. 9)  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.  $24.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-56859-042-3

Mouradian, George.  Armenian Info Text  Michigan: Bookshelf Publishers, 1996.  $15 (Paper)  isbn 0-9634509-2-1

Mufti, Malik.  Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 0-8014-3168-9

Musallam, Ali Musallam.  The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Saddam Hussein, His State & International Power Politics  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $55 (Cloth)  isbn 1-86064-020-6

Necipoglu, Gülru.  The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture  Santa Monica: J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, 1996.  $160 (Cloth)  isbn 0-89236-335-5

Netzer, Amnon, ed.  Padyavand  (Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series, n.1)  Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1996.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 1-56859-036-9

Norton, Augustus Richard, ed.  Civil Society in the Middle East volume 2 (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East)  New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.  $122.50 (Cloth)  isbn 90-04-10039-3

Pierre, Andrew J. & William B. Quandt.  The Algerian Crises: Policy Options for the West  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996.  $7.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-87003-106-6

Pinto, Desiderio.  Piri-Muridi: Relationship a Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah  New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1995.  Rs.450 (Cloth)  isbn 81-7304-111-3

Porter, Yves.  Painters, Paintings, and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries (Bibliotheque Iranienne #35)  New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1994.  Rs.300 (Cloth)  isbn 81-85425-95-7

Ravanipur, Moniru.  Satan's Stones  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996.  $9.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-292-77076-6

Ray, Nicholas Dylan.  Arab Islamic Banking and the Renewal of Islamic Law  (Arab and Islamic Laws Series)  London: Graham & Trotman, Ltd., 1995.  $103 (Cloth)  isbn 1-85966-104-1

Renard, John.  Seven Doors to Islam: Spirtuality and the Religious Life of Muslims  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $ (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20417-4

Richards, Alan & John Waterbury.  A Political Economy of the Middle East  Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.  $25.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-8133-2411-4

Rostam-Kolayi Jasamin.  Jusur: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies  (vol. 11)  Los Angeles: von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, 1995.  $16 (Paper)  isbn 0888-9007

Samir, Samir Khalil.  Foi et Culture en Irak au XIeme Siècle: Elie de Nisibe et l'Islam  (Variorum Collected Studies Series)  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.  $98.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-86078-605-6

Sawaie, Mohammed.  Linguistic Variation and Speakers' Attitudes: A Sociolinguistic Study of Some Arabic Dialects  Damascus: L'Institut Français d'Études Arabes de Damas, 1994.  (Cloth)
Sawaie, Mohammed, ed.  Al-Tanbih ala Galat Al-Gahil Wa Al-Nabih  Syria: L'Institut Français d'Études Arabes de Damas, 1994.  (Paper)  isbn 2-901315-19-4

Schubert, Gudrun, ed.  Annäherungen: Der Mystisch-polosophische Briefwechsel Zwischen Sadr ud-Din-i Qonowi und Nasir ud-Din-i Tusi (Bibliotheca Islamica-BAND 43)  Beirut & Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995.  (Paper)  isbn 3-515-06707-8

Sells, Michael A., ed.  Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Poetic and Theological Writings  (The Classics of Western Spirituality)  Mahwah,  NJ: Paulist Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-8091-3619-8

Shah Wali Allah of Delhi, translated by Marcia K. Hermansen.  The Conclusive Argument from God: Shah Wali Allah of Dehi's Hujjat Allah al-baligha (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies)  New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 90-04-10298

Shemesh, Moshe.  The Palestinian Entity 1959-1974: Arab Politics and the PLO 2nd (revised) edition  Portland, OR: Cass, 1996.  $29.50 (Paper)  isbn 071464253-3

Shepard, Willam E.  Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)  New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 90-04-101527

Sikainga, Ahmad Alawad.  Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan  (Modern Middle East Series, No. 18)  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 0-292-7764-2

Simon, Reeva S., Philip Mattar, & Richard W. Bulliet, eds.  Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East  (vol. 1-4)  New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1996.  $350 (Cloth)  isbn 0-02-896011-4

Singerman, Diane & Homa Hoodfar, eds.  Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies)  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.  $17.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-253-33027-0

Sisk, Timothy D.  Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts  (Perspectives Series)  Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996.  $7.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-878379-56-9

Spencer, William, ed.  The Middle East  (Global Studies)  Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark Publishers, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-697-31703-X

Stauffer, Annmarie.  Textiles of Late Antiquity  New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.  $8.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-87099-768-8

Stockman, Robert H.  The Baha'i Faith in America: Early Expansion, 1900-1912,  vol. II  Oxford: George Ronald, 1995.  $29.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-85398-388-7

Taher, Bahaa.  Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $12.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20075-6

Tekçe, Belgin, Linda Oldham & Frederic C. Shorter.  A Place to Live: Families and Child Health in a Cairo Neighborhood  New York: American University in Cairo Press, 1994.  $35 (Cloth)  isbn 977-424-315-3

Teveth, Shabtai.  Ben Gurion's Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal That Shaped Modern Israel  New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.  $29.95 (Cloth)  isbn 0-231-10464-2

Togan, Subidey & Balasubramanyam, V.N., eds.  The Economy of Turkey Since Liberalizaion  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $75 (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-12694-8

Van Dam, Nikolaos.  The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society Under Asad and the Ba'th Party  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 1-86064-024-9

Vercellin, Giorgio.  Istituzioni del Mondo Musulmano  Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore, SpA, 1996.  Lit.36000 (Paper)

Watkins, Eric, ed.  The Middle Eastern Environment: Selected Papers of the 1995 Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern (Studies)  Cambridge, UK: St. Malo Press, 1995.  $20 (Paper)  isbn 1-898565-03-1

Watt, William Montgomery.  Religious Truth for our Time  Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1995.  £5.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-85168-102-7

Watt, William Montgomery.  A Short History of Islam  (Short History Series)  Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1996.  £5.95 (Paper)  isbn 1-85168-109-4

Whittow, Mark.  The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $17.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20497-2

Wild, Stefan, ed.  The Qur'an as Text  (Islamic Philosophy, Theology & Science, Vol. XXVII)  Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.  $87.75 (Cloth)  isbn 90-04-10344-9

Yapp, M. E.  The Near East Since the First World War A History to 1995 (A History of the Near East)  New York: Longman Group UK, 1996.  £19.99 (Paper)  isbn 0-582-25651-8

Ye'or, Bat.  The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam From Jihad to Dhimmitude: Seventh - Twentieth Century  Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1996.  $45 (Cloth)  isbn 0-8386-3678-0

Ze'evi, Dror.  An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600's  (SUNY series in Mideval Middle East History)  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.  $24.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-7914-2916-4

Zubaida, Sami & Richard Tapper, eds.  Culinary Cultures of the Middle East  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1994.  $19.95 (Paper)  isbn 0-850-64035-4