Books Received for Review
October 4, 1996 to January 20, 1997 

el Kouloub, Out.  Zanouba.  224 pages, translated by Nayra Atiya.  Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.  $14.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-8156-0408-4

Adamec, Ludwig W.  Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions, and Insurgensies.  384 pages, maps, figures, chronology, bibliography.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996.  $48  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8108-3232-1

Amirahmadi, Hooshang, ed.  Small Islands, Big Politics: The Tonbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf.  200 pages, notes, appendices, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-15910-2

Aswad, Barbara C., & Barbara Bilgé.  Family and Gender among American Muslims:  Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants.  327 pages, illustrations, notes, index.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn I-56639-443-0

Avruch, Kevin & Walter P. Zenner, eds.  Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government.  229 pages, notes on contributors.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.  $17.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-7914-3254-8

Ayubi, Nazih N.  Over-stating the Arab StatePolitics and Society in the Middle East.  514 pages, tables, index, bibliography.  London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $19.95  (Paper)  isbn 1-85043-828-5

Baran, Amatzia & Barry Rubin, eds.  Iraq's Road to War.  304 pages, notes, contributors, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $19.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-312-16446-7

Beinin, Joel & Joe Stork, eds.  Political Islam:  Essays from Middle East Report.  405 pages, notes, index.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.  $20  (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20448-4

Benvenisti, Meron.  City of Stone:  The Hidden History of Jerusalem.  278 pages, maps, B&W photos, maps, index, translated by Maxine Kaufman Nunn.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $24.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-520-20521-9

Boroujerdi, Mehrzad.  Iranian Intellectuals and the West:  The Tormented Triumph of Nativism.  276 pages, b&w photos, appendix, glossary, works cited, index.  Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.  $16.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-8156-04333-5

Bosworth, Clifford Edmund.  The New Islamic Dynasties:  A Chronological and Geneological Manual.  389 pages, abbreviations used, indices.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-231-10714-5

Bosworth, Clifford Edmund.  The New Islamic Dynasties:  A Chronological and Genealogical Manual.  389 pages, abbreviations used, indices.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-231-10714-5

Bowker, Robert.  Beyond Peace:  The Search for Security in the Middle East.  210 pages, tables, figures, acronyms, bibliography, index.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.  $49.95  (Cloth)  isbn 1-55587-663-3

Brockett, Adrian.  The History of the al Tabari:  An Annotated Translation Volume XVI, The Community Divided, The Caliphate of 'Ali I.  214 pages, bibliography, index.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-7914-2391-3

Brown, Daniel.  Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought.  185 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.  $49.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-521-57077-8

Bruni, Mary Ann Smothers.  Journey Through Kurdistan.  210 pages, color photos, map.  Austin: Texas Memorial Museum, 1996.  $24.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-941671-01-1

Campbell, Robert B., ed.  Contemporary Arab Writers:  Biographies and Autobiographies, Vols. I & II.  1420 pages,.  Beirut, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996.  DM 290  (Paper)  isbn 3-515-06770-1

Cohn, Michael.  Jewish Bridges:  East to West.  160 pages, figures, glossary, bibliography, index.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996.  $47.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-275-95463-3

Cooke, Miriam.  Women and the War Story.  367 pages, B&W photos, notes, cited works, index.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $18.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20613-4

Daftary, Farhad, ed.  Mediaeval Isma'ili:  History and Thought.  331 pages, bibliography, index.  Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1996.  $59.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-521-45140-X

Denoeux, Guilain P.  The United States and the Challenge of Democratization in the Arab World.  38 pages, footnotes.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn

Eichenstein, Zevi Hirsch.  Turn Aside from Evil and do Good:  An Introduction and a Way to the Tree of Life.  159 pages, translated by Louis Jacobs, bibliography, indices.  London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 1-874774-10-2

Entelis, John P.  Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics.  164 pages, index, references & bibliography.  New York: University Press of America, 1996.  $24.5  (Paper)  isbn 0-7618-0392-0

Epstein, Steven A.  Genoa and the Genoese:  958-1528.  396 pages, tables, figures, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8708-2291-4

Golombek, Lisa , Robert Manson & Gauvin A. Bailey.  Tamerlane's Tableware:  A New Approach to the Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth- Century Iran.  256 pages, maps, tables, figures, appendix, bibliography, b&w plates, color.  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.  $65  (Cloth)  isbn 1-56859-043-1

Grabar, Oleg.  The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem.  232 pages, illustrations, photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.  $65  (Cloth)  isbn 0-691-03653-5

Hanson, John H.  Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa:  The Futanke Colonies in Karta.  224 pages, B&W photos, figures, maps, appedix, notes, bibliography, index.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.  $39.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-253-33088-2

Harik, Ramsay M. & Elsa Marston.  Women in the Middle East:  Tradition and Change.  224 pages, map, b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index.  Danbury, CT: Grolier Publishing Company, 1996.  (Cloth)  isbn 0-531-11304-3

Heath, Peter.  The Thirsty Sword:  Sirat 'Antar and the Arabic Popular Epic.  324 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.  Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1996.  $50  (Cloth)  isbn 0-87480-515-5

Hecht, N.S., B. Jackson, S. Passamaneck, D. Piattelli &  A. Rabello, ed.  An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law.  466 pages, bibliographies, indices.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.  $24.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-19-826226-4

Helfgott, Leonard M.  Ties that Bind:  A Social History of the Iranian Carpet.  358 pages, maps, figures, notes, selected bibliography, index.  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.  $19.95  (Paper)  isbn 1-56098-726-X

Joffe, Lawrence.  Keesing's Guide to the Mid-East Peace Process.  436 pages, Map, figures, index.  London: Cartermill International Ltd., 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 1-86067-009-1

Juynboll, G.H.A.  Studies on the Origins and Uses of Islamic Hadith.  354 pages, figures, corrections, indices, glossary.  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.  $89.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-86078-604-8

Kadi, Joanna.  Thinking Class:  Sketches from a Cultural Worker.  170 pages, index.  Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996.  $14  (Paper)  isbn 0-89608-547-3

Kafadar, Cemal.  Between Two Worlds:  The Construction of the Ottoman State.  205 pages, chronology, notes, selected bibliography, index.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $18.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-520-08807-7

Kingston, Paul W.  Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958.  191 pages, figure, notes, bibliography, index.  Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1996.  $54.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-521-56346-1

Ladjevardi, Habib, ed.  Memoirs of Prince Hamid Kadjar, Son of the Last Qajar Crown Prince.  137 pages, appendices,biographical notes, index,.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-932885-15-2

Lawson, Fred H.  Why Syria Goes to War:  Thirty Years of Confrontation.  222 pages, figures, tables, notes, index.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.  $29.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8014-2373-2

Lazin, Frederick A., & Gregory S. Mahler, eds.  Israel in the Nineties:  Development and Conflict.  264 pages, tables, notes, index.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996.  $49.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8130-1452-2

Lohker, Rüdiger.  Schari'a Und Moderne:  Diskussionen Zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Zur Versicherung und Zinswesen.  156 pages, references, notes.  Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996.  DM 88  (Paper)  isbn 3-515-06582-2

Madelung, Wilferd.  The Succession to Muhammad:  A Study of the Early Caliphate.  413 pages, genealogical tables, chronological survey, bibliography, index.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.  $69.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-521-56181-7

Malik, Hafeez, ed.  Central Asia:  Its Strategic Importance and Future Prospects.  336 pages, figures, tables, notes on the contributors, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $19.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-312-16452-1

Malley, Robert.  The Call From Algeria:  Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam.  333 pages, Afterthoughts, notes, bibliography, index.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  $18  (Paper)  isbn 0-520-20300-3

Mandeles, Mark D., Thomas C. Hone, & Sanford S. Terry.  Managing "Command and Control" in the Pesian Gulf War.  192 pages, abbreviations, figures, tables, appendix, notes on sources, index.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996.  $55  (Cloth)  isbn 0-275-95261-4

Masud,  Muhammad Khalid, Brinkley Messick & David S. Powers, eds.  Islamic Legal Interpretation:  Muftis and Their Fatwas.  431 pages, figures, appendix, notes, references, glossary, index.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-674-46870-8

McCormack, Timothy L. H.  Self-Defense in International Law:  The Israeli Raid on the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor.  339 pages, appendices, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $49.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-16279-0

Melville, Charles, ed.  Safavid Persia:  The History and Politics of an Islamic Society.  426 pages, figures, tables, maps, index.  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $19.95  (Paper)  isbn 1-86064-086-9

Meneley, Anne.  Tournaments of Value:  Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemen Town.  216 pages, B&W photos, map, glossary, bibliography, index.  Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1996.  $18.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-8020-7868-0

Meneley, Anne.  Tournaments of Value:  Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town.  216 pages, B&W photos, map, glossary, bibliography, index.  Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1996.  $18.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-8020-7868-0

Mermier, Franck.  Le Cheikh de la Nuit.  Sanaa:  Organisation des Souks et Société Citadine.  254 pages, map, appendices, notes, works cited.  Arles, France: Sindbad -  Actes Sud, 1997.  FF 128  (Paper)  isbn 2-7427-1046-9

Metcalf, Barbara Daly, ed.  Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe.  264 pages, b&w photos, notes on contributors, index.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.  $50  (Cloth)  isbn 0-520-20403-4

Müller, Lorenz.  Islam und Menschenrechte:  Sunnitische Muslime zwischen Islamismus, Säkularismus und Modernismus.  361 pages, bibliography, index.  Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 3-89173-044-6

Olson, Robert, ed.  The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990s:  Its Impact on Turkey and the Middle East.  224 pages, maps, contributors list , index.  Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.  $29.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8131-1999-5

Parker, Richard B., ed.  The Six-Day War:  A Retrospective.  365 pages, b&w photos, maps, chronology, appendix, notes, bibliography, inde.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996.  $49.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8130-1383-6

Parvin, Manoucher.  Avicenna and I:  The Journey of Spirits.  284 pages,.  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.  $26.95  (Cloth)  isbn 1-56859-040-7

Pipes, Daniel.  The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy.  404 pages, maps, figures, notes, appendix, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-16254-5

Porter, Venetia.  Islamic Tiles.  128 pages, color plates, b&w plates, maps, further reading, index.  Brooklyn, NY: Interlink Books, 1996.  $16.95  (Paper)  isbn I-56656-191-4

Prawer, Joshua & Haggai Ben-Shammai, eds.  The History of Jerusalem:  The Early Muslim Period (638-1099).  443 pages, color plates, b&w photos, maps, index.  New York: New York University Press, 1996.  $75  (Cloth)  isbn 0-8147-6639-0

Rahnema, Saeed & Sohrab Behdad, eds.  Iran After the Revolution:  Crisis of an Islamic State.  292 pages, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index.  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $19.95  (Paper)  isbn 1-86064-128-8

Sarshar, Homa & Debbie Adhami, eds.  TERUA:  The History of Contemporary Iranian Jews.  pages, b&w photos, maps, figures.  Beverly Hills, CA: Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 1-88-3819-12-1

Serjeant, R.B.  Society and Trade in South Arabia.  350 pages, figures, B&W plates, notes, appendices, index.  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.  $98.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-86078-603-X

Sharafuddin, Mohammed.  Islam and Romantic Orientalism: Literary Encounters with the Orient.  296 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996.  $19.95  (Cloth)  isbn 1-86064-026-5

Sheffer, Gabirel.  Moshe Sharett:  Biography of a Political Moderate.  1065 pages, select bibliography, index.  London: Clarendon Press, 1996.  $120  (Cloth)  isbn 0-19-827994-9

Simons, Geoff.  Libya:  The Struggle for Survival.  422 pages, maps, tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $18.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-312-16002-X

Simons, Geoff.  The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice.  304 pages, tables, figures, chronology, notes, appendices, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $45  (Cloth)  isbn 0-312-16182-4

Simons, Geoff.  Iraq:  From Sumer to Saddam.  444 pages, tables, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.  $17.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-312-16052-6

Snape, Steven.  Egyptian Temples.  64 pages, chronology, B&W photos, figures, index.  Buckinghamshire, UK: Shire Publications, 1996.  £GB 4.99  (Paper)  isbn 0-7478-0327-7

Sonn, Tamara.  Interpreting Islam:  Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History.  206 pages, notes, index.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.  $39.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-19-5100514

Sonn, Tamara, ed.  Islam and the Question of Minorities.  112 pages, Introduction by Tamara Sonn.  Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996.  $64.95  (Cloth)  isbn 0-7885-0309-X

Suny, Ronald Grigor, ed.  Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change: Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.  543 pages, tables, maps, index.  Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996.  $27.95  (Paper)  isbn 0-472-06617-X

Young, William C.  The Rashaayda Bedouin:  Arab Pastoralists of Eastern Sudan.  157 pages, figures, b&w photos, glossary, vocabulary, bibliography, index.  Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996.  (Paper)  isbn 0-15-501513-3