Books Received for Review
January 21-April 21, 1997

Al-Qasimi, Sultan Muhammad.  Les Relations Entre Oman et La France (1715-1905).   163 pages, maps, figures, bibliography, index.  Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 1995.  FFr110 (Paper) isbn 2-7384-3627-7

Al-Munajjed, Mona.  Women in Saudi Arabia Today.   153 pages, map, bibliography, indices.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-12988-2

Amanat, Abbas.  Pivot of the Universe:  Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896.   555 pages, maps, figures, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.   $45 (Cloth) isbn 0-520-08321-0

Bahari, Ebadollah.  Bihzad:  Master of Persian Painting.   272 pages, map, b&w and color illustrations, notes, references,  appendices.  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1997.   $75 (Cloth) isbn 0-85043-966-4

Ben-Ari, Eyal & Yoram Bilu, eds.  Grasping Land:  Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience.  (SUNY Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies)  246 pages, tables, maps, references, contributors, index.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.   $17.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3218-1

Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua & Moshe Davis, eds.  Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, 1800-1948.  (With Eyes Toward Zion - V)  296 pages, b&w plates, figures, notes, index.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997.   $65 (Cloth) isbn 0-275-95405-6

Brown, L. Carl & Matthew S. Gordon, eds.  Franco-Arab Encounters.  (Studies in Memory of David C. Gordon)  502 pages, b&w photos, figures, tables, notes, bibliographical note, index.  Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut, 1997.   $29.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8156-6095-2

Burnett, Charles.  Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages:  Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds.  (Variorum Collected Studies Series)  167 pages, b&w plates, indices,.  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996.   $98.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-86078-615-3

Chraibi, Aboubakr.  Contes Nouveaux Des 1001 Nuits:  Etude du manuscrit Reinhardt.   290 pages, tables, figures, bibliography, index.  Paris: Librairie D'Amerique et D'Orient Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1997.  FF140 (Paper) isbn 2-7200-1106-1

Clinton, Jerome W., trans.  The Tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám:  From the Persian National Epic, the Shahname of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi.  (Publications on the Near East, 3)  224 pages, text in Persian and English, notes, glossary, selected biblio.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.   $14.95 (Paper) isbn 0-295-97567-9

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, ed.  Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths.   218 pages, figures, notes, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-312-16597-8

Cordesman, Anthony H.  Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE:  Challenges of Security.  (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment)  423 pages, tables, charts, maps, notes.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $30 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3240-0

Cordesman, Anthony H. & Ahmed S. Hashem.  Iraq:  Sanctions and Beyond.  (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment)  393 pages, tables, charts, maps, notes.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $32 (Paper) isbn 8-8133-3236-2

Cordesman, Anthony H.  U.S. Forces in the Middle East:  Resources and Capabilities.  (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment)  144 pages, tables, charts, maps, notes.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $24 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3246-X

Cordesman, Anthony H. & Ahmed S. Hashim.  Iran:  Dilemmas of Dual Containment.  (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment)  363 pages, charts, tables, maps, notes.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $30 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3238-9

Cordesman, Anthony H.  Kuwait:  Recovery and Security After the Gulf War.  (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment)  152 pages, charts, tables, maps, notes.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $23 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3244-3

Cordesman, Anthony H.  Saudi Arabia:  Guarding the Desert Kingdom.  (CSIS Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment)  219 pages, tables, charts, maps, notes.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $27 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-3242-7

Daneshvar, Parviz.  Revolution in Iran.   228 pages, notes, references, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $59.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-16270-7

Deshen, Sholmo & Walter P. Zenner, eds.  Jews among Muslims:  Communities in the Precolonial Middle East.   292 pages, notes, references, index.  New York: New York University Press, 1997.   $50 (Cloth) isbn 0-8147-9675-3

El-Kikhia, Mansour O.  Libya's Qaddafi:  The Politics of Contradiction.   280 pages, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.   $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1488-3

Faksh, Mahmud A.  The Future of Islam in the Middle East:  Fundamentalism in Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia.   152 pages, notes, selected bibliography, index.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997.   $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-275-95128-6

Fishbein, Michael.  The History of al-Tabari:  An Annotated Translation. The Victory of Islam.  Muhammad at Medina, A.D. 626-630/A.H. 5-8.  (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies, Volume VIII)  213 pages, bibliography, index.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.   (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3149-5

Frye, Richard N.  Bukhara:  The Medieval Achievement.  (Biblioteca Iranica Reprint Series No. 3)  212 pages, maps, b&w plates, selected bibliography, index.  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.   $11.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56859-048-2

Gelber, Yoav.  Jewish-Transjordanian Relations, 1921-1948.   320 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.  London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1997.   $25 (Paper) isbn 0-7146-4206-1

Gendzier, Irene.  Notes from the Minefield:  United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958.   400 pages, b&w photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.   $39.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-231-10474-X

Gilbar, Gad G.  The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond:  Essays in Political Economy.   123 pages, tables, figures, illustrations, index.  London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1997.   $45 (Cloth) isbn 0-7146-4734-9

Haj, Samira.  The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963:  Capital, Power and Ideology.  (SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)  215 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.   $18.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3242-4

Halm, Heinz.  Shi'a Islam:  From Religion to Revolution.  (Princeton Series on the Middle East.  Bernard Lewis & Heath Lowry, eds.)  176 pages, figures, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index.  Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1997.   $16.95 (Paper) isbn 1-55876-135-7

Harris, William.  Faces of Lebanon:  Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions.  (Princeton Series on the Middle East.  Bernard Lewis & Heath Lowry, eds.)  368 pages, maps, illustrations, b&w plates, notes, glossary,biblograpy, index.  Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1997.   $16.95 (Paper) isbn 1-55876-116-0

Hathaway, Jane.  The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt:  The Rise of the Qazdaglis.  (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)  198 pages, tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.   $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-521-57110-3

Hinds, Martin.  Studies in Early Islamic History.  (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 4)  262 pages, figures, color figures, notes, index.  Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1997.   $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-87850-109-6

Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin, ed.  O.I.C. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture Newsletter.  (No. 41  December 1996)  43 pages, b&w plates, tables.  Kuala Lumpur: Berita Publishing, 1996.   (Paper)

Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin, ed.  O.I.C. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture Newsletter.  (No. 40  August 1996)  39 pages, b&w plates.  Kuala Lumpur: Berita Publishing, 1996.   (Paper)

Khan, Ansar Zahid, ed.  Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society.  (Vol. XLIV, April 1996, Part II)  86 pages, plates, notes and references.  Karachi, Pakistan: Bait al-Hikmah, 1996.   $12 (Paper)

Khan, Ansar Zahid, ed.  Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society.  (Vol. XLIV, October 1996, Part IV)  100 pages, plates, notes and references.  Karachi, Pakistan: Bait al-Hikmah, 1996.   $12 (Paper) isbn

Khan, Ansar Zahid, ed.  Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society.  (Vol. XLIV, July 1996, Part III)  101 pages, maps, notes and references.  Karachi, Pakistan: Bait al-Hikmah, 1996.   $12 (Paper)

Kienle, Eberhard, ed.  Contemporary Syria:  Liberalization Between Cold War and Cold Peace.   187 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.   (Paper) isbn 1-86064-1350

Krawitz, Henry, ed.  Picturing the Middle East:  A Hundred Years of European Orientalism.   81 pages, b&w plates, figures.  New York: Dahesh Museum, 1997.   (Paper) isbn 09654793-0-7

Lewis, Franklin & Farzin Yazdanfar.  In a Voice of Their Own:  A Collection of Stories By Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution of 1979.  (Persian Fiction in Translation Series, No. 4)  153 pages, notes, bibliographies, glossary.  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.   $13.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56859-045-8

Liebman, Charles S. & Elihu Katz, eds.  The Jewishness of Israeliness:  Responses to the Guttman Report.   188 pages, figures, notes, appendix, index.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.   $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-7914-3305-6

Modarres-Sadeqi, Jafar.  The Marsh [Gavkhuni].  (Persian Fiction in Translation Series, No. 3)  71 pages.  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.   $9.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56859-044-X

Moghissi, Haideh.  Populism and Feminism in Iran:  Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement.   217 pages, notes, references, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-312-16469-6

Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza.  The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution:  The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan.  (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)  301 pages, tables, figures, notes, glossary, interviewees, bibliography, index.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.   $20 (Paper) isbn 0-520-08369-5

Nelson, Cynthia.  Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist:  A World Apart.   348 pages, b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996.   $49.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1455-7

Nevo, Joseph.  King Abdallah and Palestine:  A Territorial Ambition.   259 pages, maps, annex, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $65 (Cloth) isbn 0-312-16223-5

Olson, Robert.  Imperial Meanderings and Republican By-Ways:  Essays on Eighteenth Century Ottoman and Twentieth Century History of Turkey.  (Analecta Isisiana XXIII)  332 pages.  Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1996.   (Paper) isbn 975-428-097-5

Pampanini, Andrea H.  Cities from the Arabian Desert:  The Building of Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia.   256 pages, b&w plates, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography, index.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997.   $55 (Cloth) isbn 0-275-95594-X

Park, Thomas K.  Historical Dictionary of Morocco.  (African Historical Dictionaries, No. 71  New Edition)  544 pages, chronology, tables, appendices, maps, glossary, bibliography.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996.   $69.50 (Cloth) isbn 0-8108-3168-6

Peretz, Don & Gideon Doron.  The Government and Politics of Israel:  Third Edition.   308 pages, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.   $21 (Paper) isbn 0-8133-2409-2

Rajab, Jehan S.  Invasion Kuwait:  An English Woman's Tale.   204 pages, glossary of Arabic terms, maps, b&w photos, index.  London: Radcliffe Press, 1997.   $19.95 (Paper) isbn 1-86064-069-9

Ranstorp, Magnus.  Hizb'Allah in Lebanon:  The Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis.   257 pages, notes, select bibliography, index.  New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $18.95 (Paper) isbn 0-312-16491-2

Reiter, Yitzhak.  Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem Under British Mandate.   251 pages, notes, figures, tables, bibliography, index.  London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1996.   $24 (Paper) isbn 0-7146-4342-4

Roy, Oliver.  Afghanistan:  From Holy War to Civil War.  (The Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series)  142 pages, color plates, glossary , bibliography, index.  Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1997.   $24.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-87850-076-6

Sa'edi, Gholamhoseyn.  Othello in Wonderland and Mirror-Polishing Storytellers:  Two Plays by Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi.  (Performing Arts Series, Number 2)  144 pages, notes, references, glossary.  Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996.   $13.95 (Paper) isbn 1-56859-046-6

Schirazi, Asghar.  The Constitution of Iran:  Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic.   325 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1997.   $69.50 (Cloth) isbn 1-86064-046-X

Sharabi, Hisham, ed.  Journal of Palestine Studies.  (Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Autumn 1996, Issue 101)  199 pages, b&w plates, figures, chronology, bibliography.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.   (Paper)

Shryock, Andrew.  Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination:  Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan.   370 pages, map, b&w photos, figures, appendices, bibliography, index.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.   $20 (Paper) isbn 0-520-20101-9

Stone, Peter F.  The Oriental Rug Lexicon.   267 pages, maps, color figures, b&w figures, bibliography.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.   $29.95 (Paper) isbn 0-295-97574-1

Talhami, Ghada Hashem.  The Mobilization of Muslim Women in Egypt.   192 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996.   $39.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-8130-1429-8

Tibi, Bassam.  Arab Nationalism:  Between Islam and the Nation-State.   365 pages, notes, bibliography, index.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.   $19.95 (Paper) isbn 0-312-16286-3

Webber, Sabra J., Margaret R. Lynd & Kristin Peterson, eds.  Fantasy or Ethnography?  Irony and Collusion in Subaltern Representation.  (Papers in Comparative Studies Vol. 8 (1993-94))  256 pages, b&w plates, figures.  Columbus: Ohio State University, 1996.   $10 (Paper) isbn

Wescoat, James L. & Joachim Wolscheke-Bulmahn.  Mughal Gardens:  Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects.  (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquim on the History of Landscape Architecture, 16)  288 pages, b&w plates, figures, maps, tables, biographies of authors, index.  Baltimore, MD: Dumbarton Oaks Publishing Service, 1996.   $60 (Cloth) isbn 0\88402-253-8

Yusuf, Muhammad Khair Ramadan.  Dalil al-Mu'allifat al-Islamiyya fi al-Mamlakat al-'Arabiyyat al-Sa'udiyya, 1400-1409 (The Guide of Islamic Publications in the Kingd.   781 pages.  Riyadh: Dar al-Faisal al-Thaqafiyya, 1993.