Books Received for Review|
April 22, 1997-January 15, 1998

Abi-Aad, Naji & Michel Grenon. Instability and Conflict in the Middle East: People, Petroleum. 224 pages, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $65 isbn 0-312-17254-0 

Adamec, Ludwig W. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan Asian. (Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No. 5500.) notes, abbreviations, map, chronology, bibliography. London: Scarecrow Press, 1997. $58 isbn 0-8108-3312-3

Adamec, Ludwig W. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. (Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No. 5512 Ed.) foreword, abbreviations & acronyms, user’s notes. Landam, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. $58 isbn 0-8108-3312-3

Afsaruddin, Asma and A.H. Mathias Zahniser, eds. Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East. 440 pages, preface, acknowledgments, publications, abbreviations. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1997 $49.50 isbn 1-57506-020-5

Agaoglu, Adalet. Trans. by John Goulden. Curfew (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation). 300 pages. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997 $12.95 ISBN 0-292-70479-8

Al-e Ahmad, Jalal. Translated by John Green and Ahmad Alizadeh. Gharbzadegi [Weststruckness]. 189 pages, acknowledgements, introduction, foreword. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers,1997. $11.95 ISBN 0-939214-07-5

al-Qaddumi, Ghada al Hijjawi. Book of Gifts and Rarities (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Monograph, 535 pages, notes, maps, glossary, chronology, indices, appendices, color. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. $24.97 isbn 0-932885-13-6

al-Suwaidi, Jamal S. Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability. 425 pages, maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, index. Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies, 1997. $59.50 isbn 1-86064-143-1

Allsen, Thomas T. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire. 137 pages, preface, note on transliteration, abbreviations, bibliography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-521-58301-2

Amuzegar, Jahangir. Iran’s Economy under the Islamic Republic. 420 pages, notes, tables, bibliography, index. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 1997 $ 19.95 isbn 1-86064-104-0

Aspects Formels de la Poesie Arabe Toulouse: AMAM, 1997 isbn 2-9507733-3-8

Baktiari, Bahman. Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran. 291 pages, 1 figure, 12 tables, statistical appendix, notes, bibliography. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. $49.95 isbn 0-8130-1461-1

Barrett, Christopher B. and Jefferey W. Cason. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide. 126 pages, field narratives, foreword, preface & acknowledgments, biblio. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. $12.95 isbn 0-8018-5513-6

Beker, Michiel, Inge Hoogerheiden, Azza Karam & Robert Soeterik. Islamisms "There" and "Here": Morocco, Turkey, the Netherlands. (Middle East Research Associates Journal I, 1997.) 62 pages, references. Amsterdam, NL : Middle East Research Associates, 1997. $15 isbn 1386-7202

Blackwill, Robert D. and Michael Sturmer, eds. Allies Divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East. (CSIA Studies in International Security) 325 pages, acknowledgments, introduction, contributors, index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. $22.50 isbn 0-262-52244-6

Bohas, Georges. Matrices, Etymons, Racines. (Orbis/Supplementa Tome 8) 207 pages, abbreviations, introduction, appendix, conclusion. Paris: Peeters Press, 1997. isbn 2-87723-329-4

Bonine, Michael E., ed. Population, Poverty, and Politics in Middle East Cities. 384 pages, 10 b&w photographs, 17 maps, 2 charts, 13 tables, notes. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-8130-1474-3

Boullata, Issa J. & Terri DeYoung. Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature. 272 pages, preface, publications of Mounah A. Khouri, contributors. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. $32 isbn I-55728-447-4

Bourqia, R., M. Charrand, N. Gallagher, dirs. Femmes, Culture et Societe au Maghreb - I:Femmes, Pouvoir. 205 pages, tables, notes, bibliography. Casablanca, Afrique: Orient, 1996. isbn 9981-25-047-3

Bozdogan, Sibel and Resat Kasaba, eds. Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey. 304 pages, 25 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. $22.50 isbn 0-295-97597-0

Brink, Judy & Joan Mencher, eds. Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross. 275 pages, references, contributors, index. New York: Routledge, 1997. $17.95 isbn 0-415-91166-9

Brower, Daniel R. and Edward J. Lazzerini Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917. (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European) 368 pages, 27 b&w photos, 4 maps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. $19.95 isbn 0-253-21113-1

Brown, Nathan J. The Rule of Law in the Arab World. (Cambridge Middle East Studies) 253 pages, preface, glossary, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $59.95 isbn 0-521-59026-4

Brunner, Rainer. Annaherung und Distanz. 328 pages. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1996. isbn 3-87997-256-7

Burgat, Francois & William Dowell. The Islamic Movement in North Africa. (Middle East Monograph Series) 337 pages, tables, figures, notes, index. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997. isbn 0-292-70855-6

Butt, Gerald. The Arabs: Myth and Reality. 330 pages, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, introduction, notes, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $18.95 isbn 1-86064-157-1

Caesar, Judith. Crossing Borders. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 184 pages. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0815627351

Celenko, Theodore, Ed. Egypt in Africa. 138 pages, 20 color photos, 80 b&w photos. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. $ 24.95 isbn 0936260645

Celink, Zeynep. Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French. 236 pages, figures, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $40 isbn 0-520-20457-3

Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz . The Price of Wealth: Economies & Institutions in the Middle. 319 pages, acknowledgments, glossary of Saudi archival documents, index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. $19.95 isbn 0-8014-3164-6

Cohen, Michael J. Fighting World War Three from the Middle East. 349 pages, notes, bibliography, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997. $24 isbn 0-7146-4269-X

Courbage, Youssef and Fargues, Phillippe. Christians and Jews Under Islam. 242 pages, preface, notes, index of names and terms. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997. $59.50 isbn 1-86064-013-3

Cronin, Stephanie. The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran. (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) 296 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 1997. $59.50 isbn 1-86064-105-9

Cubert, Harold M. The PFLP’s Changing Role in the Middle East. 193 pages, index, bibliography. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1997. $47.50 isbn 0-7146-4772-1

Davis, Joyce. Between Jihad and Salaam. 339 pages, acknowledgements, introduction, notes, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0-312-16587-0

De Toulouse a Tripoli. Toulouse: AMAM, 1997 isbn 2-9507733-2-X

du Plessis, Nancy. Notes Des Cahiers Marocains. (Notes From the Moroccan) Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995. isbn 2-7384-2933-5

El-Azhari, Taef Kamal. The Saljuqs of Syria. 389 pages. Foreword by C.E. Bosworth. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1997. isbn 3-87997-263-X

Elon, Amos. A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East. 332 pages, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. $24.95 isbn 0-231-10742-0

Engineer, Asghar Ali. The Rights of Women in Islam. 188 pages, appendix, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. isbn 0-312-16197-2

Esack, Farid Qur'an. Liberation and Pluralism. 288 pages, list of abbreviations, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1997. $22.95 isbn 1851681213

Esfandiari, Haleh. Reconstructed Lives: Women & Iran’s Islamic Revolution. (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) 226 pages, index, bibliography, glossary. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. $15.95 isbn 0-8018-5619-1

Esposito, John L. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? 247 pages, acknowledgments, bibliography, about the contributors, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. $19.95 isbn 1-55587-168-2

Everdell, William R. The First Moderns. 501 pages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0-226-22480-5

Farfur, Abd al-Rahman. Afaq al-Taqafa Wa al-Turat: A Quarterly Journal of Cultural Heritage. (Volume 4 - No. 14, Rabi al-Tani 1417 A.H. =September) 148 pages, charts, tables. Dubai, U.A.E: Juma al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage, 1996.

Farrokhzaad, Foroogh. A Rebirth: Poems by Foroogh Farrokhzaad. 133 pages, figures, notes, addendum. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1997. $10.95 isbn 0-939214-30-X

Farsoun, Samih K. with Christina E. Zacharia. Palestine and the Palestinians. 375 pages, tables, illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, glossary. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. $34 isbn 0-8133-0340-0

Fattah, Hala. The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf. (SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) 254 pages, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. isbn 0-7914-3114-2

Fisher, Ronald J. Interactive Conflict Resolution. 312 pages, illustrations, works cited, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. $19.95 isbn 0-8156-2715-7

Fisher, Sydney Nettleton & William Ochsenwald. The Middle East: A History, Vol. I. 395 pages, references, tables, maps, glossary, index. Blacklick, OH: MacGraw-Hill, 1997. isbn 0-07-021231-7

Fisher, Sydney Nettleton & William Ochsenwald. The Middle East: A History. Vol. II. 741 pages. maps, charts, references, glossary, index. Blacklick, OH: MacGraw-Hill, 1997. isbn 0-07-021719-X

Gilbar, Gad G. Population Dilemmas in the Middle East. 141 pages, tables, figures, illustrations, notes, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997. $18.50 isbn 0-7146-4244-4

Gleave, Robert and Kermeli, Eugenia, eds. Islamic Law: Theory and Practice. 248 pages, contributors, introduction, bibliography, index. London: I.B. Tauris, 1997. $75 isbn 1-86064-119-9

Gokay, Bulent. A Clash of Empires: Turkey Between Russian Bolshevism. ( Library of Modern Middle East Studies) 169 pages, maps, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 1997. $59.50 isbn I 86064 117 2

Gomaa, Salwa Sharawi. Environmental Policy Making In Egypt. 124 pages, figures, tables, appendices, notes, biblio, index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997 $39.95 isbn 0813015103

Goode, James. The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq. preface, acknowledgments, abbrev, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $39.95 isbn 0-312-17272-9

Greenwood, Ned. The Sinai: A Physical Geography. 160 pages, 19 b&w photos, 25 maps, 7 figures, 10 tables. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. $16.95 isbn 0-292-72799-2

Gude, Mary Louise. Louis Massignon: The Crucible of Compassion. 280 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. $34.95 isbn 0-268-01308-X

Gunter, Michael M. The Kurds and the Future of Turkey. 184 pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $45 isbn 0-312-17265-6

Guthrie, Shirley. Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages: An Illustrated Study. 229 pages, illustrations, glossary, notes, foreword by Robert. London: Saqi Books, 1995. $70 isbn 0-86356-043-1

Hallaq, Wael B.A. History of Islamic Legal Theories. 294 pages, preface, conclusion, references, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $59.95 isbn 0-521-59027-2

Harik, Iliya. Economic Policy Reform in Egypt. 258 pages, tables, acknowledgments, abbreviations, notes, works. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0813014832

Harrow, Kenneth W., ed. The Marabout & the Muse. (Studies in African Literature) 239 pages, notes, acknowledgments, glossary, references, index. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. $22 isbn 0-435-08983-8

Hegasy, Sonja. Staat, Offentlichekeit und Zivilgesellschaft in Marokko. (Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Instituts) 268 pages, notes, bibliography. Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1997. isbn 3-89173-045-4

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 isbn 1-56098-726-X

Holliday, Eunice & John Holliday. Letters From Jerusalem, 1922 - 1925. 170 pages, list of pictures, acknowledgments, map, notes, bibliography. London: Radcliffe Press, 1997. $39.50 isbn 1 86064 085 0

Hoodfar, Homa. Between Marriage and the Market. 320 pages, acknowledgments, glossary, references, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. $16.95 isbn 0-520-20611-8

Hovannisian, Richard C., & Georges Sabagh, eds. The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic literature and society. (Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conferences) 121 pages, references, notes, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-521-57397-1

Hovannisian, Richard, ed. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Vol. II. 493 pages, maps, transliteration systems, bibliography, notes, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-312-10168-6

Hunzai, Faquir M., & Kutub Kassam. The Shimmering Light: An Anthology of Isma'ili Poems. 162 pages, notes, bibliography, indices. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 1997. $19.95 isbn 1-86064-151-2

Irwin, Robert. The Arabian Nights. 344 pages, chronology, bibliography, index. New York: Penguin, 1994. $24.95 isbn 0713991054

Jaber, Hala. Hezbollah: Born with a Vengeance. 214 pages, plates, maps, acknowledgments, bibliography, chronology, glossary. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0-231-10834-6

Jandora, John Walter. Militarism in Arab Society: An Historiographical and.. 192 pages, glossary, maps, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. $65 isbn 0-313-29370-8

Juvaini, Ata-Malik, Translated & edited by J.A. Boyle. Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror. 725 pages, acknowledgments, ed. introduction, bibliography, maps, genealogical chart. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997. $40 isbn 0-295-97654-3

Karl, Terry Lynn. The Paradox of Plenty. (Studies in International Political Economy, 26) 360 pages, 3 illustrations, 36 tables. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. $22 isbn 0-520-20772-6

Karsh, Efraim. Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians." 210 pages, maps, notes, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997. $35 isbn 0-7146-4725-X

Kassim, Anis F. The Palestine Yearbook of International Law (Vol. VIII 1994/95561) The Hague Kluwer International Press, 1996. $228 isbn 90-411-0314-7

Katz, Mark N. Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves. 170 pages, acknowledgments, preface, notes, bibliography, about the author. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $45 isbn 0-312-17322-9

Kayali, Hasan. Arabs and Young Turks. 306 pages, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $18 isbn 0520204468

Kemp, Geoffrey & Robert E. Harkavy. Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East. 493 pages, tables, maps, notes, appendices, index. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 199. isbn 0-87003-022-1

Kennedy, Hugh. Muslim Spain and Portugal. 342 pages, list of maps, glossary, introduction, appendices, maps. London: New Longman Group UK, 1996. $15.99 isbn 0582495156

Khan, Ansar Zahid, ed. Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. (Volume XLV, January 1997, Part I) 108 pages, notes and references. Karachi, Pakistan: Bait al-Hikmah, 1997. $12

Kodmani-Darwish, Bassma. La diaspora palestinienne. (Perspectives Internationales) 263 pages, tables, maps, bibliography. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997. $120 isbn 2-13-048486-7

Kodmani-Darwish, Bassma and May Chartouni-Dubarry. Les Etats Arabes face a la contestation islamiste. 320 pages, preface, introduction, conclusion, bibliography. Paris: Institut francais des relations internationales, 1997. $180 isbn 2-200-01533-X

Kramer, Martin. Middle Eastern Lectures. (Middle Eastern Lectures, Number 2102) editor’s note, occasions. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1997. $12.95 isbn 965-224-023-0

Kramer, Martin. The Islamism Debate. (Dayan Center Papers) 172 pages, preface, index. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1997. $12.95 isbn 965-224-024-9

Lahav, Pnina. Judgement in Jerusalem. 352 pages, 11 b&w photographs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $29.95 isbn 0-520-20595-2

Lee, Robert D. Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic. 195 pages, acknowledgments, bibliography, index, about the book. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. $18 isbn 0-8133-2798-9

Levran, Aharon. Israeli Strategy After Desert Storm: Lessons of the Second Gulf. 169 pages, notes, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997. $47.50 isbn 0-7146-4755-1

Lindholm, Charles. The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology. 324 pages, maps, b&w plates, glossary, chronology, notes, references. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. $29.95 isbn 1-55786-421-7

Long, David E. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 131 pages, maps, tables and figures, preface, notes, bibliography. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1997. $39.95 isbn 0-8130-1471-9

Lucas, Ivor A. Road to Damascus: Mainly Diplomatic Memoirs from the. 251 pages, foreword, preface, map, notes, bibliography, index. London: Radcliffe Press, 1997. $39.50 isbn 1 86064 152 0

Lukacs, Yehuda. Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process. 274 pages, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. $39.95 isbn 0815627203

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim. Yemen, Travels in Dictionary Land. 280 pages. London: Murray, 1997. isbn 180-7195-56228

Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce & Efraim Inbar, eds. Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East. (Cass Series on Political Violence) 255 pages, index, list of contributors. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997. $22.50 isbn 0-7146-4326-2

Marlow, Louise. Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 198 pages, notes, bibliography, indices. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-521-56430-1

McCarthy, Justin. The Ottoman Turks. bibiographical references, index. London: Longman Group UK, 1997. $18.99 isbn 0582256550

McChesney, R.D. Central Asia: Foundations of Change. (The Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series) 204 pages, tables, maps, figures, color plates, notes, glossary, bibliography. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1997. $35 isbn 0-87850-077-4

McDowall, David A. Modern History of the Kurds. 480 pages, maps, notes, sources, index, appendix. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. 1997. $17.95 isbn 1-86064-185-7

Meho, Lokman I. The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selected and Annotated Bibiography: Bibliographies and Indexes in World History. 376 pages, list of abbreviations, preface, introduction, indices. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pubishing Group, 1997. $79.50 isbn 0313303975

Melhem, Hisham. Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy. 28 pages, occasional paper. Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1997. $4.95

Muftuler-Bac, Meltem. Turkey’s Relations With A Changing Europe. (Europe in Change Series) 113 pages, bibliography, index, abbreviations. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1997. $59.95 isbn 0-7190-4233 X

Nasr, Sayyid Vali Reza. The Muslim World. (Nazzal, Nafez & Laila Nazzal Historical Dictionary of Palestine Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No. 23) 320 pages, bibliography, appendices, about the authors, maps. Landam, MD: Scarecrow Press 1997. $55 isbn 0-8108-3239-9

O’Ballance, Edgar. Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism, 1979-1995. 227 pages, preface, acknowledgments, chronology, bibliography, index. New York: New York University Press, 1997. $40 isbn 0814761917

Onat, Hasan. Shi'ism in the Twentieth Century and the Islamic Revolution of. 65 pages. Ankara: Research Foundation for Public Services, 1996. isbn 9759578220

Ozcan, Azmi. Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain. (The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 12) 226 pages, note on transcriptions, foreword, bibliography, index. Leiden: Brill, 1997. $89.50 isbn 9004106324

Papazian, Dennis R., ed. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (JSAS Volume 7) 213 pages, notes, charts, tables, b&w plates. Dearborn, MI: Society for Armenian Studies, 1994. isbn 0747-9301

Pazzanita, Anthony G. Western Sahara (World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 190) 259 pages, introduction, chronology, glossary, bibliographies, indeces, map. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc, 1996. $64.75 isbn 1851092560

Peck, Malcolm. Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, No. 21) 352 pages, maps, bibliography, appendices. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. $45 isbn 0-8108-3203-8

Perikhanian, Anahit. The Book of a Thousand Judgements. 432 pages, translated from the Russian by Nina Garsoian. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1997. $69 isbn 156859061X

Rajab, Jehan S. Silver Jewellery of Oman. 69 pages. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $14.95 isbn 1860643108

Rajaee, Farhang. Iranian Perspectives on the Iran-Iraq War. 200 pages, tables, notes, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-8130-1476X

Ram, Uri. The Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology: Theory, Ideology. (SUNY series in Israeli studies) 207 pages, list of tables, prologue, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. $19.95 isbn 0-7914-2302-6

Ramazani, Nesta. Persian Cooking. Shopper’s guide, glossary, index. Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, 1997. $17.95 isbn 0-936347-77-5

Robinson, Glenn. Building a Palestinian State. 248 pages, notes, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. $14.95 isbn 0-253-21082-8

Rothman, Jay. Resolving Identity-Based Conflict. (Jossey-Bass conflict resolution series) 195 pages, preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, index. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997. isbn 0-7879-0996-3

Salem, Paul, Ed. Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Selected Essays. 500 pages, works cited, index. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. $19.95 isbn 0815660979

Sayigh, Yezid and Avi Shlaim, eds. The Cold War and the Middle East. 303 pages, list of contributors, chronology, map, conclusion, index. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997, $75 isbn 0-19-829099-3

Shahadeh, Raja. From Occupation to Interim Accords. (Centre of Islamic & Middle Eastern Law Series, 4) 240 pages, foreword, introduction, appendices, index. The Hague Kluwer Law International, 1997. $130 isbn 90-411-0384-8

Shakir, Evelyn. Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States. 248 pages, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, appendix, notes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. $22.95 isbn 0-275-95672-5

Sheffer, Gabriel, ed. U.S.-Israeli Relations at the Crossroads. 242 pages, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997. $22.5 isbn 0-7146-4305-X

Sidahmed, Abdel Salam. Politics and Islam in Contemporary Sudan. 249 pages, notes, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $55 isbn 0-312-16144-1

Spandounes, Theodore. On the Origin of the Ottoman Emperors. 161 pages. Trans. by Donald M. Nicol. Tables, map, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $49.95 isbn 0-521-58510-4

Stetkevych, Jaroslav. Muhammad and the Golden Bough. 208 pages, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press, 1996. $39.95 isbn 0253332087

Stewart, Desmond. Great Cairo: Mother of the World. 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1997. $24.95 isbn 977-424-409-5

Vatikiotis, P.J. The Middle East. 284 pages, preface, acknowledgements, notes, index. New York: Routledge, 1997. $65 isbn 0-415-15849-4

Vertovec, Steve and Peach, Ceri, ed. Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community. 283 Pages, Figures, tables, acknowledgements, index. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $69.95 isbn 0-312-16598-6

Walker, Christopher. Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia. 157 pages, map, references, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co, 1997. isbn 1-86064-111-3

Walter G. Andrews, Najaat Black and Mehmet Kalpakli. Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology. 328 pages, 15 b&w photos. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997. $14.95 isbn 0-292-70472-0

Winckler, Onn. Population Growth and Migration in Jordan, 1950-1994. 103 pages, tables, acknowledgments, appendices, notes, bibliography. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 1997. $75 isbn 1-898723 65 6

Wolfe, Michael. One Thousand Roads to Mecca. 620 pages, preface, introduction, maps, permissions, glossary, bibliography. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1997. $32.50 isbn 0-8021-1611-6

Yamani, Hani A. To Be A Saudi. 157 pages. London: Janus Publishing Company, 1997. $25 isbn 1-85756-303-4

Yizraeili, Sarah. The Remaking of Saudi Arabia. (The Dayan Center Papers) 213 Pages, acknowledgments, introduction, appendices, sources, index. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1997. $14.95 isbn 965-224-026-5

Yohannes, Okbazghi. The United States and the Horn of Africa: An Analytical Study. 341 pages, acknowledgments, references, about the author, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. $65 isbn 0-8133-3361-X

Zebiri, Kate. Muslims and Christians Face to Face. 258 pages, preface and acknowledgements, glossary, select bibliography, index. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1997. $22.95 isbn 1-85168-133-7