Books Received for Review from the 
February 1999 Newsletter

Abdelkader, Al-Brifcani. The Modern Kurdish National Movement From Mustafa Barzani to Masoud Barzani. Cairo, Egypt: Al-Ahram, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 977-5-783-01-1.

Abraham, Ben-Zvi. Decade of Transition Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the America-Israeli Alliance. 206 pages, notes, selected bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-231-11262-9.

AbuKhalil, As’ad. Historical Dictionary of Lebanon. Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 30. 384 pages, chronology, maps, appendices, bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. $65 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8108-3395-6.

Abu’l-Fadl Gulpaygani, Mirza. The Brilliant Proof. 80 pages, appendix, photographs. Los Angeles, CA: Kalimát Press, 1998. $14.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-890688-00-2.

Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean and Ahmed Yousef. Islam and the West: A Dialog. Islamic Roundtables, #1. 250 pages, capsule biographies. Springfield, MA: United Association for Studies and Research, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 1-882669-17-7.

Al-Fahim, Mohammed. From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi. Glossary. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 1998. $39.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-86064-233-0.

Al-Khazendar, Sami. Jordan and the Palestine Question: The Role of Islamic and Left Forces in Foreign Policy-Making. International Politics of the Middle East. 229 pages, bibliography, index. Concord, NY : Ithaca Press, 1997. $40 ISBN/ISSN 0-86372-221-0.

Al-Munajjed, Mona. Women in Saudi Arabia Today. 153 pages, map, bibliography, indices. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $59.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-312-12988-2.

Al-Radi, Selma. The Amiriya in Rada: The History and Restoration of a Sixteenth-Century Madrasa in Yemen. 215 pages, figures, color plates, appendix, bibliography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN/ISSN 0-19-728023-4.

Al-Sayyid Abu al Qasim al-Musawi al-Khu’i. The Prolegomena to the Qur’an. 280 pages, index. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 0-19-511675-5.

American Institute for Maghribi Studies (AIMS). Colloque International Migration: internationale et changements sociaux dans le Maghreb. 451 pages. Tunis, Algeria: United Association for Studies and Research, 1993.

Avner, Cohen. Israel and the Bomb. 470 notes, glossary, sources and bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998. $27.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-231-10482-0.

Behdad, Sohrab and Farhad Nomani. International Review of Comparative Public Policy: Islam and Public Policy, Vol. 9. 310 pages, notes, references. London, UK: Jai Press, 1997. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7623-0268-2.

Beinin, Joel. The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society; 11. 329 pages, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 0-520-21175-8.

Bencherif, Osman. The Image of Algeria in Anglo-American Writing 1765-1962. 269 pages, bibliography. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7618-0730-6.

Ben-Eliezer, Uri. The Making of Israeli Militarism. 320 pages, notes, index. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. $35 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-253-33387-3.

Benson, Michael T. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. 240 pages, bibliography. Westport, CT: Praeger. 1997. $57.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-275-95807-8.

Benvenisti, Meron. Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land. 260 pages, foreward by Thomas L. Friedman, notes, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. $24.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-08567-1.

Borowiec, Andrew. Modern Tunisia: A Democratic Apprenticeship. 160 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 0-275-96136-2.

Brink, Judy and Joan Mencher, eds. Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally. 275 pages, references, contributors, index. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. $17.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-415-91166-9.

Brock, Sebastian P. and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, intro. and trans. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (updated edition with a new preface). 195 pages, bibliography and sources, index of names. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. $15.85 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-21366-1.

Brubaker, Leslie. Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. 271 pages, abbreviations, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. $76.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-86078-686-2.

Buehler, Arthur F. Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh. Studies in Comparative Religion. 312 pages, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 1-57003-201-7.

Bunzl, John. Between Vienna and Jerusalem: Reflections and Polemics on Austria, Israel and Palestine. 120 pages. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. $32.95 ISBN/ISSN 0-8204-3510-4.

Chraibi, Driss. Muhammad: A Novel. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. $22 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-89410-858-1.

Clogg, Richard. Anatolica: Studies in the Greek East in the 18th and 19th Century. Variorum Collected Studies Series. 321 pages, notes, maps, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996. $94.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-86078-543-2.

Cohen, Michael J. and Martin Kolinsky. Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain’s Response to Nationalist Movements. 248 pages, notes on contributor, list of abbreviations, map, index. London, UK: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1998. $54.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7146-48-43.

Cole, Juan R.I. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha’ i Faith in the Nineteenth Century. map and illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998. $19.50 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-231-11080-4.

Collier, Mark and Bill Manley. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself. 179 pages, chart, exercises, reference tables, Egyptian-English vocabulary. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. $18.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-21597-4.

Cooke, Miriam. Women and the War Story. 367 pages, B&W photos, notes, cited works, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. $18.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-20613-4.

Cotran, Eugene and Chibli Mallat, eds. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Vol. 3. 566 pages, notes, index. London, UK: Kluwer Law International, 1997. ISBN/ISSN 90-411-0443-7.

Cronin, Stephanie. The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910-1926. Library of Modern Middle East Studies. 296 pages, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. London, UK: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1997. $59.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-86064-105-9.

Daneshvar, Parviz. Revolution in Iran. 228 pages, notes, references, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $59.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-312-16270-7.

Darwish, Mustafa. Dream Makers on the Nile A Portrait of Egyptian Cinema. 44 pages. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 977-424-429X.

Davidson, Andrew. Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration. Yale Series in Hermeneutic. 288 pages, notes, select bibliography, index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. $37.50 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-3--06936-7.

Davis, Uri. Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. 222 pages, glossary of abbreviations, bibliography, index. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Limited, 1997. $30 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-86372-218-0.

Dien, M. Izzi. The Theory and the Practice of Market Law in Medieval Islam: A Study of Kitab Nisab al-Ihtisab of Umar b. Muhammad al-Sunami. 239 pages, bibliography, abbreviations. Oakville, CT: David Brown Book Co., 1997. ISBN/ISSN 0906094 33 X.

Donner, Fred M. Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 14. 360 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1998. $29.95 ISBN/ISSN 0-87850-127-4.

Dumper, Michael. Islam and Israel: Muslim Religious Endowments and the Jewish State. 192 pages, maps, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1997: $12 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-88728-270-9.

Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967. The Institute for Palestine Studies Series. 365 pages, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997. ISBN/ISSN 0-231-10640-8.

El-Din, Mursi Saad. Bazbia Sirry: Lust for Color. 53 pages, b&w and color plates. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 977-424-405-2.

El-Ghonemy, M. Riad. Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East. 298 pages, figures, tables, map, notes, bibliography, indices. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998. $25.99 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-415-10033-X.

Elkhadem, Saad. Two Avant-Garde Egyptian Novels: The Great Egyptian Novel, From Travels of the Egyptian. 47 pages. Toronto, Canada: York Press Ltd., 1998. $15.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 1-896761-13-5.

Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Learning. The Information Revolution and the Arab World Its Impact on State and Society. 236 pages, tables, contributors, notes on text, bibliography, index. Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1998. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-86064-247-0.

Fawal, Ibrahim. On the Hills of God. 450 pages. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1998. $27.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-57966-002-9.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman’s Global Journey. 430 pages, index. New York, NY: Doubleday-Anchor, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 0-385-47518-7.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock and Robert A. Fernea. The Arab World: Forty Years of Change. 551 pages, map, photographs, index. New York, NY: Doubleday-Anchor, 1997. $15.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-385-48520-4.

Finklestone, Joseph. Anwar Sadat: Visionary Who Dared. 297 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1996. $39.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7146-4165-0.

Frisch, Hillel. Countdown to Statehood: Palestinian State Formation in the West Bank and Gaza. SUNY Series in Israeli Studies. 221 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. $19.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7914-3712-4.

Gee, John. Unequal Conflict: The Palestinians and Israel. 140 pages, notes, index. Brooklyn, NY: Olive Branch Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 1-56656-303-8.

Ginat, Joseph and Onn Winckler. The Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli Triangle: Smoothing the Path to Peace. 220 pages, index. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1998. $54.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-898723-82-6.

Goçek, Fatma Müge, ed. Political Cartoons in the Middle East. 154 pages, illustrations. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1998. $15.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 1-55876-157-8.

Gunergun, Feza and Kuriyama Shigehisa. The Introduction of Modern Science and Technology to Turkey and Japan. 257 pages. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1996.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and John L. Esposito, eds. Muslims on the Americanization Path? 504 pages, select bibliography. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1998. $44.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7885-0441-X.

Hanna, Nelly. Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma‘il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms. 224 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, maps. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. $19.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8156-2763-7.

Hegasy, Sonja. Egyptian and German Perspectives on Security in the Mediterranean. 161 pages. Cairo, Egypt: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 971-5159.06-4.

Hejaiej, Monia. Behind Closed Doors: Women’s Oral Narratives in Tunis. 369 pages. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. $17.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8135-2376-1.

Heller, Joseph. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror, 1940-1949. 358 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. London, UK: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1995. $47.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7146-4558-3.

Heper, Metin. Ismet Inonu: The Making of a Turkish Statesman. works cited, index, illustrations. Boston, MA: E.J. Brill, 1998. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 90-04-09919-0.

Hoexter, Miriam. Endowments, Rulers and Community: Waqf al-Haramayn in Ottoman Algiers. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 6. Tables, lists, bibliography, index. Boston, MA: E.J. Brill, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 90-04-10964-1.

Hohenberg, John. Israel at 50: A Journalist’s Perspective. 376 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. $29.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8156-0518-8.

Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Broken Crescent: The "Threat" of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism. 256 pages, notes, selected bibliography, index of names. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. $39.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-275-95837-X.

Huband, Mark. Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam. 196 pages, notes, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. $25 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8133-2780-6.

Hunter, Shireen T. The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence? 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. $17.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-275-96288-1.

Husain, Intizar. The Seventh Door and Other Stories. 235 pages, edited and with an introduction by Muhammad Umar Memon. Boulder, CO: Three Continents Press, 1998. $19.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-89410-822-0.

Hussein, Taha. The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts. 235 pages. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1998. $29.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 977-424-435-4.

Iram, Yaacov and Miriam Schmida. The Educational System of Israel: Contributions to the Study of Education, 70. 192 pages, glossary, annotated bibliography, name index, subject index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. $55 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-313-30269-3.

Jaber, Hala. Hezbollah: Born With a Vengeance. 231 pages, bibliography, index, chronology, glossary, maps. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997. $29.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-231-10834-6.

James, T.G.H. A Short History of Ancient Egypt: From Predynastic to Roman Times. 168 pages, key to hieroglyphs, reading list, index. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. $29.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8018-5933-6.

Jawad, Haifaa A. The Rights of Women in Islam: An Authentic Approach. 145 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $45 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-312-21351-4.

Jerichow, Anders. The Saudi File: People, Power, Politics. 339 pages, appendix, chronology, bibliography. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. $49.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-312-21520-7.

Kandiyoti, Deniz, ed. Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. 177 pages, notes, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. $16.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8156-0339-8.

Kanoo, Khalid M. The House of Kanoo: A Century of an Arabian Family Business. Chronology, abbreviations/acronyms, glossary, bibliography. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris, 1998. $39.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-86064-234-9.

Karam, Azza, ed. Women in Parliament Beyond the Numbers. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. 232 pages, tables, figures, annexes, index. Stockholm, Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 1998. Paperback, ISBN/ISSN 91-89098-19-6.

Katz, Yossi. Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency’s Partition Plan in the Mandate Era. 209 pages, maps, sources, index. Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1998. $24.50 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-7146-4401-3.

Keeney, L. Douglas and William S. Butler. Day of Destiny: The Photographs of D-Day. 57 pages, photographs. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1998. $15 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-688-16882-5.

Kennedy, Edward S. Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS600. 352 pages, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. $99.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-86078-682-X.

Khatchadourian, Haig, Charles Webel, general eds. The Morality of Terrorism Conflict and Consciousness: 178 pages, appendix, index, glossary. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 1998. $32.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8204-3790-5.

Kister, M. J. Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS584. 308 pages, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997. $94.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-86078-652-8.

Korany, Bahgat, Rex Brynen, and Paul Noble. Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World. Vol. 2: Comparative Experiences Inter-university Consortium for Arab Studies. 301 pages, tables. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. $22 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 1-55587-599-8.

Kreiser, Klaus and Christoph K. Neumann, eds. Das omanische Reich in seinen Archivalien und Chroniken: Nejat Goyunc zu Ehren Tukkische Welten, Bd.1; Beiruter Texte und Studien. 327 pages. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. $128 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 3-515-07034-6.

Ladjevardi, Habib, ed. Memoirs of Ali Amini, Prime Minister of Iran (1961-62). Iranian Oral History Project, No. 1. 239 pages, appendices, index. Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, 1995. $15 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-932885-11-X.

Ladjevardi, Habib, ed. Memoirs of Shapour Bakhtiar: Prime Minister of Iran (1979). Iranian Oral History Series, II. Persian, appendices, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-932885-14-4.

Lesch, David W., ed. The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment. 460 pages, notes, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. $24.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8133-2405-X.

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

Lipman, Jonathan. Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. 318 pages, photographs, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1998. $22.50 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-295-97644-6.

Litvak, Meir. Shi’i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘ulama’ of Najaf and Karbala. Cambridge Middle East Studies 10. 259 pages, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $59.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-521-62356-1.

Lobban, Richard, ed. Middle Eastern Women and the Invisible Economy. 302 pages, photographs, tables, notes, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1998. $49.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8130-1577-4.

Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine 1906-1948. 456 pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. $25 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-20419-0.

Long, David E. and Christian Koch, eds. Gulf Security in the Twenty-First Century. 334 pages, maps, figures, tables, contributors, notes, bibliography. Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research , 1997.

Losensky, Paul E. Welcoming Fighani: Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal. Bibliotheca Iranica, Literature Series No. 5. 393 pages, appendices, works cited, general index, index of first lines. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1998. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-56859-070-9.

Makiya, Kanan. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq. 359 pages, appendix, index, chronology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. $17.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-21439-0.

Massignon, Louis, ed. & trans. Halläj: Mystic and Martyr. Mythos: Princeton/Bollingen Series. 292 pages, maps, plates; abridged edition, abr. by Herbert Mason. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. $16.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-691-01919-3.

Mathews, Thomas F. and Roger S. Wieck. Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Art, Religion, and Society. 177 pages, photographs, photographic credits. New York, NY: The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1998. $35 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-87598-120-8.

Medoff, Rafael. Zionism and Wars: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898 - 1948. 200 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. $55 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-275-95824-8.

Mehr, Farhang. A Colonial Legacy: The Dispute Over the Islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tumbs. 250 pages. New York, NY: University Press of America, 1997.

Meinardus, Otto F.A. Patriarchen unter Nasser und Sadat. 78 pages, index. Hamburg, Germany: Deutsche Orient-Institut, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 3-89173-048-9.

Metzer, Jacob. The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. Cambridge Middle East Studies Series 11. 275 pages, figures, tables, appendix, references, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. $59.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-521-46550-8.

Milton-Edwards, Beverly. Islamic Politics in Palestine. 256 pages, index, bibliography, notes, chronology. London, UK: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996. $59.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-86064-049-4.

Monshipouri, Mahmood. Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Third World. 259 pages, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. $53 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-55587-782-6.

Montgomery, James E. The Vagaries of the Qasidah: The Tradition and Practice of Early Arabic Poetry. 270 pages, epilogue, bibliography, indices. Oakville, CT: Gibb Memorial Trust/David Brown Book Co., 1997, $59 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-906094-35-6.

Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. Hajj: The Inner Pilgrimage. 193 pages, appendix, glossary, index. Philadelphia, PA: The Fellowship Press, 1998. Paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-914390-52-X.

Nettler, Ronald L. and Suha Taji-Farouki, eds. Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations: Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics. Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations. 204 pages, index Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers/OPA, 1998. $23 ISBN/ISSN 90-5702-196-X.

Netzer, Amnon, ed. Padyavand, Vol. II. Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1997. $40 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 1-56859-063-6.

O’Grady, Desmond. The Golden Odes of Love: Al - Mu’allaqat, A Verse Rendering from Arabic. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1997. $19.50 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 977-424-461-3.

Ovendale, Ritchie. The Middle East Since 1914, Second Ed. Longman Companions to History. 391 pages, maps, index. Edinburgh, UK: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1998. Paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-582-31555-7.

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

Peleg, Ilan. Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: Legacy and Politics. Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. 191 pages, map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995. $34.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8156-2682-7.

Peretz, Don and Gideon Doron. The Government and Politics of Israel: Third Edition. 308 pages, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. $21 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-8133-2409-2.

Potter, Lawrence G. The Persian Gulf in Transition. Headline Series. 72 pages, maps, annotated reading list. New York, NY: Foreign Policy Association, 1998. $5.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-87124-179-X.

Prior, Michael, CM, ed. Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine. Addendum, bibliography. London, UK: Melisende,1998. $20 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 1-901754-02-8.

Rabinovich, Itamar. The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations. 283 pages, notes, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-691-05868-7.

Rahman, H. The Making of the Gulf War: Origins of Kuwait’s Long-Standing Territorial Dispute with Iraq. 378 pages, maps, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Limited, 1997. $35 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-86372-207-5.

Ranstorp, Magnus. Hizb’Allah in Lebanon: The Politics of the Western Hostage. 257 pages, notes, select bibliography, index. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. $18.95 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-312-16491-2.

Reich, Bernard, ed. Handbook of Political Science Research on the Middle East and North Africa. 400 pages, appendix, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. $89.50 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-313-27372-3.

Rejwan, Nissim. Israel’s Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective. 210 pages, notes, index. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1998. ISBN/ISSN 0-8130-1601-0.

Renard, John, ed. Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life. 451 pages, illustrations, map, appendices, notes, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. $22 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-520-21086-7.

Rittenberg, Libby, ed. The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era: Going West and Looking East? 240 pages, tables, figures, bibliography, index, about the contributors. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. $59.95 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-275-95596-6.

Rodrigue, Aron. Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Transition: The Teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1860-1939. 303 pages, illustrations, photos, glossary, bibliography, index. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1994. $40 hardback, ISBN/ISSN 0-295-97281-5.

Rugh, Andrea. Within the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village. 288 pages, notes, references, index. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. $16.50 paperback, ISBN/ISSN 0-231-10679-3.

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