The Middle East Journal articles from September 2003

The Middle East Journal archives from September 2003

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... Although The Middle East Journal cannot, by its nature, reflect the headlines, it can and does seek to provide deeper insights into the issues which trouble the region. Already this year we have published two articles dealing with Iraqi issues,...

The United States and Shi'ite Religious Factions in Post-Ba'thist Iraq.
September 22, 2003... In post-Saddam Husayn lraq, Shi'ite militias rapidly established their authority in East Baghdad and other urban neighborhoods of the south. Among the various groups which emerged, the Sadr Movement stands out as militant and cohesive. The...

The neoliberal model's planned role in Iraq's economic transition.
September 22, 2003... For many in the Bush Administration Iraq is now the test case for whether the US can create, through introducing a series of neoliberal economic reforms, a system of American style free market capitalism in the Arab world. The neoliberal model...

Knesset election 2003: why Likud regained its political domination and Labor continued to fade out.(Israel)
September 22, 2003... The January 2003 Israeli elections for the 16th Knesset marked the resurgence of the Likud Party and an electoral disaster for Labor. The elections also marked a return to the old system under which the Prime Minister is chosen from the...

Political parties in postwar Lebanon: parties in search of partisans.
September 22, 2003... This article examines the performance of political parties in postwar Lebanon against the benchmark of parties in the prewar period. Parties turned into militias during Lebanon's fifteen-year war and reverted to their party status with the...

The Tunbs and Abu Musa Islands: Britain's perspective.
September 22, 2003... Hundreds of recently declassified documents now reveal details of the complex negotiations leading to Iranian occupation of Abu Musa Island and outright invasion of the two Tunbs islands in 1971. Whitehall was so concerned about the prospects...

Chronology: April 16, 2003-July 15, 2003.(Middle East)(Chronology)
September 22, 2003... ABBREVIATIONS AN, www.ArabicNews.com BBC, www.bbc.co.uk FT, Financial Times The Estimate The Guardian, www.guardian.co.uk MEO, www.middleeastonline.com NYT, The New York Times Radio Free Europe, Caucus Report WP, The Washington Post WSJ,...

The Levant: New Faces, Old Themes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Business As Usual? Economic Reform in Jordan, by Katherine Blue Carroll. Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, New York, and Oxford, UK: Lexington, 2003.284 pages. Appends. to 292. Bibl. to p. 307. Interviews to p. 312. Index to p. 315. $80. Embattled...

The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by John W. Kiser. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002. xvi + 286 pages. Appends. to p. 308. Notes to p. 319. Bibl. to p. 329. Index to p. 335. $14.95. When I first read about this account of the 1996 assassination by Algerian "Afghan"...

Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Anthony Gorman. London, UK and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. xii + 198 pages. Notes to p. 245. Bibl. to p. 264. Index to p. 276. $90. This valuable examination of 20th century Egyptian interpretations of modern Egyptian history takes...

The Glory of Cairo: an Illustrated History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Andre Raymond. Tr. from the French (Editio-Editions Citadelles & Mazenod, 2000) by Jane Brenton and Barbara Mellor. Cairo: The American University Press in Cairo, 2002. 450 pages. 530 color illustrations. Chron. to p. 476. Gloss. to p....

Traditional Crafts in Qajar Iran, 1800-1925.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Willem Floor. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003. ix + 407 pages. Photos to p. 420. Appends. to p. 464. Bibl. to p. 492. Index to p. 507. $45 paper. This highly informative book examines the nature of craft production in the Qajar...

Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Geneive Abdo and Jonathon Lyons. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.276 pages. Notes to p. 282. Principal characters to p.285. Sel. gloss, to p. 288. Sel. bibl. to p. 293. Acknowledgments to p. 295. Index to p. 306. $25. Geneive...

The Last Days in Israel: Understanding the New Israeli Democracy.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Abraham Diskin. London, UK and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. iii + 135 pages. Tables. Notes to p. 139. Appends. to p. 175. Bibl. to p. 183. Index to p. 190. $64.50 cloth; 27.50 paper. Abraham Diskin is one of Israel's...

Israeli Identity: in Search of a Successor to the Pioneer, Tsabar and Settler.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Lilly Weissbrod. London, UK and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002.242 pages. Bibl. to p. 254. Index to p. 256. $54.50. In the book under review, Lilly d Weissbrod, who has contributed much to the study of Israeli politics and society, has...

The Invention of a Nation, Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Alain Dieckhoff, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xi + 289 pages. Index to p. 297. $30. The last sentence of this otherwise comprehensive and interesting book by Alain Dieckhoff encapsulates my main criticism of the study....

Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Michael A. Fischbach. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003 (uncorrected proof), xxx + 368 pages. Appends. to p. 391. Bibl. to p. 404. Notes to p. 445. $39.50 cloth. In the more than 55 years since the first war between Israel and...

War and Peace in Sudan: A Tale of Two Countries.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Mansour Khalid. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. [First published in 2002 by Kegan Paul Limited.] xxxi + 510 pages. Appendix to p. 516. Sel. bibl. to p. 527. Index to p. 536. $144.50. In a book bearing the somewhat unoriginal...

Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Paula Holmes-Eber. Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK: Westview Press, 2003. xxiii + 127 pages. Appends. to p. 136. Gloss. to p. 140. Suggestions for further reading to p. 141. Bibl. to p. 155. Index to p. 166. $65 cloth; $18 paper. More than...

The Nature of the Early Ottoman State.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Heath W. Lowry. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. ix + 143 pages. Appends. to p. 157. Notes to p. 176. Bibl. to p. 189. Index to p. 197. $62.50 cloth; $20.95 paper. In this book Lowry attacks the gazi thesis put...

The Communists and the Kadro Movement. Shaping Ideology in Ataturk's Turkey.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... by George S. Harris. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2002. 172 pages. Appends. to p. 226. Bibl. to p. 235. Index to p. 241. $25 paper. The journal Kadro, published in the Turkey of the early 1930s by mostly ex-communists intellectuals, has been a...

Islamic Family Law in a Changing World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Abdullahi A. An-Na'im. London, UK and New York: Zed Books, 2002. xvi + 303 pages. Gloss. to p. 311. Index of countries and general index to p. 320. $69.95 cloth; $27.50 paper. Islamic Family Law in a Changing World, a survey of...

Crude Power: Politics and the Oil Market.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Oystein Noreng. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. vii + 231 pages. Notes to p. 231. Tables and figures to p. 240. Bibl. to p. 247. Index to p. 254. $73. Oil is a multipurpose fluid whose production and consumption have a long...

Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Meghan L. O'Sullivan. Washington, DC" Brookings Institution Press, 2003. xvi + 320. Notes to p. 405. Index to p. 424. $19.95 paper. Shrewd Sanctions is a wise book of advice about how the United States can better integrate the use of...

Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-13.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Edward J. Erickson. Westport, CT and London, UK: Praeger, 2003. xxiv + 345 pages. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appends. to p.385. Sel.bibl. to p.394. Index to p. 403. $49.95. Edward J. Erickson has now followed up his acclaimed study of the...

A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Eve M. Troutt Powell. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 220 pages. Illustrations. Notes to p. 240. Works cited to p. 250. Index to p. 260. $65 cloth; $24.95 paper. In A Different Shade of Colonialism, Eve M. Troutt...

Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003. ix + 186 pages. Notes to p. 211. Index to p. 233. $55. In the wake of 9/11 and the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States and Great Britain, and the...

Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Bruce Lincoln. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 92 pages. Appends. to p. 107. Notes to p. 137. Index to p. 142. $35. From time to time there appears a work (e.g., James Hunter's Culture Wars, Stephen L. Carter's...

Women in Iran: Gender Politics in the Islamic Republic & Women in Iran: Emerging Voices in the Women's Movement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Women in Iran: Gender Politics in the Islamic Republic, By Hammed Shahidian. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. ix + 271 pages. Bibl. to p. 296. Index to p. 303. Women in Iran: Emerging Voices in the Women's Movement, by Hammed...

Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Secuk Aksin Somel. Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2003. cv + 331 pages. Maps. Chron. Sel. Bibl. to p. 398. About the author. $90. This book gives an account of Ottoman history through a detailed chronology spanning the years...

The Journal of Zak'aria of Agulis.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Annotated Translation with Commentary by George A. Bournoutian. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2003. 204 pages. Appendix to p. 210. Gloss. to p. 223. Sel. bibl. to p. 228. Index to p. 242. $25 paper. An Armenian cultural and economical...

Caspian Oil Windfalls: Who Will Benefit?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Svetlana Tsalik. Ed. by Robert Ebel. Foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz. New York: Open Society Institute, 2003. xiii + 174 pages. Map. Appends. to 9. 189. Notes to p. 208. Contribs. to p. 211. n.p. This main purpose of this study is to suggest...

Institutional Reform and Economic Development in Egypt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Noha El-Mikawy and Heba Handoussa. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. xiv + 171 pages. Tables Figures. Appends to p. 197. BP 27.50. This book is a compilation of essays that address institutional reform in...

The Lion and the Sphinx: The Rise and Fall of the British in Egypt, 1882-1956.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Henry Keown-Boyd. Spennymoor, UK: The Memoir Club, 2002. ix + 184 pages. Notes to p. 193. Appends. to p. 205. Biblio to p. 207. Index to p. 214. BP 17.50. In this book, Henry Keown-Boyd offers a narrative of his experience and that of other...

Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Niloofar Haeri. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xvi + 157 pages. Notes to p. 170. Bibl. to p. 179. Index to p. 184. $55 cloth; $18.95 paper. In this book, Niloofar Haeri explores the struggles of Arab scholars to implement classical...

An Account of the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Edward William Lane, Introduced by Jason Thompson. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. xviii + 619 pages. 131 line drawings. $39.50. This classic work by Edward William Lane details the lifestyles and mannerisms...

Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Homa Katouzian. New York. Routledge Curzon, 2003. xiv + 263 pages. Index to p. 274. $90 This study of the history of Iranian politics deals with, among other things, the persistence of the tension between the society and the state. Katouzian...

Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Ali Mohamed, foreword by Fred Halliday. London, UK, and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. xv + 244 pages. Figures. Tables. Bibl. to p. 56. Index to p. 264. $100. This book identifies the many problems that the current Islamic Republic of...

The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Stephanie Cronin. London, UK and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. xxviii + 268 pages. Plates. Index to p. 279. $90. This book explains the effects of the rule of Riza Shah on the future state of Iranian politics and society. The...

Four Centuries of Modern Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg. Reading, UK. Garnet Publishing, 2002. x + 324 pages. Appendix to p. 352 . Gloss. to p. 355. Index to p. 378. $45. Originally published in 1925, this book covers the least studied time period in Iraqi history, the...

The Shi'is of Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Yitzhak Nakash. Second edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxii + 281 pages. Abbrevs. Appends. to p. 287. Bibl. to p. 302. Index to p. 312. BP 18.95. The second edition of this book features a new introduction by the...

Kuwait: The Growth of a Historic Identity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Ben J. Slot. London, UK. Arabian Publishing Ltd, 2003. xiii + 111 pages. Map. Plates. Bibl. to p. 121. Index to p. 129. BP 30. This book constitutes an attempt to trace the history of the modern state of Kuwait. The book contains a...

Turkey and the European Union: Domestic Politics, Economic Integration and International Dynamics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Ali Carkoglu and Barry Rubin. London, UK and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. 252 pages. Abstracts to p. 256. Notes on contrib, to p. 259. Index to p. 273. $64.50 cloth; $26 paper. Admission to the European Union (EU) is...

Portrait of a Turkish Family.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Irfan Orga. Chester Springs, PA: Dufur Editions, Inc. 2003. 316 pages. $19.95. Irfan Orga was born in 1908. After WWI and the rise of the Turkish Republic, Orga and his family were forced to face the struggles of poverty and adaptation in a...

The Empire in the City and Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Jens Hannsen, Thomas Phillip, and Stefan Weber. Wurzburg, Germany: Ergon, 2002. x + 367 pages. About the Authors. 85. This collection of essays assesses the relationship between the geography of major cities and capitals of the late...

Lightning Over Yemen: A History of the Ottoman Campaign 1569-71.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Clive Smith. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. xiii + 191 pages. Gloss. Illust. Notes to p. 218. Bibl. to p. 221. Index to p. 226. $65 paper. This translation makes available for the first time in English the work of the...

The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Gil Anidjar. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxv + 149 pages. Appends. to p. 162. Notes to p. 236. Bibl. to p.261. $55 cloth; $21.95 paper. In this analysis of the unique relationship between Jews and Arabs, Anidjar looks...

Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Muna Hamzeh and Todd May. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. xiii + 184 pages. Bibl. to p. 191. Index to p. 199. $65 cloth; $19.95 paper. This collection brings together Palestinian, Israeli, and international views on Operation Defensive...

Academic Freedom in Arab Universities: Understanding, Practices and Discrepancies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Hanada Taha-Thomure. Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford, UK. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. xii + 110 pages. Refs. to p. 126. Index to p. 129. $27 paper. In this book, Hanada Taha Thomure compares her academic experiences...

Education and the Arab World: Challenges of the Next Millennium.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Introduction by Don Davies. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003. 333 pages. Contribs. to p. 341. Notes to p. 373. Sel. Bibl. to p. 390. Index to p. 399. $26.50 paper. This volume...

Arab Economic Integration: Between Hope and Reality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Ahmed Galal and Bernard Hoekman. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, in association with the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, Cairo, 2003. viii + 161 pages. Tables. Graphs. Index to p. 170. n.p. This book explores the possibility...

Employment Creation and Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Heba Handoussa and Zafiris Tzannatos. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. xv + 279 pages. Figures. Tables. $27.50 paper. Written on behalf of the Mediterranean Development Forum (MDF), this book explores the...

A Basic Course in Moroccan Arabic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Richard S. Harrell, with Mohammed Abu-Talib and William S. Carroll. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. xix + 384 pages. Gloss. to p. 392. Index to p. 395. $27.50 paper. This book is an updated version of the original 1964...

A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (1866-1951).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Iraq Parsinejad. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2003. Pages: 266 pages + Appendix to p. 320 + Index to p. 350. $45. This book attempts to document the evolution of literary criticism in Persian society, beginning with less known examples of...

Selected Poems from the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi of Jalaluddin Rumi.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... tr. by R.A. Nicholson. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2001. 195 pages. Notes to p. 330. Appends. to p. 350. Index to notes to p. 367. $19.95 paper. This book contains annotated translations of the famous love poems of Rumi. (SB)

A Thousand Years of Persian Rubaiyat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... tr. by Reza Saberi. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2000. 582 pages. Gloss. to p. 586. Index to p. 589. $34 paper. In this book, the translator, Reza Saberi, has compiled an extensive collection of rubaiyat (four-line Persian poems written...

The Wineseller's Street: Renderings of Hafez.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Thomas Rain Crowe. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Press, 1998. 82 pages. $12.95 paper. This volume contains 74 poems from the Diwan of fourteenth-century Persian poet Khwaja Samseddin Mohammad Hafez. The translations, written by established...

That Stranger Within Me: A Foreign Woman Caught in the Iranian Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Shokooh Mirzadegi. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2002. 191 pages. $16 paper. The novel opens with Luba, a Czech archaeologist, looking for her husband in Tehran's central morgue. His death is only the beginning: as a myriad of secrets are...

Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Vassilis K. Fouskas. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003. xiii + 128 pages. Notes to p. 156. Bibl. to p. 168. Index to p. 177. $65 cloth; $24.95 paper. In an analysis of past US efforts to counteract the Soviet threat, current interests in oil...

The New Politics of Islam: Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Naveed S. Sheikh. London, UK and New York. Routledge Curzon, 2003. xii + 141 pages. Appends. to p. 147. Notes and refs. to p. 182. Sel. bibl. to p. 200. Index to p. 206. $75. This book seeks to challenge what the author contends is the...

Political Thought and Political History: Studies in Memory of Elie Kedourie.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Moshe Gammer. London, UK, and Portland, OR. Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. x + 178 pages. Index to p. 186. $49.50. This book is a compilation of articles by students of the late Professor Elie Kedourie. The topics covered in this volume...

The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Phyllis Chesler. Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, 2003. 259 pages. $24.95 paper. In an attempt to identify the "The New Anti-Semitism," author Phyllis Chesler argues that it has become politically correct to blame Jews, Zionists...

Islamic Fundamentalism: An Introduction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Lawrence Davidson. Westport, CT and London, UK. Greenwood Press, 2003. xxii + 94 pages. Chron. Bios. to p. 120. Primary docs. to p. 181. Gloss. to p. 188. Annotated bibl. to p. 197. Index to p. 202. $45. In this book, Lawrence Davidson...

Ecstasy and Enlightenment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Ali S. Asani. London, and New York: I.B. Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2002. xxii + 152 pages. $37.50. Drawing upon the fields of religion, anthropology, history, and sociology, Ali Asani maps the devotional...

The "Threat" of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Fereydoun Hoveyda. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. xiii + 199 pages. Notes to p. 215. Sel. bibl. to p. 221. Index to p. 237. $24.95 paper. Former Iranian Ambassador to the UN under the Shah, and former chair of the UN Committee on International...

Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalism Around the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan. Chicago, IL and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. vii + 243 pages. Appends. to p. 254. Notes to p. 272. Index to p. 281. $19.00. It has recently become fashionable to...

Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Ram Swarup. Prometheus Books: Amherst, New York, 2002. 246 pages. Bibl. to p. 249. Index to p. 258. $22 paper. Few outside the Muslim world are familiar with the Hadith, which is considered integral with the Q'uran as a source of Islamic...

Revolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Barry Rubin. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002. xi + 217 pages. Contribs. to p. 220. Index to p. 231. $68.50 cloth; $22.95 paper. Islamic movements are the leading opposing ideologies and forces of present regimes in the Middle East today....

Islam in a Globalizing World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Thomas W. Simons, Jr. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xi + 69 pages. Bibl. essay to p. 80. Notes to p. 104. Index to p. 111. $24.95 cloth; $14.95 paper. In this study, Thomas Simons offers an historical perspective on the...

The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. and trans. by Tarif Khalidi. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. viii + 218. Notes to p. 232. Bibl. to p. 239. Index to p. 245. n.p. In an attempt to shed new light on Jesus Christ, Tarif Khalidi assembles 303 of the stories and...

The Middle East and Islamic World Reader.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar. New York: Grove Press, 2003. xi + 356 pages. Maps. Gloss. to p. 261. Sel. bibl. to p. 268. Index to p. 377. $18.50 paper. In this volume, editors Marvin Gettleman and Stuart Schaar provide an...

Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Qur'an.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
September 22, 2003... by Alan Dundes. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xiv + 71 pages. Bibl. to p. 84. Index to p. 88. $62 cloth; $19.95 paper. As an anthropologist and leading specialist in folklore, Dundes examines the Qur'an as...

Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad al Shawkani.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Bernard Haykel. New York, NY. Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 234 pages. Bibl. to p. 255. Index to p. 265. $70 cloth; $25 paper. This book is not only a biography of Muhammad al Shawkani, one of the most influential Islamic...

Kernel of the Kernel: Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual Journey of the People of Intellect.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, ed. by Sayyid M. Husayn Husayni Tihrani. Tr. by M.H. Faghfoory. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. xxxiii + 132 pages. Indexes and notes to p. 149. $59.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. Kernel of...

Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Sohail Inayatullah and Gail Boxwell. London, UK and Sterling, VA. Pluto Press, 2003. 349 pages. Working bibl. to 361. Index to p. 374. $75 cloth; $24.95 paper. Ziauddin Sardar has emerged as one of the leading Islamic intellectuals of...

Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Jonathan E. Brockopp. Foreword by Gene Outka. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xiii + 219 pages. Gloss. to p. 224. Bibl. to p. 238. Index to p. 248. $24.95 paper. This book is intended not as an introduction to the...

Minorities in the Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ed. by Mordechai Nisan. Second edition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002. ix + 310 pages. Notes to p. 355. Sel. Bibl. to p. 338. Index to p. 341. $45 paper. Minority groups in the Middle East are numerous, and increasingly they...

Torn Between Two Cultures: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Maryam Qudrat Aseel. Sterling, VA. Capital Books, 2003. xviii + 188 pages. Index to p. 191. $22.95. This book is a personal account of the author's experiences as an Afghan-American woman living between the contrasting societies of Los...

Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigration Community.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Elizabeth Boosahda. Austin, TX. University of Texas Press, 2003. xix + 196 pages. Addendum to p. 206. Genealogy to p. 210. Timeline to p.221. Notes to p. 243. Bibl. to p. 247. Annotated bibl. to p. 259. Organizations to p. 266. Indexes to p....

Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by Valentine M. Moghadam. Second edition. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. xv + 297 pages. Acronyms to p. 300. Sel. bibl. p. 305. Index to p. 323. $59.95 cloth; $22.50 paper. This book portrays the status of women in...

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2003... The JOURNAL welcomes comments from its readers. All communications should be addressed to the Editor and bear the full name and address of the writer. A selection of those received will be published periodically in these columns. When a comment...