Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 1994

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 1994

Nationalism, modernism and Islam in the writings of Talibov-i Tabrizi. (Iranian intellectual Mirza Abdul Rahim Talibov-i Tabrizi)
April 1, 1994... At the juncture between traditional cultures and modernity stands a variety of intellectuals, diverse in their origins and views, who seek to hasten and mediate the transition from traditionalism to modernization. Almost always these...

The desperate Ottoman: Enver Pasa and the German Empire. (part 2) (Ottoman Empire's war minister during World War I)
April 1, 1994... Enver Pasa flourished on the notion that he held the total power of the Ottoman Empire in his hands. Even Shevket Sureyya Aydemir, the preeminent authority on Enver's life, refers to him at times as the tek soz sahibi of the Ottoman Empire: the...

Mushir Hosain Kidwai and the Ottoman cause. (Muslim writer from India)
April 1, 1994... The early years of the twentieth century saw a retreating Ottoman Empire fighting on several fronts for its survival. Italy's attack on Tripoli in 1911 and the Balkan War of 1912-13 only paved the way for Ottoman Turkey's unfortunate drift into...

A late eighteenth-century Austrian attempt to develop the Red Sea trade route.
April 1, 1994... The northern Red Sea had been closed to the ships of Europe since the conquest of the territories along its two shores by Ottoman forces in the sixteenth century, but in the second half of the eighteenth century a series of attempts was made,...

Contested waters and the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace.
April 1, 1994... Since ancient times water has been both a vital and contentious issue throughout the Middle East. And dating at least as far back as the biblical quarrels of Abraham and Isaac with Abimelech, king of the Philistines, over well-water rights, the...

The Palestinian mountain region and Zionist settlement policy, 1882-1948.
April 1, 1994... The Palestinian mountain region, situated lengthwise astride three parts of Palestine-Judea, Samaria and the Galilee, accounts for 34 per cent of the territories in Western Palestine (2,262,075 acres out of 6,752,250 acres). If we exclude the...

Urban restructuring in Israeli Arab settlements.
April 1, 1994... Urbanization in a country is defined as the proportional increase of its urban population. This may be caused by a relatively rapid natural increase in the urban population, by rural migration into urban areas, or by the transformation of...

Jewish refugees and Zionist policy during the Holocaust.
April 1, 1994... For over four decades, the twin-term |Holocaust and Rebirth' has held a place of honor in the lexicon of modern Israeli historiography. The short phrase, embodying a descriptive raison d'etre of the State of Israel, has rarely failed to elicit...

The Egyptian private sector and the bureaucracy.
April 1, 1994... While the business environment in Egypt is increasingly being liberalized, the government bureaucracy still plays a pivotal role in regulating the economy. The fact that this regulatory role is fragmented has motivated businessmen to focus...

The impact of defense expenditure on industrial development in the Arab Gulf.
April 1, 1994... Since the mid-1970s the Gulf economies have experienced an unprecedented growth in economic output and industrial production. The benefits of rapid increases in oil revenues were also distributed to neighboring countries through financial...

Europe and Islam. (review of recent scholarship)
April 1, 1994... It was the founder of this Journal, the late Elie Kedourie, who once pointed out that the scholar's existence and activity do not have to be justified by their usefulness. He wrote: |The academic enterprise is self-committed, concerned with...

The Arabs in History, 6th ed.
April 1, 1994... by Bernard Lewis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, sixth edition 1993. Pp.x. + 240. 6.99[pounds] What would The Arabs in History look like if it had been written by Edward Said? This thought is provoked by the appearance of the sixth...

Islam and the West.
April 1, 1994... by Bernard Lewis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 Pp. ix + 217. 17.50[pounds] What would The Arabs in History look like if it had been written by Edward Said? This thought is provoked by the appearance of the sixth revised edition of...

The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East.
April 1, 1994... edited by Henri Barkey. New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. This volume is a compendium of essays written by different authors, each of which deals with a different Middle Eastern country, its particular economic problems and the attempts of...

Genre and Language in Modern Arabic Literature.
April 1, 1994... by Sasson Somekh. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1991. Ppxii + 141, bibliography, index. This is an intelligent and in many respects original and concisely written study of one of the fundamental issues in modern Arabic literature, namely...

The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.
April 1, 1994... edited by Elizabeth Savage. London: Frank Cass 1992. pp. 279. 25.00[pounds]/30.00[pounds] Through the arteries of trade, from the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts to the shores of the Indian ocean, Africa's population and strength were...

Syria and the Middle East Peace Process.
April 1, 1994... by Alasdair Drysdale and Raymond A. Hinnebusch. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 244, notes, bibliography and index. $16.95 (paperback). |Thou shalt not ignore Syria |that commandment, to be obeyed or flouted...

The Road Not Taken.
April 1, 1994... by Itama Rabinovich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 259. 19.50[pounds] The Road Not Taken has already acquired some reputation in the literature on the Modern Middle East (1991 Fraenkel Prize). But one suspects that this...

Zeitschrift Fur Turkeistudien: 1988-1992.
April 1, 1994... For some time, there has been a need for a periodical in a European language to fill the informational gap about modern and contemporary Turkey and the Turkish/Turkic groups beyond its borders. Other European-language periodicals are concerned...

The Politics of Change in Middle East.
April 1, 1994... edited by Robert Satloff. Westview Press for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Pp. 237, Index. 9.95[pounds] (paperback). It is difficult to determine why this volume was published, unless it was felt that a forum was needed...