Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 2002

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 2002

The apostasy question in the context of Anglo-Ottoman relations, 1843-44.
April 1, 2002... After the promulgation of the Gulhane Hatt-i Humayunu, equality between Muslims and non-Muslims became a much discussed issue. However, this equality was not recognized in the law relating to apostasy, and the subject, long avoided by the...

Creative accounting: the place of loans to Persia in the commencement of the negotiation of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.
April 1, 2002... Rogers Platt Churchill's The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, published by the Torch Press at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1939, is the only monograph ever written on the actual negotiation of the agreements regarding Tibet, Afghanistan, and Persia...

Feylesof Riza.
April 1, 2002... To be qualified as a medical doctor, be a physically fit pugilist and wrestler, to speak fluent English, French, Italian, Albanian and Armenian in addition to Persian, Arabic and Turkish, to be a Bektashi (1) dervish as well as a freemason, (2)...

Decision making in Turkish foreign policy: the Caspian oil pipeline issue.
April 1, 2002... Being located in one of the most strategic and problematic regions of the world, Turkey has attracted the interest of foreign policy analysts from all around the world. The multi-dimensional nature of Turkish foreign policy has always provided...

Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: a master of manipulation manipulated, 1935-44.
April 1, 2002... Up to the mid-1930s the British position towards Sayyid 'Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi was on the whole guided by a loose love-hate attitude. While appreciating his numerous political services, particularly during the Great War and in 1924, the Sudan...

Policing the poor in the late Ottoman Empire.
April 1, 2002... The police represent the state for most of the people who are not close to the centre of polity. In that sense, they are the transmission belts of the state, having the capacity to make the values of the centre palpable in the daily lives of...

Our dowry: identity and memory among Iraqi immigrants in Israel.
April 1, 2002... On 19 April 1973, two years after the emergence of the 'Black Panthers' and just a few months before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, a few dozen people gathered for the cornerstone-laying ceremony of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center....

Labour, capital, and religion: harmony and conflict among the constituency of political Islam in Turkey.
April 1, 2002... In a review article on several studies dealing with religion and politics in different contexts, D.H. Levine observes that the renewed salience of religion has fostered a widespread interest in the phenomenon and led to certain approaches which...

Discovering the missing heroines: the role of women painters in early modernist art in Turkey.
April 1, 2002... Located at the junction of the southeastern edge of Europe and the western corner of Asia, Turkey is a country where for centuries Mediterranean and European cultures have merged with Islamic and Turkic cultures. The geographic proximity to and...

France, the United States and the Algerian War.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... by Irwin M. Wall. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 319, bibliography, index. 27.95 [pounds sterling]/$39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-22534-1. Among the many achievements that support Charles de...

The New Caucasus. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... by Edmund Herzig. Chatham House Papers. London: Cassell & Co. for the Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1999. Pp. x + 165, bibliography, map, no index. 11.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 1-85567-553-6. According to a Russian...

The Jews of Lebanon: Between Coexistence and Conflict.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... by Kirsten E. Schulze. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 192, notes, bibliography and index, two maps, 19 illustrations. 49.50 [pounds sterling]/$69.50 (cloth). ISBN 11902210-64-6. In the political climate of...

Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya 1877-1880.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... by Alice MooreHarell. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xv + 286, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling]/$54.50 (cloth). ISBN 0-7146-5081-1. Inevitably--and as the author recognizes--the first reaction is 'Not another...