Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 1993

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 1993

Hartwig and Russian policy in Iran 1906-8. (N.G. Hartwig, Russian Representative in Iran)
January 1, 1993... Some accounts in English of the bombardment of the Iranian Majlis by the Russian officered Cossack Brigade on 23 June 1908 ascribe a major role in the event to N. G. Hartwig, the Russian Representative. This is particularly true of a despatch...

The rise and fall of General Razmara. (General Haj Ali Razmara, Iranian Premier 1950-51)
January 1, 1993... General Haj Ali Razmara, Iranian Premier from June 1950 to March 1951, is an enigmatic political figure who played a part in some of the most crucial events in Iran's twentieth-century history. Despite his considerable contributions to Iranian...

Politics and ideology in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
January 1, 1993... That the Iranian revolution of 1979 was genuine can hardly be contested. But its rather rapid metamorphosis into an Islamic revolution was as much the product of the ulama's political shrewdness as it was their political fortune. Leaving aside...

Controversial waters: exploitation of the Jordan River, 1950-80.
January 1, 1993... This article proposes to examine the growing importance of Jordan water to both Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan as the two countries planned for expanding agriculture, industry and population in the three decades following the end of the...

The struggle over Arab hegemony after the Suez Crisis.
January 1, 1993... Since the Suez affair Nasser, the Egyptian president, has become something of a myth in the eyes of the public and scholars alike. Consequently, the facts concerning his political victories have, at times, been blurred by the magnitude of his...

The press and Anglo-Ottoman relations, 1876-1909.
January 1, 1993... The effect and the influence of the press in the development of the pan-Islamic feelings among the Muslims in the second half of the nineteenth century have often been overlooked by historians. As a matter fact the press was one of the most...

Muhibb ad-Din al-Khatib's semitic wave theory and Pan-Arabism.
January 1, 1993... The revision of Near Eastern history by Arab intellectuals during the inter-war period has been an intrinsic part of the formulation of nationalist ideologies. Among the revisionist historians were Pan-Arab ideologues who embraced the Semitic...

Egypt's north-eastern boundary in Sinai.
January 1, 1993... Almost all previous writers who have dealt with the delimitation of Egypt's north-eastern boundary in Sinai have examined the subject from the viewpoint of circumstances subsequent to the time of the boundary delimitation. They have related...

Islam in the Contemporary Politics of the Countries in the East: Late 1970s to Early 1980s.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

The Book About the Koran: Its Origins and Myths.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

Socio-political Notions in Islam: History and Present.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

Caliphs Without a Caliphate.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

Islam on the Threshold of the 21st Century.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

The Social Functions of Islam in Contemporary American Islamology.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

Islam: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary.
January 1, 1993... Something strange happened in the publishing business in the Soviet Union and its successor states during the 1990s. Evidently, inter arma silent musae; but this silence is unexpectedly loud. As one aspect of the crumbling of organized...

The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal COurt, 1969-1977.
January 1, 1993... The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1969-1977 by Asadollah Alam; introduced and edited by Alinaghi Alikhani. Abridged translation from Persian by Alinaghi Alikhani and Nicholas Vincent. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,...

My Turn to Speak: Iran, the Revolution and Secret Deals with the US.
January 1, 1993... Abol Hasan Bani-Sadr was President of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1980-1. Fleeing from Iran after his dismissal from his office, he took refuge in Paris, where he has lived ever since, a prominent member of the opposition to the policies of...

Iran in the Twentieth Century: A Political History.
January 1, 1993... The latter part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century was a period of political awakening in Iran. Iranian society was at first influenced strongly by democratic ideals and institutions prevalent in Europe leading to the...

Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century.
January 1, 1993... For a number of reasons, a vast increase in scholarly research concerning the history of the Land of Israel during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century has taken place in recent years. The pertinent archives have...

Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East During the Second World War.
January 1, 1993... During the Second World War Anglo-French relations in the Levant entered a new and extraordinary phase of competition and rivalry. There was nothing particularly novel about Anglo-French rivalry in the Middle East which, by then, had already...

Who's at the Helm? Lessons of Lebanon.
January 1, 1993... |Who's at the Helm' is a well-chosen title for a book dealing with an important dimension of US policy in the Middle East during President Reagan's first term. Raymond Tanter, Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, who...