Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 1994

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 1994

The desperate Ottoman: Enver Pasa and the German Empire. (part 1) (power politics between the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Italy shortly before World War I)
January 1, 1994... THE OTTOMAN-ITALIAN WAR OVER LIBYA The other day I read a German book, and one sentence inspired me: ~When we can't realize our ideals, we can at least idealize our reality.' You see how I'm philosophizing.(1) Enver...

Hasan al-Turabi's Islamist discourse on Democracy and shura.
January 1, 1994... In May 1992, Dr Hasan al-Turabi, a leading theoretician of Islamism in North Africa and the Middle East as well as the leading ideologist of the Islamic National Front in the Sudan and the acclaimed power behind the Sudanese government, held a...

Pakistan and the question of riba. (debt, interest, usury and Islam)
January 1, 1994... The Qur'anic injunctions against riba are clear and categorical. Opinions differ, however, about the meaning of riba and the scope of the injunctions in the context of a modern industrial society. The traditionalist ulama hold the view that...

Qatar: the duality of the legal system.
January 1, 1994... A unique legal system prevails in Qatar in the Arab Gulf states. Two characteristics define Qatar's particularity. First, as a traditional Muslim society, people have settled their disputes according to the sharia court (Islamic court), which...

Indicative cases of Britain's wartime policy in Egypt, 1942-44.
January 1, 1994... The outbreak of the Second World War emphasized the strategic importance of the Suez Canal, the nodal point in British defence plans. While the war lasted, political and military control over Egypt was vital to Britain. The political pattern in...

The Balkan Pact and its immediate implications for the Balkan states, 1930-34.
January 1, 1994... The present study attempts to analyse the causes, processes and immediate implications of the Balkan Pact, signed on 9 February 1934 by Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia. For the sake of brevity and clarity, it may be appropriate to...

Washington and treaty-making with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. (Said bin Taimour)
January 1, 1994... Replacing an 1833 treaty -- the last remaining treaty granting the United States extraterritorial rights -- on 28 April 1959 the United States Senate ratified a new Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights, Friendship and...

French policy in Syria and Zionism: proposal for a Zionist settlement.
January 1, 1994... During the First World War and the Peace Conference that followed it, the leading Zionist leadership preferred to accomplish Zionist aims in Palestine under Britain's sole protection, rejecting any kind of protection from France.(1) On the...

William A. Eddy, the oil lobby and the Palestine problem. (influence of pro-Arab American oil executives on US Middle East policy) (includes transcripts and excerpts of communication between Eddy and US government officials)
January 1, 1994... In 1979, Evan M. Wilson, former head of the Palestine desk at the State Department (1942-8), published a book based on his own ~firsthand experience, amplified by five years of research at archives in Washington, DC, New York, Jerusalem, London...

Turkey: Topical Problems of Modern and Contemporary History.
January 1, 1994... Turkish studies were pursued intensively in the former Soviet Union. Many were published in a scholarly periodical, Sovyetskaya Tyurkologiya, issued in Baku six times a year since 1976 (it still appears, but with considerable delay). This...

Turkish-Arab Relations and Their Place in the International System of the Middle East: 1945-83.
January 1, 1994... I. 1. Ivanova's Turyetsko-Arabskiye otnoshyeniya i ikh myesto v systyemye myedzhdunarodnikh svyazyey na Blidzhnyem Vostkokye (1945-1983), Turkish-Arab Relations and Their Place in the International System of the Middle East, 1945-83 (Moscow:...

The Struggle of Turkey's Political Parties for Influence on Youth: 1920-80.
January 1, 1994... The thesis of A.G. Aksyenyenko's Bor'ba politichyeskikh partii Turtsii za vliyaniye na molodyodzh 1920-1980. The Struggle of Turkey's Political Parties for Influence on Youth, 1920-80 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 199 pp.) is stimulating. Its...

Turkey: History and the Contemporary Era, A Collection of Articles.
January 1, 1994... Turtsiya: Istoriya i sovryemyennost'. Sbornik statyey, Turkey: History and the Contemporary Era. A Collection of Articles (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1988; 264 pp.) is an important compilation. Twenty-six contributions, by different authors, many known...

National Relations in the Soviet Union in Works of Turkish Writers.
January 1, 1994... Less of an historical study and more of a philosophical one on a topical subject is A.Kh Mustafayev's Natsional'niye otnoshyeniya v SSSR v turdakh Turyetskikh avtorov, National Relations in the Soviet Union in Works of Turkish Writers (Baku:...

The Making of the Modern Near East: 1792-1923.
January 1, 1994... by M.E. Yapp. London, 1987. Pp. xii + 404. [pounds]14.99. Professor Yapp has written a history of most of the Ottoman Empire and most of its successor states, together with Iran, since the late eighteenth century. Greece and Rumelia and its...

The Near East Since the First World War.
January 1, 1994... By M.E. Yapp. London:Longman,1991. Pp. xvii + 526. [pounds]15.99. Professor Yapp has written a history of most of the Ottoman Empire and most of its successor states, together with Iran, since the late eighteenth century. Greece and Rumelia...

Historical Discord in the Nile Valley.
January 1, 1994... By Gabriel R. Warburg. London: Hurst & Co., 1992. Pp. xv + 210 pages, maps and photographs. [pounds] 27.50. This book is organized in a most interesting way. It draws on the views of observers and historians from within the Sudan, including...

British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire.
January 1, 1994... Anxieties of Empire by Nigel Leask. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 35.00 [pounds]. The argument of this book, which is cast in the form of a discussion of certain writings by Byron, Shelley...

The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century.
January 1, 1994... Eve of Modernity; Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century by Abraham Marcus. New York, Columbia University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi + 418. Maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography and index. US$ 17. The author speaks of his book (p.329) as a ~tour' of...

The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1947-1951.
January 1, 1994... Conflict, 1947--1951 by Ilan Pappe. London: I.B. Taurus, 1992. Pp.324. In the late 1940s, the Spanish cinematic genius Luis Bunuel made a film entitled Exterminating Angel, about a group of people who, having been invited to a party, find...

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate.
January 1, 1994... Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp.viii + 296. $30.00. There is probably no point of consensus more widespread in relation to Islam than the notion that Islamic...