Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 1996

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 1996

Cromer and the Classics: imperialism, nationalism and the Greco-Roman past in modern Egypt.
January 1, 1996... This country is a palimpsest in which the Bible is written over Herodotus, and the Koran over that. Lady Duff Gordon(1) Westerners in Egypt have variously imagined themselves as entering the world of the Pharaohs, the Bible, the Greeks and...

Pan-Islamism in late nineteenth-century Iran.
January 1, 1996... Pan-Islamism or the idea of creating a united Muslim front against the common threat of foreign imperialism was one of several ideologies articulated during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to the growing domination of the...

Failure of collaboration: Armenian refugees in Syria.
January 1, 1996... The rear-admiral asked for a complete account of Gabriel's battles and defences. As Gabriel briefly described them, he grew conscious of the deepest impatience. These kempt and soigne officers in their smart uniforms seemed as faintly,...

The revision of Iraq's oil concession, 1949-52.
January 1, 1996... I 1949-50 The bitter dispute between Iran and the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in the late 1940s and early 1950s has justifiably received a great deal of scholarly attention.(1) The dispute, which resulted in the nationalization of...

The politics of encapsulation: Saudi policy towards tribal and religious opposition.
January 1, 1996... This article examines the Saudi state through its strategies towards two types of political opposition. Both Shammar tribal opposition at the beginning of the formation of the state early this century and Shiite religious opposition in the last...

American missionaries in the UAE region in the twentieth century.
January 1, 1996... Geographically part of the Arabian Peninsula, the area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has always been historically and culturally part of the Islamic world. However, Arabia was once part of the Christian world and was referred to in the Old...

Jordanian Islamists and the agenda for women: between discourse and practice.
January 1, 1996... The resurgent Islamist movement in Jordan' presents itself as a movement with a clear vision of what constitutes a society based on Islamic principles. Islamist activism and institution-building projects are presented as part of a grand strategy...

The drift towards neutrality: Egyptian foreign policy during the early Nasserist Era, 1952-55.
January 1, 1996... Egyptian foreign policy during the Nasserist era is a relatively well-researched field. Yet, while most studies concentrate on Gamal Abdul Nasser's policy and ideology after 1955-56, the period in which he became the symbol of Arab nationalism...

Interpretations of Kawakibi's thought, 1950-1980s.
January 1, 1996... Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi occupies a unique place among the intellectuals of the Nahda - the Arab revival. On the cutting edge of Islamic reformism and one of the harbingers of Arab nationalism, his career and thought incarnate the dialectic...

A preliminary to decolonizing the historiography of Shaykh Mansur.
January 1, 1996... Sharpudin B. Akhmadov. Imam Mansur. (Narodno-osvoboditel'noe dvizhenie v Chechne i na Severnom Kavkaze v kontse XVIII v.) [Imam Mansur (The National Liberation Movement in Chechnia and in the Northern Caucasus at the End of the Eighteenth...

Inside the Third World Village.
January 1, 1996... The most striking detail about this book is its title. One is tempted to wonder if there is a 'Third World Village' in the first place before attempting to know what is inside it. On a closer look, the reader discovers that the 'Third World...

Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East.
January 1, 1996... The book began life as a conference on 'Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East' sponsored by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. It was to bring together anthropologists, historians and political...

Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting Legacies.
January 1, 1996... Since the independence of the six ex-Soviet Muslim republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia, numerous books and articles have been published in several languages. The book reviewed here is one of the best, both in its range of topics and in...

Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution.
January 1, 1996... The articles collected in the volume under review constitute an attempt by Nikki Keddie to use her original perspective and research on Iranian history to generate a series of meditations on the significance of particularly the Islamic revolution...

Displaying the Orient.
January 1, 1996... This book is a constant enchantment, and one wonders why such a study has not been previously attempted. Now that the attempt has been made, it is clear that no one could have done better than Zeynep Celik. The mutual discovery of the East and...