Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 1997

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 1997

Arab and Turkish universities: some characteristics.
January 1, 1997... Before I start discussing the subject, I have to point out a problem of definition. Even if I limit myself, as I shall, to modern times, the time-span is so long and the geographical area so wide that some definition of the term 'university'...

Influence without power: the last Khedive of Egypt and the Great Powers, 1914-18.(Abbas Hilmi II)
January 1, 1997... One of the few remaining mysteries of World War I in the Middle East is why the last Ottoman viceroy in Egypt, the Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, deposed by Britain in December 1914, remained during much of the war the object of substantial attention...

Islamic utopia in pre-revolutionary Iran: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam.(Seyyed Mojtaba Navvab Safavi and Islamic fundamentalist movement of the 1940s and 1950s)
January 1, 1997... The historical-Islamic background of the 1979 revolution in Iran and the populist character of the Islamic Republic have received careful scrutiny in the literature. (1) However, the impact of Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam on shaping a...

The Shah's Lebanon policy: the role of SAVAK.(Iranian Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi; Iran's National Intelligence and Security Organization)
January 1, 1997... Iranian-Lebanese relations during the reign of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi can be viewed in two distinct phases. The first phase, which lasted from the mid-1950s until the June War of 1967, was shaped by Egyptian president Garnal Abd al-Nasser and...

Syria and State Department 1937-1947.(U.S. Dept. of State)
January 1, 1997... Syria in the period 1920-41 was globally regarded as a French sphere. The State Department, however, never accepted French pre-eminence in Syria as an unchangeable fact, and often contended that the French were legally obligated to consult with...

Syrian migration to the Arab oil-producing countries.
January 1, 1997... Until the beginning of the 1970s, most of the migration from Arab countries was to areas outside the Middle East. There was large scale migration from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco to Western Europe (mainly to France). In addition (since the...

Secrecy in early Arab nationalist organizations. (from 1908-1914)
January 1, 1997... It was in the period 1908-14, the years of Young Turk rule, that proto-nationalist and nationalist activity significantly increased in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Arab activists in Istanbul, in the Fertile Crescent, and also in the...

The Sudanese communist movement, the first five years. (part 3)
January 1, 1997... THE SECOND LEADER OF THE SUDANESE MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION (SMNL), AWAD ABD AL-RAZIQ, AND HIS CONFRONTATION WITH THE THIRD LEADER, ABD AL-KHALIQ MAHJUB Abd al-Wahhab Zain al-'Abidin, the first leader of the SMNL, was removed from the...

A speaking Turkey.(analysis of recent books on Turkey published inside and outside the country)
January 1, 1997... During the 1991 electoral campaign, Suleyman Demirel, then leader of the centre-right True Path Party (DYP) and now President of the Turkish Republic, declared that he wanted to see a 'Turkey that spoke'. In spite of the deferred sentence of...

Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Autobiography of Sir Cyril Philips.
January 1, 1997... Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Autobiography of Sir Cyril Philips, London and New York; The Radcliffe Press, 1995. Pp.292, index and illustrations. 24.50 [pounds sterling]. It may be asserted that in higher education Cyril 'Phil' Philips...

Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900.
January 1, 1997... Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 by Beshara Doumani. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London: University of California Press, 1995. Pp.xv + 340, bibliography, index, maps, plates. 40 [pounds sterling]...

Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Development.
January 1, 1997... Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Development by Alexander Scholch. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1993. Pp.xii + 351, bibliography, index, maps. While working in the...

Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power.
January 1, 1997... Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power by Donna Robinson Divine. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 1994. Pp.vii + 227, index, map. While working in the Documentation Centre in the University of...

The Jews of the Ottoman Empire.
January 1, 1997... The Jews of the Ottoman Empire edited by Avigdor Levy. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1994. Pp.xv + 783, chronology, selected bibilography, index, illustrations and charts. $49.95 (hardback). The Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire have played a...

Lords of the Lebanese Marches.
January 1, 1997... Lords of the Lebanese Marches by Michael Gilsenan. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Pp. xv + 377 bibliography, index. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). This book, which contains five parts and sixteen chapters, is essentially a study of the...

The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back.
January 1, 1997... The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back, by Mordechai Bar-On (translated by Ruth Rossing). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995. Pp.xi + 404, bibliography, index. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback). Mordechai Bar-On was at the centre of...

The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt.
January 1, 1997... The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, by Patrick D. Gaffney. California, 1994. In The Prophet's Pulpit, Patrick Gaffney examines the practice of mosque preaching in Minya, Upper Egypt. His fieldwork took place mainly...

Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran: The Use of the Friday Congregational Sermon.
January 1, 1997... Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran: The Use of the Friday Congregational Sermon by Haggay Ram. Washington, DC: American University Press, 1994. Pp.xiii + 261. US$59.00. The purpose of this book is to examine the political and...

The History of the Wahhabis from Their Origin Until the End of 1809.
January 1, 1997... The History of the Wahhabis from their origin until the end of 1809 by Louis Alexandre Olivier de Corancez (trans. Eric Tabet). Reading: Garnet Publishing, 1995, Pp.161. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. A translation of Corancez's French text first...

Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order.
January 1, 1997... Islamic and European Expansion: the Forging of a Global Order edited by Michael Adas for the American Historical Association. Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1993. Pp.xiii + 379. $49.95. This volume is the second (but the first to appear)...

Richard Hill (1901-1996): 'in memoriam.'('Middle Eastern Studies' editorial board member and expert on modern Sudan)(Obituary)
January 1, 1997... Richard Hill, a member of Middle Eastern Studies editorial board since its foundation in 1965, died in Oxford on 21 March 1996. Hill's higher education started at St Augustine's College in Canterbury, where he went to train as an Anglican...