Middle Eastern Studies articles from January 1998

Middle Eastern Studies archives from January 1998

The international significance of British naval missions to the Ottoman Empire, 1908-14.
January 1, 1998... In the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, many European powers, great and small, engaged in considerable naval building programmes. The problem facing states that did not already possess a significant naval force was a lack...

The Battle for Baku (May-September 1918): a peculiar episode in the history of the Caucasus.
January 1, 1998... The city of Baku and surrounding area is one of the best-known oil regions in the world. Exploitation by collection from springs and shallow pits was well noticed in the earliest historical records. A considerable commerce was carried on in the...

Turkey and the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh: a delicate balance.
January 1, 1998... With the break-up of the Soviet Union in late 1991, Azerbaijan and Armenia both became independent, and Moscow's responsibility to manage and contain the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh suddenly disappeared. Within a few months, the conflict...

Adana Station 1943-45: prelude to the post-war American military presence in Turkey.
January 1, 1998... The American military presence in Turkey after the Second World War is generally acknowledged to have originated from President Harry Truman's decision to grant substantial military assistance to that country in early 1947 in reaction to the...

Merchants' role in a changing society: the case of Dubai, 1900-90.
January 1, 1998... Since the turn of the twentieth century, Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates (known before independence as the Trucial Coast), has derived its fame and prosperity from trade. With little or no other means of livelihood, commerce...

Sharif Husayn ibn Ali and the Hashemite vision of the post-Ottoman order: from chieftaincy to suzerainty.
January 1, 1998... In the latter years of the nineteenth and the first years of this century, Arab nationalists began to articulate their vision of a polity that would eventually replace the Ottoman framework. By the time Sharif Husayn ibn Ali al-Hashimi assumed...

Israel and the refugee problem: from exodus to resettlement, 1948-52.
January 1, 1998... For almost two generations historians and Middle East scholars alike, have endeavoured to address and clarify much of the confusion surrounding the events and circumstances of Israel's 1948 War of Independence. Indeed, many of the uncertainties...

The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the case of Hamas.
January 1, 1998... `The Palestinian cause is not about land and soil, but it is about faith and belief'(1) This statement by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-muqawama al-Islamiyya, or Hamas, its acronym) reflects an important development in the...

Trade agreements and the continuation of tariff protection policy in mandate Palestine in the 1930s.
January 1, 1998... As part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War, Palestine and its trade were regionally oriented. The north, including Haifa, formed part of the Vilayet of Beirut, with its well-equipped port-capital of Beirut, and was integrated into...

State, Society, and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative perspective.
January 1, 1998... By Haim Gerber. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp.v + 218, bibliography, index. Like so many titles, this particular title (and even the subtitle) does not give us a very good idea of the contents. This is a study of the...

Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and Its Demise, 1800-1909.
January 1, 1998... By Y. Hakan Erdem. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1996. Pp. xxii + 229, bibliography, index. 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback). The study of Ottoman slavery suffers from a `near-total...

The Middle East: From the End of Empire to the End of the Cold War.
January 1, 1998... By P.J. Vatikiotis. London and New York: Routledge, 1977. Pp.xi + 284, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Following his Arab and Regional Politics (1984), the book under review comprises a second harvest of articles and papers by Professor...

The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society and the Press.
January 1, 1998... By Beth Baron. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp.x + 259, index. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. Beth Baron, Associate Professor of History at City College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, has already...

The Constitution of Iran.
January 1, 1998... By Asghar Schirazi. London: I.B. Tauris, 1997. Pp.ix + 325, bibliography, index. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback). The Constitution of Iran is, according to Schirazi, full of contradictions because of the range of political forces which were...

Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism.
January 1, 1998... by Mehrzad Boroujerdi. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996. Pp.256. L40.50 (hardback); 15.50 [pounds sterling] (paperback). This is a very useful and interesting account of a certain trend within the recent intellectual history of modern...

Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Politics.
January 1, 1998... By Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp.xiii + 273, bibliography, index. 05.00 (hardback); 13.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). Fedwa Malti-Douglas' study is an elaborate attempt to do justice to the...