Middle Eastern Studies articles from July 1996

Middle Eastern Studies archives from July 1996

Middle Eastern Lectures.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Martin Kramer. Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1995 (distributed by Syracuse University Press). Pp. 133, $12.95. The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv...

The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror 1940-1949.
July 1, 1996... by Joseph Heller. London: Frank Cass, 1995. Pp. x + 358. index. 37.50pounds (hardback), 18pounds (paperback). The Stern Gang (Lohamei Herut Israel = Lehi) is usually described as a breakaway section of the kaleidoscopic Revisionist movement in...

Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad.
July 1, 1996... Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad by Ziad Abu-Amr. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 169, references, index. 27.50[pounds] (hardback); 9.99[pounds] (paperback). All of these books concern a phenomenon...

Pioneers of Islamic Revival.
July 1, 1996... edited by Ali Rahnema. London: Zed books, 1994. Pp. viii + 279, index. 14.95pounds (paperback) edited by Said Amir Arjomand. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 293, index. No price indicated. All of these books...

The Political Dimensions of Religion.
July 1, 1996... edited by Said Amir Arjomand. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 293, index. No price indicated. All of these books concern a phenomenon that is known by many names: Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic radicalism,...

Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Ideological and Political Discourse of Sayyid Qutb.
July 1, 1996... by Ahmad S. Moussalli. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1992. Pp. 262, bibliography, index. No price indicated All of these books concern a phenomenon that is known by many names: Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic radicalism,...

Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics.
July 1, 1996... Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer. Boulder: Westview and London: Printer, 1991. Pp. xxii + 258, index. 14.99pounds. All of these books concern a phenomenon that is known by many names: Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic radicalism,...

A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt.
July 1, 1996... Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt by Karin van Nieuwkerk. University of Texas Press: Austin 1995. Pp.210 + bibliography. US$535.00 (hardback): US$15.95 (paperback). `When I grow up I want to be a doctor, a housewife and a Belly dancer!' is...

Domestic Government: Kinship, Community, and Polity in North Yemen.
July 1, 1996... and Polity in North Yemen by Martha Mundy. London: I.B. Tauris. 1995. Pp. xviii + 317, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds] (hardback). Martha Mundy's valuable contribution to the study of Arab society is a revision of her doctoral thesis, based...

Central Asia: 130 years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview.
July 1, 1996... Dominance, A Historical Overview edited by Edward Allworth. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994. Pp. xix+652. 65.00 [pounds] (hardback); 25.00 [pounds](paperback). The first edition of this book was published by Columbia University...

The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935-1941.
July 1, 1996... Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935-1941 by Haile Latebo Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. Pp. viii + 350. 45.00 [pounds]. Numerous works have been devoted to the international diplomacy of the `Italo-Abyssinian dispute of 1934-35,...

The Arabian Epic.
July 1, 1996... by M.C. Lyons. Cambridge, 1995. 3 vols. Pp. 183+489+660. 125 [pounds]. The scale of the enterprise is astounding. I am reminded of the fairytale in which a girl imprisoned in a tower is ordered to sort out a great heap of mingled grains of...

The awakening of Central Asian Islam.
July 1, 1996... During the long years of Soviet rule, the Muslims of the USSR were the silent, submissive face of an Islam whose passivity surprised and disappointed many observers. In comparison with the militant and dynamic Islam of the Third World, Soviet...

The Sudanese communist movement, the first five years.(part 1)
July 1, 1996... WHEN, WHERE AND HOW DID THE SUDANESE MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION (SMNL)(1) COME INTO EXISTENCE? In a sense it could be said that Sudanese communism came into existence in an organizational form in Egypt at least half a decade before it...

A false dilemma? Syria and Lebanon's independence during the Mandatory period.
July 1, 1996... Syrian leaders have used many arguments to justify their interference in and claim to Lebanon since the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war in 1975.(1) One such argument was that Syrian acceptance of Lebanon's independence and subsequent accession...

Syrian-Iraqi relations during the 1948 Palestine War.
July 1, 1996... Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the British and French conquest of the Fertile Crescent, the Syrian question began to affect relations between the Arab states and their dynasties due to the formation of separate political...

Halil Mentese - the quadrumvir.(Ottoman Empire politician)
July 1, 1996... The Committee of Union and Progress(1) was in the forefront of Ottoman politics for a whole decade till the end of the First World War in 1918. There is a tendency in later writing to consider that the top leadership of the Committee during its...

An experiment in military modernization: constitutionalism, political reform and the Iranian gendarmerie, 1910-21.
July 1, 1996... Throughout the nineteenth century military modernization was a constant preoccupation of Iranian reformers and the history of the Qajar period is peppered with attempts to create a standing army on the European model with the help of missions of...

Collision of consciousness: modernization and development in Iran.
July 1, 1996... Modernization as a concept and a process has been defined in many different ways according to each writer's objective in presenting or arguing the case. In spite of apparent diversity in definition, there are at least four basic underlying...

Zahawi: a muslim pioneer of women's liberation.(Iraqi poet Jamil S. az-Zahawi)
July 1, 1996... The modern Iraqi poet Jamil S. az-Zahawi (1863-1936) was a unique figure in many ways. He was interested in literature, science and philosophy. He was a self-made intellectual, haunted by Western scientific discoveries, the various philosophies...

A field matures: recent literature on women in the Middle East.
July 1, 1996... The English language scholarly literature on women in the Middle East has increased so rapidly in the past few years that it is almost impossible to keep up with this body of material. Indeed it is hard to imagine that less than twenty years ago...