Middle Eastern Studies articles from July 2002

Middle Eastern Studies archives from July 2002

Participation without presence: Hamas, the Palestinian authority and the politics of negotiated coexistence.
July 1, 2002... Islamic thinkers discern four main strategies that mark the political behaviour of Islamic movements: reformist, operating through education, preaching, and guidance (sabil al-wa'z wal-irshad); communal, focusing on the Muslim institution of...

British views of the Turkish national movement in Anatolia, 1919-22.
July 1, 2002... British views of the Turkish national movement in Anatolia differed according to the point of view adopted. Whereas British officials on the spot, in Constantinople (Istanbul, occupied by the Entente Powers, Britain, France and Italy, following...

The Neo-Mahdists and the British, 1944-47: from tactical co-operation to short-lived confrontation.
July 1, 2002... Though brief, the period 1943-47 was pregnant with very important developments, of which the most significant were the birth of the Umma Party, Sidqi-Bevin Protocol, Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi's visit to London, and the introduction of the Sudanese...

The Rabegh crisis, 1916-17: 'a comparatively trivial question' or 'a self-willed disaster'.
July 1, 2002... In September 1916, in the cobalt blue waters of the Red Sea, four men stood on the deck of HMS Hardinge discussing the progress of the Arab Revolt. Their conversation, conducted in a mixture of Arabic, French, English and Hindustani, occurred...

Drawing the repertoire of collective action: Labour Zionism and strikes in 1920s Palestine.
July 1, 2002... In a search for some keys to understanding the complex relations between workers, Labour and nationalism, this article focuses on the problematic presence of nationalism in strikes in Mandate Palestine. It argues that the impact of national...

Courting private capital: the Jewish National Fund's joint land purchase scheme in mandatory Palestine, 1938-47.
July 1, 2002... In the mid-1980s, scholars began to re-evaluate the Jewish National Fund's role in Zionist land purchase and land development in Palestine/Israel. (1) Although these historical re-evaluations of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) are not usually...

Hakimiyyah and jahiliyyah in the thought of Sayyid Qutb.
July 1, 2002... The work of the Egyptian thinker and activist Qutb is dominated by the concept of jahiliyyah. In developing this theory, Qutb took as one of its bases the idea of hakimiyyah. An understanding of hakimiyyah is therefore important to the study of...

Rebels of unimportance: the 1930s' textile strike in Tel Aviv and the boundaries of women's self-reliance.
July 1, 2002... At the beginning of the twentieth century, rebellious behaviour of women workers, especially in the garment industry, was not unusual in various newly industrialized countries. To depict such militancy a new term, `industrial feminism', was...

What Ottoman History and Ottomanist historiography are--or, rather, are not.('Approaching Ottoman History')
July 1, 2002... The publisher of Suraiya Faroqhi's Approaching Ottoman History (1) introduces the author as `one of the most important economic and social historians of the pre-modern Ottoman Empire writing today. Her scholarly contribution to the field has...

The Economy of Iran: the Dilemmas of an Islamic State.
July 1, 2002... edited by Parvin Alizadeh. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Pp.302, bibliography, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth). ISBN 1-86064-464-3. This book of essays on present-day Iran goes a long way in explaining how despite its unstable and...

The Question of the Sanjak of Alexandretta: A Study in Turkish-French-Syrian Relations.
July 1, 2002... by Yucel Guclu. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House, 2001. Pp.xxiv + 368, bibliography, index. TL12,000,000. ISBN 975-16-1403-1. In the inter-war period the sanjak of Alexandretta sat uncomfortably within the French-ruled...