Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 1993

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 1993

Sa'id Hawwa: the making of a radical Muslim thinker in modern Syria.
October 1, 1993... Since 1963, when the Ba|th Party seized power in Syria, the Muslim Brethren movement established itself as the core of its opposition. The Ba|th power base consisted of a coalition of social forces which previously were under the thumb of the...

Suleiman al-Murshid: beginnings of an Alawi leader.
October 1, 1993... Following the end of World War 1, the French created an autonomous political entity in the Alawi region, in north-west Syria. Its Advisory Council was destined to be the foundation for future local administration. Two tribal chiefs, of the...

From tents to high rise: economic development of the United Arab Emirates.
October 1, 1993... The discovery of oil and its export to world markets has restructured the economic and social fabric of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The continuous and steadily increasing revenues has made the UAE a capital-surplus economy. These...

Carpet and shawl weavers in nineteenth-century Iran.
October 1, 1993... In a carpet factory [in Kerman] the owner was showing the work of an expert little weaver of five to a visitor. The visitor asked what the child's daily wage amounted to for such beautiful work. When he heard the small sum he asked if it was...

British commitments to the Arabs and their application to the Palestine-Trans-Jordan boundary: the issue of the Semakh Triangle.
October 1, 1993... From 24 October 1915 onwards British policy-makers had come up with ideas concerning an intended political separation of Trans-Jordan from Palestine proper.(1) It was on this date that Sir Henry McMahon, His Majesty's High Commissioner at...

Ahmad Kasravi and Seyyed Jamal Waez on constitutionalism in Iran.
October 1, 1993... In August 1906 Muzaffar-ud-din Shah Qajar, after several clashes between the people and his grand vizier in the capital, consented to a constitutional form of government. However, in June of 1908, his son, Mohammad Ali Shah, destroyed the...

Muslim supporters of Jewish Messiahs in Yemen.
October 1, 1993... The religious history of nineteenth-century Yemen, that will be the focus of this discussion, is characterized by the prevalence of extensive messianic aspirations among the Muslim and Jewish population. The Jews supposed that the End of Time...

The Turkish model. (as a model Muslim democracy)
October 1, 1993... In June 1992 the former Soviet republics of Central Asia received a visit from Mme Catherine Lalumiere, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, a body dedicated to the defence and propagation of European concepts of human rights. Having...

The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858.
October 1, 1993... Attempts at revisionist studies of the modern history of Egypt continue to be fashionable; they attract a great number of younger scholars who in the present international and regional political climate have easier access to archival and other...

Egyptian Textiles and British Capital: 1930-1956.
October 1, 1993... Attempts at revisionist studies of the modern history of Egypt continue to be fashionable; they attract a great number of younger scholars who in the present international and regional political climate have easier access to archival and other...

Nasser's Blessed Movement, Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution.
October 1, 1993... Attempts at revisionist studies of the modern history of Egypt continue to be fashionable; they attract a great number of younger scholars who in the present international and regional political climate have easier access to archival and other...

Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-Narrative.
October 1, 1993... This slim - and slight - volume contains the proceedings of a conference on biography and autobiography held at Tel Aviv University in 1987. It stands as compelling testimony to the proposition that not all conferences which bring together...

Iran's First Revolution: Shi'ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-9.
October 1, 1993... Arguing against the view that the Iranian Constitutional Revolution was a reaction to the European penetration of Iran at the end of the nineteenth century, Mangol Bayat claims that social strife pre-dated the impact of Europe as was manifested...

Nomad: A Year in the Life of a Qashqa'i Tribesman in Iran.
October 1, 1993... After The Qashqa'i of Iran (1986), in which Lois Beck presented a socio-historical study of one of Iran's famous pastoral nomadic groups, her new book documents a year in the life of her host, Borzu Oermezi, a tribal headman of a sub-section of...

The Mufti of Jerusalem, Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, rev. ed.
October 1, 1993... Mattar's book presents an additional essay to those dealing with the biography of the Mufti of Jerusalem - Haj Amin al-Husayni. In the author's view all essays written so far on the subject |are so partisan and polemical that the historical...

Arabia's Frontiers: The Story of Britain's Boundary Drawing in the Desert.
October 1, 1993... John C. Wilkinson's work on the periphetal states of the Arabian Peninsula always deserved attention for its quality. His new book, Arabia's Frontiers: The Story of Britain's Boundary Drawing in the Desert, is no exception and should be...