Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 2000

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 2000

Minorities in Contemporary Islamist Discourse.
October 1, 2000... Contemporary Islamists (al-Islamiyyun)(1) deal very little with Islam's attitude toward minorities and even less with the status that minorities can anticipate in the state the Islamists long for.(2) Scrutiny of Islamist discourse reveals that...

Islamists and the Threat of Jihad: Hizb al-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun on Israel and the Jews.
October 1, 2000... Some Islamist groups call for a jihad against their perceived enemies, justifying acts of violence and armed struggle against them. Where Israel is concerned, HAMAS and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad provide significant examples. The military...

Political Reform in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar.
October 1, 2000... There appears to be a conventional wisdom among students of the Gulf that a combination of economic and social developments is stimulating far reaching change in the political structures of the Gulf oil states. The end of the oil boom, the need...

Issues of Educational Administration in the Arab Gulf Region.
October 1, 2000... The effectiveness of state systems of education in the Middle East is a topic that has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years.(1) As states have moved on from colonial rule or tutelage, universal access to schooling has been seen as...

Educational Expenditure in the Middle East and North Africa.
October 1, 2000... Education produces several socially desirable goals. These include improved individual productivity in terms of higher wages resulting in improved income distribution, improved health and nutrition due to better sanitary and cooking practices,...

Alevi Politics in Contemporary Turkey.
October 1, 2000... In this article we attempt to east light on Alevi politics in Turkey, mainly the diverse political orientations regarding Alevilik.(1) We note the differential political power the groups with different political orientations hold and their...

American Protestant Missionaries and Monastir, 1912-17: Secondary Actors in the Construction of Balkan Nationalisms.
October 1, 2000... Over the past decade and a half, a large and growing number of studies of ethnicities and nationalisms have examined and emphasized the socially-constructed dimensions of identities. In such processes of nation-building (and in counter-vailing...

Foreign Firms and Local Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Iran.
October 1, 2000... It has been argued elsewhere,(1) that one important aspect of the Iranian economy in the nineteenth century was its failure to organise primitive accumulation of capital. That is to say that on the one hand, free labour did not emerge and on...

Turkish Local Government: The Need for Reform.
October 1, 2000... Turkey does not have a strong tradition of local government, and local government has not come into being as a result of an indigenous development. This characteristic of the system has to be kept in mind in order to make a fair evaluation of...

The First Arab Pilots in the British Royal Air Force.
October 1, 2000... On 1 April 1918 the British Royal Flying Corps and the British Royal Naval Air Service were amalgamated to constitute the Royal Air Force (RAF). Two days later, on the initiative of Mark Sykes, an adviser on Eastern affairs to the British...

The Classical Eastern Question (Review Article).
October 1, 2000... The key to an understanding of international politics in the Middle East in modern times lies in the constantly shifting and uneven relations between outside forces and local actors. Throughout most of the nineteenth century at least four great...

Russia and Chechnia: The Permanent Crisis. Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Russia and Chechnia: The Permanent Crisis. Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations edited by Ben Fowkes. London: Macmillan Press and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp.viii + 188, chronology, index. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (cloth). One of...

Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace edited by Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolf. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp.xv + 282, glossary, notes on the contributors, index. $45.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). ISBN...

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success by Geoffrey Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 168, bibliography, indices. 35.00 [pounds sterling]/$60.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-823856-8. The subject of the `language...

Women and War in Lebanon.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Women and War in Lebanon edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Pp.xvi + 334, bibliography, contributors, index. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8130-1707-6. This is comprehensive account of various women's...

French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences.(Review)
October 1, 2000... French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences by Moshe Gershovich. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xvii + 238, maps, bibliography, index. 35.00 [pounds sterling]/$57.50 (cloth). ISBN 0-7146-4949-X. I found...

Henri Naus: Retrieving the Biography of a Belgian Industrialist in Egypt.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Henri Naus: Retrieving the Biography of a Belgian Industrialist in Egypt by Uri M. Kupferschmidt. Brussels: Academie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, 1999. Pp. 153, bibliography, index, 12 illustrations. ISBN 90-75652-16-X. This tighly...

New Media in the Muslim World.(Review)
October 1, 2000... New Media in the Muslim World by D. Eickelman and J. Anderson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp.213. 32.95 [pounds sterling] (cloth); 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 0-253-33575-2; 0-253-21329-0. Anthropologists who study...

Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Women in Islam and the Middle East:A Reader edited by Ruth Roded. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. Pp.288. $59.50. ISBN 1 8606 4308 6. In the last two decades there has been a substantial increase in publications on the role and status of women...

Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran by Maryam Poya. London: Zed Books, 1999. Pp.208. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 1 8564 9681 3; 1 8564 9682 1. In the last two decades there has been a substantial increase in...

Fabricating Israeli History: The `New Historians' (Second Revised Edition).(Review)
October 1, 2000... Fabricating Israeli History: The `New Historians' (Second Revised Edition) by Efraim Karsh. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xliv + 280, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling]/$54.50 (cloth); 16.50 [pounds sterling]/$24.50 (paper). ISBN...

Islam and Society in Turkey.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Islam and Society in Turkey by David Shankland. Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1999. Pp.x + 240, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). ISBN 0-906719-27-5; 0-906719-26-7. The position of Islam in Turkish...

Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study edited by Miura Tom and John Edward Philips. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 2000. Pp.xii + 243, index. 65.00 [pounds sterling]/$100.00 (cloth). ISBN 071306601. ...

Correspondence.
October 1, 2000... John Fisher writes: In his review of my book, Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-19 London: Frank Cass, 1999), Professor M.E. Yapp makes several points which require clarification. Firstly, Yapp notes, `Fisher...