Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 2002

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 2002

Qadhafi and militant Islamism: unprecedented conflict.
October 1, 2002... Since seizing power in 1969, the regime of Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi has devotedly wrapped itself in the banner of Islam, giving it pre-eminent status among the values of its `revolution'. The advent of militant Islamist dissent in Libya during the...

Modern texts and their readers in late Ottoman Palestine.
October 1, 2002... `Culture in this country is dead!' the editor of a Jerusalem newspaper announced in 1912. In a profoundly pessimistic essay, he portrayed a dismal state of affairs in Palestine. People had abandoned science and learning, he noted sadly, and had...

Majlis al-Shura and Majlis al-Dawla: weaving old practices and new realities in the process of state formation in Oman.
October 1, 2002... It is undeniable that during the three decades of Sultan Qabus's role Oman has made tremendous progress. The fortuitous coincidence of rising oil revenues and a successful military campaign in the 1970s could hardly have been better designed...

The circles of Maulana Mohamed Ali.
October 1, 2002... In a speech delivered to the Fourth Plenary Session of the Round Table Conference in London on 19 November 1930, as a member of the Indian delegation, Maulana Mohamed Ali Jauhar (1) argued emotionally and eloquently for Indian independence. He...

Constraints and adjustments in Italy's policy toward Israel.
October 1, 2002... Former Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini once said that Italy never had financial or military resources commensurate with its foreign policy ambitions, and that its efforts to maintain friendship with all countries did not bring it close to any...

John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan: managing the `Special Relationship' in the Persian Gulf region, 1961-63.
October 1, 2002... In February 1963, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote to US President John F. Kennedy concerning Yemen. The small, impoverished nation at the south-western tip of the Arabian Peninsula was torn by revolution and civil war which, in...

Ozal leadership and restructuring of Turkish ethnic policy in the 1980s.
October 1, 2002... The Ozal period, first prime minister (1983-89) and then president (1989-93), was an era of novelty and change in Turkey's domestic and foreign policy. Largely deviating from the Kemalist tradition, Ozal restructured Turkish politics in many...

To build a navy with the help of adversary: Italian-Turkish naval arms trade, 1929-32.
October 1, 2002... Italian-Turkish relations in the inter-war years oscillated between antagonism and friendship. In 1935, Turkish Foreign Minister Tevfik Ru tu Aras described the evaluation of Italian-Turkish relations in stages of `warmth', `cooling off' and...

Concession hunting in the age of reform: British companies and the search for government guarantees; telegraph concessions through Ottoman territories, 1855-58.
October 1, 2002... It appears that the first attempts to introduce the electric telegraph into the Ottoman Empire were by Americans. An unsuccessful attempt in 1839 by a certain Mr Chamberlain of Maine (who was an associate of Samuel Morse, the American inventor...

Changed Identities: the Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Mai Yamani. London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2000. Pp.xxii + 170, bibliography. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 1 86203 088 X. The history of modern Saudi Arabia has been one of moving towards increasing...

The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Adeeb Khalid. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.xxiii + 335, bibliography, index, maps, tables. No price indicated (paper). ISBN 0-520-21356-4. Academic life in the twentieth century underwent...

Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By David Menashri. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp.xii + 356, 45.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth), ISBN 0-7146-5074-9; 17.50 [pounds sterling] (paper), ISBN 0-7146-8121-0. Historical time, unlike chronological time, does not move...

Great Britain and Reza Shah: the Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Mohammad Gholi Majd. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp.xiii + 429, bibliography, index, 32 illustrations. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8130-211-1. Mohammad Gholi Majd has based his account of the Reza Shah period mainly on the...

The Religious Kibbutz Movement in the Land of Israel, 1930-1948.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Religious Kibbutz Movement in the Land of Israel, 1930-1948 by Yossi Katz. Jerusalem and Ramat Gan: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University Press, 1999. Pp.358, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 965-493007-2. ...

Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Benjamin C. Fortna. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp.xvii + 280, 1 table, 4 maps, 5 illustrations, bibliography, index. 48.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924840-0. While not a few works on education in the Ottoman Empire are...

Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Donald Malcolm Reid. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. Pp.vx + 297, appendices, bibliography, index. 24.95 [pounds sterling]/$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-22197-4. Donald Reid has made a name for himself as a historian of...

Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: the Roots of Sectarianism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Bruce Masters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.xiii + 222, bibliography, index. ISBN 0521803330. This extremely well-researched and insightful book is of great interest not only to academics, but also to a wider...

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... By Bat Ye'or. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. Pp.528. index. 15.00 [pounds sterling] (paper). ISBN 0838639437. In Islam and Dhimmitude, Bat Ye'or, an independent scholar living in Switzerland, sets out...