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Judith Miller. Simon & Schuster $27.50 (512p) ISBN 0-684-80973-7
Indispensable for Middle East watchers, Miller's eye-opening, firsthand report begins in Sudan in 1985 with the jubilant public execution of Mahmoud Taha, founder of a nonviolent Islamic reformist group. His conviction for sedition and heresy by a militant Muslim regime that commits appalling crimes, she observes, should serve as a warning to other Middle Eastern states tempted to institute theocratic rule. In virtually every country she visited--Egypt, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.--Miller, New York Times correspondent and former Cairo bureau …