Middle East Studies Association. Bulletin
Vol. XXXV         No.
2          Winter 2001

Essays

Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively ASEF BAYAT 151
Women Writing/ Women Written: The Case of Oriental Women in English Colonial Fiction HAGEN BEN DRISS 159
Visions of the City: Urban Studies on the Gulf NELIDA FUCCARO 175
Academic Irrelevance or Disciplinary Blind-Spot? Middle Eastern Studies and the Baha’i Faith Today ISMAEL VELASCO  

 

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Review Essays

Approaches to Classical Arabic Poetry ROGER ALLEN 201
The Heritage of Sufism ADRIAN A. HUSAIN 204
Cultural memory and Tradition DOUGIAS C. YOUNG 208
The October War Revisited GAL LUFT 210
Turkey in the Modern World ROBERT OLSON 212

 

Literature & Literary Criticism

PAULA HAYDAR, trans., This Side of lnnocence (Alexander E. Elinson) 217
LATIIFA AL-ZAYYET, The Open Door (Judith Caesar) 218
MIRIAM COOKEE, Hayati: My Life (Abdulla AI-Dabbagh) 219
ALICE C. HUNSBERGER, Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (Saeed Yousef)  

 

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VERA BASCH MOREEN , trans., In Queen Esther's Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature (Nancy Berg)  

 

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ROBlN OSTLE, ed., Marginal Voices in Literature and Society: Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World (Issa J. Boullata) 222

Art, Culture & Society

MOURID BARGHOUTI, I Saw Ramallah (Shaw Dallal) 223
IMAN FARID BASYOUNY, Just a Gaze: Female Clientele of Diet Clinics in Cairo (An Ethnomedical Study) (Marcia C. Inhorn) 224
RANDI DEGUILHEM, ed., Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World Issues and Sources (Amira Sonbol) 225
MAI GOUSSOUB and EMMA SINCLAIR-WESS, eds., Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East (Robert Nowatzki) 226
TORD OLSSON, ELISABETH ÖZDALGA and CATHARINA RAUDVERE, eds., Alevi Identity : Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives (Ahmet T. Karamustafa) 227
EDWARD W. SAID, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Lauren Onkey) 228
LAMIA RUSTUM SHEHADEH, ed., Women and War in Lebanon (Nancy W.Jabbra) 229

Pre-Modern History

AFAF LUTFI AL-SARRID MARsOT, Women and Men in Late Eighteenth Century Egypt (Amira Sonbol) 231
FRÉDÉRICK BAUDEN, ed., Le Voyage ŕ Smyrne: Un manuscrit d’Antoine Galland (1678) (Christine Isim-Verhaaren) 232
SALVATORE BONO, Schiavi Musulmani nell’Italia Moderna (Steven Epstein) 233
GEORGE A. BOURNOUTIAN, annot. and ed., Armenians and Russia (1626-1796): A Documentary Record (Robert Olson) 234
ALEKSANDAR FOTIC, Sveto Gora i Hilandar u Osmanskom carstvu XV XVII vek [Mount Athos and Hilandar in the Ottoman Empire,15th-17th Centuries](Michael Robert Hickok) 235
ALASTAIR HAMILTON, ALEXANDER H. DE GROOT and MAURITS H. VAN DEN BOOGERT, eds., Friends and Rivals in the East : Studies in Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Levant from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century(Palmira Brummett) 236
PETER JACKSON, The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History (William Wood) 237
ŢEVKET PAMUK, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Gabor Agoston) 238
JAMES J. REID, Studies in Safavid Mind, Society, and Culture (Rudi Matthee) 239
JANINA M. SAFRAN, The Second Umayyad Caliphate: The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al Andalus (Olivia Remie Constable)  

 

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JoHN E. WOODS, The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire (Adel Allouche) 241

Islam in the Modern World

ADIL ÖZDEMIR and KENNETH FRANK, Visible Islam in Modern Turkey (Glenn Yocum)

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ELIZ SANASARIAN, Religious Minorities in Iran (Houri Berberian)

243

Israel & the Arab World

MoHAMMED ABU-NIMER, Dialogues, Conflict Resolution, and Change :Arab Jewish Encounters in Israel (Russell A. Stone)

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K. J. ASALI, ed., Jerusalem in History (Theodore Pulcini) 245
GEORGE W. GAWRYCH, The Albatross of Decisive Victory : War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars (W. Andrew Terrill) 246
EFRAIM KARSH, ed., Israel: The First Hundred Years, Vol. 1: Israel's Transition from Community to State (Ilan Pappe) 247
JUDITH A. KLINOHOFFER, Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East : The Unintended Consequences (Anthony O. Edmonds) 248
DAVID MITTELBERG, The Israeli Connection and American Jews (Ofira Seliktar) 249
AYRE RATTNER and GIDEON FISHMAN, Justice for All Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Criminal Justice System (Samir Awad) 250
NISSIM REJWAN, Israel's Place in the Middle East :A Pluralist Perspective (Moshe Behar) 251
ISRAEL SHAHAK and NORTON MEZVINSKY, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Ami Pedahzur) 252

Modern Politics

HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI, ed., The Caspian Region at a Crossroad : Challenges of a New Frontier of Energy and Development(Mary Ann Heiss) 254
FRED HALLIDAY, Nation and Religion in the Middle East (Richard Bulliet) 255
BIRTHE HANSEN, Unipolarity and the Middle East(Dalia Dassa Kaye) 256
TIM NlBLOCK, 'Pariah States" & Sanctions in the Middle East : Iraq, Libya, Sudan (Ronald Bruce St John) 257
ERGüN ÖZBUDUN, Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation (Ziya Öniţ) 258
MARY ANN TETREAULT, Stories of Democracy, Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait (Karen Pfeifer) 259

Modern History

AS'AD ABUKHALIL, Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (Usama Makdisi) 260
RICHARD HOVANNISIAN, ed., Armenian Van/ Vaspurakan (George Bournoutian) 261
MAJID KHADDURI and EDMUND GHAREEB, War in the Gulf 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications (Michael M. Gunter) 262
G. P. MAKRIS, Changing Masters: Spirit Possession and Identity Construction Among Slave Descendants and Other Subordinates in the Sudan (Stephanie Beswick) 264

Resources

KORKUT M. BUĐDAY, Osmanish: Einführung in die Grundlagen der Literatursprache(Erika H. Gilson) 265
Lokman I. Meho and Kelly L. Magluaghlin, compilers, Kurdish Culture and Society : An Annotated Bibliography (Michael M. Gunter) 266
ESTHER RAIZEN, Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levels (Ronit Engel) 267
HARRY STROOMER, Mehri Texts from Oman: Based on the Field Materials of T. M. Johnstone (Carmen Cross) 268
TADEUSZ SIETOCHOWSKI and BRIAN C. COLLINS, Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan (Shouleh Vatanabadi) 269
JOSEPH ZEIDAN, A Bibliography of Women's Literature in the Modern Arab World 1800-1996 (Carmen Cross) 270

Audiovisuals

The Day I Became a Woman (Hisae Nakanishi) 271
Murshidat: Female Primary Health Care Workers Transforming Society in Yemen (Beth Kangas) 272

A Wall of Silence (Linda T. Darling) 273 West Beirut (Elise Salem)

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In Memoriam
David Montgomert Hart (Sarah Gordon Hart)
M. A. Jazayary (Mehdi Marashi)
Anne Cabot Ogilvy (Robin M. Brown and Bert de Vries)
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Recent (1999-2001) Doctoral Degrees in Middle East Studies

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MESA Financial Report

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Corrections

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