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Book Review in this Articles Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabi By Henry Corbin Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. The Theology of Unity. By Muhammad ^cAbduh, translated from the Arabic by Ishãq Musa^Cad and Kenneth Cragg. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1966. 164 pp. Arabic Literature. By I. M. Filshtinsky La littérature arabe. By André Miquel. Qaid-E-Azam Jinnah as I Knew Him. By M. A. H. Ispahani Karachi The Youth of Haouch el Harimi, a Lebanese Village. By Judith R Williams The United States and the Arab World By William R Pok The British in the Middle East. By Sarah Searight A Middle East Reader. Edited by Irene L. Gendzier. Middle East: Past and Present. By Yahya Armajani. The Formation of the Soviet Central Asian Republics. By R. Vaidyanath. Iranian-American Diplomacy. By Mehdi Heravi. A Bibliography of A.U.B. Faculty Publications 1866–1966. Compiled and edited by Suha Tamim. L'arabe classique: Esquisse d'une structure linguistique. By Henri Fleisch S. J. Beyrouth Political Systems of the Middle East in the 30th Century. By W. F. Ab-boushi. Etudes Arabes: Feuilles de Travail. Rome: Institut Pontifical d'Etudes Arak.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Iran Between Two Revolutions , By Ervand Abrahamian Mollā Sadrā Sh?rāz?: Le Livre des pénétrations métaphysiques (Kitāb al-Mashāir). Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Corbin Le livre du licite et de l'illicite (Kitāb al-halāl wa-l-harām , Book XIV of Al-Gazāl?'s Ihyā Ulūm ad-D?n). Introduction, translation and notes by Régis Morelon Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought. By Fuad Baali Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam. Edited by Katherine P. Ewing The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. By Gordon Darnell Newby Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. by Barbara J. Callaway Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society. By Hisham Sharabi The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser Christians and Muslims Together: An Exploration by Presbyterians. Edited by Byron L Ägypten unter Mubarak: Identität und nationales Interesse. by Gudrun Krämer Towards Understanding the Qur⁾ān. Vol. 1, Sura 1–3. English version of Sayyid Abul A⁽la Mawdudi's Tafhim al-Qur⁽ān, translated and edited by Zafar Ishaq Ansari Middle East Contemporary Survey. Vol. IX. Edited by Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked. The Sufi Path of Knowledge : Ibn al-⁽Arab?'s Metaphysics of Imagination. By William C. Chittick Colonising Egypt. By Timothy Mitchell Past-Revolutionary Iran. Edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manouchehr Parvin Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. By M. E. Combs-Schilling Islam: The Straight Path. By John L. Esposito Islam, Politics, and Social Movements. Edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. By Lila Abu-Lughod     

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Book Review in this Articles Studies in Islamic History and Institutions. Bt S.D. Goitein. Dalil al-Mustalahāt al-D?n?ya: Ingl?zi-Arabi (A Wordbook of Relgion: English-Arabic). By Richard W. Thomas. Icon and Minaret: Sources of Byzantine and Islamic Civilization. Edited by Charles M. Foundations of Pakistan: All-India Muslim League Documents, 1906-1947. Edited by Sharifuddin Pirzada Arab Socialism. Edited by Sami A. Hanna and George H. Gardner. Ibn Khaldū in Egypt, His Public Functions and His Historical Research (182-1406): A Study in Islamic Historiography. By Wallter J. Fischel. Middle Eastern Cities, A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism. Edited by Lra M. Lapidus. The Day of Maysalū: A Page from the Modem History of the Arans. By Abū Khaldū Sä al-Husr?, tr. The Political Awakening in the Middle East. Edited by George Lenczowski. Arab & jew in Israel: A Case Study in a Human Relations Approach in Conflict. By Martin Lakin The Nature of Normadism: A comparative Study of Pastoral Migrations in Southwestern Asia and Northern Africa. By Douglas L. Johnson. Tunisia. By Wilfrid Knapp. The Geography of al-Andalus and Europe, from the book al-Masä wal-Mamolik (“The Routes and the Contries”). BY abū Ubayd al-Bakr?; America and the Mediterranean World, 1776-1882. By James A. Field, Jr. The Amercan Apporach th the Arab World. By John S. Badeau. American University of Be?; Festival Book (Festschrift). Edited by Fuäd Sarrūf and Suha Tamin.     

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Book Review in this Articles L'influence du stolcisme sur la pensée musulmane. By Fehmi Jadaane Logic in Classical Islamic Culture. Edited by G. E. von Grunebaum. The Mysticism of Hamzah Fansūri. By Syed Muhammed Naguib al-Attss. Compendium of Fatimid Law. By Asaf A. A. Fyzee. L'HistoIre du Maghrab. By Abdallah Laroui. Ninety-Nine Names of God. By Robert Stade. Lumiére et Ombre su Maghreb. By A. Demeerseman. Alive to God. Muslim and Christian Prayer. Compiled with an Introductory Essay by Kenneth Cragg. I Was an Algerlan Freacher. Autoboigraphy of Said Aboundaon, a Kabyle Pastor. Translated and edited with a prologne, an epilogue and a survay article by W. N. Heggoy. Christ and crisIs in Southeast AsIa. Edited by Gerald H. Anderson.     

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Book Reviews in This Article: Al-Quran Rendered into English. By Syed Abdul Latif. The Message of the Qur'an Presented in Perspective. By Hashim Amir-Ali. Ibn Kammn?a's Examination of the Three Faiths: A Thirteenth-Century Essay in the Comparative Study of Religion. Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Moshe Perlman. Arab Civilization to A.D. 1500. By D. M. Dunlop. The Baha'i Faith: Its History and Teachings. By William McElwee Miller. Jeunesse, Famille et Développement: Essai sur le changement socio-culturel dans un pays du Tiers Monde (Tunisie). By Carmel Camilleri. Jabal al-Akhdar, Cyrenaica: An Historical Geography of Settlement and Livelihood. By Douglas L. Johnson. Is Western Civilization Universal? By Maryam Jameelah. Syria under the Ba'th, 1963-1966: The Army-Party Symbiosis. By Itamar Rabinovich. Politics and Change in Al-Karak, Jordan. By Peter Gubser. Man, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East. Edited by Jacob M. Landau.     

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Book Review in this Articles The Authenticity of the Tradition Literature: Discussions in Modern Egypt. By G. H. A. Juynboll Les théologiens Byzantins et I'Islam.Textes et auteure (VIIIe-XIIIe s.),2e tirage. By Adel-Thédore Khoury. Der theoloische Streit der bysantiner mit dem Islam. By Adel-Théodore Khoury. The Problem of Diglossia in Arabic: A Comparative Study of Classical And Iraqi Arabic.By Salih J. Altoma. Mikhail Naimy: An Introdution, By Nadeem N. Naimy. Myths and Legends of the Swahill. By Jam Knappert. Les Algériens musulmans et la France, 1871-1910. 2 vols. By Charles-Robert Ageron. Revolution and Political Leadership:Algeria, 1954-1968. By William B. Quandt. Algerla: The Polttics of a Socialist Revolution. By David and Marina Ottaway. History of North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco: From the Arab Conquest to 1830. By Charles-AndrC Julien. Tunisia. By Anthony Sylvester. Libya. By John Wright. Foundations of British Policy in the Arab World: The Cario Conference of 1921. By Aaron S.Kliernan.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial. Edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Community of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza , Volume 4: Daily Life. By S. D. Goitein The Arabic Book. By Johannes Pedersen The Early Islamic Conquests. By Fred McGraw Donner The Islamic Impact. Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Byron Haines and Ellison Findly Persian Miniature Painting: and its Influence on the art of Turkey and India [The British Library Collections]. By Norah M. Titley Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture [Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. I]. Edited by Abbas Daneshvari Architecture and Community: Building in the Islamic World Today. [The Aga Khan Award for Architecture.] Edited by Renata Holod with Darl Rastorfer Islam and Ownership. By Seyyed Mahmood Taleqani Society and Economics in Islam: Writings and Declarations of Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleghani. Translated from the Persian by R. Campbell Equality, Efficiency, and Property Ownership in the Islamic Economic System. By Akhtar A. Awan. Lanham Crime and Corrections: An Al-Islamic Perspective. By Sidney R. Sharif The Qur'ān and Its Interpreters. Vol. I. By Mahmoud M. Ayoub 'Ulum al-Qur'ān: An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qur'ān. By Ahmad von Denffer Ibn Taymiyyah's Ethics—The Social Factor. By Victor E. Makari Shāh Wal?-Allāh And His Times. By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi Islamic Theology and Philosophy: Studies in Honor of George F. Hourani. Edited by Michael E. Marmura Religion, My Own. The Literary Works of Naj?b Ma fūz. By Mattityahu Peled L'Orient dèchirè entre I'Est et L'Ouest (1955–1982). By Simon Jargy The Reflowering of Malaysian Islam: Modern Religious Radicals and Their Roots. By Judith Nagata Muslim Sects and Divisions. The section on Muslim sects in Kitāb al-Milal wa'I-Ni al by Mu ammad b. 'Abd al-Kar?m Shahrastān? (d. 1153) . By A. K. Kazi and J. G. Flynn Muslim Intellectual Responses to “New Order” Modernization in Indonesia. By Muhammad Kamal Hassan Social history of Timbuktu: the role of Muslim scholars and notables 1400–1900. By Elias N. Saad Religion and Politics in Muslim Society : Order and Conflict in Pakistan. By Akbar S. Ahmed Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa. By Mary F. Smith     

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Book reviewed in this article: Islam: A Survey of the Muslim Faith. By C. George Fry and James R. King. Islam and the West: The Moriscos. A Cultural and Social History. By Anwar G. Chejne. The Muslim Community in North America. Edited by Earle H. Waugh, Baha Abu-Laban, and Regula B. Qureshi. Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries. Edited by Christian W. Troll. The Afghan Connection: The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger. By George Pottinger. Modern Arab Thought: Channels of the French Revolution to the Arab East. By Ra'?f Khūr?, translated by I?sān 'Abbās, edited by Charles Issawi. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics. By Helena Cobban. The Zionist Connection II: What Price Peace? By Alfred M. Lilienthal. Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam. By Edward Mortimer. Sex and Society in Islam: Birth Control Before the Nineteenth Century. By B. F. Musallam. Studies on Byzantium, Seljuks, and Ottomans: Reprinted Studies. Byzantina kai Metabyzantina, Vol. 2. By Speros Vryonis, Jr. Malibu Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt: Studies in the Writings of 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'ran?. By Michael Winter. Chants Musulmans en Peul. By J. Haafkens. Love, Madness, and Poetry: An Interpretation of the Maǧnūn Legend. By As'ad E. Khairallah. The Churches and Islam in Europe (II). By Jan Slomp and others. The Republic of Lebanon: Nation in Jeopardy. By David C. Gordon. I Speak for Lebanon. Kamal Joumblatt. Translated by Michael Pallis. Issues in Islamic Banking: Selected Papers. By Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi. The Memoirs of a Syrian Prince: Abu'l-Fidā', Sultan of Hamāh (672–732/1273–1331). Translated with an introduction by P. M. Holt. Une Herméneutique de la Tradition Islamique: Le Commentaire des Arba'ūn al-Nawaw?ya de Mu?y? al-D?n Ya?y? al-Nawaw? (m. 676/1277): Introduction, texte arabe, traduction, notes et index du vocabulaire. By Louis Pouzet.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Frternity Among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815–1914 An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography L'éducation géographique: formation du citoyen et conscience territoriale This Side of Heaven: Determining the Donnelly Murders, 1880 Gender, Planning and Human Rightspar Alan R.H. Baker edited by Andrew Herod, Gearoid Ó Tuathail and Susan M. Roberts Juan‐Luis Klein and Suzanne Laurin, Presses de l'Université du Québec by Norman N. Feltes Edited by Tovi Fenster Edited by Fraser Taylor and David Ruxton Policy Issues in Modern Cartography Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Les Hommes de l'Islam: Approche des Mentalités . By Louis Gardet.
Arabische Nation und islamische Geschichte. Die Umayyaden im Urteil arabischer Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts . By Werner Ende
Chadian and Sudanese Arabic in the Light of Comparative Dialectology . By Alan S. Kaye
My Life: The Autobiography of M Egyptian Scholar, Writer, and Cultural Leader [A     mad Amīn]. Translated from the Arabic with an introduction by Issa J. Boullata
Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy . By Michael C. Hudson
Nationalism in a Non-National State. The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire . William W. Haddad and William L. Ochsenwald
Die Kultur der Bosniaken. Supplement I: Inventar des bosnischen literariscben Erbes in orientalischen Sprachen . By Smail Bali. Wien
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Transition 1950–1974 . By Kemal H. Karpat and Contributors. Leiden
Landlord and Peasant in Early Islam . By Ziaul Haque
Island of the Blest: Islam in a Libyan Oasis Community . By John P. Mason
Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century . By Ammon Cohen and Bernard Lewis     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Books reviewed in this issue. Introducción a la historia teorica (Introduction to Theoretical History ). By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. Introduced and edited by Pedro Piedras Monroy. Seeing Things Their Way : Intellectual History and the Return of Religion . Edited by Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory. Gatekeepers of the Arab Past : Historians and History Writing in Twentieth ‐Century Egypt . By Yoav Di‐Capua. The Historians ' Paradox : The Study of History in Our Time . By Peter Charles Hoffer. At the Limits of History : Essays on Theory and Practice . By Keith Jenkins. Recasting the Past : History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa . Edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola. Recent Themes in American Religious History : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Randall J. Stephens. Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion : Historians in Conversation . Edited by Donald A. Yerxa.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: Renaissance of Islamic Culture And Civilization in Pakistan. By Dr. Abdur Rauf. Lahore. Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf, 1965. XIX, 320. Bibliography and Index. Rs. 20/- The Development of Arabic Logic. By Nicholas Rescher. Pp. 262. University of Pittsburgh Press 1964. Revolution and Military Rule in the Middle East: The Northern Tier. By George M. Haddad. Robert Speller & Sons, Publishers Inc. N.Y., 250 pages $6.00 Torch for Islam: A Biography of George K. Harris by Malcolm K. Brad-shaw. China Inland Mission Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Lutterworth Press, London, 1965 pp. 157, 8/6. The prospects of Christianity throughout the world. Edited by M. Searle Bates and Wilhelm Pauck. New York 1964. Charles Scribner's Sons Pp. 286. Islam and Modernism. By Maryam Jameelah. Lahore: Mohammad Yusuf Khan, 1966. Poems from the Divan of Khushal Khan Chatted. translated from the Pashto by D. N. Mackenzie, 261 pp. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, 1965. A Muslim Manual of War. Edited and translated by George T. Scanlon, Cairo, American University Press, 1961. Pp. viii, 130 (Introduction and translation); 97 (Arabic text). Muhammad the Last Prophet by Imam Vehbi Ismail, Cedar Rapids, 1962. Religion for to-morrow , by Theron D. Wilson, Philosophical Library, N.Y. 1963 Aspects of Egypt: Some Travels in the United Arab Republic. By Ethel Mannin. Hutchinson of London, 1964; pp. 264, map, 25 photographs. 30 shillings in U.K.     

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Book Review in this Articles al-wādi al-Muqaddas. By M. Kāmil Husayn. al-Kindi: The Philosopher of The Arabs. By George N. Atiyeh. Ta'llm al-Lugh. al-'Arabiyya fi Nigeria. (Teaching the Arabic Language In Nigeria). By Salim Le Réformisme musulman en Alagérie de 1925 à 1940: Essal d'histoire reli-gieuse et sociale. By Ali Merad. Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan, 1857–1964. By Aziz Ahmad. Islam in China. By Yang I-fan. Afghanistan, 1900–1923: A Diplomatic History. By Ludwig Adamac Liqā' 'ind Bawwãbat Mandelbaum (Meeting at Mandelbaum Gate). By Ahmad Fawzi ^CAbd al-Jabbãr. Paintings From Islamic Lands. Edited by R. Pinder-Wilson. Ten Muslims Meet Christ. By William McElwee Miller.     

BOOKS IN SUMMARY

Book rviewed in this article: Moscas en una botella : Cómo dominar a la gente con palabras . By José Carlos Bermejo Barrera. L'Ecole des Annales : une histoire intellectuelle . By André Burguière. Comparison and History : Europe in Cross ‐National Perspective . Edited by Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor. Historicizing as a Feminist Practice : The Places of History in Judith Butler's Constructivist Theories . By Katrina Honkanen. The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe . Edited by Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu. History and Geography in Late Antiquity . By A. H. Merrills. Paul Ricoeur : Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory . By Andreea Deciu Ritivoi.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans and Ecological Exchange: By Jennifer Newell Claude Lévi‐Strauss: the poet in the laboratory: By Patrick Wilcken A Certain Age: colonial Jakarta through the memories of its intellectuals.: By Rudolf Mrázek Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia.: Edited by Michael Dove, Percy Sajise and Amity Doolittle Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context: Edited by Alan Rumsey and Don Niles Villagers and the City. Melanesian Experiences of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.: By Michael Goddard (ed.) The Many Worlds of R.H.Mathews: in Search of an Australian anthropologist: By Martin Thomas     

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Book Review in this Articles Islam, A way of life. By Philip K. Hitti. Concept of Muslilm Culture in Iqbal. By Mazheruddin SWiddiqi. The Political philosophy of Iqbal. By Parveen Feroe Hessan. Muslim Education and the Socholar's Social Status up to the 5th century Muslim Era (11the century chirstian Era) in the light of Ta'rikh Bagihdid. By Manir-ud-Din Ahmed. Jews in the Economic and Political Life Of Mediaeval Islam. By Walter J. Fischel. The Story of an Arab Diplomat, By K. A. Fariq. Muslim Rule in India: The Assessmeat of British Historians. By J. S. Grewal. Voyageurs et ecrivains egyptiens en France au XIX^esiécle. By Anouar Louca. Political Trends in the Arab World. The Role of Ideas adn Ideals in Politics. By Majid Khadduri. Shaykh and Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority Among the EI Shabana of Southern Iraq. By Robert A Fernea. Army Officeers in Arab Politics and Society. By Elezer Beeri. The Horses of the Sahara. By General Eugene Daumas. western Window in the Arab World. By Leon Border Blair.     

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Book Review in this Articles Bibliographie zum Erziehungs- and Bildungswesen in den Lãndern des muslimischen Orients. Land Policy in Colonial Algeria: The Origins of the Rural Public Domain. By John Ruedy. National Development and Local Reform: Political Participation in Morocco, Tunisia and Pakistan. By Douglas E. Ashford. Morocco. By Nevill Barbour. American Interests in Syria: 1800–1901. By A. L. Tibawi. Political Parties In Lebanon. By Michael W. Suleiman. The Arab Ba^cth Socialist Party: History, Ideology and Organization. By Kamel S. Abu-Jaber. Arabic Language Handbook. By Mary Catherine Bateson. Spoken Arabic of Baghdad, VoL II. By R J. McCarthy, S.J., and Faraj Raffouli. Christianity in Tropical Africa, edited with an introduction by C. G. Baëta.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe . By W. Montgomery Watt
Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World . By Wilson B. Bishai
Islamic Civilisation: 950–1150 . Ed. D. S. Richards
Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri, III. Language and Literature . By Nabia Abbott
An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry . Selected and edited by Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar
Muslim Spain: Its History and Culture. By Anwar G. Chejne
Morocco Under Colonial Rule: French Administration of Tribal Areas, 1912–1956. By Robin Bidwell
La Personnalité et le Devenir Arabo-Islamiques. By Hichem Djalt
Islam and the Confluence of Religions in Uganda, 1840–1966. By Noel King, Abdu Kasozi, Arye Oded
Islam and Social Order in Mauritania; A Case Study from the Nineteenth Century. By C. C. Stewart with E. K. Stewart
Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People. By Robert A. Fernea and Georg Gerster
Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics. By Majid Khadduri
The Fall of Jerusalem. By Abdullah Schleifer
Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Vol. 2: Farah and South-western Afghanistan. Edited by Ludwig W. Adamec     

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Book reviewed in this article: Logos Islamikos: Studia Islamica in Honorem Georgii Michaelis Wickens. Edited by Roger M. Savory and Dionisius A. Aguis. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984. vii plus 351 pp. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Actes du premier congrès international d'études arabes chrétiennes. Edited by Khalil Samir. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta 218]. Rome; Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1982. 312 pp. 21.000 Lire it. Palast, Moschee und Wüstenschloss Das Werden der islamischen Kunst 7.-9. Jahrhundert. By Heinrich Gerhard Franz. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1984. 166 pp. 72 Text Figures. 166 Photographs in 64 Plates. DM 54.-. A Wife For My Son. By Ali Ghalem. Chicago: Banner Press, 1984 (orig. ed., 1979, in French). 211 pp. $5.95. Islam, Christianity, and African Identity. By Sulayman S. Nyang. Brattleboro, Vermont: Amana Books, 1984. 106 pp. $6.95. The Economic Functions of the Early Islamic State. By S.M. Hasan-uz-Zaman. Karachi, Pakistan: International Islamic Publishers, 1981. xvi plus 370 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Paperback, n.p. Man Is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassan Kanafani. By Muhammad Siddiq. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1984. 108 pp. Chronology. Bibliography. $9.95, paperback. Islam and Revolution in Africa. By Aziz A. Batran. Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984. 51 pp. $4.95. A Clarification of Questions: An Unabridged Translation of Risaleh Tawzih al-Masael. By Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini. Translated by J. Borujerdi with a foreword by Michael M.J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1984. xxxiv plus 432 pp. Indices. Appendices, n.p. The State and Revolution in Iran. By Hossein Bashiriyeh. London: Croom Helm and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 203 pp. Bibliography, Index. $27.50. Oceidentosis: A Plague From the West. By Jalal Al-I Ahmad. Translated by R. Campbell. Annotations and Introduction by Hamid Algar. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1984. 137 pp. Notes and Index. $5.95. A Calendar of Documents on Indo-Persian Relations (1500-1750) [Volumes I & II]. By Riazul Islam. Karachi: Iranian Culture Foundation, Tehran, and Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, Karachi, 1979, 1982. Vol. I, xxviii plus 511 pp. Vol. II, xxv plus 489 pp. $30.00 for each volume. The Bahr Ul-Asrār, Travelogue of South Asia. By Mahmūd b. Am?r Wal? Balkh?. Edited by Riazul Islam. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1980. 55 plus 106 pp. $5.00. The Majma' Al-Shur'arā' I-Jahāng?r Shāh?. By Mullā Qāti?- Heraw?. Edited by Muhammad Saleem Akhtar. Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1979. xvii & 42 plus 402 pp. $12.00. Islamic Thought and Culture. Edited by Ismā'?l R. al-Fārūq?. Washington, D.C.: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1402/1982. 121 pp. n.p. Essays in Islamic and Comparative Studies. Edited by Ismā'?l R. al-Fārūq?. Washington, D.C.: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1402/1982. 120 pp. n.p. Muslims in the West, the Message and Mission. By Syed Abdul Hassan Ali Nadwi. London: The Islamic Foundation, 1983. 191 pp. n.p. The Middle East Political Dictionary. By Lawrence Ziring. Santa Barbara, California and Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO Information Services, 1984. xviii plus 452 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index, n.p. The Writing of History in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A Study in National Transformation. By Jack A. Crabbs, Jr. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, and Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1984. 227 pp. $22.50, paper.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Human rights and ethics Inventing human rights: a history. By Lynn Hunt. Ethics in action: the ethical challenges of international human rights non‐govermental organizations. Edited by Daniel A. Bell and Jean‐Marc Coicaud. International law and organization Humanitarian intervention: ideas in action. Thomas G. Weiss. The United Nations, peace and security: from collective security to the responsibility to protect. By Ramesh Thakur. The handbook of reparations. Edited by Pablo De Greiff. Foreign policy Congress and the US—China relationship, 1949–1979. By Guangqiu Xu. Conflict, security and armed forces International organizations and peace enforcement: the politics of international legitimacy. By Katharina P. Coleman. Politics, democracy and social affairs Patrons, clients and policies: patterns of democratic accountability and political competition. Edited by Herbert Kitschelt and Steven I. Wilkinson. Communism and the emergence of democracy. By Harald Wydra. The Orange Order: a contemporary Northern Irish history. By Eric P. Kaufmann. Ethnicity and cultural politics Migration and its enemies: global capital, migrant labour and the nation‐state. By Robin Cohen. Political conflict and development in East Asia and Latin America. Edited by Richard Boyd, Galjart Benno and Tak‐Wing Ngo. Poverty traps. Edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf and Karla Hoff. Immigrants: your country needs them. By Philippe Legrain. Energy and environment Keeping the lights on: towards sustainable electricity. By Walt Patterson. History George Kennan: a study of character. By John Lukacs. From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble. Conflict and stability in the German Democratic Republic. By Andrew I. Port. Europe The uniting of nations: an essay on global governance. By John McClintock. War and change in the Balkans: nationalism, conflict and cooperation. Edited by Brad K. Blitz. Russia and Eurasia The birth of Tajikistan: national identity and the origins of the republic. By Paul Bergne. Middle East and North Africa Building a new Afghanistan. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Barriers to democracy: the other side of social capital in Palestine and the Arab world. By Amaney A. Jamal. Iran and the bomb: the abdication of international responsibility. By Thérèse Delpech. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine. By Ilan Pappé. The future for Palestinian refugees: toward equity and peace. By Michael Dumper. Ruling but not governing: the military and political development in Egypt, Algeria and Turkey. By Steven A. Cook. Sub‐Saharan Africa Poisoned wells: the dirty politics of African oil. By Nicholas Shaxson. Globalization, negotiation and the failure of transformation in South Africa: revolution at a bargain? By Michael H. Allen. Untapped: the scramble for Africa's oil. By John Ghazvinian. Opposing voices: liberalism and opposition in South Africa today. Edited by Milton Shain. Asia and Pacific China's rise and the balance of influence in Asia. Edited by William W. Keller and Thomas G. Rawski. How China grows: investment, finance and reform. By James Riedel, Jing Jin and Jian Gao. North America Security first: for a muscular, moral foreign policy. By Amitai Etzioni. Regime change: US strategy through the prism of 9/11. By Robert Litwak. The American ascendancy: how the United States gained and wielded global dominance. By Michael H. Hunt. Latin America and Caribbean From Pinochet to the ‘third way’: neoliberalism and social transformation in Chile. By Marcus Taylor. The Chávez code: cracking US intervention in Venezuela. By Eva Golinger.