BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Land of Promise: A Critique of Political Zionism . By Abedelwahab M. Elmessiri
The Islamic Dynasties: A Chronolological and Genealogical Handbook . By Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Marxism and Other Western Fallacies: An Islamic Critique . By Ali Shari'ati. Trans. by R. Campbell
The Hijaz Railroad . By William Ochsenwald
The History of Egypt . By P. J. Vatikiotis
Islamic and Western Concepts of Civilization . By Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg
Wisdom of Islamic Civilization: A Miscellany of Islamic quotations . Compiled and translated by Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg
Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies . Edited by Jane I. Smith
Electoral Politics in the Middle East: Issues, Voters and Elites . Edited by Jacob M. Landau
Islam and Development: Religion and Sociopolitical Change . Edited by John L. Esposito
To Ride a Magic Carpet . By George W. Braswell
urī Zaidāk. His Lire and Thought . By Thomas Philipp
The Calligraphy of Islam: Reflections on the State of the Art . By Mohamed U. Zakariya
Egypt's Uncertain Revolution Under Nasser and Sadat . By Raymond William Baker
Weber and Islam: a critical study . By Bryan S. Turner
Karim Khan Zand: A History of Iran, 1747–1779 . By John R. Perry
Arabic Loan-Words in Malay: A Comparative Study. 2nd edition . By Dr. Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg
Islam . By Fazlur Rahman
Faith and Belief . By Wilfred Cantwell Smith
The History of the Sudan from the Coming of Islam to the Present Day. 3rd edition . By P. M. Holt and M. W. Daly
The Recitation and Interpretation of the Qur'an: Al-Ghazālī's Theory . By Muhammad Abul Quàsem
Al-Ghazālīon Islamic Guidance . By Muhammad Abul Quasem
The Clouded Lens: Persian Gulf Security and US. Policy . By James H. Noyes     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Mystical Teachings of al-Shādhill: Including His Life Prayers, Letters, and Followers. A Translation from the Arabic of Ibn al-Sabbagh's Durrat al-Asrar wa Tuhfat al-Abrar by Elmer H. Douglas. Edited with an Introduction and a Bibliography by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabī.
Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals of the Heart. Translated and Annotated by Bruce B.
Traditional Islam in the Modern World. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Islam: An Introduction. By Annemarie Schimmel.
Al-Damurdāshl's Chronicle of Egypt. 1685–1755: al-Durra al-musana fī akhbār al-kināna. Translated and annotated by Daniel Crecelius and 'bd al-Wahhāb Bakr.
The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Shi ' as. By Joyce N. Wiley.
Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini. By H. E. Chehabi.
Iran's First Revolution: Shi ' ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1906. By Mangol Bayat.
Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution. By David Menashri.
The Modern Uzbeks from the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History. By Edward A.
Religion, Learning and Science in the ' Abbasid Period. Edited by M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham and R. B. Serjeant.
The Ismā ' ilīs: Their history and doctrines. By Farhad Daftary.
' Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ' bbāsid Age. By Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.
Images of Paradise in Islamic Art. Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs. By Zeynep çelik.
Islamic Art. By Barbara Brend.
Turkish Nationalism in the Young Turk Era. By Masam Arai.
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. By Robert Olson.
Islam and the Economic Challenge. By Muhammad Umer Chapra.
Palestinian Universities Under Occupation. By Anthony Thrall Sullivan.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry . By Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
The Islamic Near East and North Africa: An Annotated Guide to Books in English for Non-Specialists . By David W. Littlefield.
The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay . By Abdallah Laroui
Islamic History: A New Interpretation (AD. 750–1055), Volume II. By M. A. Shaban
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Volume I: Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280–1808 . By Stanford J. Shaw
Islam: Faith and Practice . By Manazir Ahsan.
Bilal (Peace Be Upon Him) In Hadith . Compiled by M. A. Qazi     

BOOK REVIEWS

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Economic Life in Ottoman Jarusalem. By Amnon cohen.
Sultanes Oubliées: Femmes chefs d'Etat en Islam. By Fatima Mernisst.
Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition. By Daniel Pipes.
Islam and human Rights: Tradition and politics. By Ann Elizabeth Mayer.
Studies in Near Eastern Culture and History. Edited by James A. Bellamy.
Trends and issues in Contemporary Arab Thought. By Issa J. Boullata.
Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845–1846. The voyage of Mu     ammad as-Saffar. Translated and Edited with introduction and notes by Susan Gilson Miller.
Islamic Fundamentalism And Modernity. By William Montgomery Watt.
A Catalog of the Islamic Documents from al-     aram ash-Sharīf in Jerusalem. By Donald P. Little.
Interreligious Documents I: Guidelines for Dialogue Between Christians and Muslims. (revised ed.). Prepared by Maurice Borrmans. Translated from the French by R. Marston Speight.
Between Qu'ān and Crown: The Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Arab World. By Tamara Sonn.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Houses of Parliament. History, Art, Architecture. Edited by Christine Riding and Jacqueline Riding.
Kingdoms in Crisis. Ireland in the 1640s. Essays in Honour of Dónal Cregan. Edited by Micheál Ó Siochrú.
Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650–1729) and the Constitution in Church and State. By Philip O'Regan.
Beaufort. The Duke and his Duchess, 1657–1715. By Molly McClain.
England in the 1670s. 'This Masquerading Age'. By John Spurr.
Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by Sean J. Connolly.
Studies in Irish Legal History. By W. N. Osborough.
Revolution, Religion, and National Identity. Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745–1795. By Peter M. Doll.
The History of Suffrage, 1760–1867. Edited by Anna Clark and Sarah Richardson.
British Electoral Facts, 1832-–1999. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.
Voting in Britain. A History of the Parliamentary Franchise. By John Hostettler and Brian P. Block.
Liberalism in West Cornwall. The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Edited with an introduction by Edwin Jaggard.
The Labour Party and Taxation. Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Richard Whiting.
Stanley Baldwin. Conservative Leadership and National Values. By Philip Williamson.
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee. The Headlam Diaries, 1935–1951. Edited by Stuart Ball.
British Elections and Parties Review. Volume 10. Edited by Philip Cowley, David Denver, Andrew Russell and Lisa Harrison.
Scotland Decides. The Devolution Issue and the Scottish Referendum. By David Denver, James Mitchell, Charles Pattie and Hugh Bochel.
Scottish Government and Politics. An Introduction. By Peter Lynch.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Qur'anic Concept of History, by Mazheruddin Siddiqi. Counsels in Contemporary Islam. Islamic Surveys 3. By Kenneth Cragg. Die Welt des Islam und die Gegenwart. (The World of Islam and the Present Time.) Edited by Rudi Paret. A History of Medieval Islam, by J. J. Saunders. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, by Guy LeStrange. The Modern History of Lebanon, by Kamal S. Salibi. Documents from Islamic Chanceries. First Series (Oriental Studies III). Edited by S. M. Stern. The University Looks Abroad: Approaches to World Affairs at Six American Universities, a report from Education and World Affairs. Bread From Stones: Fifty Years of Technical Assistance. Edited by John S. Badeau and Georgians G. Stevens.     

Short Notices

The Transformation of the Year One Thousand: The Village of Lournand from Antiquity to Feudalism . By Guy Bois, translated by Jean Birrell.
The Origins of Somerset . By Michael Costen.
Wessex to AD 1000 . By Barry Cunliffe.
Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders . By Heinrich Fichtenau.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 5. Edited by William Filmer-Sankey and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, James Campbell and David Brown
Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus'Life of Bishop Wilfrid, An Early English Saint's Life . By William Trent Foley.
Legitimation und Funktion des Herrschers: Vom Ägyptischen Pharao zum neuzeitlichen Diktator . Edited by Rolf Gundlach and Hermann Weber.
The High Crosses of Ireland : An Iconographical and Photographic Survey. By Peter Harbison.
England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton Symposium . Edited by Carola Hicks.
The Medieval Church: A Brief History . By Joseph H. Lynch.
Maritime Celts, Frisians and Saxons: Papers presented to a Conference at Oxford in November 1988 . Edited by Sean MGrail.
Rechtsarchäologie Europas . By Witold Maisel. Translated by Ruth Poninska-Maisel.
From Roman Basilica to Medieval Market: Archaeology in Action in the City of London . Edited by Gustav Milne.
English Heritage Book of Roman York . By Patrick Ottaway.
The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century. By Gerd Tellenbach, translated by Timothy Reuter.
The Vikings . By Else Roesdahl, translated by Susan M. Margeson and Kirsten Williams.
The Early Germans . By Malcolm Todd.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families iri Sussex 1280–1400 . By Nigcl Saul.
Parliament and the Crown in the Reign of Mary Tudor . By Jennifer Loach.
Mary Stewart, Queen in Three Kingdoms . Edited by Michael Lynch
The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626–1628 . By Richard Cust.
Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 . By W. A. Speck.
A Kingdom without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688 . Edited by Robert Beddard.
A Parliamentary History of the Glorious Revolution . Edited by David Lcwis Jones.
War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough . By D. W. Jones.
Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of state and Premier Minister . By Brian W. Hill.
London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole. A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press . By Michael Harris.
Lord Bute: Essays in Reinterpretation . Edited by Karl W. Schweizer.
Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801–1900 Edited by Petcr Cockton.
Patronage and Principle: A Political History of Modern Scotland . By Michael Fry.
Party and Politics, 1830–1852 . By Robert Stewart.
Later Victorian Britain 1867–1900 . Edited by T. R. Gourvish and Alan O'Day.
Florence Arnold-Forster's Irish Journal . Edited by T. W. Moody and R. A. J. Hawkins
The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice 1868–1918 . By Michael Bentley.
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln . By Bernard Wasserstein.
The House of Lords . By Donald Shell.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this aticle: The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume I, Part 2: Early History of the Middle East. Edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, and N.G.L. Hammond. The cAbbäsid Revolution. By M. A. Shaban. The Successors of Genghis Khan. By Rashid al-Din. Economic History of Wisconsin During the Civil War Decade. By Frederick Merk. General Crook and the Sierra Madre Adventure. By Dan L. Thrapp. Horace Mann: A Biography. By Jonathan Messerli. Andreru Carnegie. By Joseph Frazier Wall. The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885–1900. By David P. Thelen. The Midnippi Chinese: Between Black a d White. By James W. Loewen. The United States and Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico, 1916–1932. By Robert Freeman Smith. War and Society: The United States, 1941–1945. By Richard Polenberg. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947. By John Lewis Gaddis     

The Rise and Fall of the Post-War Settlement

The People's Peace: British History, 1945–1989. By Kenneth O. Morgan.
Power, Competition and the State : Vol. 2, Threats to the Postwar Settlement: Britain, 1961–74. By Keith Middlemas.
Power, Competition and the State: Vol. 3, The End of the Postwar Era. By Keith Middlemas.
Selecting the Party Leader: Britain in Comparative Perspective. By R. M. Punnett.
British Politics Since 1945: The Rise and Fall of Consensus. By David Dutton.
UK Political Parties Since 1945. Edited by Anthony Seldon.
British History, 1945–1987: An Annotated Bibliography. By Peter Catterall.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
International Congress for the Study of the Qur'ān , revised ed. Edited by A. H. Johns
Ibn Khaldān: An Essay in Reinterpretation. By Aziz Al-Azmeh
The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection. By Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad
Die Vorstellung vom Schicksal und die Darstellung der Wirklichkeit in der zeitgenossischen Literatur islamischer Länder. Edited by J. C. Bürgel and H. Fähndrich
Rings of Burnished Brass. Yūsuf Idrīs
The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. By William C. Chittick
The Ahmadiyya doctrine of God. By Henry J. Otten
Issues in the Islamic Movement, 1981–1982 (1401–1402). Edited by Kalim Siddiqui
Mouvements populaires à Bagdad a l'epoque abbasside IX^e-XI^e siècles. By Simha Sabari
Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War. By Malcolm Cameron Lyons and D. E. P. Jackson.
The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries. By Glenn E. Perry
Islam in Tribal Societies From the Atlas to the Indus. By Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam. The Darul Islam in Indonesia. By C. van Dijk
Senegal: An African Nation between Islam and the West. By Sheldon Gellar     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Succession in the Muslim Family. By N. J. Coulson.
The Legacy of Islam , Second Edition. Edited by the late Joseph Schacht with C. E. Bosworth.
Saladin: Studies in Islamic Hittory. By Hamilton A. R. Gibb. Edited by Ynsuf Ibish.
Islam under the Crusaders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia. By Robert Ignatius Burns.
Society and Political Structure in the Arab World. Edited by Menahem Mileon.
The Middle East: A Political and Economic Survey , 4th edition. Ed. by Peter Mansfield.     

SHORTER NOTICES

The Early History of the Gulf Arabs . By Ahmad Anani and Ken Whittingham. London and New York: Longman Group Limited, 1986. vi plus 170 pp. Bibliographic notes on main characters in the text. Select Bibliography. Index. $19.95.
Jesus and the Ahmadiyya Movement . Edited by A. Aftab. Canada: Editions lslamiques D'Amerique, 1987. 57 pp. Bibliography, $3.75, paper.
The Poems of Hamzah Fansuri . Edited by G.W.J. Drewes and L.F. Brakel. Leiden: Foris Publications Dordrecht-Holland/Cinnaminson-USA, 1986. ix plus 285 pp. Bibliography. General Index. n.p.
Islamic Law in the Contemporary World . By Sayed Hassan Amin. Royston Limited: Glasgow, 1985. ix plus 190 pp. Glossary. Chronology. General Bibliography. Appendix with List of Treaties, Table of Statutes and List of Cases. Index. $15.00.
Commercial Law of Islam . By Sayed Hassan Amin. Vahid Publications: Tehran, 1986. vii plus 144 pp. Bibliography on Iranian Law. Index. $27.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Arabic and Islamic Garland: Historical, Educational and Literary Papers. Adel Awa, Issa Boullata, Syed Nadvi (honorary eds.). Presented to AbdulLatif Tibawi. London: The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1977. 239 pp.
Forty Poems from the Divan. By Nasir-i Khusraw. Translated with introductions by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Gholam-Reza Aavani. General Editor: Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Tehran: Imperial lranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977. x plus 144 pp. $10.00.
The Islamic Jesus: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English and French. By Don Wismer. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977. xix plus 305 pp. $ 29.00.
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World. By Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. ix plus 268 pp. $ 18.50.
American Diplomatic Relations with the Middle East, 1784–1975: A Survey. By Thomas A. Bryson. Metuchen, N. J., The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1977. xiii plus 431 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.50.
Sir Eldon Gorst: The Overshadowed Proconsul. By Peter Mellini. Hoover Colonial Studies. Stanford, Cal.: Hoover Institution Press, 1977. xxv plus 315 pp. $10.95.
Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History. Edited by Thomas Naff and Roger Owen. Papers on Islamic History, 4. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Press; London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Sirnons, Inc., 1977. xii plus 450 pp. $12.50.
The 'Disciplina Clericalis' of Petrus Alfonsi. Trans. from Latin and ed. by Eber-hard Hermes. Trans. from Latin and German into English by P. R. Quarrie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. x plus 203 pp. $12.50.
A History of the Crusades. Volume IV: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States. Edited by Harry W. Hazard. (General editor: Kenneth M. Setton) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. xxvii plus 414 plus 10 pp. Addenda & Corrigenda.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
'Observations, Rules and Orders of the House of Commons': An Early Procedural Collection. Edited by W. R. McKay.
Clerks in the House of Commons 1363–1989: A Biographical List. By W. R. McKay.
English Politics in the Thirteenth Century. By Michael Prestwich.
The Governance of Late Medieval England, 1272–1461. By A. L. Brown.
Mary Tudor: A Life. By David Loades.
Elizabeth I. By Christopher Haigh.
The Writings of William Walwyn. Edited by Jack R. McMichael and Barbara Taft.
The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661–1667. By Paul Seaward.
Letters of George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1698–1732 . Edited by Daniel Szechi.
An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750. By George R. Boyer.
Government and Expertise: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 1860–1919. Edited by Roy MacLeod.
Katharine Atholl 1874–1960: Against the Tide . By S. J. Hetherington.
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. By David Cannadine.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Lay Taxes in England and Wales 1188–1688. By M. Jurkowski, C. L. Smith and D. Crook.
Images of Rule. Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485–1649. By David Howarth.
Inventing a Republic. The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649–1653. By Sean Kelsey.
Tudor Government. Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth Century. By David Loades.
The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and Selected Works. By Francis Bacon. Edited by Brian Vickers.
The English Levellers. Edited by Andrew Sharp.
Peerage Creations 1649–1800. A Chronological List of Creations in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. Compiled by J. C. Sainty.
Officials of the Royal Household, 1660–1837. Part 2: Departments of the Lord Steward and the Master of the Horse. Compiled by J. C. Sainty and R. O. Bucholz.
The Early Parties and Politics in Britain, 1688–1832. By Brian Hill.
Divided Loyalties, The Question of the Oath for Irish Catholics in the Eighteenth Century. By Patrick Fagan.
Maps of the Mediterranean Regions. Published in British Parliamentary Papers 1801–1921. By Susan Gole.
Print Politics. The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England. By Kevin Gilmartin.
Gladstone. Edited by Peter J. Jagger.
The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846–1886. By K. Theodore Hoppen.
Benjamin Disraeli Letters. Volume Six, 1852–1856. Edited by M. G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar and Ann P. Robson.
Irish Home Rule 1867–1921. By Alan O'Day.
Facing Fascism. The Conservative Party and the European Dictators, 1935–1940. By N. J. Crowson.     

Churchill Reappraised

Churchill on the Home Front, 1900–55. By Paul Addison.
Churchill: The End of Glory. By John Charmley.
Churchill: Strategy and History. By Tuvia Ben-Moshe.
Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His bye in Peace and War. Edited by Robert Blake and W. R. Louis.
Churchill. By Keith Robbins. (Profiles in Power.)