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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 Review in this Articles Religion in the Middle East. General editor: A. J. Arberry. Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East. Edited by Kemal H. The Almohad Movement in North Africa in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. By Roger Le Tourneu. Etudu Arrbu: Feuillem dc Tmrnil.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Modern Arabic Drama Egypt. By M. M. Badawi
Sher Shah Sur, "Ustad-i Badshahan" Humayun, alias Sher Shah Suri. By Hussain Khan
Revolt in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: the Era of Shaykh zahir al-⁽Umar. By Ahmad Hasan Joudah
Authority in Islam: from the rise of Muhammad to the establishment of the Umayyads. By Hamid Dabashi
The Middle East In Crime Fiction: Mysteries, Spy Novels and Thrillers from 1916 to the 1980's. By Reeva S. Simon
Early Arabic Drama. By M. M. Badawi
Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society. By Akbar S. Ahmed
Language and change in the Arab Middle East: The Evolution of Modern Arabic Political Discourse. By Ami Ayalon     

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Books Reviewed in this article: al-Masih fi‘l-Qur'ān wa‘l-Tawrāt wa‘l-Injil. By ‘Abd al-Karim al-Kha?ib. ¹ Cairo: Dār al-Kutub al-?adltha, 1966. 584 pp., L. E. 1,000. Islamic History of the Middle East. By Wilson B. Bishai. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Inc., 1968. pp. 399. The Arab Cold War, 1958–1967 (Second Edition). By Malcolm Kerr. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 169 pp. The Origins of Communism in Turkey. By George S. Harris. Stanford, California: Stanford University, The Hoover Institution, 1967. 215 pp. 12 photographs, map, end notes, appendices, bibliography, index. The Middle East: A Social Geography. By Stephen H. Longrigg. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company. First published 1963; paperback issued 1967. 288 pp. 4 maps. 69 photographs.     

The Permeability of the Middle East: The Predicament of Regional and Global Forces: a Review Easy

Book reviewed in this article: Persistent Permeability? regionalism, localism, and globalization in the Middle East: by Bassel F. Salloukh and Rex Brynen, eds. A History of the Modern Middle East: by William L. Cleveland Middle East at the Crossroads: the Changing Political Dynamics and the Foreign Policy Challenges: by Manochehr Dorraj, ed. Conflict and Peace in the Middle East: National Perceptions and United States‐Jordan Relations: by Hatem Shareef Abu‐Lebdeh Nation‐Building: A Middle East Recovery Program: by Jerry M. Rosenberg     

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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     

Mapping the Middle East from Within: (Counter‐)Cartographies of an Imperialist Construction

Abstract: The “Middle East” is a readily accepted geographical category throughout much of the world. However, within this ambiguous geographic entity, both the term and the idea of the “Middle East” are often rejected as western‐imperialist constructs. Through a critical examination of an extensive sample of maps produced within several Arab states of the “Middle East”, I found that the regional designation “Middle East” is nearly nonexistent, while the Arab Homeland is unequivocally a more common regional category. However, the “Middle East” did occasionally appear in a few maps. This paper provides an explanatory examination of the normative cartographic discourses in this region, and more focused analysis of the atypical maps of the “Middle East”. My analyses render unique insights into how the “Middle East” is both contested and re‐created from within a western‐imperialist defined region.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? By John L. Esposito. The Origins of Arab Nationalism. By Rashid Khalidi, L. Anderson, M. Muslih, and R. S. Simon, eds. Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk About Their Lives. By Bouthaina Shaaban. Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influence. By F. Gregory Gause III. Live Theatre and Dramatic Literature in Medieval Arabic World. By Shmuel Moreh. The United States and the Middle East: a Search for New Perspectives. Edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi.     

Review

Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, Valentine M. Moghadam Women in the Middle East: Perceptions, Realities, and Struggles for Liberation, Haleh Afshar, editor     

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Book Reviews in This Article:
Der Koran. Ed. by Rudi Paret.
Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature. By Ilse Lichtenstadter.
On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature. By Andras Hamori.
Four Egyptian Literary Critics. By David Semah.
Hispano-Arabic Strophlc Poetry. Studies by Samuel Miklos Stern.
The Hamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry. By Vincent Crapanzano.
Publish it not… The Middle East Cover-up. By Christopher Mayhew and Michael Adams.
From Ottomanism to Arabism: Essays on the Origins of Arab Nationalism. By C. Ernest Dawn.
An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan. By Henry W. Bellew.     

Middle East History: a Review Essay

The Modern Middle East: a history; James L. Gelvin The Modern Middle East: a political history since the First World War; Mehren Kamrava     

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International Relations theory Legitimacy in international society. By Ian Clark. International society and its critics. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy. Negotiated revolutions: the Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile. By George Lawson. International law and organization The impact of international law on international cooperation: theoretical perspectives. Edited by Eyal Benvenisti and Moshe Hirsch. Foreign relations Strategic partners: Russian‐Chinese relations in the post‐Soviet era. By Jeanne L. Wilson. Conflict, security and armed forces International governance of war‐torn territories: rule and reconstruction. By Richard Caplan. Enforcing the peace: learning from the imperial past. By Kimberly Zisk Marten. Politics, democracy and social affairs War and the American presidency. By Arthur M. Schlesinger. The accidental American: Tony Blair and the presidency. By James Naughtie. Al‐Jazeera: how Arab TV news challenged the world. By Hugh Miles. History Constructing the U.S. rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: from red menace to tacit ally. By Evelyn Goh. Histories of the hanged: Britain's dirty war in Kenya and the end of the empire. By David Anderson. The lion and the springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. By Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw. Hindu rulers, Muslim subjects: Islam, rights and the history of Kashmir. By Mridu Rai. British documents on the end of empire. East of Suez and the Commonwealth, 1964–1971. Part I: East of Suez. Edited by S. R. Ashton and Wm. Roger Louis. British documents on the end of empire. East of Suez and the Commonwealth, 1964–1971. Part II: Europe, Rhodesia, Commonwealth. Edited by S. R. Ashton and Wm. Roger Louis. British documents on the end of empire. East of Suez and the Commonwealth, 1964–1971. Part III: Dependent territories, Africa, economics, race. Edited by S. R. Ashton and Wm. Roger Louis. Europe The EU, NATO and the integration of Europe: rules and rhetoric. By Frank Schimmelfennig. Theft of a nation: Romania since communism. By Tom Gallagher. Russia and the former Soviet republics Russia in the 21st century: the prodigal superpower. By Steven Rosefielde. Russian military reform: 1992–2002. Edited by Anne C. Aldis and Roger N. McDermott. Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora. Edited by Touraj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale. Middle East and North Africa International relations of the Middle East. Edited by Louise Fawcett. Iran, Iraq, and the legacies of war. Edited by Lawrence G. Potter and Gary G. Sick. Asia and Pacific Exit the dragon? Privatization and state control in China. Edited by Stephen Green and Guy S. Liu. North America The new American empire: a 21st‐century teach‐in on US foreign policy. Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young. Latin America and Caribbean Bananas and business: the United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. By Marcelo Bucheli. The strategic dynamics of Latin American trade. Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal, Ralph H. Espach and Joseph S. Tulchin. America's other war: terrorizing Colombia. By Doug Stokes.     

The politics of the Balfour Declaration: Nationalism,imperialism and the limits of Zionist-British cooperation

This article proposes a new perspective on the much debated question of why the British government published the Balfour Declaration? It argues that the Declaration was published as part of the struggle that took place in the course of the First World War between two rival factions in the British government on the question of the future of the Ottoman Empire: the “radical” faction that strove to partition the Ottoman Empire as a means to extend the British imperial hold on the Middle East, and the “reformist” faction that opposed this. By promising to turn Palestine into “a national home for the Jewish people” the Declaration advanced the radical agenda of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and expansion of British imperialism in the Middle East.     

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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.     

20世纪50年代美国的中东政策——从欧米加计划到艾森豪威尔主义的诞生

艾森豪威尔主义是20世纪50年代美国艾森豪威尔政府出台的中东政策,旨在引导部分阿拉伯国家参与其全球遏制战略,共同抵御苏联对中东地区的渗透,它构成了其后几十年美国中东政策的基础.而艾森豪威尔主义是在欧米加计划不能有效处理中东问题的基础上诞生的,是对欧米加计划的公开阐明,这突出体现了美国中东政策的连续性.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. By John Obert Voll.
Kuwait: Social Change in Historical Perspective. By Jacqueline S. Ismael.
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period. By Shahrough Akhavi.
Transformations of the Lover. By Adonis (Ali Ahmed Said). Translated by Samuel Hazo.
Libyan Sandstorm. By John K. Cooley.
Arabs in the Jewish State. By Ian Lustick.
Islam and Christianity. A Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue. By Badru D. Kateregga and David W. Shenk.
The Arab World: Libraries and Librarianship, 1960–1976: A Bibliography. By Veronica S. Pantelidis.
Women in Muslim Family Law. By John L. Esposito.
The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach. By Dale F. Eickelman.
Religion and Politics in Iran. Edited by Nikki R. Keddie.
Muslim-Christian Marriages in the Philippines. By Luis Q. Lacar.
Christianity and the Religions of the East: Models for a Dynamic Relationship. (Vol. II: Modern Theological Themes: Selections from the Literature). Edited by Richard W. Rousseau.     

From Democratization to Securitization: Post‐Arab Spring Political Order in the Middle East

This article examines the question: why and how the wave of democratization in the Middle East has receded, giving way to the prioritization of security in the post‐Arab Spring by conducting analyses at three levels: societal, state, and international. By applying the main concepts and theories found in the literature on democratization and securitization and by analyzing the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Democracy Status Index, the Arab Barometers Survey, and the Arab Opinion Survey, the article concludes that: at the societal level, the tragic unfolding of events after the Arab Spring prohibits the public from pushing a reform agenda; at the state level, the post‐Arab political environment raises doubts among the ruling elite about how far political reforms should be extended; and at the international level, with the rise of new security threats, international pressure on Middle East countries to democratize has been restrained, giving way to security cooperation as the top priority.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory On compromise and rotten compromises. By Avishai Margalit. The globalization of security: state power, security provision and legitimacy. By Bryan Mabee. Carl Schmitt's international thought: order and orientation. By William Hooker. International law, human rights and ethics Social justice in the global age. Edited by Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond. The human right to a green future: environmental rights and intergenerational justice. By Richard P. Hiskes. Habeas corpus: from England to empire. By Paul D. Halliday. International organization and foreign policy The South in world politics. By Chris Alden, Sally Morphet and Marco Antonio Vieira. Conflict, security and defence War games: the story of aid and war in modern times. By Linda Polman. GCHQ: the uncensored story of Britain's most secret intelligence agency. By Richard J. Aldrich. Corporate security responsibility? Corporate governance contributions to peace and security in zones of conflict. Edited by Nicole Deitelhoff and Klaus Dieter Wolf. Reputation and civil war: why separatist conflicts are so violent. By Barbara F. Walter. Governance, civil society and cultural politics The sociology of elite distinction: from theoretical to comparative perspectives. By Jean‐Pascal Daloz. Political economy, economics and development Crisis economics: a crash course in the future of finance. By Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm. 13 bankers: the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown. By Simon Johnson and James Kwak. The crisis of capitalist democracy. By Richard A. Posner. Culture and consensus in European varieties of capitalism: a ‘common sense’ analysis. By Ian Bruff. Energy, resources and environment Climate change justice. By Eric A. Posner and David Weisbach. Europas fragile Energiesicherheit: Versorgungskrisen und ihre Bedeutung für die europäische Energiepolitik. By Kristina Kurze. History Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: European and global responses. Edited by Carol Fink and Bernd Schaefer. Nuclear illusion, nuclear reality: Britain, the United States and nuclear weapons, 1958–64. By Richard Moore. Europe Europe's promise: why the European way is the best hope in an insecure age. By Steven Hill. Europe as the would‐be world power: the EU at fifty. By Giandomenico Majone. Rethinking Germany and Europe: democracy and diplomacy in a semi‐sovereign state. Edited by Simon Bulmer, Charlie Jeffery and Stephen Padgett. Russia and Eurasia Soviet fates and lost alternatives: from Stalinism to the new Cold War. By Stephen F. Cohen. Middle East and North Africa Britain and the Middle East in the 9/11 era. By Rosemary Hollis. The Arab Gulf states: beyond oil and Islam. By Sean Foley. The new authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. By Stephen J. King. Sub‐Saharan Africa Borders and borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Dereje Feyissa and Markus Hoehne. The international relations of sub‐Saharan Africa. By Ian Taylor. Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria. By Kate Meagher. South Asia Beyond crisis: re‐evaluating Pakistan. Edited by Naveeda Khan. India, Pakistan, and the bomb: debating nuclear stability in South Asia. By ?umit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur. East Asia and Pacific Growing pains: tensions and opportunity in China's transformation. Edited by Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle and Xueguang Zhou. The Party: the secret world of China's communist rulers. By Richard McGregor. Latin America and Caribbean The politics of cocaine: how US foreign policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America. By William L. Marcy. Dirty secrets, dirty war: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976–1983: the exile of editor Robert J. Cox. By David Cox. Perceptions of Cuba: Canadian and American policies in comparative perspective. By Lana Wylie.     

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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.     

海湾战争与土耳其中东外交政策评析

20世纪40年代以来土耳其奉行亲西方,尤其是亲美的一边倒外交政策,土耳其中东外交服务于其西方战略,长期以中立和不介入为主要特征。20世纪90年代世界政治格局的变化使得土耳其必须重新调整其中东外交政策,海湾战争为土耳其重新实践其外交政策提供了机遇,土耳其在中东开始采取积极、主动的新型外交政策。海湾战争成为土耳其中东外交的分水岭。海湾战争中,土耳其积极介入中东事务的政策与土耳其亲西方的外交政策恰好吻合;伊拉克战争则表明土耳其中东外交与其亲西方外交之间的不协调性。