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Book reviewed in this article: Orthodox Christians and Muslims .* Edited by N.M. Vaporis. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1986. ix plus 203 pp. $10.00. Christianity/Islam: Essays on Esoteric Ecumenism . By Frithjof Schuon. Translated by Gustavo Polit. Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 1985. vii plus 270 pp. n.p. (First published in 1981 by Archè Milano as Christianisme/Islam.) A Muslim Theologian's Response to Christianity: Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawb al-a$ . Edited and translated by Thomas F. Michel. Delma, New York: Caravan Books, 1984. ix plus 465 pp. Bibliography. Glosary. Index. n.p. The Maronites in History . By Matti Moosa. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986. 352 pp. Index. $35.00, cloth. Islamic Spirituality: Foundations . Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. [Vol. 19 of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest]. New York: Crossroad, 1987. 450 pp. Illustrations. $49.50, hardcover. The Islamic Concept of God . By Mohammed Zia Ullah. London, Boston and Melbourne: Kegan Paul International, 1984. xi plus 115 pp. Index. $26.95. The Islamic Way of Life . By Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi, edited and translated by Khurshid Ahmad and Khurram Murad. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1986. 80 pp. Index of Quranic verses cited. n.p. Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History . By Ahmad V. al-Hassan and Donald Hill. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1986. xiv plus 304 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. $39.50. From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms . By Mircea Eliade. [ A History of Religious Ideas , Vol. 3.] Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. xii plus 360 pp. Bibliography. Index. $27.50. Early Muslim Dogma: A Source-critical Study . By Michael Cook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xi plus 242 pp. $49.50. Islam in a World of Nation-States . By James P. Piscatori. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. viii plus 193 pp. Illustrations; Chronology of the Muslim World; Glossary; Notes; Index. $39.50. Islam and Politics . By John L. Esposito. Foreword by Hermann Frederick Eilts. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1984. xiv plus 273 pp. n.p. Israeli Arabism: The Latest Incarnation of Orientalism . By Shukri Abed with an introduction by Eli Zureik. [Occasional Paper No. 6; Series Editors: Fouad Moughrabi and Elia Zureik]. Washington, D.C.: Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, 1986. n.p. n.p. The Palestinians in Israeli Social Science Writings . By Aziz Haidar. [Occasional Paper No. 9; Series Editors: Fouad Moughrabi and Elia Zureik]. Washington, D.C.: Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, 1986. n.p. n.p. Sand in the Snow: Images of the Middle East in Canadian English-Language Literature and Commentary . By Mordecai Briemberg. [Occasional Paper No. 8; Series Editors: Fouad Moughrabi and Elia Zureik]. Washington, D.C.: Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, 1986, n.p. n.p. Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial . Edited by Ibrahim Abu Lughod. Wilmette, Illinois: Medina Press, 1982. 225 pp. $17.95, cloth; $7.95, paper. Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa . By Labelle Prussin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. xxiii plus 306 pp. Figures. Plates. Maps. Index. $75.00. The Qashqai of Iran . By Lois Beck. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xvi plus 384 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Hercegovina, 1878-1914 . By Robert J. Donia. [East European Monographs No. LXXVIII.] Boulder: East European Monographs, 1981. xix plus 237 pp. $17.50. The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the Philippines . By Cesar Adib Majul. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1985. 162 pp. Appendixes. Bibliography. Maps. $5.95. The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century . By Zeynep $CLelik. [Publications on the Near East 2. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987. 202 pp. 103 Illustration; 17 Maps; Bibliography; Index. $25.00. Bureaucrat and Intellectural in the Ottoman Empire. The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600) . By Cornell H. Fleischer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Glossary; Bibliography; Index. 363 pp. Muslims of the Soviet Empire. A Guide . By Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. xvi plus 294 pp. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. A History of the Sikhs , Volume I: 1469-1839 , Volume II: 1839-1964 , reprint ed. By Khushwant Singh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984 (orig. ed., 1963-1966). Vol. I: xiii plus 419 pp.; Vol. II: xi plus 395 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Indices. n.p.     

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Book reviewed in this article: AI-Qur'n: A Contemporary Translation . By Ahmed Ali. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. 572 pp. Indexes. $9.95. Dictionary of Qur'nic Terms and Concepts. By Mustansir Mir. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978. xiv plus 244 pp. Index. $40.00. The Second Message of Islam . By Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Translation and introduction by Abdallahi Ahmed An-Na'im. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. 178 pp. $29.95. The Politics of Islamic Revivialism: Diversity and Unity . Edited by Shireen T. Hunter. [Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies in association with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.] Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. xv plus 303 pages. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $35.00, cloth; $12.95, paperback. Words of Ecstasy in Sufism . By Carl W. Ernst. [SUNY Series in Islam. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Editor.] Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. viii plus 184 pp. Appendix. Indices. $34.95. Mahsin al-Majlis: The attractions of mystical sessions. Ibn al-'Arif . Translated by William Elliot and Adnan K. Abdulla. Avebury, England: n.p., 1980. 121 pp. n.p. The Arab Gulf States: Steps Toward Political Participation. By J.E. Peterson. Foreword by Majid Khadduri. [The Washington Papers/131.] New York: Praeger, published with The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., 1988. xii plus 155 pp. Three tables; Notes; Index. $33.95, hardcover; $10.95, paper. Warriors at Suez; Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East . By Donald Neff. New York: The Linden Press/Simon and Schuster, 1981. 477 pp. $8.25. Muslim Endowments and Society in British India . By Gregory C. Kozlowksi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. plus 211 pp. $42.50. Agrarian Relations in the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Centuries . Translated from the Bulgarian. Vera P. Moutafchieva. [East European Monographs, 251.] Boulder: East European Monographs (distributed by Columbia University Press), 1988 (Bulgarian ed., 1962). xiii plus 245 pp. Tables $25.00. Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners . By Margaret K. Nydell. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, 1987. x plus 164 pp. $16.00, paper. Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question . By Kevin Dwyer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xxvii plus 297 pp. Notes; Bibliography; Indexes. Voilà ce qui est arrivé: Plaidoyer pour une guerre Sainte en Afrique de I'Ouest au XIXe siècle . By AI-Hjj ‘Umar al-Ft. Edited and translated by Sidi Mohamed Mahibou and Jean-Louis Triaud (Original title: Bayn m Waqa'a). [Fontes Historiae Africanae, series Arabica, VIII.] Paris: Editions du Centre National de al Recherche Scientifique, 1983. 261 plus (Arabic) 58 pp. Map. Indices. 205 Frs. Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria. The Making of a Muslim Working Class . By Paul M. Lubeck. [African Studies Series 52.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. x plus 362 pp. Maps; Tables. $49.50. Horn and Crescent. Cultural change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800–1900 . By Randall L. Pouwels. [African Studies Series 53.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv plus 273 pp. Illustrations; Maps; Glossary. n.p. Roman, provincial and Islamic law: the origins of the Islamic patronate . By Patricia Crone. [Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 178 pp. $39.50. Economic Concepts of Ibn Taimiyah . By Abdul Azim Salehi. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1988. 286 pp. 12, hardcover; 5.50, paper. A Fabian in Egypt: Salamah Musa and the Rise of the Professional Classes in Egypt, 1909–1939 . By Vernon Egger. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. xvi plus 234 pp. Biblipgraphy. Index. n.p. God's Caliph. Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam . By Patricia Crone and Martin Hinds. Cambridge University Press, 1986. 155 plus 2 pp. n.p. The Art of Bad'az-Zamn al-Hamadhn as Picaresque Narrative . By James T. Monroe. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983. 175 pp. n.p., paper.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Regards chrétiens sur Pislam . By Louis Gardet. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1986. 219 pp. Indices. 96 F. Traditional Islam in the Modern World . By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. London and New York: KPI Ltd., 1987. x plus 335 pp. n.p. Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology. By Merryl Wyn Davies. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. x plus 189 pp. Index. $52.50, hardcover. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion. William A. Graham. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 306 pp. Bibliography. Indices. $32.50. Medieval Persian Court Poetry . By Julie Scott Meisami. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiii plus 345 pp. $45.00. Textual Sources for the Study of Islam. Edited and translated by Andrew Rippin and Jan Knappert. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986. xii plus 209 pp. Map. Glossary. Index. £6.75. In Quest of an Islamic Humanism: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Mohamed al-Nowaihi. Edited by A. H. Green. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1984. xxiv plus 217 pp. n.p. Philosophy of Islam. Ayatullah Dr. Muhammad Hosayni Behishti and Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Javad Bahonar. Salt Lake City: Islamic Publications, n.d. 580 pp. n.p. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. By David B. Burrell. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 130 pp. $15.95, hardcover; $8.95, paper. Averroes’ De Substantia Orbis: Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text with English Translation and Commentary. By Arthur Hyman. [Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi: Averroes Hebraicus, Medieval Academy Books No. 96.] Cambridge, Massachusetts and Jerusalem: Medieval Academy of America, 1986. 156 plus 74 pp. in Hebrew numerals. Two Critical Apparatus. Hebrew-Latin Glossary. Bibliography. Two Indices. $30.00. Eighteenth-Century Renewal And Reform In Islam. Edited by Nehemiah Levtzion and John O. Voll. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. Preface plus 200 pp. Glossary. Index. $24.95, Cloth. Zwischen Faktum and Fiktion: Eine Studie zum Umayyadenkalifen Sulaiman b. Abdalmalik and seinem Bild in den Quellen. By Reinhard Eisener. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. ix plus 296 pp. Appendix. Index. DM 68. Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society. Edited by G.H.A. Juynboll. [Papers on Islamic History; v.5.] Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. ix plus 292 pp. $20.00. Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. By Martin Kramer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. xi plus 250 pps. Index. $30.00. Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World. By C.A. Qadir. North Ryde, New South Wales: Croom Helm, 1988. viii plus 218 pages. Index. $67.50, cloth; Canada $94.50. Urdu Letters of irz Asadu'llh n lib. Translated and annotated by Daud Rahbar. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1987. xlv plus 628 pp. n.p. Imam Ali: Source of Light, Wisdom and Might. By Sulaymn Kattn, translated by I. K. Howard. London: Muhammadi Trust and New York: Methuen, 1986. x plus 148 pp. $25.00. Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, 1900–1930. By Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. xviii plus 346 pp. $39.95. Tchad 1900-1902, une guerre franco-libyenne oublie? Une confrrie musulmane, la Sansiyya, face la France. By Jean-Louis Triaud. [Racines du présent series.] Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988. 203 plus xxxii pp. Photoreproductions of 38 archival letters in handwritten Arabic (with 105 pp. French translation). 3 maps. Bibliography. Index. n.p. Amal and the Shia: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon. By Augustus Richard Norton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. xxii plus 238 pp. $25.00, hardcover; $10.95, paperback. Passeé Turco-Tatar, Présent Sovietique: Études offertes Alexandre Bennigsen/Turco-Tatar Past Soviet Present: Studies presented to Alexandre Bennigsen. Edited by Ch. Lemercier-Quelquejay, G. Veinstein, and S.E. Wimbush. [Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, la Collection TLrcica, VI: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, la collection Civilisations et Sociétés, 74.] Louvain-Paris: Éditions Peeters and Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. ix plus 563 pp. Photograph. n.p. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. By Olivier Roy. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. vi plus 253 pp. $24.95. Khoumani, Islamic Fundamentalists and the Contributions of Islamic Sciences to Modern Civilization. By Antoine J. Abraham. [Anthroscience Monograph Series.] Notre Dame, Indiana: Foundations Press of Notre Dame, 1983. 39 pp. n.p. The Gulf Cooperation Council: Moderation and Stability in an Interdependent World. Edited by John A. Sandwick. Foreword by George McGovern. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1987. x plus 289 pp. Tables. Charts. Texts of documents. Bibliography. $15.95. The Powers in the Middle East: The Ultimate Strategic Arena. Edited by Bernard Reich. New York: Praeger, 1987. 351 pp. $45.00.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Islam: A Christian Perspective. By Michael Nazir-Ali. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983. 185 pp. $11.95. A Guide to the Contents of the Qur'an. By Faruq Sherif. London: Ithaca Press, 1985. 165 pp. £15.00. The shorter Chapters of The Qur'an. Translated by Thomas B. Irving. Kuala Lumpur: M.A.J. Beg, 1986. 95 pp. n.p. Creation and the Teaching of the Qur'an. By Thomas J. O'Shaughnessy. [Biblica et Orientalia, 40.] Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1985. vii plus 100 pp. $6.00, paper. Islamic Concept of God. By Mohammad Zia Ullah. London: Kegan Paul International, 1984. xi plus 115 pp. Index. $26.95. Eight Lives: A Study of the Hindu-Muslim Encounter. By Rajmohan Gandhi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. x plus 359 pp. Bibliography. References and Notes. Index. $12.95, paper; $39.50, cloth. Journey to the Lord of Power: A Sufi Manual on Retreat. By Ibn ‘Arabi. Translated from the Arabic by Rabia Harris. New York: Inner Traditions International, 1981. Illustrations. 144 pp. $8.95, paper. The Unveiling of Love: Sufism and the Remembrance of God. By Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti. Translated from the Turkish by Muhtar Holland. New York: Inner Traditions International, 1981. 201 pp. $10.95. Sh'ism and Social Protest. Edited by R.I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. x plus 325 pp. $40.00, cloth; $12.95, paper. Muslim Women. Edited by Freda Hussain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 228 pp. $22.50. Woman in Islam. By Wiebke Walther. Montclair: Abner Schram, 1981. 204 pp. Photographs. Charts. $35.00. Marriage and Sexuality in Islam: A Translation of al-Ghazl's Book on the Etiquette of Marriage from the Iy. By Madelain Farah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1984. xii plus 126 pp. Indices. $20.00. Däs Ärztebankett. Aus arabischen Handschriften übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung sowie Anmerkungen versehen von Felix Klein-Franke. By Abu l-asan al-Muhtr al-asan ibn ‘Abdn. Stuttgart: Hippokrates Verlag, 1984. 323 pp. DM 49.80. Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali. By Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot. [Cambridge Middle East Library]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. x plus 300 pp. Bibliography; Index. $49.50. Les Ordres mystiques dans l'Islam Cheminements et situation actuelle. Edited by A. Popovic & G. Veinstein. [Recherches d'histoire et de sciences sociales, 13.] Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986. 324 pp. Index. 190F, paper. Shh Abd al-Azz: Puritanism, Sectarian Polemics and Jihd. By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi. Canberra: Ma'rifat Publishing House, 1982. xii plus 609 pp. A $38. The Arab Predicament, Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967. By Fouad Ajami. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xvi plus 220 pp. n.p. The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt. By Israel Gershoni. Tel Aviv: The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1981. 142 pp. n.p. Towns and townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia: Trade, crafts and food production in an urban setting, 1520-1650. By Suraiya Faroqhi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv plus 425 pp. Photographs. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Glossary. Bibliography. Indices. $59.50. The West Bank: History, Politics, Society, and Economy. By Don Peretz. [Westview Special Studies on the Middle East.] Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986. xi plus 173 pp. Index. $22.00, softbound. A Legend of Alexander and The Merchant and the Parrot. By Herbert Mason. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. 119 pages, n.p. Modern Arabic Literature and the West. By M.M. Badawi. London: Ithaca Press, 1985, ii plus 236 pp. 18.00. Hikayat Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham: An Edition of an Anonymous Malay Text with translation and notes. Edited and translated by Russell Jones. Berkeley: University of California, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985. ix plus 332 pp. Bibliography. Index. $14.50, paper; $27.25, hardcover. The author's response to “Leaman's Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy: A Review Article,” by Michael E. Marmura, MW, LXXVI (1986), 43-45.     

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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.     

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Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics. By George F. Hourani. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv plus 282 pp. $39.50, hard cover. Book reviewed in this article: Muslim Political Thought and Administration. By Haroon Khan Sherwani. New Delhi: Munshiram Manaharlal Publishers, 1981, first pub. 1942. xi plus 215 pp., Appendices. Index. Rs. 65. Islam: The Religious and Political Life of a World Community. Edited by Marjorie Kelly. New York: Praeger, 1984. xii plus 321 pp. Maps. Charts. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $12.95. paper. Studien zum Islamischen Recht. By Noel J. Coulson and Abdelwadoud Yehia [Veröffentlichungen der (Commission für Europarecht, Internationales und Auslàndisches Privatrecht, nr. 2]. Wien, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen, 1983. 37 pp. 6s. 70.—. Theodicy in Islamic Thought. The Dispute Over Al-Ghaz's “Best of All Possible Worlds. ” By Eric L. Ormsby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv plus 309 pp. $30.00. Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muhammad: Eine Kritik am “christlichen” Abendland. By Günter Lüling. Erlangen: Hannelore Lülung, 1981. 423 pp. n.p. The Qur'an. The first American version. Translation and commentary by T.B. Irving (Al-Hajj Taim li). Brattleboro, Vermont: Amana Books, 1985. xliii plus 401 pp. n.p. The Jew As Ally of the Muslim, Medieval Roots of Anti-Semitism. By Allan Harris Cutler and Helen Elmquist Cutler. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986. x plus 577 pp. $50.00, hardcover. Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth-Century Notable. By Dale F. Eickelman. [Princeton Studies on the Near East.] Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xviii plus 202 pp. Photos. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $32.50. Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized. By John P. Entelis. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986. xi plus 239 pp. Index. Maps. Illustrations. $30.00, hardcover. Syria: Modern State in an Ancient Land. By John F. Devlin. [Nations of the Contemporary Middle East.] Boulder and London: Westview Press and Croom Helm, 1983. 152 pp. $16.50. Error and Betrayal in Lebanon: An Analysis of Israel's Invasion of Lebanon and Implications for U.S.-Israeli Relations. By George W. Ball. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1984. 152 pp. n.p.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination .* By Martin Lings. New York: Interlink Books, 1987 (orig. ed. London, 1976). 242 pp. Illustrations. Indices. $49.95, hardcover. The Rising of al-Husayn: Its Impact on the Consciousness of Muslim Society . By Shaykh Muhammad Mahd Shams al-Dn. Translated from the Arabic by I.K.A. Howard. New York: Methuen, 1986. xxi plus 218 pp. $15.95, paper. Remembrance and Prayer: The Way of the Prophet Muhammad . By Muhammad al-Ghazl. Translated by Yusuf Talal De Lorenzo. Leicester, England: The Islamic Foundation, 1986/1406 A.H. 232 pp. Arabic text of prayers. Index. 10.-, hardcover; 4.95, paperback. The Bounteous Koran . A translation of meaning and commentary by M.M. Khatib. Authorized by Al-Azhar, 1984. London: Macmillan Press, 1986. xlvii plus 827 pp. plus 14 pp. of addenda. Preface. Introduction. Arabic index of srahs. $36.00, hardcover. Les Mille et une nuits d'Antoine Galland ou le chef-d'oeuvre invisible . By Georges May. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986. 247 pp. in French. 135 francs. Rethinking Islam Today . By Mohammed Arkoun. [Occasional Papers Series.] Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1987. 25 pp. n.p. Al-Fnrabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's “De Interpretntione.” Translated with an Introduction and Notes by F. W. Zimmermann. [The British Academy, Classical and Medieval Logic Texts]. London: Oxford University Press, 1981. clii plus 287 pages. $145.00. The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin Return. (Mersd al-ebd men al-mabd el-ma-d): A Sufi Compendium by Najm al-Dn Rzi known as Dya . By ‘Abd Allh ibn Muhammad Najm al-Dn Rz Translated from the Persian with introduction and annotation by Hamid Algar. [Persian Heritage Series, No. 35.] Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1982. 537 pages. n.p. Islamic Coins. By Michael Bates . [ANS Handbook 2]. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1982. Deluxe edition includes 36 color slides. 52 pp. $8.00. Dadda ‘Atta and His Forty Grandsons; The Socio-political Organization of the Ait ‘Atta of Southern Morocco . By David Hart. [MENAS Socio-Economic Studies.] Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. xix plus 260 pp. $30.00. The Lebanese Crisis (1975-1985): A Bibliography . Compiled by Georges T. Labaki. College Park: Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, 1986. 134 pp. n.p. Arab Resources: The Transformation of a Society . Edited by Ibrahim Ibrahim. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; London: Croom Helm, 1983, 304 pp. Tables. n.p. From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates: A Society in Transition . By Frauke Heard-Bey. London and New York: Longman, 1982. xxvi plus 522 pages. Maps. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Appendix. Glossary. Index. $45.00, cloth. Saudi Arabia: Rush to Development. Profile of an Energy Economy and Investment . By Ragaei El Mallakh. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. 472 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. $32.50. The Changing Bedouin . Edited by Emanuel Marx and Avshalom Shmueli. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1984. xi plus 197 pp. $29.95. Religious Strife in Egypt: Crisis and Ideological Conflict in the Seventies . By Nadia Ramses Farah. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. xiii plus 135 pp. Bibliography. Chapter notes. $42.00, hardcover. Egypt: Politics and Society, 1945-1981 . By Derek Hopwood. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982. x plus 194 pp. $10.95; $28.50, cloth. Middle East Mission: The Story of a Major Bid for Peace in the Time of Nasser and Ben-Gurion By Elmore Jackson. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983. 124 pp. Chronology; Appendix; Index. $12.95. Protest Movements and Religious Movements in Egypt: Past and Present . By Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot. [Occasional Paper Series]. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1984. 10 pp. $3.75. Religion and Political Development: Some Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli . By Barbarara Freyer Stowasser. [Occasional Paper Series]. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1983. 28 pp. n.p. American Christianity, the Jewish State, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict . By Thomas Wiley. [Occasional Paper Series]. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1983. 32 pp. n.p. Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia . Compiled by Ahmad Ibrahim, Sharon Siddique, and Yasmin Hussain. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1985. xv plus 407 pp. Bibliography. n.p. The Two Yemens . By Robin Bidwell. London: Longman; Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. xvii plus 350 pp. Maps; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $26.00. Jewish Life under Islam: Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century . By Ammon Cohen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. xiii plus 267 pp. Map; Tables; Index. $30.00. Modernization in the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Richard Hill . Edited by M.W. Daly. New York: Lilian Barber Press, 1985. 177 pp. Index. $29.50, hardcover. Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries . Vol III: The Islamic Experience in Contemporary Thought. By Syed Vahiduddin. Edited by Christian W. Troll. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1986. xi plus 292 pp. Photograph. Glossary. Indices. n.p. Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey . Edited by Jacob M. Landau. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984. xiii plus 268 pp. Index. $20.00.     

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Book reviewed in this article Alexander the Great: King, Commander, and Statesman. By Nicholas G. L. Hammond. (Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1981. Pp. x, 358. $24.00.) Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation. By Walter Goffart. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. xv, 278. $25.00.) Barons of the Welsh Frontier: The Corbet, Pantulf, and Fitz Warin Families, 1066-1272. By Janet Meisel. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. Pp. xix, 231. $19.95.) The Medieval English Economy, 1150-1500. By J. L. Bolton. (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1980. Pp. 400. $25.00.) Crusader Institutions. By Joshua Prawer. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. xv, 519. $89.00.) The Northern Crusades: The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525. By Eric Christiansen. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xxii, 273. $25.00 cloth, $10.95 paper.) A History of Hull. By Edward Gillett and Kenneth A. MacMahon. (New York Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. ix, 430. $45.00.) The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559. By Winthrop S. Hudson. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 158. $14.95.) The Triumphs of Providence: The Assassination Plot, 1696. By Jane Garrett. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 289. $19.50.) British Diplomacy and Swedish Politics, 1758-1773. By Michael Roberts. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xxv, 528. $29.50.) The People's Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics. By Bruce K. Murray. (New York Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 352. 549.95.) Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in, Anglo-American Social Thought. [American Civilization Series. Edited by Allen F. Davis.] By Robert C. Bannister. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979. Pp. Ix, 292. $37.50.) Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France, and the USA since 1930. By Arthur Marwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 416. $19.95.) Agriculture in France on the Eve of the Railway Age. By Hugh Clout. (London: Croom Helm, and Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble Books, 1980. Pp. 239. $28.50.) France since 1918. By Herbert Tint. Second edition. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. 221. $19.95.) August Bebel: Shadow Emperor of the German Workers. By William Maehl. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980. Pp. xiv, 560. $20.00.) The King's Honor & The King's Cardinal: The War of the Polish Succéssion. By John L. Sutton. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980. Pp. vi, 250. $19.50.) Peter Kropotkin. By Stephen Osofsky. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. Pp. 202. $11.95.) The American and European Revolutions, 1776-1848: Sociopolitical and Ideological Aspects. Edited, with an introduction, by Jaroslaw Pelenski. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1980. Pp. xviii, 412. $17.50.) The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War. By Arno J. Mayer. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. Pp. xi, 368. $16.95.) Wealth and the Wealthy in the Modern World. Edited by W. D. Rubinstein. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. 283. $27.50.) Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905-25. By Donald S. Sutton. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 404. $18.50.) The Economy of Colonial America. By Edwin J. Perkins. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 177. $17.50 cloth, $6.00 paper.) The Revolutionary Histories: Contemporary Narratives of the American Revolution. By Lester H. Cohen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $15.00.) The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America. By Michael Feldberg. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. vi, 136. $8.95.) Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1800-1860. By Anne C. Loveland. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 293. $30.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.) The Popular Mood of Pre-Civil War America. By Lewis O. Saum. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 336. $29.95.) Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. By Eric Foner. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 250. $15.95.) Financiers and Railroads, 1869-1889: A Study of Morton, Bliss & Company. By Dolores Greenberg. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $22.50.) Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times. By James R. Mellow. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Pp. xiii, 684. $19.95.) City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Gunther Barth. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. viii, 289. $19.95.) Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970. By James Borchert. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 326. $18.95.) Clifford W. Beers: Advocate for the Insane. By Norman Dain. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. Pp. xxix, 392. $19.95.) Fathers to Daughters: The Legal Foundations of Female Emancipation. (Contributions in Legal Studies, no. 11.) By Peggy A. Rabkin. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. vii, 214. $25.00.) Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900. By Ruth Bordin. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. Pp. xviii, 221. $17.50.) The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. By Barbara Leslie Epstein. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. Pp. 188. $17.95.) Women and Work. By Sheila Lewenhak. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Pp. 286. $18.50.) American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917. By William N. Still, Jr. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 291. $29.95.) The Pugnacious Presidents: White House Warriors on Parade. By Thomas A. Bailey. (New York: The Free Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 504. $17.95.) Over Here: The First World War and American Society. By David M. Kennedy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 404. $19.95.) Oscar W. Underwood: A Political Biography. By Evans C. Johnson. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Pp. xvi, 479. $27.50.) Louis D. Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and the New Deal. By Nelson L. Dawson. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1980. Pp. viii, 272. $19.50.) Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil, 1941-1947. by Michael B. Stoff. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 249. $15.00.) Dean Rusk. [The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, vol. 19. Edited by Robert W. Ferrell.] By Warren I. Cohen. (Totowa, N.J.: Cooper Square Publishers, 1980. Pp. xii, 358. $22.50.) James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators. By Donald A. Ritchie. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. ix, 267 $15.00.) A History of Retirement: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution, 1885-1978. By William Graebner. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. 293. $22.50.) Semper Fidelis: The History of The United States Marine Corps. By Allan R. Millett. [The MacMillan Wars of the United States series. Edited by Louis Morton.] (New York: MacMillan, and London: Collier MacMillan, 1980. Pp. 782. $29.95.) Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative. By William Appleman Williams. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 226. $14.95.) Irony and Consciousness: American Historiography and Reinhold Niebuhr's Vision. By Richard Reinitz. (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1980. Pp. 230. $19.50.) The Chickasaw Freedmen: A People without a Country. By Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 248. $25.00.) The Kansas Beef Industry. By Charles L. Wood. (Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. Pp. xiii, 352. $22.50.) A Jesuit Hacienda in Colonial Mexico: Santa Lucía, 1576-1767. By Herman W. Konrad. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 455. $28.50.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Collection of the Qurr'ān. By John Burton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977; first paperback, 1979. vii plus 273 pp. $17.95, hard cover; $10.95, paperback.
The Jewels of the Qura'ān: Al-Ghazali's Theory. A translation, with introduction and annotation, of al-Ghazālī's Kitāb Jawāhir al-Qur'ān . By Muhammad Abul Quasem. Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia: Published by the author, printed by the University of Malaya Press, 1977. 2.44 pp. Bibliography. Indices. US $5.95 paper: US $12.00 hard cover.
Islam According to the Qurr'ān, Vol. II of Topical and Chronological Qur' an. By P. Mohamed Ali. Cochin, India: Published by the author, 1978. 46 pp. (paper). Rs. 15 ($2; £l).
Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Isbun: A Reconsideration of the Sources, with Special Reference to the Divine Saying or Hadith Qudsi. By William A. Graham. Religion and Society, 7. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. ix Plus 266 pp. DM 68.—
The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism. By Henry Corbin. Trans. from the French by Nancy Pearson. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 1978. 174 pp. $6.95.
Western Civilisation Through Muslim Eyes. By Sayid Mujtaba Rukni Musawi Lari. Trans. by F. J. Goulding. Guildford. England: F. J. Goulding, 1977. xii + 146 pp. £1.
Introduction to Palladii's Chinese Literature of the Muslims. By Ludmilla Panskaya in collaboration with Donald Daniel Leslie. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1977. 106 pp. $6.95.
Muslims and Mongols: Essays on Medieval Asia. By J. J. Saunders. Edited by G. W. Rice. Christchurch, N. Z., Whitcoulls Ltd. for the University of Canterbury, 1977. 143 pp. NZR $7.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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.     

Ex oriente lux revisited

Champion, Timothy, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, and Alasdair Whittle. Prehistoric Europe. New York: Academic Press, 1984. ix + 359 pp. including references and index. $45.00 cloth, $23.50 paper.

Champion, T. C, and J. V. S. Megaw, eds. Settlement and Society: Aspects of West European Prehistory in the First Millennium B.C. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. xi + 243 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 cloth.

Ammerman, Albert J., and L. L. Cavalli‐Sforza. The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xv + 176 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $25.00 cloth.     

Book reviews

Gramsci and the Italian State. By Richard Bellamy and Darrow Schecter (Manchester and New York Manchester University Press, 1993), xvi + 203 pp.

Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572–1588. By Wallace MacCaffrey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), x + 530 pp.

Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588–1603. By Wallace MacCaffrey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), xvi + 592 pp.

Figures on the Horizon. Edited by Jerrold Seigel (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1993), xix + 278 pp. £29.50, $53.00 cloth.

Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties. Edited by Richard Rand (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), xii + 218 pp., £27.00 cloth, £11.95 paper.

The Origins of French Art Criticism from the Anden Régime to the Restoration. By Richard Wrigley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), xii + 427 pp.

The Madness of Kings: Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations. By Vivian Green (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), xiii + 322 pp., $35.00 cloth.

The Conservative Imagination. By Philip Thody (London: Pinter, 1993), xi + 179 pp., cloth.

The Longman Companion to Cold War and Détente 1941–91. By John W. Young (London and New York: Longman Higher Educational, 1993), 360 pp., £11.99 paper.

The Colloquy of Montbéliard: Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century. By Jill Raitt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), xiv + 226 pp., £40.00

Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism. By Robert Wuthnow (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993; first published, 1989), 739 pp., $29.95 paper.

Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary. By Sarah B. Pomeroy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), xii + 388 pp., $50.00

The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader. Edited by Richard Wolin (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993), xx + 315 pp., $16.95 paper.

Biblical Theocracy: A Vision of the Biblical Foundations for a Christian Political Philosophy. By Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong: Philopsychy Press, 1993), 193 pp., HK $35.00, US $4.50 paper.

Considerations sur la France. By Joseph De Maistre, trans, and edited by Richard A. LeBrun; introduction by Isaiah Berlin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) xlii + 132 pp., £30.00/$49.95 cloth, £12.95/$16.95 paper.

Machiavellian Rhetoric. By Victoria Kahn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xv + 314 pp., $29.95, £23.50 cloth.

Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre et les Annales d'Histoire Economique et Sociale: Correspondance, vol. 1, 1928–1933. Edited by Bertrand Müller (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1994), lx + 551pp., FF240.

Kant's Transcendental Psychology. By Patricia Kitcher (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 296 pp.

The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic. By Patricia Mainardi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), ix + 210 pp., $18.95/£12.95 paper.

Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethics. By Georgios Anagnostopoulos (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), xiii + 468 pp., $50.00 cloth.

A Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities. By Charles Loyseau, edited and trans, by Howell A. Lloyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xlviii + 255 pp., $59.95 and £40.00 cloth, $22.95 and £14.95 paper.

The Philosophy of Childhood. By Gareth B. Matthews (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), 136 pp., $18.95 cloth.

Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought. Edited by Theodore Kisiel and John van Buren (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), 480 + ix pp., $74.50 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia. By Stephen Botterill, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), x + 269 pp., £37.50 and $59.95.

The Boundaries of Modern Iran. Edited by Keith McLachlan, SOAS Geopolitics Series 2 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, ix + 150 pp., $49.95 cloth.

New French Thought: Political Philosophy. Edited by Mark Lilla (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) 239 pp., $45.00 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean. By Irad Malkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xvii + 278 pp., £37.50 and $59.95 cloth.

The Interpretation of Order: A Study in the Poetics of Homeric Repetition. By Ahuvia Kahane (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), xi + 190 pp., £25.00 cloth.

History and Tropology: The Rise and Fall of Metaphor. By Frank R. Ankersmit (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), vii + 244 pp., $40.00 cloth.

Anglo‐Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture. By Julian Moynahan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xiii + 288 pp., $24.95 cloth.

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes. Edited by Noel Malcolm, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), Vol. 1: 1622–1659, lxxv + 511 pp., £60.00 doth; Vol. 2: 1660–1679, xv + 495 pp., £60.00 cloth.

Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian. By Shadi Bartsch, Revealing Antiquity 6. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), vi + 309 pp., $37.50 cloth.

Divine Power: The Medieval Power Distinction up to its Adoption by Albert, Bonaventure, and Aquinas. By Lawrence Moonan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), xii + 396 pp., £40.00 cloth.

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918–1922. By Vladimir N. Brovkin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xiii + 455 pp., $43.50 and £55.00 cloth.

The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age. Edited by Gerard Chaliand (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), xliii + 1072 pp., 8 maps, $75.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment. By Jack R. Censer (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), xi + 263 pp., £40.00 cloth.

Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), 238 pp., 6 illus., $40.00 cloth.

The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting. By Mark A. Cheetham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 194 pp., 16 illus., £11.95, $17.95 paper.

Ambrose of Milan. By Neil B. McLynn (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), xii + 406 pp., $45.00 cloth.

Understanding the Infinite. By Shaughan Lavine (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), ix + 371 pp., $39.95 cloth.

Historia and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought from Antiquity to the Modern Age. By Peter G. Bietenholz (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994), xii + 434 pp., 9 illus., $91.50 cloth, NLG 160.00.

The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa. By Otto of Freising, trans, and edited by Charles Mierow (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1994), 366 pp., $16.95 paper.

In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life. By Robert Kegan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), viii + 396 pp., $29.95 cloth.

Tudor Political Culture. Edited by Dale Hoak (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xxiii +310 pp., £45.00

Reconstructing the Subject: Modernist Painting in Western Germany, 1945–1950. By Yule F. Heibel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 207 pp., $45.00, £33.50 cloth.

The Uses of the University, 4th ed. By Clark Kerr (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), xv + 220 pp., $15.95 paper.

The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. By John Dupré (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 308 pp., paper.

The Stop. By David Appelbaum (Albany: State University of New York Press, New York, 1995), xi + 154 pp., $14.95 paper.

Walter Benjamin's Passages. By Pierre Missac, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholson (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), 233 pp., $25.00 cloth.

Spinoza: The Enduring Questions. Edited by Graeme Hunter. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), xviii +182 pp., North American $70.00, Europe $78.00, UK £45.50 cloth.

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva. By Robert M. Kingdon (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), ix + 214 pp., $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Falsehood Disguised: Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld. By Richard G. Hodgson. (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1995), xiii + 175 pp., £28.50.

Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities. By Peter Levine (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), xxi + 279 pp., $18.95 cloth.

Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays. By Herman von Helmholtz, ed. David Cahan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), xviii + 418 pp., $52.00 cloth, $17.00 paper.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia. By Chase F. Robinson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 206. $59.95.) Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East. By Jonathan P. Berkey. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 143. $30.00.) The Fall of Apartheid: The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki. By Robert Harvey. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 257. $65.00.) Medieval Africa, 1250–1800. By Roland Oliver and Anthony Atmore. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 251. $59.95.) West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta‐Bani Anticolonial War. By Mahir Saul and Patrick Royer. (Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2001. Pp. xiii, 404. $65.00.) Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief. By Peter Aleshire. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Pp. xiii, 354. $30.00.) Jazz Age Jews. By Michael Alexander. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 239. $24.45.) Theodore Roosevelt. By Louis Auchincloss. (New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2002. Pp. xvi, 155. $20.00.) Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. By Arnold J. Bauer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 245. $59.95.) No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. By Larry Berman. (New York: The Free Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 334. $27.50.) The Strange Death of American Liberalism. By H. W. Brands. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 200. $22.50.) The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. By Michelle Brattain. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 301. $35.00.) “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837–1916. Edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 241. $39.95.) African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896–1936. By Floris Barnett Cash. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 2001. Pp. x, 213. $64.00.) Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961–1969. By Thomas Clarkin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 376. $34.95.) Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850–1915. By Catherine Cocks. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 287. $37.50.) Reading the Maya Glyphs. Michael D. Coe and Mark Van Stone. (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001. Pp. 176. $21.95.) Implementing the Constitution. By Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 186. $35.00.) Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth‐Century Dress Reform in the United States. By Gayle V. Fischer. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 262. $24.00.) Faith of Our Mothers: The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush. By Harold I. Gullan. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. 394. $25.00.) Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948–1974. By Theodore Hamm. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 209. $16.95.) In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature—Pre‐Columbian to the Present. By Miguel León‐Portilla and Earl Shorris, with Sylvia S. Shorris, Asención H. de León‐Portilla, and Jorge Klor de Alva. (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 720. $39.95.) Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918. By Gerald W. McFarland. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 272. $29.95.) Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. By Sioban Nelson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. 240. $55.00.) The New Left: A History. By William L. O’Neill. (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2001. Pp. xi, 128. $11.95.) Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. By Clifford Putney. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 300. $39.95.) Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir. By Cheri Register. (New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Pp. 278. $13.00.) One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. By Kenneth D. Rose. (New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 301. $28.95.) The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance. By Dan Rottenberg. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 262. $29.95.) John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001. Pp. x, 294. $60.00.) The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. By Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan. (New York: Viking, 2000. Pp. xv, 640. $29.95.) Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. By Grant Wacker. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 364. $35.00.) Mormon History. By Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen, with a contribution by Armand L. Mauss. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 279. $32.50.) Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic. By Richard A. Warren. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. ix, 202. $60.00.) Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. 262. $29.95.) Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. Pp. xv, 336. $19.95.) Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius. By David W. Zang. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. Pp. xxii, 180. $29.95.) China since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition. By Joseph Fewsmith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 313. $21.95.) The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.–A.D. 907. By Charles Holcombe. (Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai’i Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 332. $24.95.) Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By Sanjay Joshi. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 209. $29.95.) Japan: A Modern History. By James L. McClain. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2002. Pp. xxiii, 632, appendices. $35.00.) Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. By the Military History Institute of Vietnam. Translated by Merle L. Pribbenow. Foreword by William J. Duiker. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 494. $49.95.) Napoleon. By R. S. Alexander. (London: Arnold, 2001. Pp. viii, 273. $18.50.) The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. By David Armitage. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 239. $54.95.) Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle. By Lenard R. Berlanstein. (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 300. $45.00.) Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. By Walter Burkert. Translated by Peter Bing. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 110. $28.00.) The Polish‐Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500–1795. Edited by Richard Butterwick. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xix, 249. $65.00.) David Livingstone. By Meriel Buxton. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvi, 215. $60.00.) Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present. By Norman Davies. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 483. $17.95.) Oliver Cromwell. By J. C. Davis. (London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 243. $65.00.) Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. By Geoff Eley. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 698. $35.00.) Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847–1928). By Coryne Hall. (New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 2001. Pp. xiv, 402. $37.95.) Britain in the First Millenium. By Edward James. (London: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 310. $24.95.) Philip V of Spain: The King Who Reigned Twice. By Henry Kamen. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 277. $29.95.) The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793–1795. By Michael L. Kennedy. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000. Pp. viii, 312. $69.95.) Saint‐Simon and the Court of Louis XIV. By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie with the collaboration of Jean‐François Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 432, $35.50.) Sympathy for the Devil: Neutral Europe and Nazi Germany in World War II. By Christian Leitz. (New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. 213. $40.00.) War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I. By Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $64.95.) The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II. By Giles MacDonogh. (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. 416. $27.95.) Medieval Children. By Nicholas Orme. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 387. $39.95.) The People's Bread: A History of the Anti‐Corn Law League. By Paul Pickering and Alex Tyrrell. (London: University of Leicester Press, 2000. Pp. x, 304. $99.00.) Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I. By Marsha L. Rozenblit. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 252. $49.95.) Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire. By Antonio Santosuosso. (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 265. $26.00.) Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. vii, 312. $55.00.) Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200–1565. By Walter Simons. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 333. $65.00.) Voices of Revolution 1917. By Mark D. Steinberg. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 395. $29.95.) Radio London and Resistance in Occupied Europe: British Political Warfare, 1939–1943. By Michael Stenton. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 423. $37.00.) Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany. By B. Ann Tlusty. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. xii, 288. $59.50.) Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England. Edited by Daniel J. Vitkus. Introduction by Nabil Matar. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 376. $22.50.) Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg. Translated and annotated, with an introduction, by David A. Warner. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 410. $75.00.) An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920: Demographic, Economic, and Social Transition. By Michael Wintle. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 399. $70.00.) Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. Edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 338. $24.95.) The God That Failed. Edited by Richard H. Crossman, with a foreword by David C. Engerman. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xl, 273. $16.50.) Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. By David Glassberg. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2001. Pp. xvii, 267. $18.95.)     

Book Reviews

ROBERT E. CONRAD. Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. xxvi, 515. $50.00 cloth; $16.50 paper (US). Reviewed by A.J.R. Russell-Wood

STEPHEN KERN. The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. 372. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Frank M. Turner

ESCOTT REID. On Duty: A Canadian at the Making of the United Nations, 1945–1946. Toronto: McClelland &; Stewart, 1983. Pp. xxii, 181. $16.95 (Can.). Reviewed by Robert Bothwell

LESTER LANOLEY. The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900–1934. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1983. Pp. vii-viii, 255. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard D. Challener

RICHARD BOSWORTH. Italy and the Approach of the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 174. $22.50 (US). Reviewed by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.

ROBERT MIRAK. Torn Between Two Lands: Armenians in America, 1890 to World War I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 384. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by George B. Kooshian, Jr.

LEE FEIGON. Chen Duxiu: Founder of the Chinese Communist Party. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 297. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by William Saywell

GHARLES CRUICKSHANK. SOE in the Far East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. 285. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by David Stafford

F.H. HINSLEY et al. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Volume III, Part 1. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 690. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Patrick Beesly

RICHARD HOUGH. The Great War at Sea, 1914–1918. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 353. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Jon Tetsuro Sumida

HERMIA OLIVER. The International Anarchist Movement in Late Victorian London. New York: St Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 176. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Haia Shpayer-Makov

STEWART A. STEHLIN. Weimar and the Vatican 1919–1933: German-Vatican Diplomatic Relations in the Interwar Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Pp. 490. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by John S. Conway

GEORGE F.G. STANLEY. The War of 1812: Land Operations. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, in collaboration with the Canadian War Museum, National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1983. Pp. 489. $24.95 (Can.); J.C.A. STAGG, Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. 538. $49.00 (US). Reviewed by William Stinchcombe

JACOB TOURY. Die Jüdische Presse im Österreichischen Kaiserreich: Ein Beitrag zur Problematik der Akkulturation 1802–1918. New York: Leo Baeck Institute, 1983. Pp. 171. Reviewed by George O. Kent

GOTTFRIED NIEDHART, ed. Der Westen und die Sowjetunion: Einstellungen und Politik gegenüber der UdSSR in Euro pa und in den USA seit 1917. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1983. Pp. 372. DM 48. Reviewed by Gerhard L. Weinberg

DANIEL H. THOMAS. The Guarantee of Belgian Independence and Integrity in European Diplomacy, 1830's–1930's. Kingston, Rhode Island: D.H. Thomas Publishing, 1983. Pp. xv, 789. Reviewed by D. Stevenson

FRED v. CARSTENSEN. American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Pp. vii, 289. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by John P. Mckay

JULIANNA PUSKAS. From Hungary to the United States, 1880–1914. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1982; distributed in North America by Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983. Pp. 225. $24.25 (US). Reviewed by Janos M. Bak

ROGER CHICKERING. We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League 1886–1044. Boston: George Allen &; Unwin, 1983. Pp. 365. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by George L. Mosse

PETER KRTCDTE. Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists: Europe and the World Economy, 1500–1800, translated by V.R. Berghahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 191. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Phyllis Deane

JAMES WILLIAM MORLEY, ed. The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent 1933–1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Reviewed by Samuel C. Chu

ERIC HOBSBAWM, TERENCE RANGER, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 320. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter Stansky

AVI SHLAIM. The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision-Making. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 463. $38.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert A. Divine

JAMES CRACRAFT, ed. The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretative Guide. Chicago: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1983. Pp. ix, 348. $9.95 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence W. Lerner

M.J. TREBILCOCK, J.R.S. PRICHABD, T.J. COURCHENE, J. WHALLEY, eds. Federalism and the Canadian Economic Union. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. $25.00 (Can.). Reviewed by Eric Kierans

PHILIP S. KHOURY. Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860–1920. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 153. $34.50 (US). Reviewed by James Jankowski

PAUL MOSLEY. The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1963. Cambridge and New York: Gambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 289. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Robert O. Collins     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Qu'ānic Sufism. By Dr. Mir Valiuddin. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. Second Revised Edition, vi plus 216 pp. Rs. 45
Sufi Essays. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: Schocken Books, 1977. 184 pp., Index. $3.75. pa.
Al-Qā     ī Abn Yal'ā Ibn al-Farrā', Kitāb al-Mu'amad fī u     ūl al-īn. Par Wadī'     addād. Beyrouth: DS El-Machreq éd., 1974. Coll. "Recherches" No. 8, Nouvelle série, A. Langue arabe et pensée islamologique. Intr. anglaise 28 pp.; Intr. arabe 16 pp.; 4 facsimilés de manuscrits; texte arabe pp. 19–301.
Études d'Islamologie. By Robert Brunschvig. Paris: Éditions G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1976. 2 vols. Vol. I: xv plus 398 pp. 65 F. pa. Vol. II: 406 pp. 65 F. pa.
The Doctrine of Ijmā' in Islam. By Ahmad Hasan. Islamabad, Pakistan: Islamic Research Institute, n. d. vi + 274 pp. Rs. 65.00.
Social Justice in Islam. By H. Mintjes. Amsterdam: Institute for the Study of Religion, Free University, 1977. 92 pp. n. p. paper.
Middle Turkic Glosses of the Rylmds Interlinear Koran Translation. By János Eckmann. Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica XXI. Budapest: Akadémjiaa Kiadó, 1976. 359 pp. $25.00.
The British in India, A Study in Imperialism. By K. K. Aziz. Historical Studies (Muslim India) Series, 1. Islamabad: National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, 1976. xi plus 389 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 100. US $15.00.
Law Reform in the Muslim World. By Norman Anderson. University of London Legal Series, 11. London: The Athlone Press, 1976. xi plus 235 pp. $13.50.
The Ba'th Party: A History from Its Origins to 1966. By John T. Devlin. Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover Institution Publications, 1976. 372 pp. $11.95.     

The Folk

FOLKLORIST OF THE COAL FIELDS: GEORGE KORSON'S LIFE AND WORK. By ANGUS K. GILLESPIE. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London, 1980. Pp. 200. £10.20. 271 00255 7. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

THE CRAFT OF RALPH ELLISON. By ROBERT F. O'MEALLY. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1980. Pp. 212. £8.40. 0 674 17548 4. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

ROSC: REVIEW OF SCOTTISH CULTURE 1 (1984), Edited by ALEXANDER FENTON with HUGH CHEAPE and ROSALIND K. MARSHALL. John Donald Publishers Ltd. and National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. Edinburgh, vii + 104 pp. Illustrated, £5.00. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

RESEARCH IN RITUAL STUDIES: A PROGRAMMATIC ESSAY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. By RONALD L. GRIMES. The American Theological Library Association and Scarecrow Press. Metuchen N.J., and London, 1985. 177pp. $15. 0 8108 1762 4. (ATLA Bibliography Series No. 14). Reviewed by Susan Drury.

KINTYRE: THE HIDDEN PAST. By ANGUS MARTIN. John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1984. xii + 232 pp., illus. £12.00 p.b. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE, 1879 to 1979. An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by WILLIAM M. CLEMENTS and FRANCES M. PALPEZZI. Swallow Press (Ohio University Press), Athens Ohio, London, Chicago, 1984. 247pp. 0-8040-0831-6672. £29.65. Reviewed by Robert Turpin.

ENZYKLOPÄDIE DES MÄRCHENS. Editor K. RANKE. Volume ii Fascicle 5. Berlin, New York (Walter de Gruyter), 1979. Cols. 1186-1444. Volume iii. 1981. 1446 Cols. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed “THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND PEOPLES: SUCCESSION, RELIGION, CULTURE, AND POLITICS” The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire. By Justin McCarthy. (London: Arnold Publishers, 2001. Pp. x, 234. $24.95.) Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902–1908. By M. S¸ükrü Haniog?lu. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 538. $72.00.) The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State. By Kemal H. Karpat. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 533. $49.95.) Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. By Myron Echenberg. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xviii, 305. $28.00.) “God Alone Is King”: Islam and Emancipation in Senegal, the Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859–1914. By James Searing. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann and Oxford: James Currey, 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 293. $27.00.) Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. By Rachel Adams. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 289. $19.00.) Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish‐Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821. By Jeremy Baskes. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 305. $60.00.) Making Patriots. By Walter Berns. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 150. $12.00.) A Perilous Progress: Economics and Public Purpose in Twentieth‐Century America. By Michael A. Bernstein. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. 358. $39.50.) Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries. By D. A. Brading. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 444. $34.95.) The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua. By Timothy C. Brown. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 321. $29.95.) By Any Means Necessary: America's Heroes Flying Secret Missions in a Hostile World. By William E. Burrows. (New York: Plume, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 398. $15.00.) Race against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. By Jack E. Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 351. $39.95.) Look Away: A History of the Confederate States of America. By William C. Davis. (New York and London: The Free Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 484. $35.00.) The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780. By María Elena Díaz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 440. $55.00.) The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914. By George Emery. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 259. $55.00.) A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth‐Century Cuba. By Alejandro de la Fuente. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 449. $19.95.) The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade. By Robert Harms. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. 541. $30.00.) The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas: A Social and Political History, 1860–1945. By Roy Hora. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 264. $35.00.) Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940. Edited by Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. (Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 507. $21.95.) All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War. By Frank Kusch. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Pp. xviii, 173. $62.00.) John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. By R. Kent Newmyer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 508. $39.95.) Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth‐Century U.S. History. By Alice O’Connor. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 373. $29.95.) The Columbia Guide to Asian American History. By Gary Y. Okihiro. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 323. $45.00.) Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908. By Michael Perman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 397, $24.95.) Medicine in Colonial America. By Oscar Reiss. (Lanham, NY, and Oxford: University Press of America, Inc., 2000. Pp. xi, 518. $64.50.) Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953. By Mary Roldán. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 392. $64.95.) Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes. By Susan Sleeper‐Smith. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 234. $18.95.) American Colonies. By Alan Taylor. (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. Pp. xvii, 526. $34.95.) Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. By Andrea Tone. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. Pp. xvii, 353. $30.00.) Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg. By Tom Wells. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xi, 692. $29.95.) Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Edited by Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C. A. Bayly, with the collaboration of Robert Ilbert. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 410. $22.50.) Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China. By Stevan Harrell. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 370. $50.00.) Crime and Social Control in a Changing China. Edited by Jianhong Liu, Lening Zhang, and Steven F. Messner. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. 197. $67.95.) A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. By Jane R. McIntosh. (Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. 224. $40.00.) Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 329. $42.00.) The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. By Robert B. Asprey. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. 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The United States and Iran: The Patterns of Influence. By R. K. Ramazani. New York: Praeger, 1982. 179 pp.

Iran, A Revolution in Turmoil. Edited by Haleh Afshar. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1985. xvi + 253 pp. + index.

War, Revolution & British Imperialism in Central Asia. By Frederick Stanwood. London: Ithaca Press, 1983. vi + 261 pp. £12.50.

The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi: A Literary Odyssey. By Donne Raffat. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1985. xi + 246 pp.; no index or bibliography.

From Iran East & West: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History. Edited by Juan R. Cole and Moojan Momen. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984. xiii + 205 pp.

Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. By Roy P. Mottahedeh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. xi + 209 pp.

The Women's Rights Movement in Iran; Mutiny, Appeasement and Repression from 1900 to Khomeini. By Eliz Sanasarian. New York: Praeger, 1982. 172 pp. + i‐xiii, including index and bibliography.