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

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

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

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

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Ibn Taymīya's Struggle against Popular Religion, with an Annotated Translation of his Kitāb iqti     ā a     -     irā     al-mustaqīm mukhālafat a         āb al-ja     īm. By Muhammad Umar Memon
The Islamic View of Women and the Family . By Muhammad Abdul-Rauf
Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak . Edited by Elizabeth W. Fernea and Basima Qattan Bezirgan
Images and Self-Images: Male and Female in Morocco . By Daisy Hilse Dwyer
Moroccan Islam: Tradition and Society in a Pilgrimage Center . By Dale F. Eickelman
Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco: Precolonial Protest and Resistance, 1860–1912 . By Edmund Burke, III
Arab Nationalism: An Anthology . 2nd edn. Ed. by Sylvia G. Haim
Saladin . By Geoffrey Hindley
Islam et Jeunesse en Turquie d'aujourd'hui . By Sabine Dirks
Selections from the Poetry of Bassār. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by A. F. L. Beeston.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? By Abdallah Laroui The Muslim Mind . By Charis Waddy The Ethics of al-Ghazali: A Composite Ethics in Islam . By Muhammad Abul Quassem Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law . By Uriel Heyd. Edited by V. L. Ménage The Muslim Filipinos. Their History, Society and Contemporary Problems . Edited by Peter G. Gowing and Robert D. McAmis. Tunisie du Sud: Ksars et Villages de Crětes . By André Louis. Preface by H. E. Habib Bourguiba The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia: 1919–1929 . By Gregory J. Massell Zur Soziologie der Dekolonisation in Afrika (On the Sociology of Decolonization in Africa) . Edited by Gerhard Grohs and Bassam Tibi Militär und Sozialismus in der Dritten Welt (Military and Socialism in the Third World) . By Bassam Tibi     

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

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

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Books Reviewed in this article: Anthology of Islamic Literature from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times , selected, edited and introduced by James Kritzeck, Holt, Rinehard and Winston, New York, 1964. Pp. 379. $8.50. A Reader in Modern Literary Arabic , By Farhat J. Ziadeh. Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1964. $8.50. Three Muslim Sages , by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Harvard University Press, 1964; PP- 185, $3.95. Botschaft des Ostens. By Sir Muhammad Iqbāl. Aus dem Persischen uebertra-gen und eingeleitet von Annemarie Schimmel. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1963, pp. XXX, 108. A Path for Pakistan. By Aslam Siddiqi. Pakistan Publishisg House, Karachi, 1964; pp. xv + 250; Rs. 16. The Significance of Muhamadan Law in Present Day Egypt (Dutch). B. J. Brugman, Martinus Nijhoff's Gravenhage, 1960. “Verhandelingen…”, vol. XXVIII, pp. 215. William McKane, Al-Ghazāli's Book of Fear and Hope , E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1962. Pp. XIX + 104. 18 guilders.     

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Book Reviewed in This Article:
Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948.
State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise.
Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Charles Butterworth.
The Encyclopædia of Islam.
The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations.
Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization.
Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640.
Domains of Fear and Desire.
Islam, Democracy, the State and the West: A Round Table with Dr.     asan Turābī.
The Arab World: Society, Culture and State.
Islamic Resurgence: Challenges, Directions and Future Perspectives. A Round Table with Kurshid Ahmad.     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this article: Trialogue of the Abrahamic Faiths. Edited by Isma'il R. Al-Faruqi. The Tarjuman al-Qur'an: a critical analysis of Maulana Abu'l-Kalam Azad's approach to the understanding of the Qur'an. By I. H. Azad Faruqi. Major Themes of the Qur'ān. By Fazlur Rahman. Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Edited by A. F. L. Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant and G. R. Smith. Man's Religious Quest: Units 20–21: Islam and the Muslim. By Kenneth Cragg. Muhammad and the Jews. By Barakat Ahmad. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society. Vol. I: The Central Lands; Vol. II: The Arabic-Speaking Lands. Edited by Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis. Minderheit, Millet, Nation?: Die Juden in Ägypten 1914–1952. (Studien zum Minderheiten-problem im Islam). By Gudrun Krämer. Reislamisierung und Entwicklungspolitik [Forschungsberichte des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit, Band 30]. By D. Khalid. The Middle East Annual: Issues and Events [Volume 1–1981]. Edited by David H.     

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

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

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Book reviewed in this article: Criminal Law and Society in Late Medieval and Tudor England. By John G. Bellamy. Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England: Volume III. By J.S. Roskell. The Power ofthe Early Tudor Nobility: A Study of the Fourth and Fifth Earls of Shrewsbury. By G.W. Bernard. Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism. By Hans S. Pawlisch. Historians, Puritanism, and the English Revolution: The Religious Factor in English Politics before and after the Interregnum. By Michael G. Finlayson. The Assembly of the Lord: Politics and Religion in the Westminster Assembly and the ‘Grand Debate’.By Robert S.Paul The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism. Edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales 1658–1667.By Ronald Hutton Princely Chandos: James Brydges 1674–1744. By Joan Johnson. Swift's Tory Politics. By F.P. Lock. Jacobitism and Tory Politics 1710-14.By D. Szechi. Edinburgh Britain in the Age of Walpole. Edited by Jeremy Black Politics and Finance in the Eighteenth Century. By Lucy Sutherland. George Grenville: A Political Life. By Philip Lawson. Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliament Respecting North America 1754–1783 Edited by R.C. Simmons and P.D.G. Thomas. Lord Liverpool: The Life and Political Career of Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool 1770–1828. By Norman Gash. Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1815–1870. Compiled by J.M. Collinge. Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland 1832–1885. By K. Theodore Hoppen. Dreadful Fire! Burning of the Houses of Parliament. By Katherine Solender High and Low Politics in Modern Britain: Ten Studies. Edited by Michael Bentley and John Stevenson. The Making of Modern British Politics 1867–1939. By Martin Pugh. Balfour: Intellectual Statesman. By Ruddock F. Mackay. The Crawford Papers. The Journals of David Lindsay, Twenty-Seventh Earl of Crawford and Tenth Earl of Balcarres 1871–1940, during the Years 1892 to 1940. Edited by John Vincent. Winston S. Churchill. Volume V, Companion Part 3: Documents. The Coming of War 1936–1939.     

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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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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.