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

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

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

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Book reviewed in this article: Muhammad and the Christian: A Question of Response. By Kenneth Cragg Orientations pour un dialogue entre Chretiens et Musulmans. By Maurice Bowrrmans Recherches sur la pensée chrétienne et I'lslam dans les temps modernes et à l'époque contemporaine. By Youakim Moubarac Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship . By al-Ghazāl?. Translated from Jhyā' by Muhtar Holland The Multiple States of Being. By René Guénon Mikhail Naimy: Some Aspects of His Thought as Revealed in His Writings. By Hussein Dabbagh Muslim Women and Higher Education: a case for separate institutions and a work plan for women's university. By Anis Ahmad and Muslim Sajjad We Shall Return: Women of Palestine. By Ingela Bendt and James Downing Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community. By Lawrence Rosen The Islamic Conception of Justice. By Majid Khadduri. Foreword by R. K. Ramazani Islam in the Political Process. Edited by James P. Piscatori Religion and Politics [Political Anthropology, Vol. 3], Edited by Myron J. Aronoff From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand Iran's Islamic Revolution: Popular Liberation or Religious Dictatorship? by Suroosh Irfani Religion, Society and the State in Arabia: the Hijaz under Ottoman Control, 1840–1908. By William Ochsenwald Islam and the Politics of Meaning in Palestinian Nationalism. Nels Johnson Deutsche Interessen in Syrien und Palästina 1841–1898: Aktivitäten religïoser Institutionen, wirtschaft-liche und politische Einflüsse. By Abdel-Raouf Sinno Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt: a Biography of Muhammad Husayn Haykal. By Charles D. Smith Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria. By Allan Christelow Elements d'histoire culturelle al?erienne. By Abdelkader Djeghloul Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887–1912). By Anaide Ter Minassian The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia (slightly revised reprint). By B. J. Boland     

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Book Review in this Articles Kanz al-mulūk fi kaifiyyat as-sulūk (The Treasure of Princes on the Fashion of Behaviour) ascribed to Sibt ibn al-Djauzi. Edited by Gosta Vitestam Structural Continuity in Poetry, A Linguistic Study in Five Pre-Islamic Arabic Odes. By Mary Catherine A Lover from Palestine and Other Poems. Edited by Abdul Wahab Al-Messeri. Arabic and Persian Poems in English. By Omar S. Poud. The Arab-Israeli Conformation of June 1967: An Arab Perspective. Edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. Palestine: A Search for Truth. Edited by Alan R. Taylor and Richard N. Tetile. L'Expansion Musulmane (VII^e-XI^e, Siécles) [Vol. 20 of Nouvelle Clio, L'Hisorie et see Problétnes]. By Robert Mantran. A Brief History of Islam, a Christian Interpretation. By Harry Boer. The Authority of the Past: A Study of These Muslim Modernists. By Sheila McDonough. Arab Intellectuals and the West: The Formative Years, 1825-1914. By Hisham Sharabi. Les Universités dans le monde Arabe Actuel. By Jean-Jacques The Land To Those Who Work it: Algeria's Experiment in Workers' Management. By thomas L. Blair. Layatey in Morocco: Protectorate Administration 1912-1925. Alan Scham. The Emergence of Modern Afganistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880-1946. By Vartan Gregorian.     

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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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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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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 reviews in this article: Tiberius. By Robin Seager. The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance. By Peter Partner. Universities in Politics: Case Studies from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Edited, with an introduction by John W. Baldwin and Richard A. Goldthwaite. Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century. By Ruth Pike. Roger of Salisbury, Viceroy of England. By Edward J. Kealey. The Loyal Consbiracy: The Lords Appellant under Richard II . By Anthony Goodman The Baroniul Plan of Reform, 1258-1263. By R. F. Treharne. Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell. By G. R. Elton. The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812. Volume VIII, 1911-1912. Edited by A. Aspinall. Socialism in Britain From the Zndustrial Revolution lo llre Present Day. By Thomas L. Jarman. The Gladstones: A Family Biography, 1764-1821. By S. G. Checkland. The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). By Richard Brett-Smith. Napoleon. By Andre Castelot. Weimar Germany. By John R. P. McKenzie. The Legacy of the German Refugee Intellectuals. Edited, with a preface, by Robert Boyers. The Jewish Bund in Russia From Its Origins to 1905. By Henry J. Tobias. Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected Works by the Activist-Founder of World Anarchism. Edited, translated, and with an introduction, by Sam Dolgoff. Witness to Revolution: Letters from Russia, 1916-1919. By Edward T. Heald. Edited by James B. Gibney. War and Revolution: Excerpts from the Letters and Diaries of the Countess Poutiatine. Translated and edited by George Alexander Lensen. The Republic of Armenia. Volume I, The First Year, 1918-1919. By Richard G. Hovannisian. The Cambridge History of Islam. Volume I, The Central Islamic Lands; Volume 11, The Further Islamic Lands, Zslaniic Society and Civilization. Edited by P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, and Bernard Lewis. The Histoiy of West Africa. Volume I. By J. F. Ade Ajayi and Michael Crowdcr. Sir George Sansom urid japan, A Memoir. By Katherine Sansom. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. By John Toland. Marquette's Explorations: The Narratives Reexamined. By Raphael N. Hamilton, S. J. “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle. By James A. Henretta. George Washington: Soldier and Man. By North Callahan. Politics Without Parties: Massachusetts, 1780-1791. By Van Beck Hall. The Guarantee Clause of the U. S. Constitution. By William M. Wiecek. Free Negroes in the District of Columbia: 1790-1846. By Letitia Woods Brown. With an Introduction by Richard C. Wade. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material. By Henry Irving Tragle. Abolitionism: A New Perspective. By Gerald Sorin. Nightfall at Nauvoo. By Samuel W. Taylor. George Peabody: A Biography. By Franklin Parker. Josiah Royce: An Intellectual Biography. By Bruce Kuklick. Teamster Rebellion. By Farrell Dobbs. American Business & Foreign Policy, 1920-1933. By Joan Hoff Wilson. A Secret War. Americian in China, 1944-1945. By Oliver J. Caldwell. Cold War and Counter Revolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy. By Richard J. Walton. A Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain. By Peter Gerhard. Man, State, and Society in Latin American History. Edited by Sheldon B. Liss and Peggy K. Liss. Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation. By Shirley Brice Heath. Revolutionaty Struggle, 19474958. [Volume I of the Selected Works of Fidel Castro]. Edited, with an introduction, by Rolando E. Bonachea and Nelson P. Valdés.     

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

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Book Review in this Articles Alfarabi's Book of Reliaon and Related Texts. Arabic Texts, edited with introduction and notes by Muhsin Mahdi. The Arabic Language: Its Role in History. By Anwar G. Chejne. The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk (1453–1517). By Robert Schwoebel. Islam, Europe and Empire. By Norman Daniel. Madkhal ilã '1–Hiwãr al-Islãm? al-Masihi By al-Ustãdh al-Haddãd. The Monsoon lands of Asia. By R. R. Rawsa Tha Histories ol Nishpur. Edited by Richard N. Frye. The Ancient Near East: Supplementary Texts and Pictures Relating to the Old Testament. Edited by James B. Pritchard.     

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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 The Shapes of Time. By Peter Munz. The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean, 1250–1150 B.C. By N.K. Sandars. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus: Tradition and Apostasy. By Alvin H. Bernstein. The Army of the Caesars. By Michael Grant. In the Twilight of Antiquity. By Tom B. Jones. Laws of the Alamans and Bavarians. Translated, with an introduction, by Theodore John Rivers. Annalists and Historians: Western Historiography from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth Century. By Denys Hay. Medieval Settlement: Continuity and Change. Edited by P. H. Sawyer. Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. By Patrick J. Geary. Law, Church, and Society: Essays in Honor of Stephan Kuttner. Edited by Kenneth Pennington and Robert Somerville. The Origins of European Dissent. By R. I. Moore. The Dissenters. Vol. 1: From the Reformation to the French Revolution. By Michael R. Watts. The European Economy, 1914–1970. By Derek H. Aldcroft. James II. By Maurice Ashley. Britain's Army in India: From its Origins to the Conquest of Bengal. By James P. Lawford. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. By Seymour Drescher. Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth-Century English Working Class. [Contributions in Labor History, no. 3.] By Francis Hearn. Political Economists and the English Poor Laws: A Historical Study of the Influence of Classical Economists on the Formation of Social Welfare Policy. By Raymond G. Cowherd. Victorian Imperialism. By C. C. Eldridge. Political Power in Birmingham, 1871–1921. By Carl V. Harris. The British Motor Industry, 1896–1939. A Social & Economic History. By Kenneth Richardson, assisted by C.N. O'Gallagher. Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George's Career before the First World War. By Don M. Crieger. The Making of Lloyd George. By W.R.P. George. William Morris: The Marxist Dreamer. By Paul Meier. Translated from the French by Frank Gubb. Preface to the English edition by Robin Page Arnot. 2 vols. Miracles, Convulsions, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris. By B. Robert Kreiser. Adolphe Thiers. By René Albrecht-Carrié. [Twayne World Leaders Series, no. 67.] A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962. By Alistair Horne. The Italian Nationalist Association and the Rise of Fascism in Italy. By Alexander J. DeGrand. The Swastika outside Germany. By Donald M. McKale. Leon Trotsky. [Twayne World Leaders Series, no. 72.] By Robert D. Warth. Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1933. By James K. Libbey. Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko. By Dominique Lecourt. Translated by Ben Brewster. Introduction by Louis Althusser. Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History. Edited by Thomas Naff and Roger Owen. A History of Rhodesia. By Robert Blake. The Rulers of German Africa, 1884–1914. By L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan. The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. By Simon Leys. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Reconsiderations on the Revolutionary War: Selected Essays. Edited by Don Higginbotham. The Process of Government under Jefferson. By Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812. By Jerome R. Garitee. Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girard's Bank, 1812–1831. By Donald R. Adams, Jr. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. By Michael F. Holt. Division and Reunion: America 1848–1877. By Ludwell H. Johnson. Shiloh: In Hell before Night. By James Lee McDonough. When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898–1916. By Bruno Ramirez. Rainey of Illinois: A Political Biography, 1903–34. By Robert A. Waller. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945. By Christopher Thorne. The Pursuit of Equality in American History. By J. R. Pole. Americans and German Scholarship, 1770–1870. By Carl Diehl. Joseph Neff The Americanization of Pestalozzianism. By Gerald Lee Gutek. The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory. By John P. Diggins. Children of Fantasy: The First Rebels of Greenwich Village. By Robert E. Humphrey. Conquer and Colonize: Stevenson's Regiment and California. By Donald C. Biggs. Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army. By Patricia Y. Stallard. Mexico's Miguel Caldera: The Taming of America's First Frontier, 1548–1597. By Philip Wayne Powell. The Almadas and Alamos, 1783–1867. By Albert L. Stagg. United States Penetration of Brazil. By Jan Knippers Black.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Short History of Warfare. By David H. Zook, Jr., and Robin Higham, with a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart. The Romans. Edited by J. P. V. D. Balsdon. Christian Faith and the Interpretation of History: A Study of St. Ausgustine's Philosophy of History. By G. L. Keyes. The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1272–1328. By Charles T. Wood. Politics and Profit: A Study of Sir Ralph Sadler, 1507–1547. By Arthur Joseph Slavin Britaiin and the Stuarts 1603–1714. By D. L. Farmer. The Agricultural Revolution, 1750–1880. By J. D. Chambers and G. E. Mingay. The Agricultural Revolution in South Linconshire. By David Grigg. John Bright, Victorian Reformer, By Herman Ausubel. Bagehot's Historical Essays. Edited, with an Introduction by Norman St. John-Stevas. The First Industrial Revolution. By Phyllis Deane. Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of Europan Expansion, 1400–1700. By Carlo M. Cipolla. Freedon and Dignity, the Historical and Philosophical Thought of Schiller. By Deric Regin. The Revolutionay Internationals, 1864–1943. Edited, with an introduction, by Milorad M. Drachkovitch. French Colonialism 1871–1914. Myths and Realities. By Henri Brunschwig. With an Introduction by Ronald E. Robinson. Vienna in the Age of Franz Josef. By Arthus J. May. The History of Treaties and International Politics. By Mario Toscano. The Two World Wars: Selective Bibliography. [Edited by Jacques de Launay for the International Commission for the Study of History.] His Britannic Majesty's Army in Germany during the Seven Years War. By Sir Reginald Savory. FRIEDRICH von HOLSTEIN. Politics and Diplomacy in the Era of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. By Norman Rich. The Germans and Their Modern History. By Fritz Ernst. Translated from the German by Charles M. Prugh. The Four Power Pact 1933. By Konard Hugo Jaraush. Pius XII and the Third Reich. By Saul Friedländer. Sons against Fathers: Studies in Russian Radicalism and Revolution. By E. Lampert. Thomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras, 1792–1818. By T. H. Beaglehole. Minority Politics in the Punjab. By Baldev Raj Nayar. Formosa: A Study in Chinese History. By W. G. Goddard. The Taiping Rebellion-History and Documents, Vol I. By Franz Michael in collaboration with Chung-li Chang. Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891–1900. By Edmund S. Wehrle. White Protestantism and the Negro. By David M. Reimers. 1755: Another Part of the Field. By Ivor Noël Hume. Jews in America, A Short History. By Ruth Gay. 1787: The Grand Convention: The Year That Made a Nation. By Clinton Rossiter. The Ordeal of the Constitution: The Anti-Federalists and the Ratification Struggle of 1787–1788. By Robert A. Rutland. The Second American Party System. Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era. By Richard P. McCormick. Travels in the Southland, 1822–1823: The Journal of Lucius Verus Bierce. Edited, with an Introduction, by George W. Knepper. The General to His Lady: The Civil War Letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fannny Pender. Edited, with an introduction, by William W. Hassler. Life in the North during the Civil War, a Source History. By George Winston Smith and Charles Judah. The Legend of Grizzly Adams: California's Greatest Mountain Man. By Richard Dillon. Buckskin Joe. Edited by Glenn Shirley. War Drums and Wagon Wheels: The Story of Russell, Majors and Waddell. By Raymond W. and Mary Lund Settle. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. By William H. Goetzmann. The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era. By Geoffrey Blodgett. The Ferment of Realism: American Literature 1884–1919. By Warner Berthoff. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Negro New York, 1890–1930. By Gilbert Osofsky. Master of Precision: Henry M. Leland. By Mrs. Wilfred C. Leland and Minnie Dubbs Millbrook. The Politics of Military Aviation Procurement, 1926–1934. By Edwin H. Rutkowski. Liberals and Communism: The “Red Decade” Revisited. By Frank A. Warren III. Individual Freedom and the Economic Organization of Agriculture. By Harold F. Breimyer. 1933: Characters in Crisis. By Herbert Feis. American Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: A Sourcebook from Pragmatism to Philosophical Analysis. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliographies, by Paul Kurtz. Wendel Willkie, Fighter for Freedom. By Ellsworth Barnard. Pueblo Warriors and Spanish Conquest. By Oakah L. Jones, Jr. Panama: Four Hundred Years of Dreamks and Cruelty. By David Howarth. The Unwritten Alliance, Rio-Branco and Brazilian-American Relations. By E. Bradford Burns. Nationalism in Contemporary Latin America. By Arthur P. Whitaker and David C. Jordan. Creative History, a Introduction to Historical Study. By Walter T. K. Nugent. [The Lippincott History Series] Society Today and Tomorrow: Reading in Social Science. Second Edition. Edited by Elgin F. Hunt and Jules Karlin. The Birth of Western Economy. By Robert Latouche. Paths to the Ancient Past: Applications of the Historical Method to Ancient History. By Tom B. Jones. Origins of the Medieval World. By William Carroll Bark. Thought and Letters in Western Europe, A. D. 500 to 900. Second Edition. By M. L. W. Lasitner. The Western Heritage from 1500 to the Present. By Stewart C. Easton. The World Since 1918: A Complete Up-to-Date Summary of Recent Political, Economic, and Social History Includign Maps, Charts, and Bibliography. By Stewart C. Easton. [Barnes & Noble College Outlien Series]. Theological Highlights of Vatican II. By Joseph Ratzinger. A Short History of Italy. Edited by H. Hearder & D. P. Waley. Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933–1944. By Franz Neumann. Marxism in the Modern World. Edited by Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Some Makers of English Law. By William Holdsworth. Elizabethans at Home. By Lu Emily Pearson. Studies in the Making of the English Protestant Tradition, By E. G. Rupp. From Puritanism to the Age of Reason. By G. R. Cragg. Britain and Europe, 1871–1939. By R. C. Birch. Classes of Departmental Papers for 1906–1939. List of Cabinet Papers 1915 and 1916. The British Political System. By Andre Mathiot. China Under Mao: Politics Takes Command. Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar. Spain in America. By Charles Gibson. James Fenimor Cooper: A Biographical and Critical Study. By James Grossman. The Jacksonian Persuasion, Politics, and Belief. By Marvin Meyers. Pre-Civil War Reform: The Variety of Principles and Programs. By Lorman Ratner. American Negro Slavery, a Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negdro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. By Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. The Urban Community Housing and Planning in the Progressive Era. Edited by Roy Lubove. Wilson and the League of Nations. Edited by Ralph A. Stone. The Arrogance of Power, by J. William Fulbright. Recent America: Conflicting Interpretations of the Great Issues. Second Edition. Edited by Sidney Finc. To Be Equal. By Whitney M. Young. Jr. Continuity and Change in Latin America, Edited by John J. Johnson.     

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

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Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundation of Athenian Democracy. By Ellen Meiksins Wood The Rise of the Carolingians and the Liber Historiae Francorum. By Richard A. Gerberding A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284. By James F. Powers Edward I. By Michael Prestwich. (Berkeley and Los Angeles The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community. By Chris Given-Wilson War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages. By Richard W. Kaeuper Henry II: King of France, 1547-1559. By Frederic J. Baumgartner The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590. By N. J. Williams The myth of Ritual Murder. Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany. By R. Po-chia Hsia The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 17851865. By Boyd Hilton The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900. By F. M. L. Thompson David Lloyd George: A Political Life: The Architect of Change, 1863-1912. By Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert Playing the Game: Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women, 1870-1914. By Kathleen E. McCrone British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance, 1880-1914. By E. P. Hennock The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln. By Bernard Wasserstein Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Direct Taxation in Early Seventeenth-Century France. By James B. Collins Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee. By John R. Elting Between France and Germany: The Jews of Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918. By Vicki Caron The Origins of Postwar German Politics. By Barbara Marshall From Ally to Enemy: The Enigma of Fascist Italy in French Diplomacy, 1920-1940. By William I. Shorrock The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II. By Maria de Blasio Wilhelm The Road to Soviet Power and Peace. [Vol. 2 of The End of the Russian Imperial Army.] By Allan K. Wildman The Lands Below the Winds. [Vol. 1 of Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680.] By Anthony Reid Family, Field, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949. By Lloyd E. Eastman Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942. By Prasenjit Duara Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism. By John W. Garver The First World War and International Politics. By David Stevenson The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. By Paul Kennedy Stranger in the Valley of the Kings: Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy. By Ahmed Osman After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. By James Axtell The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution. By Barbara W. Tuchman Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870. Edited by John B. Boles Mcintosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders. By Benjamin W. Griffith Jr Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American History. By R. J. M. Blackett Cowtown Lawyers: Dodge City and Its Attorneys, 1876-1886. By C. Robert Haywood The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1875-1920. By Jerry W. Calvert Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929. By Judith Sealander Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate. By Glen Jeansonne Rexford G. Tugwell: A Biography. By Michael V. Namorato A Passion For Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights. By Tinsley E. Yarbrough American Influence in Greece, 1917-1929. By Louis P. Cassimatis We Shall Return! Mac Arthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942-1945. Edited by William M. Leary Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence. By James A. Colaiaco JFK: History of an Image. By Thomas Brown Outposts and Allies: U.S. Army Logistics in the Cold War, 1945-1953. By James A. Huston National Security Planning: Roosevelt Through Reagan. By Michael M. Boll Growth in a Changing Environment: A History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), Exxon Corporation, 1950-1975. By Bennett H. Wall Farm Families & Change in Twentieth-Century America. By Mark Friedberger Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico. By Robert A. Pastor and Jorge G. Castaneda To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts Over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821. By Patricia Seed Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution. [Latin American Histories Series.] By Louis A. Perez Jr     

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

Expressing Islamic feminism in Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter

This article examines the presence of a strictly Qur'anic base shaping the Islamic feminism of Ramatoulaye, the narrator and main protagonist of Mariama Bâ's francophone classic So Long a Letter (1979). I argue that the widely circulated insistence by critics and readers of Bâ's epistolary style novel on the practice of Islam in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, as a syncretic presence eagerly adapting to indigenous non-Islamic beliefs and practice, has led to an overly generalized and somewhat inaccurate perception of Islam in Africa. Through my reading of some key Islamic concepts described in Bâ's novel, such as the mirath, polygamy, prayer and sunna, I situate my reading of Ramatoulaye's expression of Islamic feminism within an African and Islamic feminist reading and further position these within the cultural context of the practice of Islam in Senegal. By her ‘strategic self-positioning’, as defined by Islamic feminist Miriam Cooke, among others, within a small group of Senegalese Muslims – locally known as ibadu Muslims – Ramatoulaye succeeds in enacting Islamic feminism in her spiritual persistence for a strict adherence to the Qur'an and in her resistance to the temptation to expand the Islamic precepts of her faith.     

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The myth of 1648: class, geopolitics and the making of modern International Relations. By Benno Teschke The international theory of Leonard Woolf: a study in twentieth‐century idealism. By Peter Wilson L'action et le système du monde. By Thierry de Montbrial. Die neuen Internationalen Beziehungen: Forschungsstand und Perspektiven in Deutschland. Edited by Gunther Hellmann, Klaus Dieter Wolf and Michael Zürn. Humanitarian intervention and international relations. Edited by Jennifer Welsh Power and purpose: US policy toward Russia after the Cold War. By James M. Goldgeier and Michael McFaul Justice for crimes against humanity. Edited by Mark Lattimer and Philippe Sands Where is the Lone Ranger when we need him? America's search for a postconflict stability force. By Robert M. Perito CovertAction: the roots of terrorism. Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Terror in the name of God: why religious militants kill. By Jessica Stern States in the global economy: bringing domestic institutions back in. Edited by Linda Weiss Monetary transmisson in diverse economies. Edited by Lavan Mahadeva and Peter Sinclair Global capital and national governments. By Layna Mosley Sharing the planet: population – consumption – species. Science and ethics for a sustainable and equitable world. Edited by Bob van der Zwaan and Arthur Petersen Driving the Soviets up the wall: Soviet–East German relations, 1953–1961. By Hope M. Harrison Khrushchev: the man and his era. By William Taubman Decision‐making in Great Britain during the Suez crisis: small groups and a persistent leader. By Bertjan Verbeek Europe unites: the EU's eastern enlargement. By Peter A. Poole Beyond post‐communist studies: political science and the new democracies of Europe. By Terry D. Clark An ounce of prevention: Macedonia and the UN experience in preventive diplomacy. By Henryk J. Sokalski Karaliauc?ius ir Lietuva: nuostatos ir ide?jos. By Vytautas Landsbergis. Russia: experiment with a people. By Robert Service The resource curse in a post‐communist regime: Russia in comparative perspective. By Younkyoo Kim Islam and democracy in the Middle East. Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Daniel Brumberg Islam, politics and pluralism: theory and practice in Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia and Algeria. By Jennifer Noyon Water, power and politics in the Middle East: the other Israeli–Palestinian conflict. By Jan Selby Politicide: Ariel Sharon's war against the Palestinians. By Baruch Kimmerling Africa's stalled development: international causes and cures. By David K. Leonard and Scott Straus Mandela's world: the international dimension of South Africa's political revolution 1990–99. By James Barber South Africa's post‐apartheid foreign policy: from reconciliation to revival? Adelphi paper 362. By Chris Alden and Garth lePere Democratizing foreign policy? Lessons from South Africa. Edited by Philip Nel and Janis van der Westhuizen Kashmir: roots of conflict, paths to peace. By Sumantra Bose Governance in China. Edited by J. Howell Selling China: foreign direct investment during the reform era. By Yasheng Huang Elites and political power in South Korea. By Byong‐Man Ahn Agenda for the nation. Edited by Henry J. Aaron, James M. Lindsay and Pietro S. Nivola American exceptionalism and the legacy of Vietnam: US foreign policy since 1974. By Trevor B. McCrisken Globalization and the American century. By Alfred E. Eckes, Jr and Thomas W. Zeiler Crime and violence in Latin America: citizen security, democracy and the state. Edited by Hugo Frühling, Joseph S. Tulchin and Heather A. Golding The Pinochet file: a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability. By Peter Kornbluh The Condor years: how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents. By John Dinges The Pinochet affair: state terrorism and global justice. By Roger Burbach. The Pinochet case: origins, progress and implications. Edited by Madeleine Davis.