REVIEW

Contemporary Pacific Societies. Studies in Development and Change. Edited by Victoria S. Lockwood, Thomas G. Harding and Ben J. Wallace. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1993. In Exploring Cultures: A Prentice Hall Series in Anthropology. Pp. x + 374. Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Albert B. Robillard. London: Kegan Paul International. 1992. Pp. xvi + 507. Price £45 (cloth bound).     

Book reviews

Sayyid Jamal ad‐Diin “al‐Afghani,” A Political Biography. By Nikki R. Keddie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972. 496pp. $20.00

A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects. By Ehsan Yar‐Shater. The Hague: Mouton, 1969. 277pp; two maps.     

Reviews

The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890 Said Amir Arjomand. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984. $24.00.

Bibliography on Qajar Persia Shoko Okazaki & Kinji Eura, eds. Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan, 1985, xvi, 163 pp.

The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 2, The Median and Achaemenian Periods Ilya Gershevitch, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1985, xv, 946 pp., 48 plates.

Shah of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski. Translated from Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska‐Brand. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, a Helen and Kurt Wolff book, 1982. $12.95.

The Iranian Revolution: Thanatos on a National Scale Gholam R. Afkhami. Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Institute, 1985. $24.95.

Shi'ism, Resistance, and Revolution Martin Kramer, ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, x, 324 pp., index.

Labour Unions and Autocracy in Iran Habib Ladjevardi. Syracuse University Press, 1985, 328 pp., including appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95

Iran: At War with History John W. Limbert. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, xviii, 186 pp., index. $28.00.

Finding Hoseyn Colin MacKinnon. New York: Arbor House, 1986, 306 pp. $16.95 cloth.

An Introduction to Shi'i Islam, The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism Moojan Momen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, xxii, 397 pp. 32 pages of halftones, three appendices, notes, and select bibliography. $25.00 (cloth).

Fundamentals of Islamic Thought: God, Man and the Universe Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari. Tr. R. Campbell. Ed. and intro. Hamid Algar. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1985, 219 pp., index to p. 235. $19.95. Pb. $8.95.

Man and Islam Ali Shari'ati. Translated by Fatollah Marjani. Houston: Filing, 1981, xxi, 128 pp. $4.95.

A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody Finn Thiesen. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1982.

The Left in Contemporary Iran: Ideology, Organization and the Soviet Connection Sepehr Zabih. London: Croom Helm, 1986. 239 pp., including appendices, bibliography, index.