Book Review

Book reviewed in this article:
Folke Snickars, Brita Olerup and Lars Olof Persson (eds.), Reshaping Regional Planning — A Northern Perspective     

Book reviews

Society and Economics in Islam: Writings and Declarations of Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleghani. By Mahmud Taliqani. Edited by Hamid Algar. Translated by R. Campbell. Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1982. 230 pp.

Islam and Ownership. By Seyyed Mahmood Taleqani. Translated by Ahmad Jabbari and Farhang Rajaee. Lexington, Kentucky: Mazda Publishers, 1983. xviii + 200 pages. Index to p. 203. $11.00 paper.

From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984. xxi + 256 pp.

Another Birth, Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad. Translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallee. Emeryville: Albany Press, 1981. 138 pp.

Die Agrarlandschaft Iranisch‐Sistans: Aspekte des Strukturwandels im 20. Jahrhundert. (Sistan‐Projekt II). By Mohammad Hassan Zia Tavana. Marburg/Lahn: Marburger Geographische Schriften, Heft 91, 1983. 212 pp., 34 figures, 35 tables. DM 33.00. Paper.

Iran since the Revolution. By Sepehr Zabih. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1982. 247 pp.

The Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio‐political Phenomenon in Modern Iran. By M. R. Ghanoonparvar. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984. viii + 227 pp.     

The Danube‐Rhine water system as a European regional integration structure

This article explores the role of two large European rivers — the Rhine and the Danube — in the structured development of the European territorial system. The water resources of the Rhine river, the tributaries and connecting canals have created the greatest industrial megalopolis on the continent. In this process and under contemporary conditions, the area is connected with the Danube basin by the newly built Rhine‐Main‐Danube canal. As a result, new structures are forming, having the character of an ecological‐economic system. It is in this direction that part of the European territorial system connected with the Danube is developing. As physical‐geographical and ecological factors accelerate economic development and integrate new economic structures, new opportunities arise. With the link to ecological and water resources, development of the Danube as Europe's newest, prospective zone of expansion is predicted.     

Book reviews

Eskandar Beg Monshi, History of Shah ^CAbbas the Great. Trans. Roger M. Savory. Persian Heritage Series 28, Boulder: West‐view, 1978, 2 vol., xxxix, 1326, index, glossary.

From June to October: The Middle East between 1967 and 1973. Edited by Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1978. 419 pp.

A Persian Sufi Poem: Vocabulary and Terminology. By Bo Utas. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 36. London and Malmo: Curzon Press, 1977. 294 + 54 pp.

A Survey of Persian Handicraft: A Pictorial Introduction to the Contemporary Folk Arts and Art Crafts of Modern Iran. Edited by. Jay Gluck and Sumi Hiramoto Gluck; Teheran, New York, London, Ashiya (Japan); Survey of Persian Art; 1535/ 1977. 416 pp.

Die Afshar: Nomadismus in Raum Kerman/Zentraliran. By Georg Stöber. Marburg/Lahn: Marburger Geographische Schriften, Heft 76, 1978. 322 pp. DM 39.00.