International Journal of Middle East Studies: Volume 44 -

Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History (New York: Basic Books, 2009). Pp. 560. $35.00 cloth, $19.99 paper. - Patrick Seale, The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. 817. $50.00 cloth.
Max Weiss
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26 July 2012, pp. 565-568
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John L. Meloy, Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages, Chicago Studies on the Middle East (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2010). Pp. 305. $59.95 cloth.
Anne F. Broadbridge
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27 January 2012, pp. 168-170
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Music and the Aura of Revolution
Mark LeVine
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12 October 2012, pp. 794-797
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It has become something of a commonplace to argue that music played an important role in the revolutionary upheavals that overthrew the Bin ʿAli regime in Tunisia and forced Husni Mubarak from power in Egypt. This recognition let the larger scholarly community—indeed, the world—in on a secret that a small group of MENA scholars have for decades been trying to share: it's not merely that music is society, as Jonathan Shannon argues in his contribution to this roundtable; it's society in “Real 3D,” at once a microcosm, mirror, and prism of “all the social forces and contradictions of culture, politics, and history.” As a mirror, music reflects society's contending forces back onto itself. Under the right conditions it also refracts them prismatically, acting as a filter and an amplifier that brings (and sometimes forces) subaltern sentiments into the public consciousness. Music, like other art forms, can help foster and sustain social and political change.

Michelle U. Campos, Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010). Pp. 360. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
Laura Robson
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16 April 2012, pp. 355-357
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MEDICINE AND MODERNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Nancy Gallagher
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12 October 2012, pp. 799-807
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In recent decades historians specializing in the Middle East and North Africa have studied endemic and epidemic diseases as well as evolving medical and public health knowledge and policy to better understand major historical transformations. The study of gender and empire, class and ethnicity, and civil society and government in the determination of medical and public health policy has yielded new insights into questions of state power, colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, modernity, and globalization. Historians have asked why, when, and how Western medicine took root in Muslim societies, which had their own complex and longstanding medical traditions.

Ayşe Zarakol, After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West, Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 118 (London: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. 291. $115.00 cloth, $39.95 paper, $26.00 e-book.
Joshua W. Walker
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16 April 2012, pp. 357-359
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Molly Greene, Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Mediterranean, Princeton Modern Greek Studies (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010). Pp. 319. $35.00 cloth.
Marinos Sariyannis
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27 January 2012, pp. 170-172
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Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). Pp. 512. $99.50 cloth, $32.50 paper.
Orit Bashkin
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26 July 2012, pp. 568-570
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Akram Fouad Khater, Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East. Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011). Pp. 335. $39.95 cloth.
Heather J. Sharkey
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12 October 2012, pp. 809-810
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Mariam al-Attar, Islamic Ethics: Divine Command Theory in Arabo-Islamic Thought, Culture and Civilization in the Middle East (New York: Routledge, 2010). Pp. 215. $120.00 cloth.
Georges Tamer
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26 July 2012, pp. 571-573
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Roxanne L. Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslims and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006). Pp. 313. $29.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
Frank Griffel
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27 January 2012, pp. 172-174
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Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. 376. $99.00 cloth, $33.99 paper, $27.00 e-book.
James Grehan
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16 April 2012, pp. 359-360
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Avner Ben-Zaken, Reading Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural Reading of Autodidacticism (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Pp. 208. Cloth $60.00.
Peter Heath
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27 January 2012, pp. 175-176
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Roberto Mazza, Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009). Pp. 264. $92.50 cloth.
Awad Halabi
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16 April 2012, pp. 360-362
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Karen G. Ruffle, Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shiʿism. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Pp. 240. $65.00 cloth.
Carla Bellamy
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12 October 2012, pp. 811-812
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Fred M. Donner, Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010). Pp. 304. $25.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.
Robert Hoyland
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26 July 2012, pp. 573-576
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Martin Gilbert, In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010). Pp. 448. $35 cloth, $23 paper.
Norman A. Stillman
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26 July 2012, pp. 576-578
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Samira Haj, Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity, Cultural Memory in the Present (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009). Pp. 304. $35.00 cloth, $24.95 paper, $24.95 e-book.
Ellen McLarney
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27 January 2012, pp. 177-179
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Uri Ram, Israeli Nationalism: Social Conflicts and the Politics of Knowledge, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics (New York: Routledge, 2011), Pp. 172. $130.00 cloth.
Ylana Miller
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16 April 2012, pp. 362-364
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Amira Mittermaier, Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2011). Pp. 328. $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.
Gregory Starrett
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12 October 2012, pp. 812-814
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Arab and Islamic History and Thought

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The End of an Empire

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