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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 50 - Issue 1 - February 2016

Book Review

Sally Howell . Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xv + 366 pages, figures, images, notes, acknowledgements, footnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$36.95 ISBN 978-0-1993-7200-3.

Arash Khazeni . Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014. xix + 195 pages, preface, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $29.95 ISBN 9780520282551.

Nazan Maksudyan . Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. xviii + 232 pages, figures and tables, acknowledgements, a note on transliteration, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$39.95. ISBN: 978-0815633181.

Tarek Masoud . Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxii + 225 pages, bibliography, index. Paper US$29.99 ISBN 978-0521279116.

Ronald A. Messier and James A. Miller . The Last Civilized Place: Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. xiv + 279, acknowledgements, note on transliteration, notes, glossary, index. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 978-0-292-76665-5.

Williamson Murray and Kevin M. Woods . The Iran–Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiv + 397 pages, appendixes, bibliography, index. Paper US$34.99 ISBN 978-1-1076-7392-2.

Angelika Neuwirth . Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qurʾan as a Literary Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. London. 2014. xl + 470 pages. Cloth US $125.00 ISBN 978-0-19-870164-4.

Karl-Heinz Ohlig , ed. Early Islam: A Historical-Critical Reconstruction on the Basis of Contemporary Sources. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2013. 647 pages. Cloth US$45.95 ISBN 978-1-61614-825-6.

Rudolph Peters and Peri Bearman , eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2014. xi + 345 pages, epilogue, glossary, index. Cloth US$142.45 ISBN 978-1409438939.

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian . Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 213 pages, bibliography, index. Cloth US$99.00 ISBN 978-1-1070-9735-3.

Peter Sluglett with Andrew Currie . Atlas of Islamic History. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 112 pages, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$49.95 ISBN 978-1-138-82130-9.

Ahmed E. Souaiaia . Anatomy of Dissent in Islamic Societies: Ibadism, Rebelllion, and Legitimacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xv + 228 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$100.00 ISBN 978-1-13737-160-7.

Emilio Spadola . The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. xi + 141 pages, acknowledgements, notes, references, index. Paper US$30.00 ISBN 978-0-253-01137-4.

Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar , eds. The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904–1948. Translated by Nada Elzeer , foreword by Rachel Beckles Willson . Northampton, MA: Olive Tree Press, 2014. 304 pages. Paper US$25.00 ISBN 978-1566569255.

Etty Terem . Old Texts, New Practices: Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xvi + 232 pages, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Cloth US$65.00 ISBN 978-0-8047-8707-9.

Erkan Toğuşlu , Johan Leman , and İsmail Mesut Sezgin , eds. New Multicultural Identities in Europe: Religion and Ethnicity in Secular Societies. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. 241 pages, notes, references. Paper US$55.00 ISBN 978-90-5867-981-9.

Karine V. Walther . Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 457 pages, figures, references, bibliography, index. Cloth US $39.95 ISBN 978-1-4696-2539-3.

Rodney Wilson . Islam and Economic Policy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, vii + 224 pages, tables, notes, references and index. Paper $US49.59 ISBN 978-0-7486-8388-8.

M. Brett Wilson . Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014. xxii + 260 pages, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Cloth US$85.00 ISBN 978-0-1987-1943-4.

Bosmat Yefet . The Politics of Human Rights in Egypt and Jordan. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015. ix + 289 pages, notes, acronyms, bibliography, index. Cloth US$65.00 ISBN 978-1-62637-190-3.

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