Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 46 - Summer 2012
- This volume was published under a former title. See this journal's title history.
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Imām Jalāl Al-Dīn ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Al-Suyūṭī. The Perfect Guide to the Sciences of the Qurʾān, Vol. I, translated by Ḥamid Algar, Michael Schub and Ayman Abdel Ḥaleem; reviewed by Osman S.A. al-Bīlī. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 2011. xxxi+301 pages. Cloth US$74.95 ISBN 978-1-85964-241-2.
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The Oath (Cuba/Yemen). 2010. 96 minutes. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. Producer/Director: Laura Poitras; Distributor: Zeitgeist Films Ltd., 247 Centre Street, New York NY 10013 (212 274–1989; fax: 212 274–1644; mail@zeitgeistfilms.com; http://zeitgeistfilms.com).
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Middle East: The Birth of Nations—Albert Kahn’s Archive of the Planet. Produced and Directed by Rosie Schellenberg, DVD, 52 min., 2009. In English. Distributor: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 132 West 31st Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10001 (800 257–5126; fax: 609 671–0266; custserv®films.com; http://www.films.com).
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Eric Ormsby. Ghazālī: The Revival of Islam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2008. 158 pages, index. Cloth US$40 ISBN 978-1-85168-414-4.
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Carl W. Ernst. How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide, With Select Translations. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. x+212 pages, appendices, indices. Cloth US$30 ISBN 978-0-8078-3516-6.
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Le Coran, Aux Origins Du Livret [The Koran: Back to the Origins of the Book]. 2009. 52 minutes + 51 minutes of interviews. Available in French, English, and German. Director: Bruno Ulmer. Producer: ARTE France. Distributor: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 132 West 31st Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10001 (800 257–5126; fax: 609 671–0266; custserv@films.com; www.films.com).
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Avner Ben-Zaken. Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xiii+191, notes, index. Cloth US$60 978-0-8018-9739-9.
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Oren Barak. The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. 288 pages. Cloth US$65 ISBN 978-0-7914-9345-8.
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Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 446 pages. Cloth US$90 ISBN 978-0-521-84964-7. Paper US$27.99 ISBN 978-0-521-61487-0.
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Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu. European Energy Security: Turkey’s Future Role and Impact. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 189 pages, endnotes, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. Cloth US$85 ISBN 978-0-230-25268-4.
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Benjamin Thomas White. The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: the Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 272 pages, maps. Cloth US$105.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-4187-1.
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Catharіna Dufft. Turkish Literature and Cultural Memory: “Multiculturalism” as a Literary Theme after 1980. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. 257 pages. Paper €58 ISBN 978-3-447-05825-4.
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Abdullahi A. Gallab. A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 239 pages. Cloth US$74.95 ISBN 978-0-813-03688-5.
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Mehmet Ali Doğan and Heather J. Sharkey. American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011. 392 pages. Paper US$50 ISBN 978-1-60781-038-4.
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Sherine Hafez. An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements. New York: New York University Press, 2011. xi+191 pages, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, index. Paper US$21 ISBN 978-0-8147-7304-8.
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Rami Ginat. A History of Egyptian Communism: Jews and their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011. x + 381 pages, appendices to 406, bibliography to 416, index to 429. Cloth US$69.95 ISBN 978-1-58826-759-7.
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Bassam Haddad. Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. xix+255 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$45.00 ISBN 978-0-8047-7332-4.
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Hasan Kösebalaban. Turkish Foreign Policy: Islam, Nationalism, and Globalization. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. xvi+240 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$85 ISBN 978-0-23010-953-7.
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Michael Frishkopf, Editor. Music and Media in the Arab World. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. 308 pages. Cloth US$29.95 ISBN 978-977-416-293-0.
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Abdelmajid Hannoum. Violent Modernity: France in Algeria. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010. 272 pages. Paper US$19.95 ISBN 978-0674053281.
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