Review of Middle East Studies: Volume 47 -

One Ideology, Two Paths: Gender, Education, and Emigration among the Lebanese Shīʿa of Jabal ʿĀmil and the Biqāʾ
Michael Bracy, Najwa Raouda
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09 March 2016, pp. 210-217
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The demarcation of borders in the Middle East undermined the position of the Shia community in Lebanon. The French and the British agreement on the border between Lebanon and mandatory Palestine in the early 1920s reduced the size of mountainous region of Jabal ʿAmil. Among the Shia, the Jabal ʿAmil was historically known as the area extending from the Awali River in the north down to Acre, Tarshiha, and Safad in the south, and from the Mediterranean in the west to the Hula Lake and up to the Taym, south of the Biqaʾ Valley in the east. In 1924, an area of about 250,000 dunums (an Ottoman unit of land measurement), including several villages and the Hula Lake, was detached from the Jabal ʿAmil and added to mandatory Palestine. This act severely disrupted the socioeconomic life of the region, particularly around Marjaʾyun. Shia anger over the loss of land was reinforced by the fact that in modern Lebanon the Jabal ʿAmil became known simply as “the South,” which the Shia took as an insult to their historical heritage.

Todd Lawson. The Crucifixion and the Qur’an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought. Oxford: Oneworld, 2009. xi + 179 pages, footnotes, appendix, bibliography, index. Casebound US$80.00 ISBN 978-1-85168-636-0; Paper US$29.95 ISBN 978-1-85168-635-3.
David R. Vishanoff
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09 March 2016, pp. 69-71
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Robert Gleave. Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. xii + 212 pages, prologue, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Cloth US$115.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-2570-3.
Matthew B. Ingalls
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09 March 2016, pp. 71-73
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Lebanese Power Struggles and Fashioning “Armenian” Space, 1957-1958
Tsolin Nalbantian
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09 March 2016, pp. 218-227
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In 1957 and 1958, Lebanese Armenian political parties, through the medium of their newspapers, rearranged the Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hamoud and Corniche al-Nahr as Armenian territories, separate from, and often in opposition to, the Lebanese state. These Armenian parties, in vying with one another for authority over this territory, fashioned Armenian enemies of one another. The internal Armenian enemy of the Armenian nation was constructed from within the national space of Lebanon. The power struggle within the Armenian community in Lebanon challenges the placement of Armenians in the historiography of Lebanon, which considers them as refugees and therefore non-Lebanese or temporary residents of Lebanon as well as passive, impossible political actors.

M.E. McMillan. The Meaning of Mecca: The Politics of Pilgrimage in Early Islam. London: Saqi Books, 2011. 196 pages, 2 appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth US$37.95 ISBN 978-0-86356-437-6.
Syed Rizwan Zamir
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09 March 2016, pp. 74-75
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Falafelism: The Politics of Food in the Middle East (Palestine, Israel) 2013 Color 50 min. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles. Director: Ari A. Cohen; Producer: Ari A. Cohen. Distributor: Arab Film Distribution, Seattle, WA 98121 (tel: 206 322-0882; institutions@arabfi lm.com).
Jennie Ebeling
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09 March 2016, pp. 228-229
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Ariel I. Ahram. Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xii + 194 pages, fi gures, tables, notes, index. Paper US$21.95 ISBN 9780804773591.
James A. Russell
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09 March 2016, pp. 230-231
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Martin van Bruinessen and Stefano Allievi, eds. Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe. London and New York: Routledege, 2011. xii+196 pages. Cloth US$115.00. ISBN 978-0-415-35592-6; Electronic $US115.00 ISBN 978- 0-203-84623-0.
Zakyi Ibrahim
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09 March 2016, pp. 75-77
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Mohammad Hassan Khalil. Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 256 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, index of Qur’anic verses. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN 9780199796663.
Jon Hoover
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09 March 2016, pp. 78-79
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Shahram Akbarzadeh, Editor. Routledge Handbook of Political Islam. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. 301 pages, index. Cloth US$225.00 ISBN 978-0-415-48473-2.
Sherifa Zuhur
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09 March 2016, pp. 232-233
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Souad T. Ali. A Religion, Not a State: AliʽAbd al-Raziq’s Islamic Justifi cation of Political Secularism. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2009. xiii+163 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$25.00 ISBN 978-0874809510.
Michaelle Browers
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09 March 2016, pp. 234-235
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Reza Aslan and Aaron J. Hahn Tapper. Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 214 pages. Paper US$30.00 ISBN 978-0-230-10861.
Shaul Magid
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09 March 2016, pp. 79-81
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Ousmane Oumar Kane. The Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 313 pages. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-19-973231-9.
Katherine Wiley
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09 March 2016, pp. 82-83
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Isa Blumi. Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism. London & New York: Routledge, 2010. xvi + 208 pages, maps, list of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$140.00 ISBN 978-0-415-78077-3; Paper US$49.95 ISBN 978-0-415-62575-3.
Thomas B. Stevenson
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09 March 2016, pp. 235-237
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Louise A. Cainkar. Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. 325 pages, bibliography. Cloth US$23.95 ISBN 978-0-87154-048-5.
Garbi Schmidt
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09 March 2016, pp. 84-85
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Nathan J. Brown. When Victory Is Not An Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2012. xii + 272 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$69.95 ISBN 978-0-8014-5036-5; Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-8014-7772-0.
Tugrul Keskin
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09 March 2016, pp. 237-239
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Wayne Baker, Sally Howell, Amaney Jamal, Ann Lin, Andrew Shryock, Ronald Stockton, and Mark Tessler (Detroit Arab American Study Team). Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11. NY: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2009. 299 pages. Cloth US$42.50 ISBN 978-0-87154-052-2.
Gamal Gasim
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09 March 2016, pp. 85-87
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Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret, Paulo G. Pinto, and Kathryn Spellmanpoots, Editors. Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press in Association with the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 2012. vi + 202 pages, index. Cloth US$95.00 ISBN 978-0-7486-4550-3; Paper US$39.95 ISBN 978-0-7486-8984-2.
Noor O’Neill Borbieva
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09 March 2016, pp. 239-241
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Justin Gest. Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xvii + 288 pages. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-1-84904-075-4.
J. Christopher Soper
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09 March 2016, pp. 87-89
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Tarek El-Ariss. Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. xi + 233 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$20.00 ISBN 978-0-8232-5172-8.
Issa J. Boullata
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09 March 2016, pp. 241-243
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