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Volume 30 - Issue 4 - November 1998

Book Reviews

Jamil E. Jreisat, Politics Without Process: Administering Development in the Arab World (Boulder, Co.:Lynne Rienner, 1997). Pp. 268. $52.00 cloth.

Majid Khadduri and Edmond Ghareeb, War in the Gulf, 1990–91; The Iraq–Kuwait Conflict and its Implications (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Pp. 313. $30.00 cloth.

Anne Meneley, Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemen Town, Anthropological Horizons (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996). Pp. 230. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Jehan S. Rajab, Invasion Kuwait: An English Woman's Tale (London and New York: Radcliffe Press, 1996). Pp. 212. $19.95 paper.

Dan Rabinowitz, Overlooking Nazareth, the Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Pp. 236. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Ina M. Vallianatos-Grapengeter, Der Nahostkonflikt im Prisma der Wasserproblematik. Wasserpolitik im Jordantal 1882-1967, Studien zur Zeitgeschichte des Nahen Ostens und Nordafrikas, vol. 1 (Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1996). Pp. 132. DM 34.80.

Kamal Abdel-Malek, Muhammad in the Modern Egyptian Popular Ballad (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995). Pp. 232.

Jacqueline Chabbi, Le Seigneur des Tribus: L'Islam de Mahomet (Paris: Editions Noesis, 1997). Pp. 726. - Neal Robinson, Discovering the Qurʾan. A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text (London: SCM Press, 1996). Pp. 346.

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Al-Sayyid al-Badawî, un grand saint de l'islam égyptien, Textes arabes et études islamiques, vol. 32 (Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1994). Pp. 619. No price available.

Mehdi Amin Razavi, Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination, Curzon Sufi Series (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997). Pp. 203. No price available.

Emad Eldin Shahin, Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa, State, Culture, and Society in Arab North Africa (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997). Pp. 282. $56.00 cloth.

Bat Yeʾor, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude, Seventh–Twentieth Century, trans. Miriam Kochan and David Littman (Madison and Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996). Pp. 522. $45.00.

Robert I. Burns, S.J., Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Pp. 277. No price available.

Norman A. Stillman, Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity, The Sherman Lecture Series, vol. 1 (Luxembourg: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995). Pp. 107. No price available.

Roger Allen, The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction, 2nd ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995). Pp. 326. $17.95 paper.

Walter G. Andrews, Najat Black, and Mehmet Kalpakli, Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997). Pp. 327. $14.95 paper.

Peter Heath, The Thirsty Sword: Sîrat ʿAntar and the Arabic Popular Epic (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1996). Pp. 344. $50.00 cloth.

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