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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 23 - Issue 2 - December 1989

Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

Book Reviews

The Making of Iran’s Islamic Republic: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic, by Mohsen M. Milani. (Westview Special Studies on the Middle East.) 361 pages. Westview Press, Boulder and London1988. $29.50.

Colonising Egypt, by Timothy Mitchell. (Cambridge Middle East Library.) 218 pages, notes, select bibliography, index, 11 illustrations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge1988. $42.50.

Amal and the Shi‘a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon, by Augustus Richard Norton (Modern Middle East series, no. 13.) xxii + 238 pages, appendices, photos, notes. University of Texas Press, Austin1987. $25.00/$10.95.

The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East, byDaniel Pipes. 320 pages. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick1989. $32.95.

Israeli National Security Policy: Political Actors and Perspectives, edited by Bernard Reich and Gershon R. Kleval. (Contributions in Political Science, no. 210.) vii + 223 pages, selected bibliography, index. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1988. $37.95.

OPEC: Twenty-Five Years of Prices and Politics, by Ian Skeet. (Cambridge Energy series.) xii + 200 pages, tables, map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York1988. $29.95.

UNIFIL: International Peacekeeping in Lebanon, 1978–1988, by BjøRn Skogmo. 279 pages, index, bibliography. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder1989. $28.50.

The Islamic Question in Middle East Politics by Alan R. Taylor. ix + 150 pages, bibliography, index. Westview Press, Boulder, 1988. $29.95/$14.95.

Oil and Labor in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and the Oil Boom, by Peter N. Woodward. 175 pages + appendix, bibliography, index. Praeger, New York1988. $39.95.

Domestic Politics and Regional Security: Jordan, Syria, and Israel: The End of an Era? by Valerie Yorke. xvii + 400 pages, maps, notes, appendices, general index. For the Institute of Strategic Studies; Gower Publishing Company Ltd., Aldershot1988. ISBN 0-566-05652-6.

The Iranian Military in Revolution and War, by Sepehr Zabih. 279 pages, index, bibliography. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, New York1988. $45.00.

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Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, by Akbar S. Ahmed. 251 pages, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, London and New York 1988, 1989. $55.00/$14.95.

Jāmi‘ al-maskūtāt al-‘arabīya bi-Ifrīqīya (Collection of Arabic coins of Ifriqiya = Tunisia), by ḤĀmid AL-‘AjjĀBĪ 378 pages, 41 black-and-white plates. Al-Ma‘had al-Qawmī lil-Āthār wa-al-Funūn (National Antiquities and Art Museum), Tunis [1988].

Routes of Guidance / Majārī al-hidāya: A Pearl-diver’s Guide to the Oyster Beds of the Gulf, by Captain Rashed bin Fadil Al-Bin‘Ali. Edited and translated by Fayiz Suyyagh. 147 pp. Arab Gulf States Folklore Centre, Doha, Qatar1988.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Trevor Mostyn (Executive Editor) and Albert Hourani (Advisory Editor). 456 pages, illustrations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York1988. $49.50.

A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture, by K. A. C. Creswell. Revised and supplemented by James W. Allan. Scolar Press, Aldershot1989. IBSN 0-85967-368-5.

An Introduction to Islam, by Gerhard Endress. Translated by Carole Hillenbrand. (Islamic Survey series, no. 1.) 137 pages + appendix, chronology, table, bibliography, index. Columbia University Press, New York1988. $25.00/$12.00.

Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background, by Yohanan Friedmann. (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, no. 3.) 218 pages. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles1989. $37.50.

Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry, by R. Stephen Humphreys. 375 pages. Bibliotheca Islamica, Minneapolis1988.

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Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

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