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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 31 - Issue 1 - July 1997

Pre-Modern History

Book Reviews

Evliyā Çelebis Anatolienreise aus dem dritten Band des Seyāhatnāme, edited by Klaus Kreiser. German edition edited, translated and with a commentary by Korkut M. Buğday. 456 pages, maps, bibliography, notes, glossary, index. New York: E.J. Brill, 1996. $152.25 (Cloth) isbn 90-04-10445-3

Fazzān Under the Rule of the Awlād Muhammad: A Study in Political, Economic, Social and Intellectual History, by Ḥabīb Wadā’a El-Ḥesnā wī. 325 pages, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, glossary. Sebha, Malta: The Centre for African Researches and Studies, 1990. (Paper)

An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600’s, by Dror Ze’evi. (SUNY series in Medieval Middle East History) 258 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. $24.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-7914-2916-4

The State and its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present, edited by Nelly Hanna. 128 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: American University in Cairo Press, 1995. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 977-424-364-1

The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlıs, by Jane Hathaway. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 198 pages, tables, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-57110-3

Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat. 555 pages, maps, figures, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-520-08321-0

Society and Trade in South Arabia, by R.B. Serjeant. Edited by G. Rex Smith. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 362 pages, figures, b&w plates, notes, appendices, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996. $98.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86078-603-X

Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era, edited by Harvey E. Goldberg. 360 pages, maps, tables, notes, illustrations, bibliographies, appendices, glossary, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. $18.95 (Paper) isbn 0-253-21041-0

Religion & Philosophy

Book Reviews

The Qur’an as Text, edited by Stefan Wild. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology & Science, vol. 27) 298 pages, notes, indices. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. $87.75 (Cloth) ISBN 90-04-10344-9

Dalil al-Mu’allifat al-Islamiyya fi al-Mamlakat al-‘Arabiyyat al-Sa‘udiyya, 1400-1409h [The Guide to Islamic Publications in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1400-1409 hijri], by Muhammad Khair Ramadan Yusuf. 781 pages. Riyadh: Dar al-Faisal al-Thaqafiyya, 1413/1993.

Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas, edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick & David S. Powers. 431 pages, figures, appendix, notes, references, glossary, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. $45.00 (Cloth) isbn 0-674-46870-8

Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools, adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar. Introduction by Kevin Reinhart. 663 pages, glossary, index. Chicago: KAZI Publications, 1995. $39.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-56744-498-9

Colonization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan, by Jamal Malik. 353 pages, notes, tables, figures, maps, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. New Delhi; Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1996. (Cloth) ISBN 81-7304-148-2

Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam, by William E. Shepard. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia) 378 pages, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. New York: E.J. Brill, 1996. (Cloth) ISBN 90-04-101527

Arab Awakening & Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East, by Martin Kramer. 297 pages, notes, tables, index. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1996. $34.95 (Cloth) isbn 1-56000-272-7

The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God, by al-Ghazaali. Translated by David B. Burrell & Nazih Daher. 205 pages, notes, indices, bibliography. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1992. $17.95 (Paper) isbn 0-946621-31-4

Padyavand, edited by Amnon Netzer. (Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series, no. 1) 560 pages, b&w and color illustrations, notes, bibliographies. (In Persian and English.) Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996. $35.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-56859-036-9

The Bahā’ī Faith in America: Early Expansion 1900-1912, by Robert H. Stockman. (Volume 2) 537 pages, notes, photos, bibliography, index. Oxford: George Ronald, 1995. $29.95 (Cloth) isbn 0-85398-388-7

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