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Volume 48 - November 2016

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Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

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Abir Hamdar, The Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2014). Pp. 166. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780815633655
Samira Aghacy
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07 April 2016, pp. 390-392
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REFLECTIONS ON THE LIMITS OF LAW
Saba Mahmood
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14 January 2016, pp. 157-163
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To write a review essay about three books on what at first glance appear to be very divergent topics may seem like an impossible task. Samera Esmeir's book, Juridical Humanity, is an exploration of colonial law as it conscripted Egyptians into the grid of humanity; Judith Butler's Parting Ways is a critique of Zionism and state violence from a Jewish perspective; and Hussein Agrama's Questioning Secularism is about the paradoxical nature of secular power as manifest in modern Egypt. Despite this divergence, I found a rich thematic resonance between the three books that was unexpected and illuminating. All three books are deep meditations on the nature of law, its violent and performative character, even as they are also about a lot more. In what follows, I discuss the central themes of each book with a short rumination on their shared themes.

Knowledge and Identity

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Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi , eds., Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2014). Pp. 380. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292757493
Fakhreddin Azimi
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30 September 2016, pp. 783-785
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Contextualizing Community

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Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist–Arab Encounter, Series on Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014). Pp. 312. $35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780691159508
Laura Robson
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06 July 2016, pp. 591-592
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Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Pp. 320. $105.00 cloth, $31.95 paper. ISBNs: 9780195308860, 9780195308877
Laura Bier
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07 April 2016, pp. 392-394
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Contextualizing Community

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Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian, eds., Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Pp. 424. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780748686100
Işık Kuşçu
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06 July 2016, pp. 592-594
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Resistance and Revolution

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Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman , eds., The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014). Pp. 448. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780748670123
Wilson Chacko Jacob
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30 September 2016, pp. 785-787
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Social History

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James Grehan, Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). Pp. 351. $74.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780199373031.
Charles L. Wilkins
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14 January 2016, pp. 165-166
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Conflict and Violence

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Jacob Mundy, Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015). Pp. 266. $90.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. ISBNs: 9780804788496, 9780804795821
Paul A. Silverstein
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06 July 2016, pp. 594-596
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Resistance and Revolution

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David De Vries , Strike Action and Nation Building: Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899–1951 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015). Pp. 170. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781782388098
Joel Beinin
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30 September 2016, pp. 787-789
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Social History

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Leila Tarazi Fawaz, A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014). Pp. 416. $35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780674735491.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
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14 January 2016, pp. 167-168
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Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

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Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014). Pp. 450. $99.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. ISBNs: 9780822355434, 9780822355571
Soraya Tremayne
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07 April 2016, pp. 394-396
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Social History

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Matthias B. Lehmann, Emissaries from the Holy Land: The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014). Pp. 352. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780804789653.
Jane Gerber
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14 January 2016, pp. 168-170
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Resistance and Revolution

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Vanessa Martin , Iran between Islamic Nationalism and Secularism: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2013). Pp. 286. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781780766638
Kingshuk Chatterjee
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30 September 2016, pp. 789-791
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Conflict and Violence

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Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015). Pp. 192. $65.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. ISBNs: 9780804785679, 9780804794909
Miriyam Aouragh
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06 July 2016, pp. 596-599
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Across Empires

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Sebouh David Aslanian, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2011). Pp. 392. $57.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780520266872
Stephen F. Dale
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07 April 2016, pp. 396-397
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Resistance and Revolution

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Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh , The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2015). Pp. 329. $45.94 cloth. ISBN: 9780815633884
Babak Rahimi
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30 September 2016, pp. 791-793
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Across Empires

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James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian–Ottoman Borderlands, 1856–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Pp. 224. £60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780198725145
Adeeb Khalid
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07 April 2016, pp. 397-399
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Social History

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Yaron Ayalon, Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Pp. 264. $99.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781107072978.
Birsen Bulmuş
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14 January 2016, pp. 170-172
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Conflict and Violence

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Ronen A. Cohen, Revolution under Attack: The Forqan Group of Iran (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Pp. 208. $90.00 cloth, $90.00 paper. ISBNs: 9781137502490, 9781349699520
Eric Lob
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06 July 2016, pp. 599-601
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