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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 30 - Issue 2 - December 1996

Modem History & Politics

Book Reviews

Freya Stark in Southern Arabia, by Malise Ruthven. 120 pages, map, b&w photos, chronology. Concord, MA: Paul & Company, 1995. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85964-005-2

Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy, by Joseph A. Kechichian. 409 pages, maps, appendices, figures, bibliography, index. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 0-8330-2332-2

A Modern Cultural History of Bahrain: Contributors and Contributions, by Sami A. Hanna. 103 pages, map, photo, bibliography. British Columbia: Sami A. Hanna, 1991. (Paper)

A Modern History of the Kurds, by David Mcdowall. 472 pages, sources, maps, notes, appendix, index. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-653-3

The Young Turks in Opposition, by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. 390 pages, index, selected bibliography, notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-19-509115-9

Historical Dictionary of Turkey, by Metin Heper. (European Historical Dictionaries, No. 2) 593 pages, maps, chronology, bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. $72.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8108-2817-0

State, Society, and Privatization in Turkey, 1979–1990, by Sallama Shaker. 101 pages, tables, bibliography, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. $13.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-943875-75-7

Pre-Modern History

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Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier, by Michael Bonner. (American Oriental Series 81) 221 pages, appendices, glossary, bibliography, indices. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1996. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-940490-11-0

The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and Culture, by C.E. Bosworth. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) 320 pages, notes, charts, index. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996. $89.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86078-583-1

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Land Use and Settlement Patterns, edited by G.R.D. King & Averil Cameron. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 1, Vol. II) 270 pages, figures, maps. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1994. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87850-106-1

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies, edited by Averil Cameron. (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 1, vol. III) 491 pages, maps, notes, index. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87850-107-X

Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times, by George F. Hourani. Revised and expanded by John Carswell. 189 pages, maps, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 0-691-00032-8

Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam, by Steven M. Wasserstrom. 308 pages, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-691-03455-9

Merchants & Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean, by Patricia Risso. (New Perspectives on Asian History) 152 pages, maps, notes bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8133-8911-9

Kitab al-Siyar, by ’Abū al-’Abbās’Aḥmad Ibn Sa’īd al-Shammākhī Edited by Mohammed Hassen. (Kuliyyat al-’Ulūm al-’Insāniyya wa-I-’Ijtimā’iyya. Series 4, vol. 30) 466 pages, index. Tūnis, 1995. (Paper) ISBN 9973-922-36-0

Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, by Haskell D. Isaacs. (Cambridge University Library Genizah Series II) 144 pages, b&w plates, bibliography, indices. Port Chester, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-47050-1

Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World, edited by Metin Kunt & Christine Woodhead. 218 pages, tables, notes, glossary, bibliographical guide, maps, index. Essex: Longman Group UK, 1995. £13.99 (Paper) ISBN 0-582-03827-8

Kultur und Alltag im Osmanischen Reich: Vom Mittelalter bis zum Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts, by Suraiya Faroqhi. 402 pages, map, b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronology, index. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1995. DM58 (Cloth) ISBN 3-406-39660-7

Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East, edited by L. Carl Brown. 337 pages, notes, maps, illustrations, bibliographical suggestions, index. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. $49.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-10304-2

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Modem History & Politics

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