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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 28 - Issue 2 - December 1994

Modern History & Politics: Central Middle East

Book Reviews

The New World Order: A Perspective on the Post-Cold War Era, by Mohamed Rabie. 244 pages. New York: Vantage Press, 1992. $16.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-533-10033-X

The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East, by Richard B. Parker. 273 pages, maps, illustration, appendix, notes, annotated bibliography, index. Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-253-20781-9

Riding the Tiger: The Middle East Challenge After the Cold War, edited by Phebe Marr & William Lewis. 253 pages, maps, tables, notes, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. $55 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8133-8479-6

The Modern Middle East: A Reader, edited by Albert Hourani, Philip S. Khoury & Mary C. Wilson. 691 pages, notes on contributors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. $50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-520-8240-0

Modern History & Politics: Gulf

Book Reviews

The Arab World After Desert Storm, by Muhammad Faour. 161 pages, map, appendices, notes, sources used, index. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993. $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-878379-31-3

The Gulf Crisis: An Attempt to Understand, by Ghazi A. Algosaibi. 156 pages. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1993. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7103-0459-5

Twin Pillars to Desert Storm: America’s Flawed Vision in the Middle East From Nixon to Bush, by Howard Teicher & Gayle Radley Teicher. 418 pages, glossary, photos, bibliography, index. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993. $23 (Cloth) ISBN 0-688-11254-4

Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia, by J.E. Peterson. Asian Historical Dictionaries, No. 14, Foreword by John Woronoff. 243 pages, maps, chronology, appendices, selected bibliography. Metuchen, NJ & London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. $32.50 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8108-2780-8

Modern History & Politics: Iran & Afghanistan

Book Reviews

Iran’s First Revolution: Shi‘ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909, by Mangol Bayat. (Studies in Middle Eastern History) 316 pages, notes, bibliography, index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. $45 (Cloth) ISBN 0-19-506822-X

Sargozasht-e Habib Sabet be Qalam-e Khod-e Ishan [Memoirs of Habib Sabet], by Habib Sabet. (Persian Language Publication Series, No. 7) 291 pages, b&w photos, Persian text. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1993. $19.90 (Cloth) ISBN 1-56859-012-1

The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, edited by Myron Weiner & Ali Banuazizi. 488 pages, tables, bibliography, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. $45 (Cloth) ISBN 0815626088

The Failure of Political Islam, by Olivier Roy. Translated by Carol Volk. 238 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. $22.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-674-29140-9

Economics & Geography

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Oil, the Persian Gulf States, and the United States, by Xuan Han Vo. 173 pages, tables, figures, select bibliography, index. Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 1993 $55 (Cloth) ISBN 0-275-94505-7

Iran’s Economy under the Islamic Republic, by Jahangir Amuzegar. 398 pages, tables, select bibliography, index. London & New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1993. $59.59 (Cloth) ISBN 1-85043-603-7

The River Nile: Geology, Hydrology and Utilization, by Rushdi Said. 320 pages, figures, notes, appendix of references, index. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993. $120.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-08-041886

The State and Capitalism in Israel, by Amir Ben-Porat. (Contributions in Economic and Economic History, No. 147) 206 pages, preface, tables, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. $55 (Cloth) ISBN 0-313-28149-1

Religious & Legal Studies

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Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shi‘i Devotional Rituals in South Asia, by Vernon Schubel. (Studies in Comparative Religion) 198 pages, photos, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87249-859-X

Theologie und Gesellschaft im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert Hidschra: Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, by Josef van Ess. Vol. I, 456 pages, 1991; Vol. II, 742 pages, 1992. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-011859-9, 3-11-012212-X

Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, by Mohammad Hashim Kamali. (Revised edition, Foreword by Ahmad Ibrahim) 417 pages, bibliography, glossary, index. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1991. £25 (Cloth) ISBN 0-946621-23-3

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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 28 - Issue 2 - December 1994

Modern History & Politics: Central Middle East

Book Reviews

Modern History & Politics: Gulf

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Modern History & Politics: Iran & Afghanistan

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