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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 15 - Issue 2 - December 1981

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History and Political Science

Book Reviews

Colin Legum/Haim Shaked/Daniel Dishon (Eds.). The Middle East Contemporary Survey [Vol. 3, 1978-79]. New York/London: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980. Maps, tables, charts, index, documents, notes. xxxvi + 906 pages. $85.00
Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr.
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Ian Lustick. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980. Notes/glossary/bibliography/interviewee list/index/385 pp. $19.95/10.85
Robert Springborg
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William R. Polk. The Arab World. Harvard University Press, 1980. Maps, diagrams, appendices, index. 456 pages. $22.50
Kenneth W. Stein
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Yaacov Ro’i. Soviet Decision-Making in Practice: The USSR and Israel, 1947–1954. New Brunswick, NJ/London: Transaction Books, 1980. 540 pages. $22.95
John C. Campbell
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09 March 2016, pp. 50-51
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Barry Rubin. The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1941–1947: The Road to the Cold War. London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., 1980. Notes, index. 254 pages. $26.00
George S. Harris
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09 March 2016, pp. 51-52
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Amin Saikal. The Rise and Fall of the Shah. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Notes/index/bibliography. 279 pp. $14.95
Farhad Kazemi
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Norman A. Stillman. The Jews of Arab Lands. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. Illustrations, chronological tables, bibliography, index. $14.95
David R. Blumenthal
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John Waterbury. Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1979. Maps/figures/tables/notes/bib./index. $20
Louis J. Cantori
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Humanities and Research Tools

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Esin Atil (Ed.). Turkish Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution/New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. [co-publishers], 1980. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 386 pages. $65.00
Edwin Binney III
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Gulnar Bosch/John Carswell/Guy Petherbridge. Islamic Bindings and Bookmaking. Chicago: Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 1981. Photographs, color plates, xii + 235 pages.
Ernst J. Grube
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Muhammad Umar Memon (Ed.). Studies in the Urdu Ġazal and Prose Fiction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press [South Asian Studies Pub. Ser. No. 5], 1979. 284 pages.
Walter G. Andrews
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Middle East: Abstracts and Index. Vol. 2, No. 2. Pittsburgh: Library of Information and Research Service, June 1979. 298 pages.
George N. Atiyeh
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Ed.). Ismācīlī Contributions to Islamic Culture. Tehran: Imperial Academy of Philosophy, 1977. 265 pages.
Paul E. Walker
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Terrence O’Donnell. Garden of the Brave in War. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1980. 216 pages. $10.95
John D. Stempel
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Helen Philon. Early Islamic Ceramics. Islamic Art Publications, 1980. Bibliography, index. 376 pages. $147.50
Jere L. Bacharach
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André Raymond/Gaston Wiet. Les marchés du Caire: Traduction annotée du texte de Maqrīzī. Textes arabes et études islamiques. Tome XIV. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 1979. 7 maps, ix + 360 pages.
R. Stephen Humphreys
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Nezhat Safa-Isfehani. Rivāyat-i Hēmīt-i Ašawahistān: A Study in Zoroastrian Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980 [Harvard Iranian Ser., Vol. 2]. 320 pages. $19.00
W.L. Heston
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Michael Owen Shannon. Oman and Southeastern Arabia: A Bibliographic Survey. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978. Indexes/xiv + 165 pp. $18.00
Kenneth Sandbank
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cAllāmah Tabātabā’i. A Shicite Anthology [ed./trans. W.C. Chittick; Introduction, Seyyed H. Nasr]. Albany: SUNY Press, 1980. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. 152 pages. $18.50
Mohammad Yadegari
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Esin Atil. Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. 256 pages. $47.50/$19.95
Ülkü Ü. Bates
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History and Political Science

Book Reviews

Colin Legum/Haim Shaked/Daniel Dishon (Eds.). The Middle East Contemporary Survey [Vol. 3, 1978-79]. New York/London: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980. Maps, tables, charts, index, documents, notes. xxxvi + 906 pages. $85.00

Ian Lustick. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980. Notes/glossary/bibliography/interviewee list/index/385 pp. $19.95/10.85

William R. Polk. The Arab World. Harvard University Press, 1980. Maps, diagrams, appendices, index. 456 pages. $22.50

Yaacov Ro’i. Soviet Decision-Making in Practice: The USSR and Israel, 1947–1954. New Brunswick, NJ/London: Transaction Books, 1980. 540 pages. $22.95

Barry Rubin. The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1941–1947: The Road to the Cold War. London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., 1980. Notes, index. 254 pages. $26.00

Amin Saikal. The Rise and Fall of the Shah. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Notes/index/bibliography. 279 pp. $14.95

Norman A. Stillman. The Jews of Arab Lands. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. Illustrations, chronological tables, bibliography, index. $14.95

John Waterbury. Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1979. Maps/figures/tables/notes/bib./index. $20

Humanities and Research Tools

Book Reviews

Esin Atil (Ed.). Turkish Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution/New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. [co-publishers], 1980. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 386 pages. $65.00

Gulnar Bosch/John Carswell/Guy Petherbridge. Islamic Bindings and Bookmaking. Chicago: Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, 1981. Photographs, color plates, xii + 235 pages.

Muhammad Umar Memon (Ed.). Studies in the Urdu Ġazal and Prose Fiction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press [South Asian Studies Pub. Ser. No. 5], 1979. 284 pages.

Middle East: Abstracts and Index. Vol. 2, No. 2. Pittsburgh: Library of Information and Research Service, June 1979. 298 pages.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Ed.). Ismācīlī Contributions to Islamic Culture. Tehran: Imperial Academy of Philosophy, 1977. 265 pages.

Terrence O’Donnell. Garden of the Brave in War. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1980. 216 pages. $10.95

Helen Philon. Early Islamic Ceramics. Islamic Art Publications, 1980. Bibliography, index. 376 pages. $147.50

André Raymond/Gaston Wiet. Les marchés du Caire: Traduction annotée du texte de Maqrīzī. Textes arabes et études islamiques. Tome XIV. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 1979. 7 maps, ix + 360 pages.

Nezhat Safa-Isfehani. Rivāyat-i Hēmīt-i Ašawahistān: A Study in Zoroastrian Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980 [Harvard Iranian Ser., Vol. 2]. 320 pages. $19.00

Michael Owen Shannon. Oman and Southeastern Arabia: A Bibliographic Survey. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978. Indexes/xiv + 165 pp. $18.00

cAllāmah Tabātabā’i. A Shicite Anthology [ed./trans. W.C. Chittick; Introduction, Seyyed H. Nasr]. Albany: SUNY Press, 1980. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. 152 pages. $18.50

Book Reviews

Esin Atil. Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. 256 pages. $47.50/$19.95

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