Review of Middle East Studies: Volume 19 - Issue 2

Review of Middle East Studies

Only show content I have access to (5)

Over 3 years (67)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Review of Middle East Studies
ISSN: 2151-3481

EISSN: 2329-3225

URL: /core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Review of Middle East Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 19 - Issue 2 - December 1985

Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

Book Reviews

The Palestinian Liberation Organization: People, Power and Politics, by Helena Cobban. 305 pages, appendixes, select bibliography. Cambridge University Press, London and New York1984. $22.95.

Social and Economic Development of Libya, edited by E. G. H. Joffe and K. S. McLachlan. xiii + 369 pages. MENAS Press, London; Westview Press, Boulder1983. $39.50.

Le Prophète et Pharaon: Les mouvements islamistes dans l’Egypte contemporaine, by Gilles Kepel, translated by Eric Vigne, preface by Bernard Lewis. 248 pages, short bibliography, glossary-index, and chronological table (1928–81). La Decouverte, Paris1984. FF 110.00.

Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals: Power, Knowledge, and Charisma, by Michael Keren. 220 pages. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb1983. $20.00.

Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Middle East, edited by Tarif Khalidi. 531 pages, tables, references, index. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Syracuse University Press. American University of Beirut Press, Beirut1984. $70.00.

Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, by Emmanuel Sivan. 218 pages, index. Yale University Press, New Haven1985.

Humanities and Research Tools

Book Reviews

Sitt Marie Rose, by Etel Adnan, translated by Georgina Kleege from the French original, Sitt Mazie-Rose (1982). 105 pages. Post-Apollo Press, Sausalito1982. $7.50 (paper).

Occidentosis: A Plague from the West, by Jalal Al-I Ahmad, translated by R. Campbell, annotations and introduction by Hamid Algar. (Contemporary Islamic Thought Series.) 160 pages, index. Mizan Press, Berkeley1984. $5.95.

Alif. A journal of comparative poetics. Department of English and Comparative Literature, the American University in Cairo. Price per issue: individuals: $5.00; institutions: $10.00.

L’Alchimie du bonheur parfait, by Mohyiddīn Ibn ‘Arabī, translated into French by S. Ruspoli. 151 pages. Berg International, Paris1981. FF 80.00.

Sabaic Grammar, by A. F. L. Beeston. viii + 76 pages, one plate. (Journal of Semitic Studies Monograph 6, University of Manchester.) Imprimerie Orientaliste, Louvain1984.

The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi, by Miriam Cooke, xii + 188 pages. Three Continents Press, Washington, D.C.1984. $24.00/$12.00.

Studies in the Exact Sciences in Medieval Islam, by Ali A. Al-Daffa and John S. Stroyle. University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran; John Wiley & Sons, New York1984. $39.95.

(Problema very i arabskoi filosofii/The problem of faith and knowledge in Arab philosophy), by Yevgenia Antonovna Frolova. “Nauka,” Moscow1983.

Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies 1, by Adam Gacek. xvii + 180 pages. Islamic Publications, London1984.

Islamische Kunst, Loseblattkatalog unpublizierter Werke aus Deutschen Museen 2. Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Islamische Kunst. Met all, Stein, Stuck, Holz, Elfenbein, Stoffe, by Almut Hauptmann Von Gladiss and Jens Kröger. Zaberndruck, Mainz1985. DM 136.

The Coinage of Islam—Collection of William Kazan, by William Kazan. In English and Arabic, 471 pages, many interleaved colored plates, bibliography, indexes. Available from Peter Jones, 1 Oaklands Ave., Esher, Surrey KT10 8HX, England. Bank of Beirut, Beirut 1404/1983. £125.00.

Review of Middle East Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 19 - Issue 2 - December 1985

Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

Book Reviews

Humanities and Research Tools

Book Reviews