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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 19 - Issue 1 - July 1985

Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

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The Gulf and the Search for Strategic Stability: Saudi Arabia, the Military Balance in the Gulf, and Trends in the Arab-Israeli Military Balance, by Anthony H. Cordesman. 1041 pages, maps, charts, tables, bibliography, index. Westview Press, Boulder1984. $45.00.

Jordanian Arms and the Middle East Balance, by Anthony H. Cordesman. 186 pages, bibliography, appendixes, maps. Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.1983. $15.00 (pb).

The Emergence of Pan-Arabism in Egypt, by Israel Gershoni. 142 pages, bibliography. Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv1981. $9.95.

An Unfinished Odyssey: Lebanon and Beyond, by Cecil Hourani. 209 pages. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. £12.95.

Revolutionary Islam in Iran: Popular Literature or Religious Dictatorship? by Suroosh Irfani. 268 pages, appendixes, illustrations. Zed Books, London1983. $29.95/$11.00.

The Government of God: Iran’s Islamic Republic, by Zalmay Khalilzad and Cheryl Benard. 240 pages, notes, index. Columbia University Press, New York1984. $25.00.

Egypt and the Palestine Question, 1936–1945, by Thomas Mayer. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 77.) 391 pages, bibliography, index. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin1983. DM66,—.

Al-Ikhwān al-muslimūn wa’l-tanẓīm al-sirrī (The Muslim Brothers and the Secret Organization), by ‘Abd Al-Aẓīm Ramaḍān. 510 pages. Mu’assasat Rūz al-Yūsuf, Cairo1982. £E 2.500.

Cult, Ghetto, and State: The Persistence of the Jewish Question, by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Jon Rothschild. 239 pages, index. Distributed in the U.S.A. by Evergreen Dist. Al-Saqi Books, London1983. $30.00/$10.95.

Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt: A Biography of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, by Charles D. Smith. 249 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. State University of New York Press, Albany1983. $44.50/$14.95.

A Shared Destiny: Near East Regional Development and Cooperation, edited by Joyce R. Starr, xi+154 pages, index, tables. Praeger Publishers in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, New York1983. $21.95.

The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, series B, papers, vol. 1, 1898-1931; vol. 2, 1931-1952, edited by Barnet Litvinoff. 657, 739 pages. Transaction Books, New York and Jerusalem1983, 1984. @ $39.95.

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Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, by Eva Baer. 371 pages, 232 figures, map. State University of New York Press, Albany1983. $39.50.

Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers, by Edward Booth. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd series, vol. 20.) 314 pages, index, bibliography, appendix. Cambridge University Press, London and New York1984. $69.50/£35.00.

Of Piety and Poetry: The Interaction of Religion and Literature in the Life and Works of Ḥakīm Sanā’ī of Ghazna, by J. T. P. De Bruijn. (Publication of the de Goeje Fund 27.) xvii + 300 pages, notes, bibliography, index. E. J. Brill, Leiden1983.

Who’s Who in Lebanon, 1982–1983, edited by Gabriel M. Bustros. Publitec Publications, Beirut1982.

Proceedings of the World Congress on Jewish Music, Held in Jerusalem, July 31-August 4, 1978, edited by Judith Cohen. 271 pages, 44 pages in Hebrew, music, illustrations, photographs. The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Ltd., Tel-Aviv1982.

Die islamisch-rechtlichen Auskünfte der Milli Gazete im Rahmen des “Fetwa-Wesen” der türkischen Republik, by Esther Debus. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 95.) 127 pages, bibliography, index. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin1984.

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Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

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