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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 49 - August 2015

Book Review

Roham Alvandi . Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 255 pages, acknowledgements, notes, bibiliography, index. Cloth US$55.00 ISBN: 978-0199375691.

Beth Baron . The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. xxiii + 245 pages, preface, acknowledgements, cast of characters, maps, index. Cloth US$85.00 ISBN 978-0804790765. Paperback US$24.95 ISBN 978-0804791380.

Dominique Avon and Anaїs-Trissa Khatchadourian . Hezbollah: A History of the “Party of God.” Translated by Jane Marie Todd . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 256 pages, appendixes, bibliography, index. Hardcover US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-6740-6651-9.

Roksana Bahramitash . Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran: Microenterprise and the Informal Sector. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. x + 223 pages, acknowledgements, appendix, notes, references, index. Hardcover US$115.00 ISBN 978-1-137-34286-7.

Laurie A. Brand . Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xiv + 274 pages, preface, a note on qawmiyya and waṭaniyya, acronyms, notes, select bibliography, index. Paper US$27.95 ISBN 978-0-8047-9216-5.

Ayesha S. Chaudhry . Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 258 pages, preface, acknowledgements, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth US$52.50 ISBN 978-0-19-964016-4.

Brian A. Catlos . Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom c. 1050–1614. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xix + 628, preface, acknowledgements, postscript, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth US$99 ISBN 978-0-521- 88939-1.

Miriam Cooke . Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. viii + 214 pages, acknowledgements, notes, references, index. Hardcover US$65.00 ISBN 978-0-5202-8009-0. Paper US$29.95 ISBN 978-0-5202-8010-6. E-Book US$29.95 ISBN 978-0-5209-5726-8.

Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller , ed. Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World. New York & London: Routledge, 2010. x + 261 pages, acknowledgements, notes, contributors, index. Cloth US$140.00 ISBN 978-0-415-99587-0. Paper US$54.95 ISBN 978-1-13-887017-8.

Richard Gauvain . Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God. London & New York, NY: Routledge, 2013. x + 383 pages, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover US$155.00 ISBN 978-0-7103-1356-0.

Jörg Matthias Determann . Historiography in Saudi Arabia: Globalization and the State in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. xviii + 325 pages, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Cloth US$95.00 ISBN 978-1-7807-6664-5.

T.J. Gorton . Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici. Northampton, Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2014. xix + 226 pages, prologue, acknowledgements, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. US$20.00 ISBN 978-1-56656-963-7.

Sebastian Elsässer . The Coptic Question in the Mubarak Era: Debating National Identity, Religion, and Citizenship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xviii + 319 pages, illustrations, references. Cloth US$74.00 ISBN 978-0-1993-6839-6.

Sulaiman H. Al-Farsi . Democracy and Youth in the Middle East: Islam, Tribalism and the Rentier State in Oman. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xii + 228 pages, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$100.49 ISBN 978-1-7807-6090-2.

Frank Peter , Sarah Dornhof , Elena Arigita , eds. Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe: Memory, Aesthetics, Art. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013. 267 pages. Paper US $45.00 ISBN 978-3-8376-2176-1

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