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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 32 - Issue 1 - Summer 1998

Art History

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Patterns of Stylistic Change in Islamic Architecture: Local Traditions versus Migrating Artists by Michael Meinecke. (Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art) 161 pages, figures, plates, appendix, index. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996. $75.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8147-5492-9

Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects, edited by James L. WescoatJR. and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. 275 pages, b&w illustrations, index. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996. $60.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-88402-235-8

Language & Literature

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Beirut Blues, by Hanan Al-Shaykh. 371 pages. New York, NY: Doubleday-Anchor Books, 1995. $12.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-385-47382-6

Suri & Co.: Tales of a Persian Teenage Girl, by Mahshid Amirshahi (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) 87 pages, translation by J.E. Knörzer, introduction by Hafez Farmayan. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995. $9.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-292-70463-1

Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi, edited by Amin Banani, Richard Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh (11th Giorgio Levi Delia Vida Biennial Conference) 204 pages, appendices, notes, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. $64.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-45476-X

Zanouba, by Out El Kouloub. Translated by Nayra Atiya. 224 pages. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8156-0408-4

Pre-Modern History

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Indigo in the Arab World, by Jenny Balfour-Paul. 293 pages, notes, bibliography, glossary, appendix, index. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1997. $75.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7000-0373-X

Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917, edited by Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini. (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) 368 pages, photographs, maps. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. $19.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-253-21113-1.

Militarism in Arab Society: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook, by John Walter Jandora. 192 pages, maps, tables, photographs, glossary, index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. $65.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-313-29370-8

The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology, by Charles Lindholm. 324 pages, figures, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1997. $29.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-55786-421-7

Central Asia: Foundations of Change, by R.D. McChesney. (The Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series) 204 pages, tables, maps, figures, color plates, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ; The Darwin Press, 1996. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-87850-077-4

Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth, by Jaroslav Stetkevych. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1996. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-253-33208-7

Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia, by Christopher Walker. 157 pages, map, references, index. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1997. (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-111-3

Economics

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The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East, by Kiren Aziz Chaudhry. 319 pages, glossary of Saudi archival documents. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8014-3164-6

The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf, 1745–1900, by Hala Fattah. (SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) 254 pages, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. $18.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-7914-3114-2

The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond: Essays in Political Economy, by Gad G. Gilbar. 123 pages, tables, figures, illustrations, index. London: Frank Cass, 1997. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7146-4734-9

The Arab Minority in Israel’s Economy: Patterns of Ethnic Inequality, by Noah Lewin-Epstein and Moshe Semyonov. 169 pages, tables, bibliography, index. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8133-1525-5

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