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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 22 - Issue 1 - July 1988

Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

Book Reviews

Israel’s Ayatollahs: Meir Kahane and the Far Right in Israel, by Raphael Mergui and Philippe Simonnot. 203 pages, appendix, chronology, maps, tables, glossary, index. Al Saqi Books, London1987. $15.00 pb.

The American University in Cairo, 1919–1987, by Lawrence R. Murphy. viii + 288 pages, index, appendix, plates. Distributed in the United States by the Columbia University Press. American University in Cairo Press, Cairo1987. $50.00.

Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning: Comparative Studies of Muslim Discourse, edited by William R. Roff. 295 pages, glossary, index. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles1987.

Involvement By Invitation: American Strategies of Containment in Iran, by Kuross A. Samii. xvi + 190 pages, notes, bibliography, index. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park1987. $24.95.

Chroniques politiques marocaines (1971–1982), by Jean-Claude Santucci. 284 pages. Editions CNRS, Paris1986.

Themes from Northern Sudan, by Ahmed al-Shahi. (BRISMES series, no. 1.) 152 pages, index. For the British Society of Middle East Studies; Ithaca Press, London1986.

The Political Economy of Israel, by Ira Sharkanski. xi + 157 pages, bibliographies, index. Transaction Books, New Brunswick1987. $29.95.

State and Revolution in Algeria, by Rachid Tlemcani. x + 220 pages, bibliography, index. Westview Press, Boulder; Zed Books, London1986. $30.00.

Britain and Palestine during the Second World War, by Ronald W. Zweig. x + 183 pages, bibliography, index. For the Royal Historical Society; Boydell Press, Woodbridge, England1986. $39.00.

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Poésie ésotérique ismaīlienne: La Tā’iyya de ‘Āmir b. ‘Āmir al-Bạsrī (al-Asrār al-khafīya fī ash‘ār al-lsmā‘īlīya), edited, translated, introduction, and commentary by Yves Marquet. 245 pages. Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris1985. FF 148.

Atlas of Israel, edited by R. Adler, et al. 3rd ed. (English-Hebrew). The Survey of Israel, Tel Aviv; Macmillan, New York1985.

Jemen: 3000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur des Glücklichen Arabien, edited by Werner Daum. 492 pages. Pinguin Verlag, Innsbruck; Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main1987. Ca. $20.00.

Al-Farabi on the Perfect State: Abū Nasr al-Fārābīs Mabādī ārā’ ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila, a revised text with introduction, translation, and commentary by Richard Walzer. 571 pages. Clarendon Press, Oxford1985). £55.00.

The Cultural Atlas of Islam, by Isma‘il R. Al Fārūqī and Lois Lamya’ al Fārūqī. xv + 750 pages, 77 maps. Macmillan, New York1986. $90.00.

Sawāniḥ: Inspirations from the World of Pure Spirits, the Oldest Persian Sufi Treatise on Love, by Aḥmad Ghazzālī, translated from the Persian with commentary and notes by Nasrollah Pourjavady. 127 pages. Kegan Paul International, London1986. £18.00.

Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History, by Aḥmad Y. al-Ḥasan and Donald R. Hill. xiv + 304 pages, illustrations, selected bibliography, index. UNESCO, Paris; Cambridge University Press, New York1986. $39.50.

Les Origines intellectuelles de l’Expédition d’Egypte: l’Orientalisme islamisant en France (1698–1798), by Henry Laurens. (Varia Turcica 5.) 257 pages. Editions Isis, Istanbul1987.

Sufi Symbolism, by Javād Nurbakhsh, translated by Leonard Lewisohn and Terry Graham. (The Nurbakhsh Encyclopedia of Sufi Terminology, vol. 1.) 228 pages, appendix, bibliography, index of Persian and Arabic terms, general index. Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, London1984. $25.00.

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Modern History, Political Science, and Economics

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