International Journal of Middle East Studies: Volume 30 -

Our systems are now restored following recent technical disruption, and we’re working hard to catch up on publishing. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Find out more: https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/about-us/news-and-blogs/cambridge-university-press-publishing-update-following-technical-disruption

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Home
Journals
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Volume 30

Journal Home

Journal home
Journal information
Most cited
Open access articles
Latest issue
All issues
FirstView articles

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 30 - February 1998

Book Reviews

Najib Ghadbian, Democratization and the Islamist Challenge in the Arab World (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997). Pp. 186. $50.00 cloth.

Martin W. Daly, The Sirdar: Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire in the Middle East (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997). Pp. 360. $30.00 cloth.

Robert Schick, The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: A Historical and Archaeological Study, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, vol. 2 (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, 1995). Pp. 621. $59.95 cloth.

Stanley J. Tambiah, Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Pp. 405. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.

Malak Badrawi, Ismaʿil Sidqi, 1875–1950: Pragmatism and Vision in Twentieth Century Egypt (Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996). Pp. 235.

Steven M. Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995). Pp. 308.

Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904), Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). Pp. 393.

Geoffrey Kemp and Robert E. Harkavy, Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997). Pp. 508. $52.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Bruce Kuklick, Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880–1930 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996). Pp. 266. $29.95.

Joseph Finkelstone, Anwar Sadat: Visionary Who Dared (London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 1996). Pp. 333.

Gülrü Necipoğlu, The Topkapi Scroll—Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture: Topkapi Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956 (Santa Monica: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995). Pp. 412. $160.00 cloth.

Abdel Magid Farid, Nasser: The Final Years (Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 1994). Pp. 231.

Sondra Hale, Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism and the State (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996). Pp. 294. $64.00 cloth.

Samira Haj, The Making of Iraq 1900–1963: Capital, Power and Ideology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997). Pp. 215. $18.95 cloth.

Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria, Culture and Society in the Modern Middle East (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1995). Pp. 333. $59.50.

Nikolaos Van Dam, The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Baʿth Party (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996). Pp. 240. $24.50 paper.

Ursula Kingsmill Hart, Behind the Courtyard Door: The Daily Life of Tribeswomen in Northern Morocco (Ipswich, Mass.: Ipswich Press, 1994). Pp. 168. $11.95 paper.

Marcia Inhorn, Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). Pp. 320. $36.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Jürgen Osterhammel, Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, trans. from German by Shelley L. Frisch (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener and Kingston Ian Randle Publishers, 1997). Pp. 151. $34.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.

David E. Long, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997). Pp. 165.