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Book Reviews

Houari Touati. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv + 305 pages, appendix, glossary, bibliography. Cloth US$60.00 ISBN 978-0-22680877-2.

Geert Jan Van Gelder, trans. Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology. New York and London: New York University Press, 2013. xxviii + 468 pages, notes, chronology, glossary of names and terms, bibliography, appendices. Paper US$25.00 ISBN 978-0-8147-3826-9.

Jurji Zaidan (Zaydān). The Caliph’s Sister: Harun al-Rashid and the Fall of the Persians. Translated by Issa J. Boullata. Bethesda, MD: The Zaidan Foundation, 2010. xiii + 226 pages, introduction, list of dramatis personae, study guide. Paper US$24.95 ISBN 978-0-9848-4351-0.

Jurji Zaydan. Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt. Translated by Samah Selim. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012 (Middle East Literature in Translation), xi + 217 pages, afterword by Roger Allen. Paper US$19.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-0999-5.

Briefly Noted

Nile Green and Nushin Arbabzadeh, eds. Afghanistan in Ink: Literature between Diaspora and Nation. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013. xv + 303 pages, preface, acknowledgments, list of illustrations, author note, notes, index. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-2317-0342-0.

Miriam Fendius Elman, Oded Haklai, and Hendrik Spruyt, eds. Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2014. xiii + 237 pages, footnotes, bibliography, contributors, index. Paper US$29.95 ISBN 978-0-8156-3338-9.

Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xviii + 284 pages, list of illustrations and abbreviations, endnotes, references, index. Cloth US$29.87 ISBN 978-0-2311-6620-1.

Jonathan Lyons. Islam through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 210 pages, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-2311-5894-7.

Dan Miodownik and Oren Barak, eds. Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 256 pages, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Cloth US$69.95 ISBN 978-0-8122-4543-1.

Marwan Muasher. The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. xv + 210 Pages, acknowledgments, note to reader, endnotes, index. Cloth US$30.00 ISBN 978-0-3001-8639-0.

Joel S. Migdal. Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xiii + 404 pages, afterword, notes, works cited, index. Cloth US$35.00 ISBN 978-0-2311-6672-0.

Mohammed Ennaji. Slavery, the State, and Islam. Translated by Teresa L. Fagan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 252 pages, forward, footnotes, principal sources, thematic index, index of people and places, index. Paper US$29.99 ISBN 978-0-5211-3545-0.

In Memoriam

Janet (Lippman) Abu-Lughod 1928-2013

Richard N. Frye 1920-2014

Pierre Oberling 1929-2014

Rita G. Sabat 1974-2013

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Audited Financial Statements 2013

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