Book Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: The Moors: Islam in the West. By Michael Brett. Photographs by Werner Forman. [Echoes of the Ancient World.] London: Orbis Publishing, 1980. 121 pp. Notes. Glossary. Chronological Table. Bibliography. End Maps. £ 7.45. Islam in India, studies and commentaries. Vol. II:...
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1985
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The Muslim world
Year: 1985, Volume: 75, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 176-193 |
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| Summary: | Book reviewed in this article: The Moors: Islam in the West. By Michael Brett. Photographs by Werner Forman. [Echoes of the Ancient World.] London: Orbis Publishing, 1980. 121 pp. Notes. Glossary. Chronological Table. Bibliography. End Maps. £ 7.45. Islam in India, studies and commentaries. Vol. II: Religion and Religious Education. Edited by Christian W. Troll. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt, 1985. xx plus 315 pp. Rs 150 Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the crusdader kingdom of Valencia: Societies in symbiosis. By Robert I. Burns. [Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xx plus 363 pp. Illustrations. Maps. USD59.50 Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920. By Philip S. Khoury. [Cambridge Middle East Library.] London: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xi plus 153 pp. USD34.50. The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550-1650. By I. Metin Kunt. [The Modern Middle East Series, No. 14.] New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xxiii plus 181 pp. Map. Charts. Appendices. Figures. Index. USD25.00. Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941. By Eric Davis. [Princeton Studies on the Near East.] Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983. xv plus 232 pp. Photographs. Charts. Index, n.p. The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual, Yahya Haqqi. By Miriam Cooke. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1984. xi plus 188 pp. n.p. Political Parties in the West Bank under the Jordanian Regime, 1949-1967. By Amnon Cohen. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. 278 pp. USD19.50. Jordanian Arms and the Middle East Balance. By Anthony H. Cordsman. Washington, D.C.: Middle East Institute, 1983. v plus 186 pp. Maps, Charts and Diagrams. USD15.00. Split Vision: The Portrayal of Arabs in the American Media, revised and expanded edition. Edited by Edmund Ghareeb. Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1983 (original edition, 1977 by the Institute of Middle Eastern and North Africa Affairs, Inc.). xvii plus 402 pp. USD12.95, hardcover; USD6.95, paperback. Alternative Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of the Principal Actors. Edited by Michael C. Hudson. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1984. 217 pp. USD9.95, Paper. After the Palestine-Israel War. Khalil Nakleh and Clifford A. Wright. Belmont, MA: Institute of Arab Studies, 1983. vi plus 150 pp. n.p. The Bitter Year: Arabs Under Israeli Occupation in 1982. Eric Hooglund et al. Washington, DC: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 1983. 276 pp. Appendix, n.p. The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family. Recorded, translated and edited by Henry Munson, Jr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. xxi plus 320 pp. Photographs. Maps. Geneologies. Glossary. Index, n.p. The Arab World: Personal Encounters. By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1985. xvi plus 366 pp. Map. Index. USD19.95. Isfahan Is Half the World: Memories of a Persian Boyhood. By Sayyed Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh. Translated by W.L. Heston. [Princeton Library of Asian Translations.] Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983 (original edition in Persian, 1956). xiii pus 298 pp. Introduction. Translator's Postscript. Glossary. Bibliography. USD37.50. Anne H. Betteridge Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World, The diffusion of crops and farming techniques. By Andrew M. Watson. [Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. x plus 260 pp. Photographs. Maps. Indices. Bibliography, n.p. Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarcheology of an Ancient Society. By Curtis E. Larsen. [Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology Series.] Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. xx plus 339 pp. Illustrations. Appendices. Index. USD9.00, paper. Persian Carpets. Michael Craig Hillmann. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. xii plus 98 pp. Map. Photographs. Diagrams. Index. USD19.95. Islam and Modernity: Transformation of An Intellectual Tradition. By Fazlur Rahman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. 172 pp. n.p. Islam's Understanding of Itself. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Speros Vyronis, Jr. Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1983. 149 pp. USD18.50, paper. Ibn Rushd (Averroes): Talkh?s Kitāb al-Jadal (Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Topics). Edited by Charles E. Butterworth with Ahmad Abd al-Magid Haridi. (American Research Center in Egypt, Pub. No. 4.) Cairo: The General Egyptian Book Organization, 1979. liii plus 266 pp. with indices. USD5.00, paper. Ibn Rushd (Averroes): Talkh?s Kitāb al-'lbarah (In Librum Aristotelis de Interpretatione). Edited by Mahmoud M. Kassem. Completed, Revised and Annotated by Charles E. Butterworth and Ahmad Abd al-Magid Haridi. (American Research Center in Egypt, Pub. No. 5.) Cairo: The General Book Organization, 1981. xv plus 132 pp. Indices. USD13.50, hardcover. Ibn Rushd (Averroes): Talkh?s Kitāb al-Maqūlāt (Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Categories). Edited by Mahmoud M. Kassem. Completed, Revised and Annotated by Charles E. Butterworth and Ahmad Abd al-Magid Haridi. (American Research Center in Egypt, Pub. No. 6.) Cairo: The General Book Organization, 1980. xix plus 161 pp. Indices. USD9.50, paper. Ideological Revolution in the Muslim World. By Mohammad Yadegari. Indianapolis, IN: American Trust Publication, 1983. 114 pp. n.p. The Islamic threat to the Soviet State. Alexandre Benningsen and Marie Broxup. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. 170 pp. Statistical Tables. Bibliography. Index, n.p. Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807-1828. (A Political and Socioeconomic Study of the Khanate of Erevan on the Eve of the Russian Conquest.) By George A. Bournoutian. Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1982. 165 plus xxii pp. Appendices, Bibliography and Index. USD34.00, cloth; USD29.00, paper. Islam in Foreign Policy. Edited by Adeed Dawisha. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983. x plus 191 pp. Index, n.p. The Islamic Syncretistic Tradition in Bengal. By Asim Roy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xxv plus 310 pp. Index, n.p. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-1913 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Muslim world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1985.tb02762.x |
