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DOROTHY H. CRAWFORD. Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 250. $35.95 (US). Reviewed by Linda Bryder
GREGORY CLARK. A Farewell to ...Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95 (US).
JUDITH HERRIN. Byzantium: The Surprising Life oj a Medieval Empire. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 391. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Warren Treadgold
RICHARD A. GABRIEL. Muhammad: Islam's First Great General. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xxxi, 255. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by DONALD P. LITTLE
JONATHAN PHILLIPS. The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom. New Haven, C T and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix, 364. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by John France
JAMKS R. AKERMAN and ROBERT W. KARROW J R. eds. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 400. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by John Agnew
JOHN E. HERMAN. Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. x,344. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Laura Hostetler
CAROL RICHMOND TSANG. War and Faith: Ikho Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. x, 315. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Ethan I. Segal
JOHN M. HEADLEY. The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi, 290. $26.95 (US). Reviewed by Jean H. Quataert
MARGARET R. GREER, WALTER D. MIGNOLO, and MAUREEN QUILLIGAN, eds. Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. vii,478. $25.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Teofilo F. Ruiz
KARLHEINZ BLASCHKE, ed. Moritz von Sachsen - Ein Filrst der Reformationszeit zwischen Territorium und Reich: Internationales wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 26. bit 28. Juni 2003 in Freiberg (Sachsen). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 336. €72.00. Reviewed by Johannes C. Wolfart
JOEP LEERSSEN. National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007; dist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 312. $32.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter Bergmann
IAN GENTLES. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652. London and New York, NY: Pearson Longman, 2007. Pp. xiv, 522. £21.99, paper. Reviewed by Mark Kishlansky
MICHELLE BURNHAM. Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England, 2007. Pp. viii, 222. $30.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Ralph Bauer
LARISSA N. HEINRICH. The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 222. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Benjamin A. Elman
MARGARET CONNELL SZASZ. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 285. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Michael E. Vance
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, ed. The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain, intro. John Pinfold. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2007: dist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xxiv, 198. $30.00 (US). Reviewed by Emma Christopher
ELLIOTT COLLA. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 345. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by James F. Goode
GIOVANNI ARRIGHI. Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. London and New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii, 418. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue
DIANA K. DAVIS. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 296. $26.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Caroline Ford
GEORGE STEINMETZ. The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 640. $33.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Birthe Kundrus
NORMAN ETHERINGTON, ed. Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2007; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. x, 220. $31.00 (US), paper. Reviewed by Patricia Seed
DUNCAN BELL. The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 321. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Eliga H. Gould
JEFF SAHADEO. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 316. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert D. Crews
MICHELLE T. MORAN. Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 280. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Geoffrey S. Smith
PATRICK HARRIES. Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 286. $26.95 (US), paper Reviewed by Martin Legassick
ROGER KIRK, ed. Distinguished Service: Lydia Chapin Kirk, Partner in Diplomacy, 1896-1984. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 273. $22.95 (US). Reviewed by Betty Miller Unterberger
STEPHEN M. MILLER. Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the. South African War, l899-1902. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 236. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Timothy Bowman
WOLFRAM KAISER. Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 374. $105.00 (US).Reviewed by Stefan Berger
JENS RUPPENTHAL. Kolonialismus als 'Wissenschaft und Tecknik': Das Hamburgische Kolonialinstitut 1908 bis 1919. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 273. €56.00, paper.Reviewed by Bradley Naranch
THOMAS W. BURKMAN. Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914-1938. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 289. $58.00 (US). Reviewed by Frederick R. Dickinson
JEFF LIPKES. Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007; dist. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Pp. 815- $55.95 (US), paper.Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig
LEONARD V. SMITH. The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 214. $39.95 (US).Reviewed by Jay Winter
SUZANNE EVANS. Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 211. $29.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Amy Shaw
MERRILL D. PETERSON. The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 2007; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 262. $50.00 (CDN).Reviewed by Lloyd E. Ambrosius
ALEXANDER KEESE. Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930-61. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 344. €46.00.Reviewed by Patrick Chabal
CHARLES BURDETT. Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007. Pp. x, 270. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by R. J. B. Bosworth
MICHAEL PHAYER. Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 333. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Peter C. Kent
PETER STANSKY. The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $24.00 (US). Reviewed by Paul Addison
CYNTHIA TOMAN. An Officer and a Lady: Canadian Military Nursing and the Second World War. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 261. $32.95 (CDN), paper.Reviewed by Linda J. Quiney
NEIL ROLLINGS. British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945-1973. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 278. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by John Gillingham
ANDREW J. BACEVICH, ed. The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 586. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Thorsten B. Olesen
PATRICK WRIGHT. Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 488. $34.95 (US). Reviewed by Robert J. McMahon
MARC GALLICCHIO, ed. The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in US-East Asian Relations. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. 337. $23.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Paul Midford
SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 286. $17.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Donald Reid
IAIN CHAMBERS. Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 181. $21.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Larry Wolff
VLADISLAV M. ZUBOK. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 467. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Evan Mawdsley
KATHRYN C. STATLER. Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007; dist. Toronto, ON: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xii, 378. $56.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Mark Philip Bradley
YAFENG XIA. Negotiating with the, Enemy: US-China Talks during the Cold War, l949-1972. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University
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REVEALING THE HOLY LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. By Kathleen Stewart Howe. Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 1997. 144pp. $US 60 (hb), $US 29.95 (pb).
THE EMERGENCE OF THE 'ABBASID ...AUTOCRACY: THE 'ABBASID ARMY, KHURASAN AND ADHARBAYJAN. By Fukuzo Amabe, Kyoto University Press, 1995 xi + 322pp.
THE BUKHARANS: A DYNASTIC, DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY, 1550-1702. By Audrey Burton. Richmond, Surrey, UK; Curzon Press, 1997; xxxvii + 664pp. ISBN 0 7007 0417 5. £65.00 (hb).
THE REVOLUTION OF 1908 IN TURKEY. By Aykut Kansu (No. 58 in Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia). Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1997. 341 pp.
THE MIDDLE EAST IN GLOBAL CHANGE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF INTERDEPENDENCE VERSUS FRAGMENTATION. Edited by Laura Guazzone. Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Press Ltd and Instituto Affari Inter-nazionali, 1997, xiv + 285 pp., 8 maps, £45 (hb).
THE QUEST FOR HEGEMONY IN THE ARAB WORLD. THE STRUGGLE OVER THE BAGHDAD PACT. By Elie Podeh. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1995
ISTITUZIONI DEL MONDO MUSULMANO. Giorgio Vercellin. (Biblioteca Studio, n. 27). Torino, Einaudi, 1996. 419 pp.+ vxx. 36,000 It lire.
THE FORBIDDEN MODERN: CIVILIZATION AND VEILING. By Nİlüfer göle. (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender). Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1996. 173 pp. $15.95.
WITHIN THE CIRCLE: PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN AN ARAB VILLAGE. By Andrea B. Rough. The History and Society of the Modern Middle East Series. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. 263pp.
OVERCOMING TRADITION AND MODERNITY: THE SEARCH FOR ISLAMIC AUTHENTICITY. By Robert D. Lee. Oxford, Westview Press, 1997. 216pp.
ARABIC TODAY: A STUDENT, BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COURSE IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ARABIC. By John Mace. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1996. 287 pp. £19.95. 1-hour audio cassette to accompany the book £5.99.
THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC MARKET OF CAIRO: GENDER, CLASS AND EDUCATION. By Niloofar Haeri. London, Kegan Paul International, 1996, xviii + 272pp.
THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1799-1882). By P. C. Sadgrove. Reading, Ithaca Press, 1996. ix + 214pp.
PALESTINIAN IDENTITY, THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS. By Rashid Khalidi, New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. 304 pp. $34.00/£22.95.
RELIGION, DEMOCRACY AND ISRAELI SOCIETY. By Charles Liebman. Reading, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. 115 pp. £13.00.
TO RULE JERUSALEM. By R. Friedland and R. Hecht. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 554pp.
IRANIAN INTELLECTUALS AND THE WEST: THE TORMENTED TRIUMPH OF NATIVISM. By Mehrzad Boroujerdi. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 256 pp., incl appendix, glossary, bibliography and index.
DISCOVERING THE QUR'AN: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH TO A VEILED TEXT. By Neal Robinson. London: SCM Press, 1996. 332pp., £16.95 (pb).
THE BOOK IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: THE WRITTEN WORD AND COMMUNICATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Edited by George N. Atiyeh. Albany State University of New York Press, 1995. xviii 305pp.
RIVERS OF DISCORD: INTERNATIONAL WATER DISPUTES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By Greg Shapland. London, Hurst & Company, 1997. 183 pp. 6 maps 5 tables, (hb) £37.50.
MOSHE SHARETT: BIOGRAPHY OF A POLITICAL MODERATE. By Gabriel Sheffer. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. 1065 pp. £65.
CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE EAST (Volumes 1 and 2). Edited by Augustus Richard Norton. Leiden: E.J. Brill 1995-1996 Vol lx + 328pp, Vol 2 xvi + 353pp
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN DENMARK. Edited by LARS ERSLEV ANDERSEN. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994. 215pp. DKK 200.
APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING MIDDLE ...EAST HISTORIANS. By NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994. viii, 197pp.
A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 503pp. Tables, maps, photographs, glossary, select bibliography.
MUHAMMAD AND THE ORIGINS OF ISLAM. By F.E. PETERS. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1994. 334pp.
A READER ON CLASSICAL ISLAM. By F.E. PETERS. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1994. 420pp.
BEFORE REVELATION: THE BOUNDARIES OF MUSLIM MORAL THOUGHT. By A. KEVIN REINHART. (SUNY Series in Middle Eastern Studies.) Albany, State University of New York Press, 1995. 255pp.
THE DIVINE GUIDE IN EARLY SH'ISM: THE SOURCES OF ESOTERICISM. By MOHAMMAD ALI AMIR-MOEZZI. Translated by DAVID STREIGHT. Albany, SUNY Press, 1994. 279pp.
IMAGINAL WORLDS: IBN AL-'ARABI AND THE PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY. By WILLIAM C. CHITTICK. Albany, SUNY Press, 1994. vii, 208pp. $18.95 (pb.).
RETHINKING ISLAM: COMMON QUESTION, UNCOMMON ANSWERS. By MOHAMMED ARKOUN. Translated and edited by ROBERT D. LEE. Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 139pp.
A YOUNG MUSLIM'S GUIDE TO THE MODERN WORLD. By SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR. Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society, 1993. 270pp.
PIOUS PASSENGERS. THE HAJJ IN EARLIER TIMES. By M.N. PEARSON. London, Hurst, 1994. viii, 217 pp. Illustrated.
PILGRIMS AND SULTANS: THE HAJJ UNDER THE OTTOMANS. By SURAIYA FAROQHI. London, I.B. Tauris, 1994. xii, 244pp. 1 map.
DEMOCRACY WITHOUT DEMOCRATS? THE RENEWAL OF POLITICS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. Edited by GHASSAN SALAMÉ. London and New York, I. B. Taurus, 1994. 340pp., figures and tables. £45.
THE PROPHET'S PULPIT: ISLAMIC PREACHING IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT. By PATRICK D. GAFFNEY. University of California Press, 1994. 367pp. Map, bibliographic references and index.
THE WOMEN'S AWAKENING IN EGYPT: CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND THE PRESS. By BETH BARON. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1994. 259pp. £20.
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LE DESERT ET LA GLOIRE: LES MEMOIRES D'UN AGENT SYRIEN DE NAPOLEON. By FATHALLAH SAYIGH. Translated and edited by JOSEPH CHELHOD. Paris, Gallimard, 1991. 304pp.
AMERICAN CONSULS IN THE HOLY LAND: 1832-1914. By RUTH KARK. Jerusalem, Magnes Press & Hebrew University; Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1994. 388pp. 28 plates.
PALESTINE IN TRANSFORMATION, 1856-1882: STUDIES IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT. By ALEXANDER SCHÖLCH. Translated by WILLIAM C. YOUNG and MICHAEL C. GERRITY. Washington, D.C., Institute for Palestine Studies, 1993. xii, 351pp. 8 maps, 44 tables. $29.95.
AN OCCASION FOR WAR: CIVIL CONFLICT IN LEBANON AND DAMASCUS IN 1860. By LEILA TARAZI FAWAZ. London, Centre for Lebanese Studies and I.B. Tauris, 1994. 302pp.
THE ROOTS OF SEPARATISM IN PALESTINE: BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY 1920-1929. By BARBARA J. SMITH. London, I.B. Tauris, 1993. 258pp. £39.50.
SYRIA'S QUEST FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1939-1945. By SALMA MARDAM BEY. Reading, Ithaca Press, 1994. 288pp.
STAAT UND GESELLSCHAFT IN SYRIEN, 1970-1989. By VOLKER PERTHES. (Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Institut.) Hamburg, Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1990. 340pp. DM 39.-
ÖFFENTLICHE UND PRIVATE LANDWIRTSCHAFT IN SYRIEN. EINE WIRTSCHAFTS- UND SOZIALGEOGRAPHISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG IM NORDWESTEN UND NORDOSTEN DES LANDES. By HANS HOPFINGER. (Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 19.). Erlangen, Frankische Geographische Gesellschaft, 1991. 348pp, 24 illustrations, 77 tables, 13 photographs, 5 coloured maps.
LA GUERRE DU LIBAN: DE LA DISSENSION NATIONALE AU CONFLIT REGIONAL, 1975-1982. By SAMIR KASSIR. Paris, Karthala, 1994. 510pp.
A HISTORY OF THE DRUZES. By KAIS M. FIRRO. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänszungsband 9.) Leiden, Brill, 1992. 396pp. 9 maps.
VILLAGE, STEPPE AND STATE: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF MODERN JORDAN. Edited by EUGENE L. ROGAN and TARIQ TELL. London and New York, British Academic Press, 1994. xxviii, 226pp.
JORDAN'S INTER-ARAB RELATIONS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ALLIANCE MAKING. By LAURIE A. BRAND. New York, Columbia University Press, 1995. x, 350pp.
THE PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL: IS ISRAEL THE STATE OF ALL ITS CITIZENS AND 'ABSENTEES'? Translated and edited by NUR MASALHA. Haifa, Galilee Center for Social Research, 1993. $12 (pb).
FASTING AND FEASTING IN MOROCCO: WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN RAMADAN. By MARJO BUITELAAR. (Mediterranea Series.) Oxford and Providence, Berg Publishers, 1993. 203pp. 9 photographs, 15 illustrations, glossary.
IMPERIAL IDENTITIES: STEREOTYPING, PREJUDICE AND RACE IN COLONIAL ALGERIA. By PATRICIA M. LORCIN. (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East.) London, I.B. Tauris, 1995. x, 323pp. 1 map.
THE MAKING OF SAUDI ARABIA 1916-1936: FROM CHIEFTAINCY TO MONARCHICAL STATE. By JOSEPH KOSTINER. (Studies in Middle Eastern History.) New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. xii, 260pp. Maps. £35.00
OIL, POWER AND PRINCIPLE: IRAN'S OIL NATIONALIZATION AND ITS AFTERMATH. By MOSTAFA ELM. New York, Syracuse University Press, 1994. xvii, 413pp. Map, tables (pb).
AN OTTOMAN STATESMAN IN WAR & PEACE: AHMED RESMI EFENDI, 1700-1783. By VIRGINIA H. AKSAN. (The Ottoman Empire & its Heritage, 3.) Leiden, Brill, 1995. xviii, 253pp. Illustration, maps, glossary of place names, terms and phrases, bibliography, index.
TURKEY: A MODERN HISTORY. By ERIK J. ZÜRCHER. London, I.B. Tauris, 1993. 381pp., maps, biographical notes.
THE SEED AND THE SOIL: GENDER AND COSMOLOGY IN TURKISH VILLAGE SOCIETY. By CAROL DELANEY. (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 11.) Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991. xiii, 360pp. Illustrations. Photographs. Index.
INDIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST. By PRITHVI RAM MUDIAM. London, British Academic Press, 1994. ix, 232pp. £39.50.
ARAB WOMEN. Edited by JUDITH E. TUCKER. (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies.) Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1993. 256pp., index.
WOMEN, ISLAM AND THE STATE. By DENIZ KANDIYOTI. London, Macmillan, 1991. 271 pp., index.
VISITING ARAB COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST: A PERSONAL GUIDE FOR WOMEN. By PENELOPE TURING. Glasgow, Centre for Management Training and Development in the Middle East, n.d. 1994. 26pp.
MEDIEVAL AGRICULTURE AND ISLAMIC SCIENCE: THE ALMANAC OF A YEMENI SULTAN. By DANIEL MARTIN VARISCO. (Publications on the Near East, No. 6.) Seattle & London, University of Washington Press, 1994. xv, 349pp. 2 maps.
REORIENTATIONS: ARABIC AND PERSIAN POETRY. Edited by SUZANNE PINCKNEY STETKEVYCH. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1994. x, 269pp. £25.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: A COMPANION. By ROBERT IRWIN. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press. 1994. 344pp. £20.
NAGIB MAHFOUZ: THE PURSUIT OF MEANING. By RASHEED EL-ENANY. London and New York, Routledge, 1993. xv, 271pp. £12.99 (pb).
ARAB COMIC STRIPS: POLITICS OF AN EMERGING MASS CULTURE. By ALLEN DOUGLAS and FEDWA MALTI-DOUGLAS. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1994. xiii, 263pp.
ISLAMIC SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. By DONALD R. HILL. (Islamic Surveys.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994. 250pp. 78 illustrations. £16.95 (pb), £39.95 (hb).
CAUGHT IN TIME: GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES. KHIVA. BUKHARA. SAMARKAND. Series editor: VITALY NAUMKIN. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1993. 127pp. (Khiva); 159pp. (Bukhara); 159pp. (Samarkand).
THE CORAL BUILDINGS OF SUAKIN: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, DESIGN AND DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS IN A RED SEA PORT. By J.-P. GREENLAW. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1995.132pp.
