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Table of Contents - Volume 40 - Issue 04  

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Editorial

 
 

EXCERPT FROM “CIRCUMCISION CIRCUMSCRIBED: FEMALE EXCISION AND CULTURAL ACCOMMODATION IN THE MEDIEVAL NEAR EAST”

Judith E. Tucker

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 533-540
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081415 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Quick Studies

 
 

The European Union and Turkey: Who Defines Environmental Progress?

Fikret Adaman and Murat Arsel

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 541-543
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081427 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Beauty, Whiteness, and Desire: Media, Consumption, and Embodiment in Egypt

Farha Ghannam

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 544-546
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081439 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

The Relationship between Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Testing Ahmed Midhat Efendi's Hypothesis

V. Necla Geyikdagi

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 547-549
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Question: How Useful Has the Concept of Sectarianism Been for Understanding the History, Society, and Politics of the Middle East?

Julie Peteet

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 550-552
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Pensée 2: Sectarianism as Imagined Sociological Concept and as Imagined Social Formation

Suad Joseph

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 553-554
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081464 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Pensée 3: A Sectarian Middle East?

Eric Davis

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 555-558
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081476 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Pensée 4: Moving Beyond Orientalist Fantasy, Sectarian Polemic, and Nationalist Denial

Ussama Makdisi

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 559-560
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081488 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Articles

 
 

PRIVATE PUBLISHING IN THE NAHḌA

Ami Ayalon

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 561-577
doi:10.1017/S002074380808149X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

PRIVATE PUBLISHING IN THE NAHḌA

Ami Ayalon

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 577a-577a
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081877 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

PRIVATE PUBLISHING IN THE NAHḌA

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 577b-577b
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081889 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

THE OTTOMAN LEGACY IN COLD WAR MODERNIZATION

Nathan J. Citino

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 579-597
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081506 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

THE OTTOMAN LEGACY IN COLD WAR MODERNIZATION

Nathan J. Citino

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 597a-597a
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081890 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

HONOR, THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR, AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN RURAL TUNISIA—A SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL READING

Martin Latreille

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 599-621
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081518 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

HONOR, THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR, AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN RURAL TUNISIA—A SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL READING

Martin Latreille

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 621a-621a
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081907 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

HONOR, THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR, AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN RURAL TUNISIA—A SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL READING

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 621b-621b
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081919 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

LAYARD ENTERPRISE: VICTORIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND INFORMAL IMPERIALISM IN MESOPOTAMIA

Shawn Malley

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 623-646
doi:10.1017/S002074380808152X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

LAYARD ENTERPRISE: VICTORIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND INFORMAL IMPERIALISM IN MESOPOTAMIA

Shawn Malley

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 646a-646a
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081920 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

LAYARD ENTERPRISE: VICTORIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND INFORMAL IMPERIALISM IN MESOPOTAMIA

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 646b-646b
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081932 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

SOUVENIRS OF CONQUEST: ISRAELI OCCUPATIONS AS TOURIST EVENTS

Rebecca L. Stein

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 647-669
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081531 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

SOUVENIRS OF CONQUEST: ISRAELI OCCUPATIONS AS TOURIST EVENTS

Rebecca L. Stein

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 669a-669a
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081944 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

SOUVENIRS OF CONQUEST: ISRAELI OCCUPATIONS AS TOURIST EVENTS

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 669b-669b
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081956 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

SOUVENIRS OF CONQUEST: ISRAELI OCCUPATIONS AS TOURIST EVENTS

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 669c-669c
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081968 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 30 Apr 2009
 

Book Reviews

 
 

David Commins The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia, Library of Modern Middle East Studies 50 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006). Pp. 288. $85.00 cloth.

Samer Traboulsi

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 671-672
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081543 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Charles Hirschkind, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, Cultures of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). Pp. 288. $31.50 cloth.

Emilio Spadola

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 672-674
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081555 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Sayed Khatab, The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb: The Theory of Jahiliyyah, Routledge Studies in Political Islam (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 256. $160.00 cloth.

Hussam S. Timani

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 674-675
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081567 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Jillian Schwedler, Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Pp. 276. $84.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Flagg Miller

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 676-677
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081579 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Brenda Shaffer, ed., The Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). Pp. 360. $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Lerna K. Yanik

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 677-679
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081580 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Brannon Wheeler, Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 333. $62.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 679-680
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081592 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law: A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence, Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006). Pp. 212. $155.00 cloth.

Mohammad H. Fadel

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 680-682
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081609 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Lars Bjrneboe, In Search of the True Political Position of the ʿUlama (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press and The Danish Institute Damascus, 2007). Pp. 358. $46.95 paper.

Daniel Crecelius

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 682-684
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081610 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Iris Agmon, Family and Court, Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine, Middle East Studies beyond Dominant Paradigms (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005). Pp. 272. $39.95 cloth.

Mehmet Safa Saraçoğlu

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 684-686
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081622 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Assaf Likhovski, Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Pp. 328. $49.95 cloth.

Ellen Fleischmann

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 686-689
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081634 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Mahmood T. Davari, The Political Thought of Ayatullah Murtaża Muṭahhari: An Iranian Theoretician of the Islamic State (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005). Pp. 212. $180.00 cloth.

Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 689-690
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081646 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Jamil Hasanli, At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet–American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941–1946, Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Pp. 424. $87.00 cloth.

Osamu Miyata

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 690-692
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081658 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2007). Pp. 253. $55.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Shoshana Keller

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 692-694
doi:10.1017/S002074380808166X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Conrad Schetter, Ethnizität und ethnische Konflikte in Afghanistan (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2003). Pp. 680. $130.00 paper.

Stephan Conermann

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 694-695
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081671 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Sumru Altuğ and Alpay Filiztekin, eds., The Turkish Economy: The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Economies (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 308. $150.00 cloth.

Tolga Köker

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 695-697
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081683 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Julia Elyachar, Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005). Pp. 296. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Paul Amar

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 697-699
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081695 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Bjørn Olav Utvik, Islamist Economics in Egypt: The Pious Road to Development (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006). Pp. 287. $55.00 cloth.

Michael J. Twomey

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 699-700
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081701 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Zeʾev Maghen, After Hardship Cometh Ease: The Jews as Backdrop for Muslim Moderation, Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Orients (Neue Folge) (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006). Pp. 249. $125.00 cloth.

Michael E. Pregill

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 700-702
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081713 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Razmik Panossian, The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). Pp. 492. $42.00 cloth.

Richard Antaramian

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 702-704
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081725 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Donald Quataert, Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822–1920 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006). Pp. 288. $80.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

John Chalcraft

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 704-706
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081737 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident: East–West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, Culture and Civilization of the Middle East (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 272. $150.00 cloth.

Yaseen Noorani

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 706-708
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081749 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Roger Allen and D. S. Richards, eds., Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Pp. 492. $220.00 cloth.

Wen-chin Ouyang

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 708-710
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081750 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Jonathan G. Katz, Murder in Marrakesh: Émile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure (Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 2006). Pp. 312. $29.95 cloth.

Sahar Bazzaz

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 710-712
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081762 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Mohammad Gholi Majd, Oil and the Killing of the American Consul in Tehran (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006). Pp. 358. $70.00 cloth, $45.00 paper.

Nance F. Kittner

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 712-714
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081774 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Gawdat Bahgat, Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006). Pp. 240. $39.95 cloth.

Christopher Boucek

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 714-715
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081786 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Derek Penslar, Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2007). Pp. 276. $150.00 cloth, $43.95 paper.

Ylana Miller

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 715-716
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081798 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, eds., From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon, Beiruter Texte und Studien 96 (Beirut: Orient-Institut der DMG Beirut, 2004). Pp. 366.

Karl K. Barbir

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 717-719
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081804 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

André Raymond, Tunis sous les Mouradites. La ville et ses habitants au XVIIé Siècle (Tunis: Cérès Editions, 2006). Pp. 336.

Kenneth J. Perkins

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 719-720
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081816 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Stuart J. Borsch, The Black Death in England and Egypt. A Comparative Study (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2005). Pp. 195. $50.00 cloth.

Amalia Levanoni

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 720-722
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081828 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Jo Van Steenbergen, Order out of Chaos: Patronage, Conflict and Socio-Political Culture, 1341–1383, The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 (Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, 2006). Pp. 212. $155.00 cloth.

Stuart Borsch

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 723-724
doi:10.1017/S002074380808183X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

Notes and Comments

 
 

A REPLY TO HELENE E. HAGAN'S REVIEW OF AMAZIGH ARTS IN MOROCCO, WOMEN SHAPING BERBER IDENTITY ( IJMES 40 [2008]: 341–42)

Cynthia Becker

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 725-727
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081841 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

A REPLY TO CYNTHIA BECKER

Helene E. Hagan

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 728-728
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081853 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
 

A REPLY TO JUDITH E. TUCKER'S EXCERPT OF VAHAKN DADRIAN'S ARTICLE, “THE NAIM-ANDONIAN DOCUMENTS” ( IJMES 40 [2008]: 171–79; REPRINT FROM IJMES 18 [1986]: 311–60)

Michael M. Gunter

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 40, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 728-729
doi:10.1017/S0020743808081865 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Oct 2008
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