International Journal of Middle East Studies

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International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp f1-f2

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MES volume 41 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp b1-b22

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Editorial

EDITOR'S NOTE

Judith E. Tucker

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 543-544

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Quick Studies

Human Rights in Syria: The Never-Ending Emergency

Dina Hadad

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 545-547

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990031 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Unspoken Dreams

Heidi Morrison

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 548-550

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Money for Nothing? Offsets in the U.S.–Middle East Defense Trade

Shana Marshall

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 551-553

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Articles

THE CONSTITUTION OF MEDINA: A SOCIOLEGAL INTERPRETATION OF MUHAMMAD'S ACTS OF FOUNDATION OF THE UMMA

Saïd Amir Arjomand

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 555-575

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THE CONSTITUTION OF MEDINA: A SOCIOLEGAL INTERPRETATION OF MUHAMMAD'S ACTS OF FOUNDATION OF THE UMMA

Saïd Amir Arjomand

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 575a-575a

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THE CONSTITUTION OF MEDINA: A SOCIOLEGAL INTERPRETATION OF MUHAMMAD'S ACTS OF FOUNDATION OF THE UMMA

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 575b-575b

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“WE ARE HERE TO BRING THE WEST, NOT ONLY TO OURSELVES”: ZIONIST OCCIDENTALISM AND THE DISCOURSE OF HYGIENE IN MANDATE PALESTINE

Dafna Hirsch

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 577-594

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“WE ARE HERE TO BRING THE WEST, NOT ONLY TO OURSELVES”: ZIONIST OCCIDENTALISM AND THE DISCOURSE OF HYGIENE IN MANDATE PALESTINE

Dafna Hirsch

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 594a-594a

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990353 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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“WE ARE HERE TO BRING THE WEST, NOT ONLY TO OURSELVES”: ZIONIST OCCIDENTALISM AND THE DISCOURSE OF HYGIENE IN MANDATE PALESTINE

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 594b-594b

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990365 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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LIMITS OF “AUTHORITARIAN UPGRADING” IN SYRIA: PRIVATE WELFARE, ISLAMIC CHARITIES, AND THE RISE OF THE ZAYD MOVEMENT

Thomas Pierret and Kjetil Selvik

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 595-614

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LIMITS OF “AUTHORITARIAN UPGRADING” IN SYRIA: PRIVATE WELFARE, ISLAMIC CHARITIES, AND THE RISE OF THE ZAYD MOVEMENT

Thomas Pierret and Kjetil Selvik

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 614a-614a

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990377 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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LIMITS OF “AUTHORITARIAN UPGRADING” IN SYRIA: PRIVATE WELFARE, ISLAMIC CHARITIES, AND THE RISE OF THE ZAYD MOVEMENT

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 614b-614b

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990389 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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FROM DIFĀʿ AL-NISĀʾ TO MASʾALAT AL-NISĀʾ IN GREATER SYRIA: READERS AND WRITERS DEBATE WOMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS, 1858–1900

Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 615-633

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FROM DIFĀʿ AL-NISĀʾ TO MASʾALAT AL-NISĀʾ IN GREATER SYRIA: READERS AND WRITERS DEBATE WOMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS, 1858–1900

Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 633a-633a

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990390 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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FROM DIFĀʿ AL-NISĀʾ TO MASʾALAT AL-NISĀʾ IN GREATER SYRIA: READERS AND WRITERS DEBATE WOMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS, 1858–1900

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 633b-633b

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A READING OF THE TURKISH NOVEL: THREE WAYS OF CONSTITUTING THE “TURKISH MODERN”

Kürşad Ertuğrul

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 635-652

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990109 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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A READING OF THE TURKISH NOVEL: THREE WAYS OF CONSTITUTING THE “TURKISH MODERN”

Kürşad Ertuğrul

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 652a-652a

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990419 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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A READING OF THE TURKISH NOVEL: THREE WAYS OF CONSTITUTING THE “TURKISH MODERN”

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 652b-652b

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PROPHETS AND PRIESTS OF THE NATION: NAGUIB MAHFOUZ'S KARNAK CAFÉ AND THE 1967 CRISIS IN EGYPT

Benjamin Geer

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 653-669

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PROPHETS AND PRIESTS OF THE NATION: NAGUIB MAHFOUZ'S KARNAK CAFÉ AND THE 1967 CRISIS IN EGYPT

Benjamin Geer

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 669a-669a

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990432 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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PROPHETS AND PRIESTS OF THE NATION: NAGUIB MAHFOUZ'S KARNAK CAFÉ AND THE 1967 CRISIS IN EGYPT

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 669b-669b

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990444 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Book Reviews

Menachem Klein, A Possible Peace between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative (trans. Haim Watzman) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Pp. 256. $29.50 cloth.

Glenn E. Robinson

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 671-672

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990122 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Sandra Sufian, Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920–1947 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Pp. 384. $40.00 cloth.

Geremy Forman

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 672-674

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990134 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Simone Panter-Brick, Gandhi and the Middle East: Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008). Pp. 206. $75.00 cloth.

Rami Ginat

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 674-676

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990146 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Tamir Sorek, Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave. Cambridge Cultural Social Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Pp. 238. $85.00 cloth.

Paul A. Silverstein

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 677-678

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990158 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, ed., The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: From Conflict Resolution to Conflict Management (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Pp. 303. $70.00 cloth.

Connie Lamb

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 678-680

doi:10.1017/S002074380999016X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Adnan A. Husain and K. E. Fleming, eds., A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200–1700 (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007). Pp. 226. $29.95 paper.

Tijana Krstic

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 680-682

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990171 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Alexandra Cuffel, Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007). Pp. 448. $45.00 paper.

Aneilya Barnes

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 682-684

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990183 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Dionysius A. Agius, Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section I: The Near and Middle East, vol. 92 (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2008). Pp. 508. $208.00 cloth.

John Dimitroukas

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 684-686

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990195 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Svat Soucek, The Persian Gulf: Its Past and Present (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2008). Pp. 305. $45.00 cloth.

John Limbert

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 686-687

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990201 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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W. Taylor Fain, American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Pp. 291. $84.95 cloth.

Simon C. Smith

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 688-689

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990213 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Ayesha Jalal, Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008). Pp. 393. $29.95 cloth.

Anna Bigelow

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 689-691

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990225 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine, eds., The Maghrib in the New Century (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 2007). Pp. 279. $60.00 cloth.

Francesco Cavatorta

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 691-693

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990237 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Lise Storm, Democratization in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics (London: Routledge, 2007). Pp. 238. $160.00 cloth.

Mohamed Daadaoui

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 693-695

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990249 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Elliott Colla, Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007). Pp. 345. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Lisa Pollard

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 695-697

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990250 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Maha A. Z. Yamani, Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2008). Pp. 240. $54.50 cloth.

Laura Pearl Kaya

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 697-699

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990262 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Nima Naghibi, Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). Pp. 217. $67.50 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Mina Safizadeh

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 699-701

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990274 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Nubar Hovsepian, The War on Lebanon (Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2008). Pp. 439. $20.00 paper.

May Farah

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 701-703

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990286 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Youssef Choueiri, ed., Breaking the Cycle: Civil Wars in Lebanon (London: Stacey International, 2007). Pp. 333. $29.95 paper.

Moulouk Berry

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 703-704

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990298 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Jeremy Salt, The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2008). Pp. 468. $29.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Lawrence Davidson

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 705-706

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990304 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Michele Penner Angrist, Party Building in the Modern Middle East, Publications on the Near East (Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 2006). Pp. 255. $50.00 cloth.

Ahmet T. Kuru

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 706-708

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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Notes and Comments

A RESPONSE TO MARINA OTTAWAY'S REVIEW OF DEMOCRACY AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD ( IJMES 40 [2008]: 501–503)

Nicola Pratt

International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 41, Issue 04, November 2009, pp 709-709

doi:10.1017/S0020743809990328 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 26 Oct 2009

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