Books received 2006-2007
Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Summer-Fall, 2007
ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS
Abu Zayd, Nasr. Reformation of Islamic Thought." A Critical Historical Analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. Paper $52.50.
Ahmed, Akbar S. Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. Hardcover $28.95.
Baker, Raymond William. Islam Without Fear." Egypt and the New Islamist Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Paper $17.95.
Cook, David. Martyrdom in Islam. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paper $24.99.
Doumato, Eleanor Abdella and Gregory Starrett. Editors. Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2006. Hardcover $55.00.
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El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. Islamic Finance." Law, Economics, and Practice. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Hardcover $60.00.
Gottschalk, Peter and Gabriel Greenberg. Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. Hardcover $19.95.
Hefner, Robert W. and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Editors. Schooling Islam: The Culture of Politics of Modern Muslim Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Paper $19.95.
Jackson, Roy. Fifty Key Figures in Islam. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. Paper, no price indicated.
Kamrava, Mehran. Editor. New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2007. Paper $24.95.
Kepel, Gilles. (Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh). War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Paper $15.95.
Tamimi, Azzam. Hamas: A History from Within. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2007. Paper $20.00.
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
Benvenisti, Meron. Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Polical Life. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2007. Hardcover $27.50.
Bose, Sumantra. Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmire, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri-Lanka. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover $27.95.
Honig-Pamass, Tikva and Toufic Haddad. Editors. Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, The Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror". Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2007. Paper $17.00.
Isac, Jad and, Fida' Abdul-Latif. Jerusalem & the Geopolitics of DePalestinsation. Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, 2007. Paper, no price indicated.
Ismael, Jacqueline S. and William W. Haddad. Editors. Barriers to Reconciliation: Case Studies on Iraq and the Palestine-Israel Conflict. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2007. Paper $42.00.
Lassner, Jacob and S. Ilan Troen. Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 20706. Paper $29.95.
Pappe, Ian. Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007. Paper $14.95.
Yiftachel, Oren. Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine. Philadelphia, PN: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Hardcover $69.95.
THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY
Hale, William. Turkey, the US and Iraq. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $21.95.
Hilterman, Joost R. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Hardcover $29.00.
Makdisi, Ussama and Paul A. Silverstein. Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Paper $24.95.
POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC STUDIES OF THE ARAB WORLD
Alsanea, Rajaa. Girls of Riyadh. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2007. Paper $24.99.
Baron, Beth. Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2007. Paper $24.95.
El-Shamy, Hassan M. A Motif Index of the Thouzand and One Nights. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Hardcover $65.00.
Grabar, Oleg. The Dome of the Rock. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover $22.95.
Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim (Translated by Ghassan Nasr). The Journals of Sarab Affan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Hardcover $22.95.
Lawson, Fred H. Constructing International Relations in the Arab World Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Hardcover $45.00.
Pratt, Nicola. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. Paper $22.00.
Springborg, Robert. Editor. Oil and Democracy in Iraq. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $29.95.
Strum, Philippa. Editor. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. American Arabs and Political Participation. Division of United States Studies. Paper, no price indicated.
Tahar Ben Jelloun (Translated by Kevin Michel Cape & Hazel Rowley). The Last Friend New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2007. Paper $13.00.
Tillion, Germaine. My Cousin, My Husband: Clans and Kinship in Mediterranean Societies. Berkeley, CA: SAQI Books, 2007. Paper $21.95.