INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Editor: Leila Fawaz CONTENTS: VOLUME 23 (1991) Articles Janet AFARY Peasant Rebellions of the Caspian Region during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1909 137-161 AsBAs AMANAT The Downfall of Mirza Taqi Khan Amir Kabir and the Problem of Ministerial Authority in Qajar Iran 577-599 Jupy H. Brink The Effect of Emigration of Husbands on the Status of Their Wives: An Egyptian Case 201-211 Rosert D. Burrowes Prelude to Unification: The Yemen Arab Republic, 1962-1990 483-506 Danie. Crecetitus The Wagf of Muhammad Bey Abu al-Dhahab in Historical Perspective 57-81 VaAHAKN N. DapriaN The Documentation of the World War I Armenian Massacres in the Proceedings of the Turkish Military Tribunal 549-576 SELIM Derincit Legitimacy Structures in the Ottoman State: The Reign of Abdiilhamid II (1876-1909) 345-359 ELeEANoR A. Doumato Hearing Other Voices: Christian Women and the Coming of Islam 177-199 ABDULLAH! ALI IBRAHIM Sahir and Muslim Moral Space 387-399 CuarRLEs Issawi_ Technology, Energy, and Civilization: Some Historial Observations 281-289 AHMAD Karimi-HAKKAK Revolutionary Posturing: Iranian Writers and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 507-531 Mansoor Moappet Class Struggle in Post-Revolutionary Iran 317-343 Ziya Onig_ The Evolution of Privatization in Turkey: The Institutional Context of Public-Enterprise Reform 163-176 JiinGeN Paut Forming a Faction: The Himdyat System of Khwaja Ahrar 533-548 F. E. Peters The Quest of the Historical Muhammad 291-315 SarAH D. Suiecps_ Regional Trade and 19th-Century Mosul: Revising the Role of Europe in the Middle East Economy 19-37 E.iezerR TAuBER The Struggle for Dayr al-Zur: The Determination of Borders between Syria and Iraq 361-385 iv Contents ROSELLE TEKINER Race and the Issue of National Identity in Israel 39-55 James Totu Pride, Purdah, or Paychecks: What Maintains the Gender Division of Labor in Rural Egypt? 213-236 RICHARD VAN LEEUWEN Monastic Estates and Agricultural Transforma- tion in Mount Lebanon in the 18th Century 601-617 Joun WaTERBURY Twilight of the State Bourgeoisie? 1-17 Commentaries ABDELWAHAB EL-AFFENDI Studying My Movement: Social Science Without Cynicism 83-94 ALBERT HourANni How Should We Write the History of the Middle East? 125-136 Book Reviews MICHEL ABITBOL, Les deux terres promises: les juifs de France et le sionisme, 1897—1945 (Michael M. Laskier) 636-640 LeiLa ABouzZEID, Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence and Other Stories (Roger Allen) 676-678 Saiw K. Asurisu, Children of Bethany: The Story of a Palestinian Family (Don Peretz) 653-655 Amitav Acuarya, U.S. Military Strategy in the Gulf (Phebe Marr) 651-653 RICHARD H. Apams, Development and Social Change in Rural Egypt (Patrick D. Gaffney) 101-102 AKBAR S. AHMED, Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society (David B. Edwards) 270-273 Fouap AL-Farsy, Saudi Arabia: A Case Study in Development (Kamran M. Dadkhah) 119-121 Tewrlk At-Hakim, Maze of Justice [Diary of a Country Prosecutor] (Elsayed M. H. Omran) 463-465 Ipn SA“ip AL-Macurisi, The Banners of the Champions: An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond (Peter Heath) 108-110 ABBAS AMANAT, Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850 (Farhad Kazemi) 408-409 S. H. Amin, Law and Justice in Contemporary Yemen: People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic (Norman Calder) 114-115 RIcHARD T. Antoun, Muslim Preacher in the Modern World: A Jor- danian Case Study in Comparative Perspective (Patrick D. Gaffney) 634-636 Contents v Yesim Arat, The Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey (Hala Maksoud) 678-680 Myron J. Aronorr, Israeli Visions and Divisions (Gregory Mahler) 261-262 JoHN MixHait AsFour, trans. and ed., When the Words Burn: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, 1945-1987 (Matti Moosa) 451-452 Muriet ATKIN, The Subtlest Battle: Islam in Soviet Tajikistan (Beatrice 471-473 Forbes Manz) BENJAMIN Beit-HALLAHMI, The Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and Why (Edy Kaufman) 419-422 RoBERT BRENTON Betts, The Druze (Leila S. al-Imad) 473-475 SHYAM BuatiA, Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East (Jerome Slater) 269-270 Ur! BIALER, Between East and West: Israel’s Foreign Policy Orientation 1948—1956 (Gabriel Sheffer) 681-684 Rosert Biancui, Unruly Corporatism: Associational Life in Twentieth- Century Egypt (Marius Deeb) 640-641 ANDERS BJ@RKELO, Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821—1885 (John O. Voll) 447-448 Laurie A. BRanb, Palestinians in the Arab World: Institution Building and the Search for State (Khalil Shikaki) 254-257 Byron Cannon, Politics of Law and the Courts in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Michael J. Reimer) 250-252 YousseFr M. Cuoueri, Arab History and the Nation-State: A Study in Modern Arab Historiography, 1820-1980 (James A. Reilly) 103-104 Driss Curaisi, Mother Spring (Danielle Marx-Scouras) 465-467 RAYMOND COHEN, Culture and Conflict in Egyptian—Israeli Relations: A Dialogue of the Deaf (Ann Lesch) 655-657 Antuony H. CorpesMan, The Gulf and the West: Strategic Relations and Military Realities (Emile A. Nakhleh) 661-663 DANIELA MENEGHINI CorREALE, The Ghazals of Hafez: Concordance and Vocabulary (M. R. Ghanoonparvar) 249-250 RoBert B. CUNNINGHAM, The Bank and the Bureau: Organizational Development in the Middle East (Monte Palmer) 468 Uric. Dann, King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism: Jordan, 1955-1967 (Rex Brynen) 423-424 SusAN SCHAEFER Davis AND Doucias A. Davis, Adolescence in a Moroccan Town: Making Social Sense (Donna Lee Bowen) 431-432 Seim DerinGiL, Turkish Foreign Policy during the Second World War: An “Active Neutrality” (Feroz Ahmad) 424-426 Mouamep Dis, Le sommeil d’Eve (Anne Lippert) 468-470 Joun P. Entexis, Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics (Michael W. Suleiman) 429-431 Joun L. Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Richard C. Martin) 238-241 vi Contents Boas Evron, HaHeshbon HaLeumi (A National Reckoning) (Laurence J. Silberstein) 686-693 Paut FINDLEY, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Con- front Israel’s Lobby, 2nd ed. (Loren Tesdell) 444-447 BassAM KHALIL FransiyA, Al-Ightirab fi-l-riwdya al-filastiniya (Barbara Harlow) 648-649 A. B. Gaunson, The Anglo—French Clash in Lebanon and Syria, 1940- 45 (Kail C. Ellis) 117-119 Haim GersBer, The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East (Lisa Anderson) 105-106 Rita Giacaman, Life and Health in Three Palestinian Villages (Ann M. Lesch) 267-269 Lewis GLINERT, The Grammar of Modern Hebrew (Gabriella Hermon) 441-444 Lisa GOLOMBEK AND DONALD WILBER, The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan (Sussan Babaie) 246-249 Frep HALLIDAY, Revolution and Foreign Policy, The Case of South Yemen 1967-1987 (Helen Lackner) 697-698 RAYMOND HInneEBusCH, Peasant and Bureaucracy in Ba‘thist Syria: The Political Econcmy of Rural Development (Yves Schemeil) 457-458 RAYMOND A. HINNEBUSCH, Authoritarian Power and the State Formation in Ba-thist Syria: Army, Party and Peasant (Laurie Mylroie) 623-625 EsMAIL HossEINZADEH, Soviet Non-Capitalist Development: The Case of Nasser’s Egypt (Khalil Dokhanchi) 670-672 WiLutiAM M. Hutcuins, trans., Nine Essays of al-Jahiz (James A. Bellamy) 112-113 MoHAMM~D ALI JAMALZADA, Once Upon a Time [Yeki Bud Yeki Nabud] (M. R. Ghanoonparvar) 435-437 BaBER JOHANSEN, The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasants’ Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Litera- ture of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods (Ann Elizabeth Mayer) 665-668 ResaT KasaBA, The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century (Sevket Pamuk) 434-435 Fuap I. Kuuri, /mams and Emirs: State, Religion and Sects in Islam (Azim Nanji) 621-623 Guprun Kramer, The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914-1952 (Selma Botman) 259-260 Uri Kuprerscumipt, The Supreme Muslim Council Under the British Mandate in Palestine (Kenneth W. Stein) 641-644 Frep H. Lawson, Bahrain: The Modernization of Autocracy (F. Gregory Gause, III) 106-108 ANN MoseLy LescH AND MARK TESSLER, Israel, Egypt, and the Pales- tinians: From Camp David to Intifada (Ian S. Lustick) 409-411 Contents vii REINHOLD LoeFFLeER, Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village (Poopak Ta?ati) 241-242 ABRAHAM Makcus, The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century (Bruce Masters) 628-630 SeriF Marpw, Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey: The Case of Bediiizzaman Said Nursi (David Commins) 630-632 VANESSA Martin, [slam and Modernism: The Iranian Revolution of 1906 (Janet Afary) 437-440 Bruce Masters, The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 (L. Schatkowski Schilcher) 401-403 Puitip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestine National Movement (Kenneth W. Stein) 641-644 Davip McDoweELL, Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond (Ghada Talhami) 663-665 GeorGe McGuee, The U.S.—Turkish-NATO Middle East Connection: How the Truman Doctrine and Turkey’s NATO Entry Contained the Soviets (George S. Harris) 650-651 Keith McLacutan, The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran (Douglas Gritzinger) 242-243 Fatima Mernissi, Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women (Elizabeth Fernea) 644-646 Mousen M. Miani, The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic (Misagh Parsa) 426-429 Timotuy MitcuHeELL, Colonising Egypt (Louis J. Cantori) 403-405 VerA P. Moutarcuieva, Agrarian Relations in the Ottoman Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Peter F. Sugar) 273 IBRAHIM MUHAWI AND SHARIF KANAANA, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Issa Peters) 440-441 Henry Munson, Jr., /slam and Revolution in the Middle East (Serif Mardin) 413-414 MuHammap Y. Mus.in, The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism (Fouad Moughrabi) 693-694 AFSANEH NaJMABADI, Land Reform and Social Change in Iran (Thomas M. Ricks) 694-696 Nima Nattacu, Agriculture & Regional Development in Iran, 1962- 1978 (Thomas M. Ricks) 694-696 GorpDoN DarNELL Newsy, The Making of the Last Prophet (Burton B. Thurston) 95-96 Rosert Oxtson, The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880—1925 (Donald Quataert) 633-634 viii Contents Brick Oussaip, Mountains Forgotten by God: The Story of a Moroccan Berber Family (John P. Entelis) 646-647 Amos Oz, The Slopes of Lebanon (Laurence J. Silberstein) 686-693 MicuaeEL Pacumso, The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland (Naseer H. Aruri) 460-463 SevKET Pamuk, The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820- 1913: Trade, Investment and Production (Karl K. Barbir) 417-419 MisaGu Parsa, Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution (John Foran) 668-670 MANOUCHER Parvin, Cry for My Revolution, Iran (Michael Craig Hillmann) 252-254 Larry Pintak, Beirut Outtakes: A TV Correspondent’s Portrait of American Encounter with Terror (Emile A. Nakhleh) 459-460 Davip ProcuaskA, Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870- 1920 (John P. Entelis) 659-661 ANDRE RayMonD, Grandes villes arabes a l’époque ottomane, La bibliothéque arabe (Karl K. Barbir) 237-238 DonaLD MA LcoLM ReIp, Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt (Jacob M. Landau) 632-633 Aron RopriGuE, De l’instruction a emancipation: les enseignants de l'alliance israélite universelle et les juifs d’Orient, 1860-1939 (Michael M. Laskier} 636-640 REEM Saab, Social History of an Agrarian Reform Community in Egypt (Barbara K. Larson) 98-100 GHOLAM-REZA SABRI-TaBrizl, Iran: A Child’s Story, A Man’s Experience (Haleh Esfandiari) 121-124 Jasna Sami¢, Divan de Ka‘imi: Vie et evre d'un poéte bosniaque du XVII¢ siécle (Paul A. Saman) 96-98 ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL, Calligraphy and Islamic Culture (Yasser Tabbaa) 680-681 RICHARD N. ScuorigE_b, Evolution of the Shatt Al-Arab Boundary Dispute (Zohreh Ghavamshahidi) 452-453 MOoHAMAD SHAHEEN, The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shahrazad Returns (William M. Hutchins) 449-450 Yaacov Suavit, Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948 (Myron J. Aronoff) 243-246 YAAKOV Suavit, The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy (Laurence J. Silberstein) 686-693 MosHE SHEMESH, The Palestinian Entity, 1959-1974: Arab Politics and the PLO (Glenn E. Perry) 115-117 IAN SKEET, OPEC: Twenty-Five Years of Prices and Politics (Sheikh R. Ali) 470-471 Contents ix Bsorn SkoGmo, UNIFIL: International Peacekeeping in Lebanon 1978- 1988 (Nafhat Nasr) 257-259 Sasson Sorer, Begin: An Anatomy of Leadership (Myron J. Aronoff ) 243-246 RONALD Bruce St. Joun, Qaddafi’s World Design: Libyan Foreign Policy, 1969-1987 (Dirk Vandewalle) 110-112 Norman A. STILLMAN, The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou, Morocco: An Ethnolinguistic Study (William M. Brinner) 405-407 SHLOMO Swirskl, Israel: The Oriental Majority (Russell A. Stone) 262-265 ‘ABDULWAHID DHANUN TAHA, The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain (Fred M. Donner) 274-275 SHIBLEY TELHAMI, Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (Michael N. Barnett) 698-701 BassaM TIBI, Konfliktregion Naher Osten: Regionale Eigendynamik und Grossmachtinteressen (Mark Speece) 455--456 Euias H. Tuma, Economic and Political Change in the Middle East (Ibrahim M. Oweiss) 657-659 Davip Vita., The Future of the Jews (Gary S. Schiff) 619-621 W. Montcomery W. Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity 414-417 (Valerie J. Hoffman-Ladd) C. G. WEERAMANTRY, Islamic Jurisprudence: An International Per- 265-267 spective (Frank E. Vogel) 686-693 GERSHON WEILER, Jewish Theocracy (Laurence J. Silberstein) 684-686 ALEX WEINGROD, The Saint of Beersheba (Daniel J. Schroeter) Davip WEIsBURD, Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction 433-434 (Ian S. Lustick) Joun Racpx Wiis, In the Path of Allah: The Passion of al-Hajj “Umar. 672-676 An Essay into the Nature of Charisma in Islam (John Hunwick) KENNETH BAXTER WOLF, Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (Sabine 453-455 MacCormack) Mape ine C. Zitri, The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Post-Classical Age (1600-1800) (Leslie Pierce) 625-628 Sami ZuBAIDA, Islam, the People and the State: Essays on Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (Fauzi M. Najjar) 411-413