INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES VOLUME 35, 2003 EDITOR JUAN R. I. COLE REVIEW EDITORS MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI JOEL GORDON FRANKLIN LEWIS ELLEN LUST-OKAR NEGAR MOTTAHEDEH EDITORIAL BOARD YESIM ARAT SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM SOHRAB BEHDAD DENIZ KANDIYOTI STEVEN CATON HASAN KAYALI MIRIAM COOKI FARHAD KAZEMI KEN CUNO BARUCH KIMMERLING BESHARA DOUMANI TIMUR KURAN HALA FATTAH MICHAEL MORONY ELLIS GOLDBERG LESLIE PEIRCI STEVE HEYDEMANN RON SUNY VALERIE HOFFMAN i CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU, England 40 West 20th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011, U.S.A 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia 2003 Cambridge University Press Printed in the United States of America INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Editor: Juan R. 1. Cole CONTENTS: VOLUME 35 (2003) Articles SHAHROUGH AKHAVI Sunni Modernist Theories of Social Contract in Contemporary Egypt IsA BLUMI Contesting the Edges of the Ottoman Empire: Rethinking Ethnic and Sectarian Boundaries in the Malésore, 1878-1912 MARLEN EORDEGIAN | British and Israeli Maintenance of the Status Quo in the Holy Places of Christendom HARIS EXERTZOGLOU The Cultural Uses of Consumption: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation in Ottoman Urban Centers during the 19th Century EMILY GOTTREICH On the Origins of the Mellah of Marrakesh JAMES GREHAN _ Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late-Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus (ca. 1500-1800) Lev GRINBERG A Historical Slip of the Tongue, or What Can the Arab-Jewish Transportation Strike Teach Us about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? TIRZA HECHTER — Historical Traumas, Ideological Conflicts, and the Process of Mythologizing ADEEB KHALID A Secular Islam: Nation, State, and Religion in Uzbekistan WELDON C. MATTHEWS Pan-Islam or Arab Nationalism? The Meaning of the 1931 Jerusalem Islamic Congress Reconsidered SHIRA ROBINSON — Local Struggle, National Struggle: Palestinian Responses to the Kafr Qasim Massacre and Its Aftermath, 1956—66 ZEEV ROSENHEK, DANIEL MAMAN, AND EYAL BEN-ARI_ The Study of War and the Military in Israel: An Empirical Investigation and a Reflective Critique 461 484 WILLIAM E. SHEPARD Sayyid Qutb’s Doctrine of Jahiliyya 521- 545 RELLI SHECHTER Selling Luxury: The Rise of the Egyptian Cigarette and the Transformation of the Egyptian Tobacco Market, 1850-1914 654 Contents to Volume 35 SAMER SHEHATA In the Basha’s House: The Organizational Culture of Egyptian Public-Sector Enterprise TAMIR SOREK Palestinian Nationalism Has Left the Field: \ Shortened History of Arab Soccer in Israel JAMES TOTH Islamism in Southern Egypt: A Case Study of a Radical Religious Movement FARZIN VAHDAT Post-revolutionary Islamic Discourses on Modernity in Iran: Expansion and Contraction of Human Subjectivity KEITH D. WATENPAUGH Middle-Class Modernity and the Persistence of the Politics of Notables in Inter-war Syria Review Article MARTIN BUNTON Mandate Daze: Stories of British Rule in Palestine, 1917—48 DONALD QUATAERT Recent Writings in Late Ottoman History BOAZ SHOSHAD The State and Madness in Medieval Islam Book Re AFSHARI, Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural ism (Alt Akbar Mahdi) AL-TwiL, Al-Haraka Al-Islamiyya Al-Musalaha fi ir: Min “Al-Ingadth” ila “Al-Jama a” (Mohammed M. Hafez) 34S AMANAT, Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831—1896 (Thomas M Ricks) ROSWITHA BADRY, Die zeitgendssische Diskussion um den Ilslamischen Beratungesgedanken (Sard): Unter dem besonderen Aspekt ideengeschichtlicher Kontinuitdten und Diskontinuitdten (Felicitas Opwis) AIDA AbDIB BAMIA, The Gravyineg of the Raven: Cultural and Soctopoltitt al Sienifi ance of A/o¢ rian Folk Pe er (Amy Elizabeth Levine) ASMA BARLAS, “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreadine Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an (Kristin Zahra Sands) KirRK J. BEATTIE, Egypt during the Sadat Years (Robert Springborg) ANNE-EMMANUELLE BERGER, ED., Algeria in Others’ Languages (Mary Jean Green) Contents to Volume 35 655 JONAH BLANK, Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras (Mazyar Lotfalian) 168-170 ISSA J. BOULLATA, ED., Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur'an (Todd Lawson) 493-494 CHRISTOPHER BUCK, Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahai Faith (Kathleen E. McVey) 494-496 PAUL M. CosBB, White Banners: Contention in “Abbasid Syria, 750—880 (Matthew S. Gordon) 141-143 R. HRAIR DEKMEJIAN AND HOVANN SIMONIAN, Troubled Waters: The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region (Shireen Hunter) 509-510 JANICE DELEDALLE-RHODES, L’Orient représenté: Charles Montagu Doughty et les Voyageurs anglais du XIXe Siécle (Jason Thompson) BRADFORD L. DILLMAN, State and Private Sector in Algeria: The Politics of Rent-Seeking and Failed Development (Azzedine Layachi) REMCO ENSEL, Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco (Margaret Rausch) HOWARD M. FEDERSPIEL, /slam and Ideology in the Emerging Indonesian State: The Persatuan Islam (Persis), 1923 > to 1957 (Martin van Bruinessen) WILLEM FLoor, Safavid Government Institutions (Charles Melville) 498-500 ALLEN J. FRANK, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (R. D. McChesney) 500-503 ALBRECHT FUESS, Verbannes Ufer: Auswirkungen mamluki- scher Seepolitik auf Beirut und die syro-paldstinensiche Kiiste (1250—1517) (Andrew C. Hess) 496-498 M. R. GHANOONPARVAR, Translating the Garden (Soheila Amirsoleimani) 640 MOLLY GREENE, A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Robert Finlay) 644-645 M. SUKRU HANIOGLU, Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902—1908 (Michael Robert Hickok) ABDELMAJID HANNOUM, Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine (Elliott Colla) MEIR HATINA, /slam and Salvation in Palestine (Marion Boulby) COLIN HEYwoobD, Writing Ottoman History: Documents and Interpretations (Jane Hathaway) NICHOLAS HOPKINS, SOHAIR MEHANNA, AND SALAH EL- HAGGAER, People and Pollution: Cultural Constructions and Social Action in Egypt (Jeffrey W. Lash) 656 Contents to Volume 35 KHALED HrouB, Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (Mohammed M. Hafez) EFRAIM INBAR, The Israeli-Turkish Entente (Ahmed S. Hashim) Curis P. lOANNIDES, Realpolitik in the Eastern Mediterranean: From Kissinger and the Cyprus Crisis to Carter and the Lifting of the Turkish Arms Embargo (Joseph S. Joseph) TAREO Y. ISMAEL, Middle East Politics Today: Government and Civil Society (Don Peretz) 198 KEMAL KARPAT, The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State (Selim Deringil) 342 ALAWI D. KAYAL, The Control of Oil: East-West Rivalry in the Persian Gulf (Hassan Shaygannik) JOSEPH A. KECHICHIAN, Succession in Saudi Arabia (F. Gregory Gause III) SAMIR KHALAF, Cultural Resistance: Global and Local Encounters in the Middle East (Lucia Volk) MARTIN KRAMER, /vory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Joel S. Migdal) URI KUPFERSCHMIDT, Henri Naus Bey: Retrieving the Biography of a Belgian Industrialist in Egypt (Ellis ¢ joldberg) MAHMOUD LAMEI, La poétique de la peinture en Iran (X1Ve-XVle siécle) (Marianna Shreve Simpson) JACOB LASSNER, The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Matthew S. Gordon) Davip W. Lescu, 1/979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East (Fred Halliday) Scott C. Levi, The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade, 1550—1900 (Adeeb Khalid) ALON LIEL, Turkey in the Middle East: Oil, Islam, and Politics (Hootan Shambayati) PAUL E. LOSENSKY, Welcoming Fighani: Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal (Julia Rubanovich) YOSEFA LOSHITZKY, Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen (Dorit Naaman) MUHSIN S. MAHDI, Alfarabi and ithe Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy (Dimitri Gutas) MELANI MCALISTER, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945—2000 (Sandra Carter) JUSTIN MCCARTHY, The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire (William L. Cleveland) Contents to Volume 35 657 FRITZ MEIER, Essays on Islamic Piety and Mysticism (Todd Lawson) 147-150 SHAUL MISHAL AND AVRAHAM SELA, The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence (Quintan Wiktorowicz) 511-513 DANIEL BERTRAND MONK, An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Sarah Rogers) 359-361 SACHIKO MURATA, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu’s Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih’s Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm (Zvi Aziz Ben-Dor) SIMON W. MURDEN, /slam, the Middle East, and the New Global Hegemony (Ali R. Abootalebi) YAEL NAVARO-YASHIN, Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Yesim Arat) SENZIL K. NAWID, Religious Response to Social Change in Afghanistan, 1919-1929: King Aman-Allah and the Afghan Ulama (Shah Mahmoud Hanifi) [THEODORE HALL PARTRICK, Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church (John Iskander) HOOMAN PEIMANI, Failed Transition, Bleak Future? War and Instability in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Nozar Alaolmolki) MONTY NOAM PENKOWER, Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy 1939-1945 (Lawrence Davidson) 648—650 DAVID J. ROXBURGH, Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran (Paul Losensky) 640-642 Uri RUBIN, Between Bible and Qur'an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image (Devin Stewart) 638—640 AHMED A. SAIF, A Legislature in Transition (Charles Schmitz) 203- ARMANDO SALVATORE, ED., Muslim Traditions and Modern Techniques of Power (Mark LeVine) 361 MOUNA SAWAF AND KOUTAIBA ALGUILBI, The Mental Health of the Arab Woman (Lilia Labidi) 205 KLAUS SCHIPPMANN, Ancient South Arabia: From the Queen of Sheba to the Advent of Islam (Oded Borowski) ANTHONY SHADID, Legacy of the Prophet—Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Rami G. Khouri) ANTHONY SHAY, Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Arzu Oztiirkmen) THEOHARIS STAVRIDES, The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovié (1453—1474) (Virginia Aksan) 163-164 DEVIN STEWART, /slamic Legal Orthodoxy: Twelve Shiite Responses to the Sunni Legal System (Brannon Wheeler) 658 Contents to Volume 35 BENJAMIN STORA, Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History (Bradford Dillman) 165—167 BASSAM TIBI, /slam between Culture and Politics (Emad Eldin Shahin) 178—180 BASSAM TIBI, /slam between Culture and Politics (Ahmad Sadri) 519-520 STEPHANE VALTER, La construction nationale syrienne. Légitimation de la nature communautaire du pouvoir par le discours historique (Elizabeth Picard) 368-370 KARIN VAN NIEUWKERK, A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt (Margaret Rausch) 507-509 JOHN WALBRIDGE, The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks (Roxanne D. Marcotte) 143-145 CHRISTOPH WERNER, An Iranian Town in Transition: A Social and Economic History of the Elites of Tabriz, 1747—1848 (Willem Floor) 167-168 QUINTAN WIKTOROWICZ, The Management of Islamic Activism: Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and State Power in Jordan (Mohammed M. Hafez) 175-178 ANNA WORTH, AS-Sari‘a fi Bab al-Yaman: Recht, Richter und Rechtspraxis an der familienrechtlichen Kammer des Gerichts Siid-Sanaa (Republik Jemen), 1983-1995 (Gabriele vom Bruck) 180-182 DAL SEUNG YU, The Role of Political Culture in Iranian Political Development (Mehrdad Mashayekhi) 365-368 Notes and Comments ISAM AL KHAFAJI, A Reply to Stephen Pelletiere STEPHEN PELLETIERE, Response to Isam al Kafaji’s Review of lrag and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf