ASQ Books Received 2001-2002.ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS Algar, Hamid. Wahabism: A Critical Essay. Oneonta, NY: Islamic Publications International, 2002. Paper $12.95. Bargach, Jamila, Orphans of Islam: Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Paper $29.95. Fuller, Graham E. and Rend Rahim Francke. The Arab Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslims. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY: Palgrave, 2001. Paper $22.95. Glasse, Cyril. The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Hardcover $89.95. Grabar, Oleg Grabar, Oleg (1929– ) art historian; born in Strasbourg, France. He emigrated to America (1948) and studied at Harvard (B.A. 1950), the University of Paris (1950), and Princeton University (Ph.D. 1955). and Cynthia Robinson (eds.). Islamic Art and Literature. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001. Paper $22.95. Hallaq, Wael B. Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). , 2001. Hardcover $60.00. Hashmi, Sohail H. (ed.). Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Paper $16.95. Kepel, Gilles. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Translated by Anthony F. Roberts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. , 2002. Hardcover $20.97. Mastnak, Tomaz. Crusading Peace: Christendom, The Muslim World, and Western Political Order. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press "UC Press" redirects here, but this is also an abbreviation for University of Chicago Press University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. , 2002. Hardcover $50.00. Said, Abdul Aziz, Nathan C. Funk and Ayse S. Kadayifci (eds.). Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precepts and Practice. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. Paper $49.50. PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Abdo, Nahla and Ronit Lentin. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2002. Hardcover $75.00. Christison, Kathleen. The Wounds of Dispossession The wrongful, nonconsensual ouster or removal of a person from his or her property by trick, compulsion, or misuse of the law, whereby the violator obtains actual occupation of the land. Dispossession encompasses intrusion, disseisin, or deforcement. ; Telling the Palestinian Story. Santa Fe, NM: Sunlit sun·lit adj. Illuminated by the sun. Adj. 1. sunlit - lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner sunstruck Hills Press, 2001. Paper $12.95. Elliott, Liza. Finding Palestine: One American's Trek from the Midwest to the Middle East. Pasadena, CA: Hope Publishing House, 2002. Paper $17.95. Phillip, Thomas. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831. New York, NY: Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is an academic press based in New York City and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan (2004-present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, , 2002. Paper $17.50. Ruether, Rosemary Radford and Hennan Ruether. The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002. Paper $18.00. Seikaly, May. Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society, 19 18-1939. London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris, 2002. Paper $24.50. THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY Azzam, Henry. The Arab World Facing the Challenge of the New Millennium. London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris, 2002. Hardcover $59.50. Eid, Mushira. The World of Obituaries: Gender Across Cultures and Over Time. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges). Press, 2002. Hardcover $39.95. Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Jane I. Smith (eds.). Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002. Paper $26.95. McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US. Policy in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. Paper $19.95. POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC STUDIES OF THE ARAB WORLD Fay, Mary Ann (ed.). Autobiography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2001. Hardcover $55.00. Goldschmidt, Arthur, Jr. A Concise History of the Middle East This article is a general overview of the history of the Middle East. For more detailed information, see articles on the histories of individual countries and regions. For discussion of the issues surrounding the definition of the area see the article on Middle East. , 7th Ed., Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Paper $39.00. Hinnebusch, Raymond and Anoushiravan Ehteshami. The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. Paper $22.50. Jankowski, James. Nasser's Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic United Arab Republic, political union (1958–61) of Egypt and Syria. The capital was Cairo. The two countries were merged (1958) into a single unit comprising the Southern (Egypt) and the Northern (Syria) Regions, with Gamal Abdal Nasser as president. . Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. Hardcover $49.95. Lesch, David. 1979: The Year that Shaped the Modern Middle East. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Paper $20.00. Long, David E. and Bernard Reich (eds.). The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. Paper $43.00. Louis, Wm. Roger and Roger Owen (eds.). A Revolutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958. London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris, 2002. Hardcover $55.00. Moaddel, Mansoor. Jordanian Exceptionalism ex·cep·tion·al·ism n. 1. The condition of being exceptional or unique. 2. The theory or belief that something, especially a nation, does not conform to a pattern or norm. : A comparative Analysis of State-Religion Relationships in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. Hardcover $49.95. Wright, J. W. Jr. Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process: Historical Contexts. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. Hardcover $68.00. LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES Fawal, Ibrahim. Youssef Chahine. London, U. K.: British Film Institute Publishing, 2001. Paper $24.95. Lewis, Bernard and Stanley Burstein. Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002. Paper $18.95. Marin, Manuela and Randy Deguilhem. Writing the Feminine: Women in Arab Sources. London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris, 2002. Hardcover $65.00. Obank, Margaret and Samuel Shimon (eds.). A Crack in the Wall: New Arab Poetry. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2001. Paper $19.95. Wisnovsky, Robert (ed.). Aspects of Avicenna. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001. Paper $16.95. COUNTRY AND REGIONAL STUDIES The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf Dresch, Paul. A History of Modern Yemen. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover $59.00. Potter, Lawrence G. and Gary G. Sick. Security in the Persian Gulf Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. Paper, $22.95. Rugh, William. Diplomacy and Defense Policy of the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. . Abu Dhabi, UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. : The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2002. Paper, no price indicated. Wilson, Rodney. The Gulf-EU Trade Relationship: Challenges and Opportunities. Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2002. Paper, no price indicated. The Arab East, Iran, and Afghanistan Dagher, Carole H. Bring Down the Walls: Lebanon's Post-War Challenge. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. Paper $24.95. Edwards, David B. Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2002. Paper $17.95. Joffe George (ed.). Jordan in Transition: 1990-2000. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. Paper $59.95. Khalaf, Samir. Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation of Communal Conflict. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002. Hardcover $32.50. Egypt, Sudan, North and East Africa Ibrahim, Saad Eddin. Egypt, Islam, and Democracy: Critical Essays. Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo American University in Cairo, at Cairo, Egypt; English language; founded 1919. It has faculties of anthropology, computer science, economics and political science, engineering, English and comparative literature, management, mass communication, psychology, science, Press, 2002. Paper $19.95. SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH AbuKhalil, As'ad. Bin Laden, Islam and America's New "War on Terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act ." New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Paper $8.95. Ahmad, Eqbal. Terrorism: Theirs & Ours. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2001. Paper $6.95. Chang, Nancy. Silencing Political Dissent. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Paper $9.95. Chomsky, Noam. 9-11. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2001. Paper $8.95. Heuvel, Katrina Vanden (ed.). A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001. New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002. Paper $14.95. Mahajan Mahajan is an Indian surname, found among the Vaishya castes (business communities). In India surname Mahajan is used by two communities: - one residing in North of India(mainly on the Amritsar to Jammu belt) and another belonging to North Maharashtra. , Rahul. The New Crusade: America's War on Terrorism. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2002. Paper $12.57. Zinn, Howard. Terrorism and War. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Paper $9.95. |
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