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{"title":"Chase F. Robinson. ‘Abd al-Malik . Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2005. 139 pages. US$40.00 Cloth ISBN 1-85168-361-5","authors":"M. Yazigi","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050847","url":null,"abstract":"described the early Muslim Arabs advancing into Syria as Mhaggraye (immigrants), whereas earlier the Arabs were mostly called 'Arabdye and Tayydye (Sons of Hagar and Ishmaelites), and he reports that a Syriac document dated to 644 mentions that the Mhaggraye have accepted the Torah but that it never refers to the Qur'an indicating, he thinks, that the Qur'an was not yet in circulation. In Part 3 Devin J. Stewart shows that emendations to the Qur'anic text were speculated over by medieval Muslim scholars as a result of difficulties in it regarding ductus (rasm. orthography) or theological concerns. Andrew Rippin studies the Islamic tradition of investigating terms of foreign origin in the Qur'an and shows that modern western scholars' speculation about the original linguistic and cultural context of the Qur'an is not so new, after all. Whether the \"hopeless chaos\" Angelika Neuwirth wondered about in the field of Qur'anic studies is assuaged or not by studies like those in this book, it is true that the revisionist and controversial western scholars' publications of recent decades, though not generally or equally accepted, have instigated research in the field that are essential to placing the Qur'an in its linguistic, cultural, and historical context. This book is a good contribution to movement in this direction. Issa J. Boullata McGill University","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"216 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050847","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Donner Replies","authors":"F. M. Donner","doi":"10.1017/s0026318400050963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026318400050963","url":null,"abstract":"In your December 2006 issue [volume 40(2):197-199], Fred M. Conner's interesting \"retrospective review\" of Patricia Crone and Michael Cook's Hagarism (1977) gives no credit to the late John Wansbrough for doing at least as much as them to wake up \"the then rather sleepy field of early Islamic studies,\" with his enigmatic, even hermetic contributions Quranic Studies (1977) and The Sectarian Milieu (1978). In the same issue, Mohamad Nasrin misspells his name as 'Warnsbrough' in an informative but rather patronizing review of the recent reprint of Quranic Studies [pp. 250-251 j. Has Wansbrough now become al-aVad, the absent one, whose name is not mentioned, or, if it is, admonishingly mangled? In any case, a thorough critical appraisal of this reputed incendiary among scholars is surely overdue.","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"232 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0026318400050963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nehrî Documents from the Institute of Persian National Records: A Catalogue","authors":"M. Dehqan","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050537","url":null,"abstract":"The Kurdish nationalist tradition is surely not very old. The earliest origins of Kurdish nationalism coincide with the beginning of modernity in Kurdistan, which emerged with the secular humanism of the ‘Western Enlightenment,’ ushering in a gradual decline of traditional Islamic identity. The nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Kurdish history were a period for the incubation and growth of nationalism in Kurdistan. The famous temporary conquest of Iranian Kurdistan by Sheikh ‘Ubaydullah Nehrî (d. 1883), son of Sheikh Sayyid Taha, is the most important event in the history of early Kurdish nationalism. What I want to present here is in no way a complete investigation of the revolt of ‘Ubaydullah and his nationalist efforts. This is no more than an introduction to some newly-found Persian documents from the Institute of Persian National Records (IPNR) in Tehran, a schema of basic subjects surrounding the rebellion of ‘Ubaydullah and the Kurdish tribes as reflected in Persian diplomatic reports. Here I can only list the documents without entering into much detail. This collection has attracted little attention yet, but is well worth intensive investigation.","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"157 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050537","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56778598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Julia Elyachar. Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005. 279 pages, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth US$79.95 ISBN 0-822383571-9; Paper US$22.95 ISBN 0-8223-3583-2","authors":"J. Beinin","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050719","url":null,"abstract":"large-scale refugee return. Decades of war and an inconclusive peace process have left the refugees and their descendants, who now number nearly five million, in their countries of exile. The politics of Arab-Israeli peacemaking usually has become stuck on macro-level matters related to the contentious question of Palestinian refugees and their right of return. Yet the onset of the Oslo peace process in the early 1990s led to the emergence of a number of studies, conferences, track two and even track three diplomatic efforts that studied very specific, tangible aspects of just how a solution to the refugee problem might look, including the modalities of compensation and full or partial repatriation. Editor Michael Dumper (Exeter University) has been an important participant in these exercises, and the book under review stands out as an important contribution to the literature that has tackled the specifics of Palestinian refugee repatriation. Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives, and the June 2004 conference at Exeter University from which it stems, is a valuable collection of articles whose purpose is to explore the extent to which the considerable amount of global expertise in refugee return and repatriation over in recent years is applicable and transferable to the Palestinian case. The book therefore is a conscious attempt to challenge the problem of \"Palestinian particularism,\" the insistence by partisans from various sides that the Palestinian refugee problem is a unique case that somehow must be solved without reference to the large body of international best practice techniques that have emerged to deal with the logistics of refugee repatriation around the world. While recognizing unique aspects to the Palestinian situation, the book's articles nonetheless offer up \"areas of convergence with other refugee situations\" (p. 10) around the world. Michael R. Fischbach Randolph<-Macon College","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"196 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050719","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56780173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Valentine M. Moghadam, ed. From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women’s Participation, Movements and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 414 pages, appendix, bibliography, index. Paper US$45.00 ISBN 978-0-8156-3111-8","authors":"Aysa El-Meehy","doi":"10.1017/S002631840005080X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S002631840005080X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"210 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S002631840005080X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"RMS volume 41 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0026318400050471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026318400050471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"f1 - f6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0026318400050471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56777961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gabriel Said Reynolds, ed. The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context. London and New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. 294 pages, index. Hardback US$150.00 ISBN 0-415-42899-8","authors":"I. Boullata","doi":"10.1017/s0026318400050835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026318400050835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"215 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0026318400050835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stephen Sheehi. Foundations of Modern Arab Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 245 pages, endnotes, selected bibliography, index. US$59.95 Cloth ISBN 0-8130-2732-2","authors":"William Granara","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050860","url":null,"abstract":"how hurtful. To bring about the New Person Shahidian longs for, Iranians, like anybody else, not only need to question language, symbols, and relations of oppression, but need psychoanalysis. Between the lines of Shahidian's book lies what one can see everywhere in Iran: women are the hope of the nation. Although no organized women's movement is possible (despite the title of the book), women carry modernism in Iran, maybe precisely because, unemployed and living \"in private\" as most of them they arc, they have less at stake than men when they think and act critically.","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"219 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Videocassette and DVD at MESA","authors":"Ron Bartholomew","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400049841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400049841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"195 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400049841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56774390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Islamic Political Identity in Turkey, by M. Hakan Yavuz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 328 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. US$65.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-19-516085-1","authors":"E. A. Aytekin","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050021","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main criticisms of Quranic Studies when it first came out, was how it was inaccessible even to the specialist. As a way of ameliorating this difficulty, in this new edition, Rippin has included expanded notes or annotations to help ease the reading and comprehension of this book. Unfortunately, instead of elucidating the meaning of the context of the text page by page these expanded notes are merely translations of Qur'anic, Arabic, Hebrew and German quotations used by Warnsbrough in his original text. The plus side to this disappointment would probably be the inclusion of a glossary of technical terms used by Warnsbrough. The inclusion of these terms is useful as they are given brief explanations by Rippin as to their meaning suitable for the context in which they are used. I would have wished that an index with the page numbers of these terms be included. This would make comprehending the work easier, instead of having to flip to the end of the book for the glossary. Although Warnsbrough had included an index of technical terms, it is unfortunately incomplete as words found in the glossary are not found there, e.g. heilsgeschichte, homoioteleuton, inconcinnity etc. In addition to these Rippin has also included a three page description of the manuscripts used by John Warnsbrough in writing Quranic Studies. In the foreword Rippin mentions how Warnsbrough's work and conclusions are used in polemical debates on internet sites \"by both Muslims and Christians\" (pp. xviii-xix). I would agree partially with Rippin on this point as Warnsbrough's conclusions are used more in websites questioning Islam and the Muslim faith rather than others. One wonders about whether or not republishing this book will decrease such polemics, as Rippin remarked at the end of his foreword (p. xix), especially when the publisher is known to have published many controversial and provocative books consisting of compilations of articles written by sceptical scholars. Although the work has been made less difficult and the degree of accessibility is increased, due to the terse and difficult tools employed here, this book will still be appealing only to a small audience of specialist scholars. Mohamad Nasrin International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"40 1","pages":"251 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56775433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}