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Lars Bjrneboe, In Search of the True Political Position of the ʿUlama (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press and The Danish Institute Damascus, 2007). Pp. 358. $46.95 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 682-684
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Iris Agmon, Family and Court, Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine, Middle East Studies beyond Dominant Paradigms (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005). Pp. 272. $39.95 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 684-686
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Assaf Likhovski, Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Pp. 328. $49.95 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 686-689
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Mahmood T. Davari, The Political Thought of Ayatullah Murtaża Muṭahhari: An Iranian Theoretician of the Islamic State (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005). Pp. 212. $180.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 689-690
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Jamil Hasanli, At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet–American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941–1946, Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Pp. 424. $87.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 690-692
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Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2007). Pp. 253. $55.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 692-694
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Conrad Schetter, Ethnizität und ethnische Konflikte in Afghanistan (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2003). Pp. 680. $130.00 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 694-695
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Sumru Altuğ and Alpay Filiztekin, eds., The Turkish Economy: The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Economies (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 308. $150.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 695-697
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Julia Elyachar, Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005). Pp. 296. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 697-699
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Bjørn Olav Utvik, Islamist Economics in Egypt: The Pious Road to Development (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006). Pp. 287. $55.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 699-700
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Zeʾev Maghen, After Hardship Cometh Ease: The Jews as Backdrop for Muslim Moderation, Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Orients (Neue Folge) (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006). Pp. 249. $125.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 700-702
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Razmik Panossian, The Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). Pp. 492. $42.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 702-704
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Donald Quataert, Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822–1920 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006). Pp. 288. $80.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 704-706
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Rasheed El-Enany, Arab Representations of the Occident: East–West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, Culture and Civilization of the Middle East (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 272. $150.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 706-708
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Roger Allen and D. S. Richards, eds., Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Pp. 492. $220.00 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 708-710
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Jonathan G. Katz, Murder in Marrakesh: Émile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure (Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 2006). Pp. 312. $29.95 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 710-712
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Mohammad Gholi Majd, Oil and the Killing of the American Consul in Tehran (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006). Pp. 358. $70.00 cloth, $45.00 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 712-714
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Gawdat Bahgat, Israel and the Persian Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006). Pp. 240. $39.95 cloth.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 714-715
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Derek Penslar, Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2007). Pp. 276. $150.00 cloth, $43.95 paper.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 715-716
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Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, eds., From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon, Beiruter Texte und Studien 96 (Beirut: Orient-Institut der DMG Beirut, 2004). Pp. 366.
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- 01 November 2008, pp. 717-719
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