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Volume 40 - November 2008

Book Review

Ella Shohat Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006) Pp. 406. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paperback.

Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century, Hesperia Supplement 34 (Athens: The American School of Classical Studies, 2005). Pp. 348. $45.00 paper.

Sayed Khatab, The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb: The Theory of Jahiliyyah, Routledge Studies in Political Islam (London: Routledge, 2006). Pp. 256. $160.00 cloth.

Patrice Cressier, Maribel Fierro, and Luis Molina, eds., Los Almohades: Problemas y Perspectivas, 2 vols. (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2005). Pp. 1281. €69.00 paper.

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Leiden/Boston: E. J. Brill, 2004). Pp. 326. $164.00 cloth.

Jillian Schwedler, Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Pp. 276. $84.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Kemal H. Karpat, ed., with Robert W. Zens, Ottoman Borderlands: Issues, Personalities, and Political Changes (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Pp. 347. $37.50 paper.

Dagmar Glaß Der Muqtataf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation, 2 vols. (Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2004). Pp. 765. €94 paper.

Brenda Shaffer, ed., The Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). Pp. 360. $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Markus Koller and Kemal H. Karpat, eds. Ottoman Bosnia: A History in Peril (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Pp. 281. $39.95 paper.

Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski, eds., Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005). Pp. 259. $126 cloth.

Esra Özyürek Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey, Politics, History and Culture (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006). Pp 227. $74.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.

Marlene Kurz, ed., Das Sicill aus Skopje: Kritische Edition und Kommentierung des einzigen vollständig erhaltenen Kadiamtsregisterbandes (Sicill) aus Üsküb (Skopje) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003). Pp. 963. €128.00 cloth.

Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire (London/New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004). Pp. 256. $74.95 cloth.

Brannon Wheeler, Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 333. $62.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Ali Modarres Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture, Bibliotheca Iranica, Urban Planning History of Iranian Cities: No. 1 (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2006). Pp. 210. $45.00 paper.

Anthony H. Cordesman and Nawaf Obaid, National Security in Saudi Arabia: Threats, Responses, and Challenges (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2005). Pp. 439.

Fruma Zachs The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth Century Beirut, Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005). Pp. 278. $153.00 cloth.

Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law: A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence, Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006). Pp. 212. $155.00 cloth.

Şevki Nezihi Aykut, ed., Istanbul Mahkemesi 121 Numaralı Şerʿiyye Sicili. Tarih: 1231–1232/1816–1817 (Istanbul: Sabancı Üniversitesi, 2006). Pp. 312. €60.00 cloth.

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