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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES VOLUME 34, 2002 EDITOR JUAN R. I. COLE REVIEW EDITORS MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI JOEL GORDON FRANKLIN LEWIS NEGAR MOTTAHEDEH DIRK VANDEWALLI EDITORIAL BOARD SOHRAB BEHDAD SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM MARILYN BOOTH DENIZ KANDIYOTI RICHARD W. BULLIET HASAN KAYALI STEVEN CATON FARHAD KAZEMI KEN CUNO TIMUR KURAN BESHARA DOUMANI TIMOTHY MITCHELL HALA FATTAH LESLIE PEIRCE ELLIS GOLDBERG ILAN PELEG JO-ANN GROSS EVERETT ROWSON VALERIE HOFFMAN RON SUNY 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 2002 Cambridge University Press Printed in the United States of America Contents to Volume 34 787 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Editor: Juan R. I. Cole CONTENTS: VOLUME 34 (2002) Artic les NADIRA A. ABDURAKHIMOVA The Colonial System of Power in Turkistan 239-262 OREN BARAK __ I[ntra-communal and Inter-communal Dimensions of Con- flict and Peace in Lebanon 619-644 ASEF BAYAT Activism and Social Development in the Middle East 1-28 SOHRAB BEHDAD AND FARHAD NOMANI Workers, Peasants, and Ped- dlers: A Study of Labor Stratification in the Post-Revolutionary Iran 667-690 JUAN R. I. COLE From the Editor 187 JUAN R. I. COLE AND DENIZ KANDIyoT! Nationalism and the Colonial Legacy in the Middle East and Central Asia: Introduction 189-203 VAHAKN N. DADRIAN'- The Armenian Question and the Wartime Fate of the Armenians as Documented by the Officials of the Ottoman Em- pire’s World War I Allies: Germany and Austria-Hungary BUSRA ERSANL!I History Textbooks as Reflections of the Political Self: Turkey (1930s and 1990s) and Uzbekistan (1990s) HAp! SALEHI ESFAHANI AND FARZAD TAHERIPOUR Hidden Public Ex- penditures and the Economy in Iran MARK J. GASIOROWSKI The Nuzhih Plot and Iranian Politics ANTHONY HYMAN Nationalism in Afghanistan ALISHER ILKHAMOV__Nation-State Formation: Features of Social Stratifi- cation in the Late Soviet Era NAZIM IREM_ Turkish Conservative Modernism: Birth of a Nationalist Quest for Cultural Renewal MARIANNE KAmp Pilgrimage and Performance: Uzbek Women and the Imagining of Uzbekistan in the 1920s DENIZ KAND!yoT! Post-Colonialism Compared: Potentials and Limita- tions in the Middle East and Central Asia SAM KAPLAN Din-u Devlet All Over Again? The Politics of Military Secularism and Religious Militarism in Turkey Following the 1980 Coup 3-127 UssAMA Makopisi_ After 1860: Debating Religion, Reform, and Nation- alism in the Ottoman Empire 617 788 Contents to Volume 34 CHRISTOPHER MELCHERT The Piety of the Hadith Folk W.FLAGG MILLER Metaphors of Commerce: Trans-valuing Tribalism in Yemeni Audiocassette Poetry BASHEER M. NAFI Abu al-Thand al-Alusi: An Alim, Ottoman Mufti, and Exegete of the Quran IRINI RENIERI Household Formation in 19th-Century Central Anatolia: The Case Study of a Turkish-Speaking Orthodox Christian Community MAYA ROSENFELD Power Structure, Agency, and Family in a Palestin- ian Refugee Camp MOHAMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI From Patriotism to Matriotism: A Tropo- logical Study of Iranian Nationalism, 1870-1909 ['YNTCHTYKBEK TCHOROEV Historiography of Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan WESLEY WILLIAMS Aspects of the Creed of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse SAMI ZUBAIDA The Fragments Imagine the Nation: The Case of Iraq Book Reviews RAN AARONSOHN, Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine (Uzi Baram) THABIT A. ABDULLAH, Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra (Patricia Risso) MOHAMMED ‘ABED AL-JABRI, Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique (Tamara Sonn) AS‘AD ABUKHALIL, Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (Sami A. Ofeish) NAA ABU-ZAHRA, The Pure and the Powerful: Studies in Contemporary Muslim Society (Vincent F. Biondo III) HOSSEIN ALIKHANI, Sanctioning Iran: Anatomy of a Failed Policy (Jalil Roshandel) JAHANGIR AMUZEGAR, Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC’s Windfalls and Pitfalls (Fereidun Fesharaki) TURKKAYA ATAOV, Kashmir and Neighbours: Tale, Terror, Truce (Raju G. C. Thomas) ALESSANDRO BAUSANI, Religion in Iran (Dominic Brookshaw) GERTRUDE BELL, The Arabian Diaries, 1913—1914 (Dane Kennedy) NINA BERMAN, Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900 (Andrew Zimmerman) 401 DEBORAH S. BERNSTEIN, Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine (Mark LeVine) 146 MICHAEL BrReETT, The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterra- nean and the Middle East in the Tenth Century C.E. (Amalia Levanoni) 743-745 ROBERT Bropy, The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture (Arnold Franklin) 384-385 DANIEL BRUMBERG, Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran (Vanessa Martin) 410-412 Contents to Volume 3 PALMIRA BRUMMETT, /mage and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolution- ary Press, 1908—1911 (Elizabeth Thompson) ROBERT I. BURNS AND PAUL E. CHEVEDDEN, Negotiating Cultures: Bilin- gual Surrender Treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror (Maria Angeles Gallego) . MILLARD BURR AND ROBERT O. COLLINS, Africa's Thirty Years War: Libya, Chad, and the Sudan 1963—1993 (Gregory W. White) RAY BusH, Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt (Clement M. Henry) HERIBERT Busse, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Theological and His- torical Affiliations (Reuven Firestone) ERIC CORNELL, Turkey in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges, Threats (M. Hakan Yavuz) HAMID DABASHI, Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn al- Qudat al-Hamadhani (Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab) EERIK DICKINSON, The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (240/854—327/938) (Herbert Berg) FRED M. DONNER, Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Is- lamic Historical Writing (Richard C. Martin) PAUL Drescu, A History of Modern Yemen (Ulrike Freitag) SHIRIN EBADI, History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran (Haleh Vaziri) GERALD T. ELMORE, /slamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al‘Ar- abi’s Book of the Fabulous Gryphon (Omid Safi) DAPHNA EPHRAT, A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: The Sunni ‘Ulama’ of Eleventh-Century Baghdad (Tayeb El-Hibri) TIM EPKENHANS, Die iranische Moderne im Exil: Bibliographie der Zeit- schrift Kave, Berlin 1916—1922 (Kamran Arjomand) CARL W. ERNST, Ruzbihan Bagqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Saint- hood in Persian Sufism (Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab) MARTIN EWANS, Afghanistan: A New History (Barnett R. Rubin) MARIBEL FIERRO AND JULIO SAMSO, ED., The Formation of al-Andalus, Part 2. Language, Religion, Culture and the Sciences (Janina Safran) REUVEN FIRESTONE, Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam (Rudolph Peters) YOAV GELBER, Palestine 1948: War, Escape, and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Charles D. Smith) FAWAZ A. GERGES, America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? (Richard A. Lobban, Jr.) AVNER GILADI, Infants, Parents, and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding and Their Social Implications (Judith E. Tucker) YERACH GOVER, Zionism: The Limits of Moral Discourse in Israeli He- brew Fiction (Deborah A. Starr) WILLIAM HALE, Turkish Foreign Policy: 1774—2000 (Tozun Bahcheli) FRED HALLIDAY, Nation and Religion in the Middle East (Louis J. Can- tori) 790 Contents to Volume 34 FRED HALLIDAY, The World at 2000: Perils and Promises (Naeem Inaya- tullah) MARGARETHA T. HEEMSKERK, Suffering in the Mu‘tazilite Theology: ‘Abd al-Jabbar’s Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice (Herbert Berg) JOSEPH HELLER, The Birth of Israel, 1945—1949: Ben-Gurion and His Critics (Bernard Reich) CAROLE HILLENBRAND, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Jonathan P Berkey) CHARLES ISsAWI, Growing Up Different, Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar (Sevket Pamuk) Davip C. JACOBSON, Does David Still Play Before You? Israeli Poetry and the Bible (Shalom Goldman) FOROUGH JAHANBAKHSH, /slam, Democracy and Religious Modernism in Iran (1953—2000) from Bazargan to Soroush (Ahmad Kazemi Mous- Savl) JAMES JANKOWSKI, Nasser’s Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic (Donald Malcolm Reid) NAVID KERMANI, /ran: Die Revolution entléBt ihre Kinder (Stephan Con- ermann) KRISTIN KoptiucH, A Poetics of Political Economy in Egypt (Marsha Pripstein Posusney) HEINZ KRAMER, A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States (M. Hakan Yavuz) KATHRYN KUENY, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam (Geert Jan Van Gelder) BRUCE B. LAWRENCE, Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence (Pat- rick D. Gaffney) MOHAMMAD GHOLI MAJID, Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941 (Stephanie Cronin) MOHAMMAD GHOLI MAJID, Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and the Ulama in Iran (Afshin Marashi) USSAMA MAKDISI, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Ottoman Lebanon (Najwa al-Qattan) ANDREW MANGO, Atatiirk—The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey (Howard A. Reed) MANUELA MARIN, ED.. The Formation of al-Andalus. Part 1: History and Society (Janina Safran) VANESSA MARTIN, Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran (Yann Richard) GAIL MINAULT, Secluded Scholars: Women’s Education and Muslim So- cial Reform in Colonial India (Kamran Asdar Ali) ZIBA Mir-HOssEINI, /slam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contem- porary Iran (Nayereh Tohidi) ROBERT OLSON, Turkey's Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia, 199]—2000 (Anoushiravan Ehteshami) Contents to Volume 34 791 SEVKET PAMUK, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Stephen P. Blake) 134 136 LAILA PARSONS, The Druze Between Palestine and Israel, 1947—49 (An- thony B. Toth) 159 160 STEPHEN PELLETIERE, /rag and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf (Isam al Khafaji) 417 421 SHOLEH A. QUINN, Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles (Rula Abisaab) 747 748 STEFAN C. REIF, A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cam- bridge University’s Genizah Collection (Norman A. Stillman) 136 138 PAUL RIVLIN, Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World (Clement M. Henry) 767 769 NADER SAIEDI, Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the 387 Writings of Baha’ullah (Denis MacEoin) 389 MARC SCHADE-POULSON, Men and Popular Music in Algeria (Tony Lan glois) 182 184 HARALD SCHULER, Die tiirkischen Parteien und ihre Mitglieder (Gottfried Plagemann) KIRSTEN E. SCHULZE, The Jews of Lebanon: Between Coexistence and Conflict (Anthony Gorman) Jack G. SHAHEEN, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (Livia Alexander) ALI SHAKOORI, The State and Rural Development in Post-Revolutionary Tran (Amir Ismail Ajami) 769 771 MAYA SHATZMILLER, The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marinid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco (Katherine E. Hoffman) 39] 394 FAEGHEH SHIRAZI, The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture (Val Moghadam) 597 599 MARTIN SICKER, The Middle East in the Twentieth Century (Glenn E. Perr’) 763 764 TAMARA SONN, Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi’s Islamic Intellectual History (Shukri B. Abed) 380 382 FREDERIQUE SOUDAN, Le Yémen ottoman d’apré s la chronique d’al Mawa’‘i (Isa Blumi) 394 396 PAUL STEPHENSON, Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 9OO—1204 (Mark Bartusis) 138 140 DENIS J. SULLIVAN AND SANA ABED-KoTos, /slam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society versus the State (W. Judson Dorman) 179 182 KAMRAN TALATTOF, The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature (Mohammad Ghanoonparvar) 408 410 NIKOLAI TopoROV, Society, the City, and Industry in the Balkans, 15th- 19th Centuries (Isa Blumi) 140 142 CHARLES Tripp, A History of Iraq (Betty S. Anderson) 161 162 JupiTH E. TucKEr, Jn the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Pulestine (Bogag A. Ergene) 165 167 792 Contents to Volume 34 COLIN TURNER, /slam without Allah? The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran (Sholeh A. Quinn) 741-743 WARWICK P. N. TYLER, State Lands and Rural Development in Manda- tory Palestine, 1920-1948 (Geremy Forman) 764-766 ITZCHAK WEISMANN, Taste of Modernity, Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus (Anver M. Emon) 580-582 PAUL WHEATLEY, The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands Seventh through the Tenth Centuries (Ira M. Lapidus) 396-398 SHERIFA ZUHUR, Asmahan’s Secrets: Woman, War, and Song (Michael 711-719 Frishkopf) SHERIFA ZUHUR, ED., mages of Enchantment, Visual and Performing Arts 597 of the Middle East (Jessica Winegar) Notes and Comments ALI ABDULLATIF AHMIDA_ A Reply to Ralph M. Khoury RALPH M. KHoury A Response to Ali Abdullatif Ahmida’s Review of The Making of an Egyptian Arab Nationalist: The Early Years of Az- zam Pasha, 1893-1936 781-782 ROBERT OLSON A Comment on Hakan Ozoflu, “Nationalism and Kurd- ish Notables in the Late Ottoman-Early Republican Era” 423-424 HAKAN OZOGLU_ A Reply to Robert Olson 424 Review Articles SAID AMIR ARJOMAND- The Reform Movement and the Debate on Mo- dernity and Tradition in Contemporary Iran NIKKIR. KEDDIE Women in the Limelight: Some Recent Books on Mid- dle Eastern Women’s History * #8 i