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BULLETIN Voluino 20 • No MIDDU: EAST S II nms ASSOCIAIios BULLETIN Voluino 20 • No. 1 July 1980 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 25 Sep 2021 at 05:28:13, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400058879 Editor: JEREL. BACHARACH Assistant Editor: THEODORA S. MACKAY Book Review Committee History and Political Science: Arab East and Turkey: BENJAMIN BRAUDE Arab West: LISA ANDERSON Iran and Afghanistan: LEONARD HELFGOTT Anthropology and Sociology: MICHAEL E. BONINE Language and Literature: ROGER ALLEN Other: JERE L. BACHARACH Film Reviews: CHARLOTTE F. ALBRIGHT Record Reviews: HlROMI L. SAKATA Outreach Programs: CHARLOTTE F. ALBRIGHT Art and Exhibitions: IRENE A. BlERMAN COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE EDITOR should be addressed to JERE L. BACHARACH, Department of History, University of Wash­ ington, Seattle, Washington 98195. BOOKS AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS FOR REVIEW are to be sent to The Middle East Studies Association, Headquarters and Secretariat, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, (602) 621-5850. Books received are listed in the MESA Newsletter. THE MESA BULLETIN (ISSN 0026-3184) is a biannual publication of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc., issued in July and December. Views expressed in the Bulletin are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Association. © 1986 by The Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. Distributed by The Cambridge University Press. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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Cartes et documents ethnographiques (Lee Home) 59 ALIXA NAFF, Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (Farah Gilanshah) 60 MOHAMMED SAWAIE, Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in the United States and Canada (Barbara C. Aswad) 61 BAT YE'OR, The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam (Vera Basch Moreen) 62 History before 1900 TUNCER BAYKARA, Tiirkiye Selguklulari Devrinde Konya (Konya in Anatolian Seljuk times) (Scott Redford) 65 BENJAMIN BRAUDE & BERNARD LEWIS, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire 2. The Arabic-Speaking Lands (Andre Raymond) 66 ALLAN CHRISTELOW, Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria (Byron D. Cannon) 67 AMNON COHEN & GABRIEL BAER, Egypt and Palestine: A Millenium of Association (868-1948) (Seth Ward) 69 Memoires de Nubar Pacha, notes and introduction by BOUTROS GHALI (F. Robert Hunter) 70 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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HADDAD, Lebanon: The Politics of Revolving Doors (Marius Deeb) 79 RA'IF KHURI, Modern Arab Thought: Channels of the French Revolution to the Arab East (Selma Botman) 80 RALPH H. MAGNUS ed., Afghan Alternatives: Issues, Options, and Policies (Michael H. Fisher) 81 RICHARD B. PARKER, North Africa: Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns (John Damis) 82 MARTIN STROHMEIER, Seldschukische Geschichte und tiirkische Geschichtswissenschaft. Die Seldschuken im Urteil moderner tiirkischer Historiker (C. E. Bosworth) 84 TATIANA PAVLOVNA TlKHONOVA, Svetskaia kontseptsiid arabskogo natsionalizma. Saty aVKhusri (A secular concept of Arab nationalism: Sati' al-Husrl) (Marina Tolmacheva) 85 Humanities and Research Tools KARIN ADAHL, A Khamsa of Nizami of 1439: Origin of the Miniatures—a Presentation and Analysis (Eleanor Sims) 88 MONA TAKIEDDINE AMYUNI ed., Season of Migration to the North: . A Casebook (Muhammad Siddiq) 89 WALTER G. 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EVIN, Origins and Development of the Turkish Novel (Bill Hickman) 104 MESA Bulletin 20 1986 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 25 Sep 2021 at 05:28:13, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400058879 M. R. GHANOONPARVAR, Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio­ political Phenomenon in Modern Iran (Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak) 106 KEITH HODKINSON ed., Muslim Family Law: A Sourcebook (Prank E. Vogel) 108 RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN ed., The Armenian Image in History and Literature (Dickran Kouymjian) 109 YUSUF IDRIS, The Sinners (Issa Peters) 110 IAN J. SECCOMBE compiler, Jordan (Philip J. Robins) 112 MUHAMMAD B. 'ABD AL-KARIM AL-SHAHRASTANI, Muslim Sects and Divisions: the Section on Muslim Sects in Kitab al-Milal w'1-Nihal (R. M. 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