NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS PH.D.'S RECEIVED Columbia University ASHRAF GHANI - Production and Domination: Afghanistan 1747-1901. BASSAM NAMANI - Crises in Lebanon, 1943-76: The Quest for Subsystematic Balance. REEVA SIMON - Iraq between Wars: The Creation and Implementation of a National Ideology. SUMMER SCOTT HUYETTE - Political Adaptation in Saudi Arabia: A Study of the Council of Ministers. ISADORE JAY GOLD - The United States and Saudi Arabia, 1933-53: Post- Imperial Diplomacy and the Legacy of British Power. ABDULLATIF HARES - Education and National Integration in Lebanon. Denver University RUTH RODED - Tradition and Change in Syria during the last Decades of Ottoman Rule: The Urban Elite of Damascus, Aleppo, Homs and Hama, 1876-1918. George Washington University SALLY ANN BAYNARD - Sudanese Foreign Policy under Nimeriri, 1969-82. GABRIELLA TOEPLITZ HEICHAL - Decision Making during Crisis: The Korean War and the Yom Kippur War. JASIM MOHAMMAD ABDULGHANI - Baathist Iraq's Relations with Iran, 1968- 78. EDWARD DOUGLAS MENARCHIK - The Politics of the Israeli Rescue Operation at Entebbe: Crisis Resolution between State and Terrorist Organizations. MAMUN ABDEL-GADIR YUSUF - The Sudanese Civil War: A Study of Conflict Resolution. Harvard University An ASANI - The Bujh niranjan: A Critical Edition of a Mystical (Sufi) Poem in Medieval Hindustani with Its Khojki and Gujarati Recensions. New York University SHAFIGA DAULET - The Rise and Fall of the Khanate of Kazan (1438-1552). LINDA KOMAROFF - Timurid Phase in Iranian Metalwork. PEARL PRESCHEL - The Jews of Corfu. Princeton University MARILYN MAYERS - A Century of Psychiatry: The Egyptian Mental Hospitals. RALPH M. COURY - Abd al-Rahman Azzam and the Development of Egyptian Arab Nationalism. ALISON LERRICK - Taghribat Bani Hilal al Diyaghim Variation in the Oral Epic Poetry of Najd. LARRY B. MILLER - Islamic Disputation Theory: A History of Dialectic from the Tenth through Fourteenth Centuries. PAULA A. SANDERS - The Court Ceremonial of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt. 284 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 24 Sep 2021 at 15:46:06, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400016072 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS 285 State University of New York at Binghamton SEYED T. BARAKCHIAN - An Annotated Translation of Nazim al Islam Kir- mani's Tarikh-i bidar-i Iranian (History of Iranian awakening), vol. 3. Tel-Aviv University DAVID MENASHRI - The Role of Higher Education in the Development of Modern Iran: The Educational System under the Qajar and the Pahlavi Dynasties. YOSEF OLMERT - British Policy towards the Levant States, 1940-45. JOSEPH KOSTINER - The Making of Saudi Arabia 1917-36. ROCHEL SIMON - The Ottoman Involvement in Libya during the War with Italy 1911 19. University of California, Berkeley JAMES WILLIAM WEINBERGER - Urban Life in Central Asia in the Early Middle Ages (850-1250). University of California, Los Angeles JUAN RlCARDO IRFAN COLE - Imami Shi'ism from Iran to North India, 1722- 1856: State, Society and Clerical Ideology in Awadh. University of Chicago AUDREY L. ALTSTADT-MIRHADI - The Azerbaijani Turkish Community of Baku before World War I. DELIA RARELA BARCELONA - A Sociology of Negative Beliefs About the Contraceptive Pill in Eygpt. STEVEN C. CATON - Tribal Poetry as Political Rhetoric from Khawlan at Tiyal, Yemen Arab Republic. CAROL L. DELANEY - Seed and Soil: Symbols of Procreation-Creation of a World (an Example from Turkey). MARGARET RUTH DITTEMORE - Zemsemiye: An Ethno-Archeological Study of a Turkish Village. MICHAEL FEDIDA - Honor, Kinship, and Marriage in Arab Culture. CYNTHIA GUY - The Bnei Israel Indian Community of Midbarit, Israel. NURCHOLISH MADJID - Ibn Taymiyya on kalam and falsafa (a Problem.of Reason and Revelation in Islam). TAMARA SONN - Bandali al Jawzi's History of Intellectual Movements in Islam Part One: The Social Movements—A Translation and Commentary. University of Edinburgh MAHMOUD ABDULLAHZADEH - Iran's Foreign Policy from the Inception of the Second World War to the Azarbaijan Crisis. HUSAIN AL DHAWWAD - The An-Nukat al hisan fi sharh ghdyat al ihsdn of Abu Hayyan an NahwT al AndalusT: Critical edition with introduction. AHMAD I. AL FAGIH - The Libyan Short Story. MESFER AL HARITHI - The Al Fara'id al wafiyya bi dhikr ma lam tahwihi al al- fiyya of al Mansuri: A Critical Edition with a Comparative Study between it and the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik. MUHAMMAD AL MAHDI MUHAMMAD - An Inquiry into the Utilitarian Ten­ dencies in the Ethics of Miskawayh. ARSSAN RASHID - The Role of the shurta in Early Islam. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 24 Sep 2021 at 15:46:06, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400016072 286 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS MOHAMMAD SULEMAN - The Development of Military Intelligence in the Career of the Prophet at Medina. MARZOUK S. I. TENBAK - Tribalism and Political Change as Reflected in the Poetry of the Early Umayyad Period. DAVID C. NICOLLE - The Military Technology of Classical Islam. BERNARD O'KANE - Timurid Architecture in Khurasan. MUHAMMAD JABBAR MUAIBED - The dad Sound: A Historical Phonetic Study. PHILIP C. SADGROVE - The Development of the Arabic Periodical Press and Its Role in the Literary Life of Egypt. FADHL AL-AMMARY AD-DOUSARY - The Poetry of Taghlib. NAJLEH KHANDAGH - Political Parties in Iran (1941-47) with Special Reference to Firqa-yi Dimukrat Azerbaijan. AHMAD 'ALI MUHAMMAD 'ABD ALLAH - The Variant Readings of the Qur'an: A Critical Study of Their Historical and Linguistic Origins. MUHAMMAD A. ABUBAKAR - The Contribution of Muhammad al-Nuwayhl to Modern Arabic Literary Criticism in Egypt. ABD AL-RAFI'I OMOTOSHO - The Problem of al-amr in usul al-fiqh. University of London, SO AS M. E. MALKHUS - Syntax and Epistemology in the Kitab al~tarbi' wa-l-tadwir of al-Jahiz. University of Manchester ABDALLAH A. M. A. AL-SHAHHAM - Fadwa Tuqan, Her Life and Works. NOUREDDINE GUELLA - A Linguistic Investigation of the Arabic Dialect of Nedroma (Algeria). FAHMI T. M. MUKBIL - The Development of Reform Concepts in 19th Century Egypt, with Special Emphasis on Shaykh Muhammad 'Abduh and His Group. L. J. WARD - The Zafar-namah of Hamdallah Mustawff and the II-Khan Dynasty of Iran. YUSUF ABU ADDOUS - The Literature, Rhetoric and Literary Criticism of the Mu'tazila and Their Influence on Arabic Writing up to the 6th/12th Century. D. J. SCHROETER - Merchants and Peddlars of Essaouira: A Social History of a Moroccan Town (1884-86). NASIR A. A. AL-BARAKATI - Ithaf fudala' al-zaman bi-ta'rikh wilayat Bani 'l- Hasan of Muhammad b. 'All al-Taban al Husaynl al MakkT, critical edition with introduction, political-historical survey and summary of the unedited part of the ms. University of Michigan MOHAMMED ABDELAZIZ AL-GABBANI - Community Structure, Residential Satisfaction and Preferences in a Rapidly Changing Urban Environment: The Case of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. AZEEZAH A. AL-MANEA - Historical and Contemporary Policies of Women's Education in Saudi Arabia. SAMIR SHARIF ISTIETIYA - The Phonetics and Phonology of Classical Arabic as Described by al-Jurjanl's Al-Muqtasad. KAMEL KAMEL ABDELHAMID NIMER - The Role of Women's Education in Eradicating Illiteracy in Jordan. BlJAN RAFAILZADEH - The Economics of Bribery in Less Developed Countries with Special Application to Iran. NAHID RASHEDI - History of Iranian Education: Influence of Islam and the West. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 24 Sep 2021 at 15:46:06, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400016072 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS 287 University of Oxford MARY C. WILSON - King Abdullah of Jordan: A Political Biography. University of Toronto D. A. AGIUS - Arabic Literary Works as a Source of Documentation for Technical Terms of the Material Culture. GEORGE DIMITRI-SAWA - Musical Performance Practice in the Early 'Abbasid Era, 750-932 A.D.. University of Utah BALKEES AL-NAJJAR - The Syntax and Semantics of Verbal Aspect in Kuwaiti Arabic. ABDULMATLUB ABDULMATLUB - The Contemporary Libyan Short Story: Its Emergence, Development, and Dominant Themes. University of Washington RAFIK MOHAMED MAVRAKIS - Urban Design Principles and Guidelines for the Development of Cities in North Africa and the Middle East. University of Wisconsin, Madison HAROLD LEMEL - Urban Skill Acquisition and Job Attainment: A Study of Two Central Anatolian Villages. Yale University SETH WARD - Construction and Repair of Churches and Synaguogues under Islam: A Treatise by Taql al-Dln 'All b. 'Abd al-Kaff al-Subkl. PH.D.'S IN PROGRESS The American University VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM - Accumulation Strategy and Class Formation: The Industrial Labor Force in Iran, 1960-80. Columbia University KHALIL I. SHIKAKI - Nuclear Deterrence in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. MUHAMMAD Y. MUSLIH - Political Change and Political Leadership: The Palestine Arab Nationalist Movement, 1935-78. DIRK VANDEWALLE - The Political Economy of Maghrib Oil: Political Change, Industrialization, and Development in Libya and Algeria (1970-84). LAURIE BRAND - Palestinian Diaspora: Origins and Development, 1948-70. SAM I. GELLENS - Social History at the Provincial Level: The 'ulama' of Pre- Fatimid Egypt, 800-1000 C.E.. George Washington University BRIAN FREDERICKS - The Evolution of Southwest Asia as a Strategic Frame­ work in U.S. Foreign Policy. JOHN H. McFADDEN - Institutional Failure and Civil Violence: The Turkish Republic. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ADEL MANA' - The Sanjak of Jerusalem between Two Invasions (1799-1831): Administrative and Social History. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.93, on 24 Sep 2021 at 15:46:06, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400016072 288 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS NlSSlM QAZZAZ - The Iraqi Orientation among the Jews in Iraq, 1921-51.