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BETWEEN MEMORY AND DESIRE: THE MIDDLE EAST IN A TROUBLED AGE. By R. STEPHEN HUMPHREYS. University of California Press. 297 pp. $29.95. ANY BOOK ON THE Middle East that refers [...]

To Be a European Muslim: A Study of Islamic Sources in the European Context. By Tariq Ramadan. Leicester, U.K.: Islamic Foundation, 1999/1420. 273 pp. 19.95 £ (9.95 £, paper). The [...]

Muslims and Islamization in North America: Problems and Prospects. Edited by Amber Haque. Beltsville, Md.: Amana, 1420/1999.491 pp. $19.95. In a 'stock-taking of how American Muslims have fared thus far [...]

Muslim Women: Crafting a North American Identity. By Shahnaz Khan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 152 pp. $49.95. Although Khan herself writes in the pseudo-complex language of post-modernism (the [...]

The Sun is Rising in the West: New Muslims Tell about Their Journey to Islam. By Muzaffar Haleem and Betty Bowman. Beltsville, Md.: Amana, 1420/1999.321 pp. $12.95. A Pakistani immigrant [...]

The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. By N. Brent Kennedy, with Robin Vaughan Kennedy. Rev. ed. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University [...]

The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad. By Karl Evanzz. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. 667 pp. $28.50. by Claude A. Clegg, III Indiana University at Bloomington Elijah [...]

Marianne et le Prophete: L'Islam dans la France laique. By Soheib Bencheikh. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1998.282 pp. FF109.25. Islam is more evolved in France than One obvious difference is in [...]

The Lebanese in Ecuador: A History of Emerging Leadership. By Lois J. Roberts. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2000. 243 pp. $60. The same wave of immigrants that brought the first Levantines [...]

Muslims and Islamization in North America: Problems and Prospects. Edited by Amber Haque. Beltsville, Md.: Amana, 1420/1999.491 pp. $19.95. In a 'stock-taking of how American Muslims have fared thus far [...]

The Sun is Rising in the West: New Muslims Tell about Their Journey to Islam. By Muzaffar Haleem and Betty Bowman. Beltsville, Md.: Amana, 1420/1999.321 pp. $12.95. A Pakistani immigrant [...]

Muslim Women: Crafting a North American Identity. By Shahnaz Khan. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 152 pp. $49.95. Although Khan herself writes in the pseudo-complex language of post-modernism (the [...]

To Be a European Muslim: A Study of Islamic Sources in the European Context. By Tariq Ramadan. Leicester, U.K.: Islamic Foundation, 1999/1420. 273 pp. 19.95 £ (9.95 £, paper). The [...]

The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. By N. Brent Kennedy, with Robin Vaughan Kennedy. Rev. ed. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University [...]

Marianne et le Prophete: L'Islam dans la France laique. By Soheib Bencheikh. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1998.282 pp. FF109.25. Islam is more evolved in France than One obvious difference is in [...]

The Lebanese in Ecuador: A History of Emerging Leadership. By Lois J. Roberts. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2000. 243 pp. $60. The same wave of immigrants that brought the first Levantines [...]

America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature, An Anthology. Edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 152 pp. $45. 'Our tendency in [...]

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press, 1998.254 pp. $55 (paper $18.50). Slowly, out of the surprisingly full [...]

Arabs in America: Building a New Future. Edited by Michael W. Suleiman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 355 pp. $69.50 ($29.95, paper). 'Occasionally, when a parent described religious characteristics for [...]

The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976. By Farid el Khazen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 432 pp. $49.95. The Lebanese war that began in 1975 has been [...]

Let's Go Middle East 2000. Edited by Zahr Said. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 719 pp. $22.99. A new title in the Let's Go series of student-oriented travel guides, [...]

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. By Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 274 pp. $27.50. Rashid, the Far Eastern Economic Review's outstanding journalist covering [...]

Yemen: The Unknown Arabia. By Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Etchings by Martin Yeoman. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 2000. 280 pp. $35. Rave reviews in the British press refer to Yemen as a travel [...]

Syrische Religionspolitik unter Asad. By Annabelle Bottcher. Freiburg i. Br.: Arnold-Bergstrasser-Institut; 1998.258 pp. DM 30. Too many Western analysts of Syria tip-toe around the awkward but inescapable fact that the [...]

Al-Quds: The Place of Jerusalem in Classical Judaic and Islamic Traditions. By Mohammed Abdul Hameed Al-Khateeb. London: Ta-Ha, 1419/1998. 213 pp. 4.95 £. Al-Khateeb, in a typical example of Islamist [...]

Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran. By Peter Chelkowski and Hamid Dabashi. Designed by Jason Beard and Jonathan Barnbrook. New York: New York [...]

The Schools of Ba`athism: A Study of Syrian Textbooks. By Meyrav Wurmser. Washington: Middle East Media Research Institute, 2000. 122 pp. $16.95. Noting that 'a long-lasting peace between Israel and [...]

A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History. Selected and edited by Bernard Lewis. New York: Random House, 2000. 470 pp. $35. Lewis, whose first published article appeared [...]

Palestinian Democracy and Governance: An Appraisal of the Legislative Council. By David Schenker. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2000. 140 pp. $19.95. As Schenker points out in his [...]

Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. By Meron Benvenisti. Trans. from Hebrew by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 366 pp. $35. Going [...]

Compromising Palestine: A Guide to the Final Status Negotiations. By Aharon Klieman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 284 pp. $39.50 (paper, $17.50). Declaring his intention 'to goad' the negotiators [...]

The Israeli-Syrian Dialogue: A One-Way Ticket to Peace? By Uri Sagie. Houston: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, 1999. 85 pp. $12. 'It may certainly be assumed that [...]

Comparing Religions through Law: Judaism and Islam. By Jacob Neusner and Tamara Sonn. London: Routledge, 2000. $85 (paper, $27.99). It's a wonder that this book was not written many decades [...]

The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion. By Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999. 268 pp. $29.95. In the long tradition of conspiracy theorists, [...]

Ataturk. By Andrew Mango. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 2000. 666 pp. $40. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), one of the great political figures of the twentieth century, has not been the subject [...]

Being Modern in Iran. By Fariba Adelkhah. Trans. from French by Jonathan Derrick. Columbia University Press, 2000. 190 pp. $25. Adelkhah, a researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches [...]

By GILLES KEPEL. Translated by Anthony F. Roberts. Harvard University Press. 454 pp. $29.95. One way to become a famous intellectual in France is to advance a counter-intuitive (read: nonsensical) [...]