Book Review

Book reviewed in this article: The Vatican, Islam and the Middle East . Edited by Kail C. Ellis. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987, 336 pp. $39.95, cloth. My Friend the Enemy . By Uri Avnery. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill and Co., 1986. 340 pp. $19.95, cloth; $12.95, paper. The Armenian Genocide in Perspective . Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1986. 203 pp., index. n.p. A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau . By Michael Gates Peletz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xxv plus 383 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Charts. Bibliography. Indices. $39.95. Back to the Fold? Egypt and the Arab World . By Abdel Monem Said Aly. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, September, 1988. Occasional Paper Series. 22 pp. n.p. Modern Egypt: The Formation of a Nation‐State . By Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988. x plus 211 pp. $32.00, hardcover; $14.95, paper. The Munshidin of Egypt. Their World and their Song . By Earle H. Waugh. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. xvii plus 246 pp. A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered . By Kamal Salibi. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988. 247 pp. $22.50. Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries . By Mikhǎyil Mishǎga. Translated from the Arabic by W. M. Thackston, Jr. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1988. xix plus 309 pp. Photographs. Maps. Appendices. Index. $16.95, paper; $49.50, cloth. A History of the Jews of Arabia from Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam . By Gordon Darnell Newby. [Studies in Comparative Religion. Edited by Frederick M. Denny.] Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. xii plus 177 pp. Map. Index. n.p. Palestinians in the Arab World: Institution Building and the Search for State . By Laurie A. Brand. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. 286 pp. $35.00. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947‐1949 . By Benny Morris [Cambridge Middle East Library.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xx plus 380 Maps. Bibliography. Index. $39.50, hardcover. Islam and Revolution in the Middle East . By Henry Munson, Jr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xi plus 180 pp. Footnotes, Bibliography, and Index. $18.95. Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain . By Kenneth Baxter Wolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xi plus 145 pp. Bibliography. Index. n.p. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphate: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century . By Hugh Kennedy. London and New York: Longman, 1986. xii plus 424 pp. n.p. Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study . By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Adair T. Lummis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. viii plus 196 pp. Charts. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. ($9.95 paper). An Introduction to Religious Foundations in the Ottoman Empire . By John Robert Barnes. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986. xii plus 156 pp. Bibliography. $29.00. Der Islam im Spiegel westlicher Theologie: Aspekte christlich‐theologischer Beurteilung des Islams im 20 Jahrhundert . By Klaus Hock. [Kölner Veröffentlichungen zur Religionsgeschichte herausgegeben von Michael Klöcker und Udo Tworuschka, Band 8]. Köln; Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 1986. 403 pp. Bibliography. n.p. The History of al‐Tabari (Trikh al‐rusul wl‐muluk) vol. VI Muhammad at Mecca . Translated and annotated by W. Montgomery Watt and M. V. McDonald. [Bibliotheca Persica.] Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988. xlvi plus 178 pp. $44.50, cloth; $14.95, paper. Shiism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality . Edited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1988. xviii plus 401 pp. $24.50, paper; $73.50, cloth. Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism . By Yusuf al‐Qaradawi. [Issues of Islamic Thought Series No. 2.] Herndon, Va.: American Trust Publication and the International Institute of Islamic Thought. n.d., 123 pp., n.p. The Banners of the Champions. An Anthology of Medieval Arabic Poetry from Andalusia and Beyond . By Ibn Said al‐Maghrib. Selected and translated by James A. Bellamy and Patricia Owen Steiner. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1989. xxxix plus 238 pages. Bibliography. Brief Biographies. Index of Images. n.p. Seed of Redemption: A Political Novel . By Francis Mading Deng. New York: Lilian Barber Press, 1986. xi plus 304 pp. $17.95. Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition . By Fazlur Rahman. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1987. xiii plus 149 pp. $18.95. Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle's “Poetics .“ Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Charles E. Butterworth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xvi plus 161 pp. Bibliography. Arabic‐English and English‐Arabic Glossaries. Index. $22.50. Arabic Philosophy and the West . Edited by Therese‐Anne Druart. Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1988. ix plus 263 pp. Index. n.p.