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(Vol. III No. 1): Spring 1995
From The Editors: Since 1992, the editorial board of The Arab Studies Journal has promised to present a reliable and critical alternative publication that is not afraid to take "the road less traveled." The Journal has also promised to deliver sound scholarship on the Arab world at a time when what exists in this regard is wanting. Amid an ever-increasing wave of hostility toward anything smacking of Arabness and Islam in the Western press, and at a time when much of what Arab and Muslim intellectuals provide is defensive and apologetic, we hope to contribute to a leveled scholarship not tempered by politics or polemics . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles
4. The Qur’an and Its Meaning
by Barbara Stowasser
9. Bipolarity, Rational Calculation, and the War in Yemen
by Michael C. Hudson
20. The Conventional War in Yemen
by David Warburton
45. Britain’s Social, Moral, and Cultural Penetration of Palestine: British Travelers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine and Their Perception of the Jews
by Sabrina Joseph
68. The Meaning of Slavery and Identity in al-Andalus: The Epistle of Ibn Garcia
by Carol Graham
80. ‘Abbas al-‘Aqqad: The Historian
by Hayfa Khalafallah
95. Legislative Development as a Key Element of Strategies for Democratization in the Arab World
by Robert Springborg
101. The Rhetoric of Rashid Ghannushi
by Khaled Elgindy
121. Reclaiming the Islamic Heritage: Marxism and Islam in the Thought of Husayn Muruwah
by Steve Tamari
Interview
131. Interview with Amos Oz
by Marina Throne-Holst
Commentary
136. Remarks Delivered to Graduate Students During Diploma Ceremony (Georgetown University, May 1994)
by John Ruedy
Fiction
140. Camp
by Diana Abu Jabir
Book Review
144. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States
by F. Gregory Gause III
reviewed by Jefferson Gray
Articles
4. The Qur’an and Its Meaning
by Barbara Stowasser
9. Bipolarity, Rational Calculation, and the War in Yemen
by Michael C. Hudson
20. The Conventional War in Yemen
by David Warburton
45. Britain’s Social, Moral, and Cultural Penetration of Palestine: British Travelers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine and Their Perception of the Jews
by Sabrina Joseph
68. The Meaning of Slavery and Identity in al-Andalus: The Epistle of Ibn Garcia
by Carol Graham
80. ‘Abbas al-‘Aqqad: The Historian
by Hayfa Khalafallah
95. Legislative Development as a Key Element of Strategies for Democratization in the Arab World
by Robert Springborg
101. The Rhetoric of Rashid Ghannushi
by Khaled Elgindy
121. Reclaiming the Islamic Heritage: Marxism and Islam in the Thought of Husayn Muruwah
by Steve Tamari
Interview
131. Interview with Amos Oz
by Marina Throne-Holst
Commentary
136. Remarks Delivered to Graduate Students During Diploma Ceremony (Georgetown University, May 1994)
by John Ruedy
Fiction
140. Camp
by Diana Abu Jabir
Book Review
144. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States
by F. Gregory Gause III
reviewed by Jefferson Gray