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(Vol. IV No. 1): Spring 1996
From The Editors: This issue inaugurates the fourth year in the life of the Arab Studies Journal. Despite continuing financial constraints, the Journal has been able to survive and expand as a scholarly publication and as an organization. This is largely due to the efforts of a highly dedicated group of individuals who have had faith in the Journal's contribution to scholarly discourse on the Arab World . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Articles
4. Socrates' Islamic Conversion
by CharlesE.Butterworth
13. The End of Third Worldism in Egyptian Studies
by Robert Vitalis
34. Rentierism and Foreign Policy in Syria
by Leonard Robinson
55. The Shaykh and the Saviors: Conceptions of Gender in Two Approaches to Girls' Education in the Northern Sudan,1907-1921
by Chris Toensing
71. Grand Ideas and Intimate Effects:The Gendered Consequences of Egyptian Population Policy, 1971-1992
by E.M.Sissons
86. The Beginning of the End of Sunni Preeminence: Muhammad 'Ali and Jerusalem, 1834
by Judith Mendelsohn Rood
96. Conspiracy Theories, Premature Entextualization, and Popular Political Analysis
by Jon W. Anderson
103. The Politics of the Personal in Evelyne Accad's Blessures des mots
by Cynthia T. Hahn
115. Islam and the Study of Central Asia: A Critique of the Western Scholarly Literature
by Asad Abu Khalil
Interview
131. Palestinian Women and Health: A Perspective from AI-Hussein Refugee Camp, Amman, Jordan
by Elise G. Young
Travel Letter
141. History, Culture, and the Forts of Oman
by John M. Willis
Book Reviews
144. Civil Society in the Middle East, Vol.1
edited by Augustus Richard Norton
reviewed by John M. Roberts
151. Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
by Margot Badran
reviewed by Sharon Doer
Articles
4. Socrates' Islamic Conversion
by CharlesE.Butterworth
13. The End of Third Worldism in Egyptian Studies
by Robert Vitalis
34. Rentierism and Foreign Policy in Syria
by Leonard Robinson
55. The Shaykh and the Saviors: Conceptions of Gender in Two Approaches to Girls' Education in the Northern Sudan,1907-1921
by Chris Toensing
71. Grand Ideas and Intimate Effects:The Gendered Consequences of Egyptian Population Policy, 1971-1992
by E.M.Sissons
86. The Beginning of the End of Sunni Preeminence: Muhammad 'Ali and Jerusalem, 1834
by Judith Mendelsohn Rood
96. Conspiracy Theories, Premature Entextualization, and Popular Political Analysis
by Jon W. Anderson
103. The Politics of the Personal in Evelyne Accad's Blessures des mots
by Cynthia T. Hahn
115. Islam and the Study of Central Asia: A Critique of the Western Scholarly Literature
by Asad Abu Khalil
Interview
131. Palestinian Women and Health: A Perspective from AI-Hussein Refugee Camp, Amman, Jordan
by Elise G. Young
Travel Letter
141. History, Culture, and the Forts of Oman
by John M. Willis
Book Reviews
144. Civil Society in the Middle East, Vol.1
edited by Augustus Richard Norton
reviewed by John M. Roberts
151. Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
by Margot Badran
reviewed by Sharon Doer