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(Vol. VI No. 1): Spring 1998
From The Editors: This issue marks the Arab Studies Journal' s sixth year in operation. Since 1992, ASJ has been committed to providing its readers with fresh and reliable scholarship. We hope our readers will agree that our current issue on the question(s) 'of Middle East exceptionalism' constitutes a landmark in our development as a publication . . . [read more] |
Table of Contents
Special Issue: Contending with “Middle East Exceptionalism” Part I
Articles
8. Contending with Middle East Exceptionalism: A Foreword
by Peter Gran
10. Crossing Exceptionalism’s Frontiers to Discover America’s Kingdom
by Robert Vitalis
33. Exceptionalism and Authenticity: The Question of Islam and Democracy
by Leonard Binder
60. To Export or Not to Export Democracy to the Arab World: The Islamist Perspective
by Larbi Sadiki
76. Questioning Exceptionalism: Shari’a Law
by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
87. Unpacking Modern Arab Subjectivity: Reading al-Mu’allim Butrus al-Bustani
by Nafir Suriya and Stephen Sheehi
Book Reviews
110. Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood
by Knut Viker
reviewed by Kathryn Coughlin De
115. Syria and Israel: From War to Peacemaking
by Moshe Ma'oz
reviewed by Mira Sucharov
118. Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq
by Malik Mufti
reviewed by Jefferson Gray
121. Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Designed Revolutionary Movement
by Haideh Moghissi
reviewed by Gretchen S. North
125. Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
by Yasir Suleiman, editor
reviewed by Camelia Suleiman
129. King Abdullah and Palestine: A Territorial Ambition
by Joseph Nevo
reviewed by T.S. Hattar
Special Issue: Contending with “Middle East Exceptionalism” Part I
Articles
8. Contending with Middle East Exceptionalism: A Foreword
by Peter Gran
10. Crossing Exceptionalism’s Frontiers to Discover America’s Kingdom
by Robert Vitalis
33. Exceptionalism and Authenticity: The Question of Islam and Democracy
by Leonard Binder
60. To Export or Not to Export Democracy to the Arab World: The Islamist Perspective
by Larbi Sadiki
76. Questioning Exceptionalism: Shari’a Law
by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
87. Unpacking Modern Arab Subjectivity: Reading al-Mu’allim Butrus al-Bustani
by Nafir Suriya and Stephen Sheehi
Book Reviews
110. Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood
by Knut Viker
reviewed by Kathryn Coughlin De
115. Syria and Israel: From War to Peacemaking
by Moshe Ma'oz
reviewed by Mira Sucharov
118. Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq
by Malik Mufti
reviewed by Jefferson Gray
121. Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Designed Revolutionary Movement
by Haideh Moghissi
reviewed by Gretchen S. North
125. Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
by Yasir Suleiman, editor
reviewed by Camelia Suleiman
129. King Abdullah and Palestine: A Territorial Ambition
by Joseph Nevo
reviewed by T.S. Hattar