Book Reviews

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Volume 5 Number 2 Autumn/Winter 2003 (200 pages)

Notes on Contributors 

Essay

Ger Duijzings. Ethnic Unmixing under the Aegis of the West: A Transnational Approach to the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Articles

Camilo Perez-Bustillo. The Right to Have Rights: International Poverty Law as a New Paradigm in the Struggle for Global Justice 

Maurice Eisenbruch. Khmer Rouge and Traditional Healers as Medical Anthropologists?: Retooling Health and Social Justice in Cambodia  

Jack Saul. Promoting Community Recovery in Lower Manhattan after September 11, 2001 

Bruce Kapferer. Injustice, Suffering and the State: Sorcery and Renewal in Contemporary Sri Lanka 

Riaz Hassan. Globalization’s Challenge to the Islamic Umma

Document

Kamal S. Salibi. Recollections of Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s

Notice

Avril M. Makhlouf. Report on “A Catholic/Shi`a Engagement” at Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire (July 2003)

Review Article

Walid Saleh. In Search of a Comprehensible Qur'an: A Survey of Some Recent Scholarly Works

Book Reviews by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Jane S. Gerber, Mahmood Ibrahim, Elizabeth Bishop, Glen M. Cooper, Avril Mary Makhlouf, Michael Brett, Mohammed A. Bamyeh and K. E. Fleming

Abstracts Vol. 5, no 2

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Volume 5 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2003 (236 pages)

Papers from the Conference on Health and Social Justice

Introduction

Michael Humphrey. Health as an Index of Social Justice

Articles

Rune Flikke. Public Health and the Development of Racial Segregation in South Africa

Jihad Makhoul. A Structural Perspective on Poverty and Health Inequalities in Lebanon

Craig R. Janes. Market Fetishism & Attenuated Primary Care: Producing Poor Medicine for Poor People in Post-Socialist Mongolia

Eugene B. Gallagher and Kristi S. Yingling. Medicalization in Arab  Society and Beyond

Allan Young. Collective Trauma, Psychiatric Morbidity and the Epidemiology of Dubious Knowledge

Stevan Weine, Ferid Agani and Ralph Cintron. International and Local Discourses on the Public Mental Health Crisis in Postwar Kosova

Joop de Jong. Psychosocial and Mental Health Principles for Use in Times of Armed Conflict and Natural Disaster

Michael Humphrey. Healing and Justice after Atrocity: Challenging Impunity

Conference Abstracts

Book Reviews by Ara Sanjian, Robert Hoyland, Geoffrey A. Oddie, Jerome C. Rose, Suleiman Mourad, R. Stephen Warner, Glen M. Cooper, Walid Saleh, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Andrew J. Newman

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Volume 4 Number 2 Autumn/Winter 2002 (200 pages)

Essay
Michael C. Hudson. Information Technology, International Politics and Political Change in the Arab World

Articles
S. Nomanul Haq. Greek Alchemy or Shi`i Metaphysics? A Preliminary Statement Concerning Jabir ibn Hayyan's zahir and batin
Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Fault Lines of Transnationalism: Borders Matter
Axel Havemann. Historiography in 20th-Century Lebanon: Between Confessional Identity and National Coalescence
John O. Oucho. Migration and Ethnic Relations in Colonial and Independent Kenya
Zvi Aziz Ben-Dor. "Even unto China": Displacement and Chinese Muslim Myths of Origin

Exchange of Views, I & II
Toby E. Huff. The Rise of Early Modern Science: A Reply to George Saliba
George Saliba. Flying Goats and Other Obsessions: A Response to Toby Huff's "Reply"

Review Article
Oliver Kazmierczyk. Lire Pierre Hadot dans La philosophie comme manière de vivre

Book Reviews by John H. Hanson, Joseph S. Lucas, A. Kevin Reinhart, Jorgen S. Nielsen, Judith Harik, Jennifer Cole, Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Gerd Baumann, David Shankland, Bruce B. Lawrence, Sharifah Zaleha Syed Hassan, Shirin Akiner.

Abstracts Vol. 4, no 2

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Volume 4 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2002 (194 pages)
 

Papers from the Conference on Islam and Science

Introduction

Ahmad Dallal. Religious and Scientific Knowledge in Classical Islamic Thought

Essay
Bennacer El Bouazzati. The Continuum of Knowledge and Belief

Articles

George Saliba. Islamic Astronomy in Context: Attacks on Astrology and the Rise of the Hay'a Tradition
Sonja Brentjes. On the Location of the Ancient or 'Rational' Sciences in Muslim Educational Landscapes (AH 500-1100)
Alnoor Dhanani. Problems in Eleventh-Century Kalam Physics
Ahmad Dallal. The Adjustment of Science
Mohammed Abattouy. The Arabic Science of Weights: A Report on an Ongoing Research Project
Ramazan Şeşen. La science dans L'Empire Ottoman
Charles Burnett. The Translation of Arabic Science into Latin: A Case of Alienation of Intellectual Property?

Conference Abstracts

Book Reviews by Frank Griffel, Pyong Gap Min, Suleiman Murad, George Saliba, Zeina Fani, Ali S. Asani, Glen M. Cooper, Isenbike Togan and Hala Fattah.

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Volume 3 Number 2 Autumn/Winter 2001 (263 pages)
 

Papers from the Conference on the Impact of Transnational Processes on the Nation-State and National Cultures 

Introduction
Michael Humphrey. Transnationalism in a Globalizing World

Essay
Mohammed A. Bamyeh. Postnationalism

Articles

Kazuhiko Okuda. Transnationalism and the Meiji State: On the Question of Cultural Borrowing
Ibrahim G. Aoudé. The Global Impact on Hawaii's Public Policy
Bruce Kapferer. Globalization, the State and Civil Violence in Sri Lanka
Michael Humphrey/Maroun Kisirwani. Impunity, Nationalism and Transnationalism: The Recovery of the 'Disappeared' of Lebanon
Leif Manger. Hadramis in Singapore: Making Muslim Space in a Global City
Estela Valverde. The Experience of Exilio and Insilio in Reshaping Uruguayan Identity
C. J. W.-L. Wee. Beyond the 'Potemkin Metropolis': Creating and Filming the Homogenized Singapore Urban Environment

Conference Abstracts 

Review Article
K. E. Fleming. The Paradoxes of Nationalism: Modern Greek Historiography and the Burden of the Past

Book Reviews by Michael Brett, Hala Fattah, Joseph Lucas, Michael G. Morony, Roger Owen, Adnan A. Husain, Zayde G. Antrim and Khalid Ben Srhir.

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Volume 3 Number 1  Spring/Summer 2001 (208 pages)

Notes on Contributors 

Essay

Farhad Daftary. The Ismailis: A Religious Community in Islam

Articles

Olivia Remie Constable. Funduq and Fondaco in the Medieval Islamic World

Ørnulf Gulbrandsen. Christianity in an African Context: On the Inadequacy of the Notion of a Sacred/Secular Divide

Brian Glyn Williams. The Formation of a Diaspora: The Crimean Tatars of Turkey, the Balkans and Central Asia

Avril M. Makhlouf. Hindiyya Anne 'Ajaymi, 1727-1798: A Story of Encounters, Human and Divine

Khalid Koser. From Refugees to Transnational Communities?  

Gerd Baumann. Cross-Faith Conflict and Interfaith Community in Britain: From the ‘Rushdie Affair’ to the Present

Ara Sanjian. The Armenian Minority Experience in the Modern Arab World

Book Reviews by Chase F. Robinson, Hala Fattah, Imtiyaz Yusuf, Kevin Butcher, Peggy Froerer, Annemarie Schimmel, Gabriel Said Reynolds and Sajida S. Alvi.

Abstracts Vol. 3, no 1

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Volume 2 Number 2  Autumn 2000 (214 pages)

Notes on Contributors 

Essay
Oleg Grabar. The Haram al-Sharif: An Essay in Interpretation

Articles

Hastings Donnan. Private Acts and Public Violence: Interfaith Marriages in Northern Ireland

Sharifah Zaleha Syed Hassan. Islamic Revivalism and Social Cleavages in an Urban Community in Malaysia

Samir Seikaly. Christian Contributions to the Nahda in Palestine prior to World War I

Douglas H. Johnson. Religion and Communal Conflict in the Sudan: The War against Paganism

George Saliba. Competition and the Transmission of the Foreign Sciences: Hunayn at the Abbasid Court

Ali S. Asani. Muslims in South Asia: Defining Community and the ‘Other’

L. Michael Spath. De Lege Sarracenorum according to Riccoldo da Monte Croce

Elizabeth Koepping. Family, State and Religious Conversion: Multiple Discourses from Malaysia and South Australia

Book Reviews by Hala Fattah, Tarif Khalidi, K. E. Fleming, Avril M. Makhlouf, Mahmood Ibrahim, John A. Saliba, Colin Shindler, Nadia Maria El-Cheikh, Frank Tipton, Suleiman A. Mourad, Kamal S. Salibi, Charles L. Wilkins and Ali Abdullatif Ahmida.

Abstracts Vol. 2, no 2

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Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 2000 (230 pages)

Notes on Contributors 

Articles from the Conference on Migration and Culture Contact: Patterns of Confrontation and Coexistence in a Changing World.

Hans-Joachim Hoffmann-Nowotny. Determinants and Consequences of Worldwide Migrations: A Sociological Analysis
Michel Poulain. Migration from the South to the North of the Mediterranean: What Do the Data Reveal?
Dietrich Thränhardt. Multiculturalism and Integration in Germany and the Netherlands
Joanne van der Leun. Embeddedness and Exclusion: Undocumented Immigrants in the Netherlands
Dirk Hoerder. Immigrant Lives, Societal Structures: Human Agency in Acculturation Processes
Pyong Gap Min. Immigrants' Religion and Ethnicity: A Comparison of Korean Christian and Indian Hindu Immigrants
Michael Humphrey. Globalization and Arab Diasporic Identities: The Australian Arab Case
Mehdi Bozorgmehr. Does Host Hostility Create Ethnic Solidarity? The Experience of Iranians in the United States

Conference Abstracts

Book Reviews by James A. Reilly, Hala Fattah, Daniel C. Waugh, Carol Hakim, Fatima Sadiqi, Suleiman A. Mourad, Olivia Remie Constable, Jason Sanford Greenberg, Nadia Maria El-Cheikh, Brian Glyn Williams and Thierry Bianquis.

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Volume 1 Number 2 Autumn 1999 (192 pages)

Notes on Contributors 

Articles

Averil Cameron. Interfaith Relations in the First Islamic Century

Suleiman A. Mourad. On the Qur'anic Stories about Mary and Jesus

Sidney H. Griffith. Arab Christian Culture in the Early Abbasid Period

Nadia Maria El-Cheikh. Arab Christian Contributions to Muslim Historiography on Byzantium

Jane S. Gerber. Muslim-Jewish Relations in Medieval Andalusia: Cultural Contacts and Their Ambiguities

Ahmad Dallal. On Muslim Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen

Joel Beinin. The Jewish Business Elite in Twentieth-Century Egypt: Pillars of the National Economy or Compradors? 

Review Article

George Saliba. Seeking the Origins of Modern Science?

Book Reviews by William B. Quandt, Kevin G. O'Connell, Hala Fattah, Averil Cameron, Zayde G. Antrim, Kamal S. Salibi, Andrew J. Newman, L. Michael Spath, Nancy E. Gallagher, Gabi G. Afram, As`ad AbuKhalil, Shimon Shamir and Seteney Shami.

Abstracts Vol. 1, no 2

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Volume 1 Number 1  Spring 1999 (245 pages)

Notes on Contributors 

Articles

Abdul-Rahim Abu Husayn. Duwayhi as a Historian of Ottoman Syria

Zayde G. Antrim. Renegotiating Islam: The Reception of al-Ashmawi's Al-Islam al-Siyasi in the Egyptian Press

Gerald Obermeyer. Civilization and Religion in Ancient South Arabia

L. Michael Spath. Riccoldo da Monte Croce: Medieval Pilgrim and Traveller to the Heart of Islam

Articles from the Conference on Religion and Community: Crosscultural Patterns of Coexistence in Contemporary Society

Gerald Obermeyer. Introduction

Klaus-Peter Köpping. Collective Identity and the Discourse on Cultural Hegemony in Japanese Syncretism

John Crook. The Struggle for Political Representation in Ladakh

John A. Saliba. Understanding New Religious Sects in America: The Search for Community

Seteney Shami. Islam in the Post-Soviet Space: Imaginative Geographies of the Caucasus and Central Asia

Conference Abstracts

Notices
Annemarie Schimmel. Dreams of Jesus in the Islamic Tradition

Hala Fattah. Report on the Conference, "Louis Massignon: The Vocation of a Scholar," Notre Dame University, Indiana (2-5 October 1997)

Book Reviews by Julia A. Clancy-Smith, L. Michael Spath, Zayde G. Antrim, Majid F. Fakhry, Hala Fattah, Averil Cameron and Rami G. Khouri.