Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050951
J. Benthall
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050744
B. Andrea
{"title":"Richard Frye. Ibn Fadlan‘s Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghdad to the Volga River . Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005. 160 pages. US$24.95 Paper ISBN 1-55876-366-X","authors":"B. Andrea","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"201 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56780641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050896
K. Hoffman
Jabir Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (a Kuwait just at the very beginning of oil discovery in 1936) relaxes on board his steam yacht with the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major A.C. Galloway, is so real that the reader feels seated with them, feels the light breeze, the peace of the sea life, the softness of the cushions, the naked feet and the white cotton vests: a magic moment for international relations, still peaceful before the Second World War, before future oil struggles, before the disappearance of this world. Villiers' position, a westerner connected with the imperial reach of British officials and accepted as part of an Arab crew, afforded him a unique and a pioneering point of view. Sons of Sindbad is a first-hand English work on Arab seamanship, and it has been widely accepted as an authoritative source on the subject. It is a rich and heady brew of the people, ways of life, politics, governments, trade ancient and modern, cultures and human relations at the western edge of the Indian Ocean. The 'dream voyages' made by Villiers in 1938-39 did follow through twenty chapters the sound of the monsoon winds: from Aden to Ras Hafun, down to East African coasts to Zanzibar and to the Rufiji Delta, and back north again to Cape Guardafui, and towards the Gulf to Kuwait. In the introduction by William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji and Grace Pundyk, finally Villiers' right to be included among the greats of Arabian travel finds its recognition. The truth is that this Australian traveller was an independent traveller; the big names of the genre Gertrude Bell, T E. Lawrence, St. John Philby Bertram Thomas and Freya Stark were linked to British political power of the time in the Middle East. Villiers was the first one to turn his attention from the land, from the deserts to the sea: a new perspective and a new methodological approach to this vast region. And the sea (his view of the sea) kept him outside the 'inner circles' of the famous British explorers, till today. Villiers wished he could have sailed three years with the Arabs, for it was all very interesting three years with the Arabs and two years on the book. But he sailed one year and was fortunate to have the book, done in 1940, in time of war. Beatrice Nicolini Catholic University Milan, Italy
{"title":"Earle H. Waugh. Memory Music, and Religion: Morocco’s Mystical Chanters. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. 260 pages, index, glossary. Cloth US$49.95 ISBN 1-57003-567-9","authors":"K. Hoffman","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050896","url":null,"abstract":"Jabir Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (a Kuwait just at the very beginning of oil discovery in 1936) relaxes on board his steam yacht with the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major A.C. Galloway, is so real that the reader feels seated with them, feels the light breeze, the peace of the sea life, the softness of the cushions, the naked feet and the white cotton vests: a magic moment for international relations, still peaceful before the Second World War, before future oil struggles, before the disappearance of this world. Villiers' position, a westerner connected with the imperial reach of British officials and accepted as part of an Arab crew, afforded him a unique and a pioneering point of view. Sons of Sindbad is a first-hand English work on Arab seamanship, and it has been widely accepted as an authoritative source on the subject. It is a rich and heady brew of the people, ways of life, politics, governments, trade ancient and modern, cultures and human relations at the western edge of the Indian Ocean. The 'dream voyages' made by Villiers in 1938-39 did follow through twenty chapters the sound of the monsoon winds: from Aden to Ras Hafun, down to East African coasts to Zanzibar and to the Rufiji Delta, and back north again to Cape Guardafui, and towards the Gulf to Kuwait. In the introduction by William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji and Grace Pundyk, finally Villiers' right to be included among the greats of Arabian travel finds its recognition. The truth is that this Australian traveller was an independent traveller; the big names of the genre Gertrude Bell, T E. Lawrence, St. John Philby Bertram Thomas and Freya Stark were linked to British political power of the time in the Middle East. Villiers was the first one to turn his attention from the land, from the deserts to the sea: a new perspective and a new methodological approach to this vast region. And the sea (his view of the sea) kept him outside the 'inner circles' of the famous British explorers, till today. Villiers wished he could have sailed three years with the Arabs, for it was all very interesting three years with the Arabs and two years on the book. But he sailed one year and was fortunate to have the book, done in 1940, in time of war. Beatrice Nicolini Catholic University Milan, Italy","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"223 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050896","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050902
M. Baer
between tariqas. Arabists will be disappointed by the lack of Arabic transliteration. Errors and typos seem to emerge whenever the discussion shifts to Berber speakers, whom Waugh identifies as the founding Moroccan Sufis. Yet the book's strengths make it of considerable interest to graduate students and scholars of Islamic and regional studies, comparative religion, and ethnomusicology. With an instructor's guidance, the book might be taught to advanced undergraduates as well.
{"title":"Dror Ze’evi. Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006, 223 pages, index. US$24.95 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-520-24563-1","authors":"M. Baer","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050902","url":null,"abstract":"between tariqas. Arabists will be disappointed by the lack of Arabic transliteration. Errors and typos seem to emerge whenever the discussion shifts to Berber speakers, whom Waugh identifies as the founding Moroccan Sufis. Yet the book's strengths make it of considerable interest to graduate students and scholars of Islamic and regional studies, comparative religion, and ethnomusicology. With an instructor's guidance, the book might be taught to advanced undergraduates as well.","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"225 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050902","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56781545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0026318400050483
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050513
Cem Emrence
Since the middle of the twentieth century there have been three waves of historiography on the late Ottoman world. Each rose to prominence in a different global setting, functioned as a broad intellectual orientation, and was replaced by another somewhat less hegemonic theoretical current after about two decades. The key differences between the three episodes are evident in terms of their thematic priorities, analytical frameworks, and the research designs and methodological choices of scholars. These three waves of Ottoman history writing can be classified as modernization approaches, macro models, and post-structural agendas.
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050732
Edmund M. Burke
Letters; the historical voice of the exile, Savyida Salme; and the marginalized women's voices in Ibn Battuta's narrative. The first point in Euben's core argument becomes self-evident from these juxtapositions, although previous studies that neglected the deep-rooted traditions of Islamic travel have presumed Muslims only began traveling in any significant way during the eighteenth century as they turned to the West. The second point involves the tendency of travelers to rely on binary oppositions, alternately undermining and reinforcing them as they experience the unfamiliar. This dynamic applies transculturally and transhistorically in Muslim and non-Muslim men's representations of women as indices of a culture's moral level. Such misrepresentations continue into our own day with Muslim travelers to the West such as Sayyid Qutb, whom Euben mentions, and orientalist travelers to the Islamic world. The third point, that travel does not necessarily remove prejudices but can just as easily reinforce them, applies to all the travelers whom Euben adduces. However, this point is most pertinent, because perhaps most counterintuitive, for the Arab (formerly) Muslim woman traveler. Salme, who experienced confinement, exile, conversion, discrimination, and penury, undermines essentialist notions that women are somehow more empathetic or that non-Europeans are invariably antiimperialist. Even as she deplores prejudices against women in the Islamic world and the West, experiences racial discrimination in Europe, and falls into poverty, she voices racial bigotry and imperialist ambitions regarding sub-Saharan Africans and condescending attitudes towards those not born into aristocracy. All the narratives Euben analyzes display these contradictions; her examination, rather than elision, of this dissonance should guide us not only when critiquing colonialism and neocolonialism, but also when theorizing as postcolonial critics. The final chapter addresses such imperatives by assessing the "new cosmopolitanism" (175). As Euben reiterates, globalization is not new, although the scope of it may be. We therefore have much to learn from prc-modern travel narratives within and between the West and the Islamic world, as well as from more recent accounts. Bernadette Andrea University of Texas at San Antonio
{"title":"Suraiya Faroqhi and Randi Deguilhem, eds. Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean . London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 380 pages, figures, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth US$69.50 ISBN 1-86064-700-6","authors":"Edmund M. Burke","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050732","url":null,"abstract":"Letters; the historical voice of the exile, Savyida Salme; and the marginalized women's voices in Ibn Battuta's narrative. The first point in Euben's core argument becomes self-evident from these juxtapositions, although previous studies that neglected the deep-rooted traditions of Islamic travel have presumed Muslims only began traveling in any significant way during the eighteenth century as they turned to the West. The second point involves the tendency of travelers to rely on binary oppositions, alternately undermining and reinforcing them as they experience the unfamiliar. This dynamic applies transculturally and transhistorically in Muslim and non-Muslim men's representations of women as indices of a culture's moral level. Such misrepresentations continue into our own day with Muslim travelers to the West such as Sayyid Qutb, whom Euben mentions, and orientalist travelers to the Islamic world. The third point, that travel does not necessarily remove prejudices but can just as easily reinforce them, applies to all the travelers whom Euben adduces. However, this point is most pertinent, because perhaps most counterintuitive, for the Arab (formerly) Muslim woman traveler. Salme, who experienced confinement, exile, conversion, discrimination, and penury, undermines essentialist notions that women are somehow more empathetic or that non-Europeans are invariably antiimperialist. Even as she deplores prejudices against women in the Islamic world and the West, experiences racial discrimination in Europe, and falls into poverty, she voices racial bigotry and imperialist ambitions regarding sub-Saharan Africans and condescending attitudes towards those not born into aristocracy. All the narratives Euben analyzes display these contradictions; her examination, rather than elision, of this dissonance should guide us not only when critiquing colonialism and neocolonialism, but also when theorizing as postcolonial critics. The final chapter addresses such imperatives by assessing the \"new cosmopolitanism\" (175). As Euben reiterates, globalization is not new, although the scope of it may be. We therefore have much to learn from prc-modern travel narratives within and between the West and the Islamic world, as well as from more recent accounts. Bernadette Andrea University of Texas at San Antonio","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"199 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56780863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050653
Linda T. Darling
regarding race and ethnicity. According to the 1935 Resettlement Law, while those immigrants belonging to the "Turkish race" could settle wherever they wished, others could settle only in those areas which were approved by the authorities. In conclusion, Cagaptay suggests that High Kemalism approached the question of "Who is a Turk" by producing three concentric zones of Turkishness: "an outer territorial one reserved for the non-Muslims (with the Jews closer to the center than the Christians); a middle religious one, reserved for the non-Turkish Muslims; an inner one, reserved for the Turks" (p. 160). According to the author this conceptualization of ethnic boundaries and Turkishness continues to shape official policies today and that "the further away (in the three concentric circles) a group is from the center, the more unaccommodating is the state toward it" (p. 160). Islam, Secularism, and Modem Turkey: Who is a Turk? is a creative and a well-crafted work that should stimulate further research on a number of important issues which Cagaptay explores in his study. One can quibble about some of its shortcomings, most notably the absence of a discussion of the Alevis' role in forming Turkish national identity, but these should not detract from the overall scholarly quality of the book. Cagaptay's study deserves to be read by all those interested in learning more about one of the critical issues in modern Turkish history and politics. Sabri Sayari Sabanci University, Istanbul
{"title":"Hülya Canbakal Society and Politics in an Ottoman Town: ‘Ayntab in the 17th Century. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007. 213 pages, footnotes, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth US$120.00 ISBN 90-04-15456-6","authors":"Linda T. Darling","doi":"10.1017/S0026318400050653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400050653","url":null,"abstract":"regarding race and ethnicity. According to the 1935 Resettlement Law, while those immigrants belonging to the \"Turkish race\" could settle wherever they wished, others could settle only in those areas which were approved by the authorities. In conclusion, Cagaptay suggests that High Kemalism approached the question of \"Who is a Turk\" by producing three concentric zones of Turkishness: \"an outer territorial one reserved for the non-Muslims (with the Jews closer to the center than the Christians); a middle religious one, reserved for the non-Turkish Muslims; an inner one, reserved for the Turks\" (p. 160). According to the author this conceptualization of ethnic boundaries and Turkishness continues to shape official policies today and that \"the further away (in the three concentric circles) a group is from the center, the more unaccommodating is the state toward it\" (p. 160). Islam, Secularism, and Modem Turkey: Who is a Turk? is a creative and a well-crafted work that should stimulate further research on a number of important issues which Cagaptay explores in his study. One can quibble about some of its shortcomings, most notably the absence of a discussion of the Alevis' role in forming Turkish national identity, but these should not detract from the overall scholarly quality of the book. Cagaptay's study deserves to be read by all those interested in learning more about one of the critical issues in modern Turkish history and politics. Sabri Sayari Sabanci University, Istanbul","PeriodicalId":88595,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Studies Association bulletin","volume":"41 1","pages":"188 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0026318400050653","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56780142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050872
Ghazi Abuhakema
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