Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050847
M. Yazigi
described the early Muslim Arabs advancing into Syria as Mhaggraye (immigrants), whereas earlier the Arabs were mostly called 'Arabdye and Tayydye (Sons of Hagar and Ishmaelites), and he reports that a Syriac document dated to 644 mentions that the Mhaggraye have accepted the Torah but that it never refers to the Qur'an indicating, he thinks, that the Qur'an was not yet in circulation. In Part 3 Devin J. Stewart shows that emendations to the Qur'anic text were speculated over by medieval Muslim scholars as a result of difficulties in it regarding ductus (rasm. orthography) or theological concerns. Andrew Rippin studies the Islamic tradition of investigating terms of foreign origin in the Qur'an and shows that modern western scholars' speculation about the original linguistic and cultural context of the Qur'an is not so new, after all. Whether the "hopeless chaos" Angelika Neuwirth wondered about in the field of Qur'anic studies is assuaged or not by studies like those in this book, it is true that the revisionist and controversial western scholars' publications of recent decades, though not generally or equally accepted, have instigated research in the field that are essential to placing the Qur'an in its linguistic, cultural, and historical context. This book is a good contribution to movement in this direction. Issa J. Boullata McGill University
将早期进入叙利亚的穆斯林阿拉伯人描述为Mhaggraye(移民)，而早期的阿拉伯人大多被称为“Arabdye和Tayydye”(夏甲和以实玛利的儿子)，他报告说，一份公元644年的叙利亚文件提到Mhaggraye接受了Torah，但从未提到古兰经，他认为这表明古兰经还没有流通。在第三部分中，Devin J. Stewart指出，中世纪的穆斯林学者对古兰经文本的修订进行了推测，因为它在ductus (rasm)方面存在困难。正字法)或神学问题。安德鲁·里平(Andrew Rippin)研究了伊斯兰教在古兰经中调查外国起源术语的传统，并表明现代西方学者对古兰经原始语言和文化背景的猜测毕竟并不是那么新鲜。不管Angelika Neuwirth对《古兰经》研究领域的“无望的混乱”是否被这本书中的研究所缓和，近几十年来，修正主义和有争议的西方学者的出版物，尽管没有被普遍或平等地接受，但确实推动了该领域的研究，这些研究对将《古兰经》置于其语言、文化和历史背景中至关重要。这本书对这个方向的运动作出了很好的贡献。Issa J. Boullata，麦吉尔大学
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0026318400050963
F. M. Donner
In your December 2006 issue [volume 40(2):197-199], Fred M. Conner's interesting "retrospective review" of Patricia Crone and Michael Cook's Hagarism (1977) gives no credit to the late John Wansbrough for doing at least as much as them to wake up "the then rather sleepy field of early Islamic studies," with his enigmatic, even hermetic contributions Quranic Studies (1977) and The Sectarian Milieu (1978). In the same issue, Mohamad Nasrin misspells his name as 'Warnsbrough' in an informative but rather patronizing review of the recent reprint of Quranic Studies [pp. 250-251 j. Has Wansbrough now become al-aVad, the absent one, whose name is not mentioned, or, if it is, admonishingly mangled? In any case, a thorough critical appraisal of this reputed incendiary among scholars is surely overdue.
在你们2006年12月刊[卷40(2):197-199]中，Fred M. Conner对Patricia Crone和Michael Cook的Hagarism(1977)进行了有趣的“回顾性回顾”，并没有赞扬已故的John Wansbrough，因为他以神秘的，甚至是神秘的贡献《古兰经研究》(1977)和《宗派环境》(1978)唤醒了“当时相当沉闷的早期伊斯兰研究领域”。在同一期中，穆罕默德·纳斯林(Mohamad Nasrin)在对最近重印的《古兰经研究》(quric Studies)的评论中，将自己的名字拼错为“沃恩斯布鲁”(Warnsbrough)，这篇评论内容丰富，但却带有傲慢的意味[pp. 250-251 j.]。沃恩斯布鲁现在是否变成了缺席的阿尔-阿瓦德(al-aVad)，他的名字没有被提及，或者，如果有的话，被警告地撕掉了?无论如何，学者们肯定早就应该对这本著名的煽动性著作进行彻底的批判性评价了。
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050537
M. Dehqan
The Kurdish nationalist tradition is surely not very old. The earliest origins of Kurdish nationalism coincide with the beginning of modernity in Kurdistan, which emerged with the secular humanism of the ‘Western Enlightenment,’ ushering in a gradual decline of traditional Islamic identity. The nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Kurdish history were a period for the incubation and growth of nationalism in Kurdistan. The famous temporary conquest of Iranian Kurdistan by Sheikh ‘Ubaydullah Nehrî (d. 1883), son of Sheikh Sayyid Taha, is the most important event in the history of early Kurdish nationalism. What I want to present here is in no way a complete investigation of the revolt of ‘Ubaydullah and his nationalist efforts. This is no more than an introduction to some newly-found Persian documents from the Institute of Persian National Records (IPNR) in Tehran, a schema of basic subjects surrounding the rebellion of ‘Ubaydullah and the Kurdish tribes as reflected in Persian diplomatic reports. Here I can only list the documents without entering into much detail. This collection has attracted little attention yet, but is well worth intensive investigation.
库尔德民族主义的传统当然不是很古老。库尔德民族主义的最早起源与库尔德斯坦现代性的开始相吻合，它与“西方启蒙运动”的世俗人文主义一起出现，导致了传统伊斯兰身份的逐渐衰落。库尔德历史上的19世纪和20世纪初是库尔德斯坦民族主义孕育和发展的时期。Sheikh Sayyid Taha的儿子Sheikh ' Ubaydullah Nehrî(生于1883年)对伊朗库尔德斯坦的短暂征服是早期库尔德民族主义历史上最重要的事件。我想在这里展示的绝不是对乌拜杜拉的反抗和他的民族主义努力的全面调查。这只不过是对德黑兰波斯国家记录研究所(IPNR)新发现的一些波斯文献的介绍，这些文献是波斯外交报告中反映的围绕乌拜杜拉和库尔德部落叛乱的基本主题的大纲。这里我只能列出文件，不作详细说明。这些藏品还没有引起多少关注，但非常值得深入研究。
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050719
J. Beinin
large-scale refugee return. Decades of war and an inconclusive peace process have left the refugees and their descendants, who now number nearly five million, in their countries of exile. The politics of Arab-Israeli peacemaking usually has become stuck on macro-level matters related to the contentious question of Palestinian refugees and their right of return. Yet the onset of the Oslo peace process in the early 1990s led to the emergence of a number of studies, conferences, track two and even track three diplomatic efforts that studied very specific, tangible aspects of just how a solution to the refugee problem might look, including the modalities of compensation and full or partial repatriation. Editor Michael Dumper (Exeter University) has been an important participant in these exercises, and the book under review stands out as an important contribution to the literature that has tackled the specifics of Palestinian refugee repatriation. Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives, and the June 2004 conference at Exeter University from which it stems, is a valuable collection of articles whose purpose is to explore the extent to which the considerable amount of global expertise in refugee return and repatriation over in recent years is applicable and transferable to the Palestinian case. The book therefore is a conscious attempt to challenge the problem of "Palestinian particularism," the insistence by partisans from various sides that the Palestinian refugee problem is a unique case that somehow must be solved without reference to the large body of international best practice techniques that have emerged to deal with the logistics of refugee repatriation around the world. While recognizing unique aspects to the Palestinian situation, the book's articles nonetheless offer up "areas of convergence with other refugee situations" (p. 10) around the world. Michael R. Fischbach Randolph<-Macon College
大规模难民返回。几十年的战争和没有结果的和平进程使难民及其后裔(目前人数近500万)留在流亡国内。阿拉伯-以色列建立和平的政治通常陷入与巴勒斯坦难民及其回归权这一有争议的问题有关的宏观问题。然而，1990年代初奥斯陆和平进程的开始导致出现了一些研究、会议、轨道二甚至轨道三外交努力，这些努力研究了解决难民问题的具体、具体方面，包括补偿和全部或部分遣返的方式。编辑Michael Dumper(埃克塞特大学)一直是这些工作的重要参与者，正在审查的这本书是对处理巴勒斯坦难民遣返具体问题的文献的重要贡献。巴勒斯坦难民遣返:全球视角，以及2004年6月在埃克塞特大学召开的会议，是一个有价值的文章集合，其目的是探讨近年来在难民返回和遣返方面的大量全球专业知识在多大程度上适用和可转移到巴勒斯坦的情况。因此，这本书有意识地尝试挑战“巴勒斯坦特殊主义”的问题，即来自各方的党派坚持认为巴勒斯坦难民问题是一个独特的案例，必须以某种方式解决，而不需要参考大量的国际最佳实践技术，这些技术已经出现，用于处理世界各地难民遣返的后勤问题。虽然认识到巴勒斯坦局势的独特方面，但该书的文章仍然提供了世界各地“与其他难民局势趋同的领域”(第10页)。Michael R. Fischbach Randolph<-Macon College
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S002631840005080X
Aysa El-Meehy
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0026318400050471
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0026318400050835
I. Boullata
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050860
William Granara
how hurtful. To bring about the New Person Shahidian longs for, Iranians, like anybody else, not only need to question language, symbols, and relations of oppression, but need psychoanalysis. Between the lines of Shahidian's book lies what one can see everywhere in Iran: women are the hope of the nation. Although no organized women's movement is possible (despite the title of the book), women carry modernism in Iran, maybe precisely because, unemployed and living "in private" as most of them they arc, they have less at stake than men when they think and act critically.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400049841
Ron Bartholomew
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0026318400050021
E. A. Aytekin
One of the main criticisms of Quranic Studies when it first came out, was how it was inaccessible even to the specialist. As a way of ameliorating this difficulty, in this new edition, Rippin has included expanded notes or annotations to help ease the reading and comprehension of this book. Unfortunately, instead of elucidating the meaning of the context of the text page by page these expanded notes are merely translations of Qur'anic, Arabic, Hebrew and German quotations used by Warnsbrough in his original text. The plus side to this disappointment would probably be the inclusion of a glossary of technical terms used by Warnsbrough. The inclusion of these terms is useful as they are given brief explanations by Rippin as to their meaning suitable for the context in which they are used. I would have wished that an index with the page numbers of these terms be included. This would make comprehending the work easier, instead of having to flip to the end of the book for the glossary. Although Warnsbrough had included an index of technical terms, it is unfortunately incomplete as words found in the glossary are not found there, e.g. heilsgeschichte, homoioteleuton, inconcinnity etc. In addition to these Rippin has also included a three page description of the manuscripts used by John Warnsbrough in writing Quranic Studies. In the foreword Rippin mentions how Warnsbrough's work and conclusions are used in polemical debates on internet sites "by both Muslims and Christians" (pp. xviii-xix). I would agree partially with Rippin on this point as Warnsbrough's conclusions are used more in websites questioning Islam and the Muslim faith rather than others. One wonders about whether or not republishing this book will decrease such polemics, as Rippin remarked at the end of his foreword (p. xix), especially when the publisher is known to have published many controversial and provocative books consisting of compilations of articles written by sceptical scholars. Although the work has been made less difficult and the degree of accessibility is increased, due to the terse and difficult tools employed here, this book will still be appealing only to a small audience of specialist scholars. Mohamad Nasrin International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization
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