Volume 1, Number 1, February 1994
From the Editors,
William Graham
In Memoriam: Albert Hourani (1915-1993), ii
Roger Owen
Albert Hourani at Harvard, vii
Philip Khouri
Grasping the Elusive Peace in the Middle East, 1
Everett Mendelsohn
Some Islamic Views of the Pre-Islamic Past, 17
Roy Mottahedeh
Arab Nationalism and the Persian Gulf War, 27
Eric Evans
The Languages of Egyptian Monarchy, 52
Avriel Butovsky
The Monstrous Births of “Aladdin”, 67
Michael Cooperson
The State of Central Asian Studies: An Overview of Recent Books, 87
Richard Foltz
Book Reviews
Mohamed Heikal
Illusions of Triumph: An Arab View of the Gulf War, 103
Sohail H. Hashmi
J.B. Harley and David Woodward, ed.
The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, 109
Karen C. Pinto
Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh
The Gulf Conflict 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order; Kenneth Timmerman. The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq, 116
Zachary Karabell
Juan Eduardo Campo
The Other Side of Paradise: Explorations into the Religious Meanings of Domestic Space in Islam, 119
Julia E. Dvorkin
Roger Owen
State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, 124
Cyrus Bina
Nasr Ḥāmid Abu Zayd
Mafhūm al-Naṣṣ: Dirāsah fi ‘Ulūm al-Qur’ān (The concept of Text: A study in Qur’ā nic Sciences), 126
Hassan Mneimneh
Ernest Gellner
Postmodernism, Reason, and Religion, 128
Adrian Cole
Janet J. Ewald
Soldiers, Traders and Slaves: State Formation and Economic Transformations in the Greater Nile Valley, 1700-1885, 131
Eve Troutt Powell
Notebook
Beirut Undivided, 134
Hassan Mneimneh
Documents and Records
Towards a History of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard: Early Harvard and Radcliffe Ph.D. Dissertations, 138
David Partington
Aristotle’s Arabus: A Hitherto Unknown Arabic Translation of Aristotle’s Discourse on Quality, 150
S. Nomanul Haq