#  Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, Volume 1.1  

 



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 *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

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