Volume 1, Number 2, November 1994
From the Managing Editor, i
Reza Alavi
Features
Contemporary Issues
Conflict in Tajikistan and Central Asia: The Myth of Ethnic Animosity, 1
John S. Schoeberkein-Engel
The European Community and the Arab World 1972-1991: From Economics to Politics, 56
Christin Marschall
Position Papers Iran and the West
New Dimensions of Iran’s Strategic Significance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Achievements, 81
K. Kharrazi
Western Policy Options Toward Iran: to Coax, Coerce, or Contain, 96
Paul Dingledine
History
Defining the Traditional: Aspects of Ottoman Law in Mandatory Palestine, 115
Roger Owen
Literature
Clipped Wings: Medieval Arab Adaptations of the Amazon Myth, 132
Remke Kruk
Art and Architecture
Female Patronage of Mamluk Architecture in Cairo, 152
Howyda Al-Harithy
Book Reviews
A.Syed Nomanul Haq
Names, Natures and Things: The Alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his Kitāb al-Aḥjār, 175
Remke Kruk
J.H. Bamberg
The History of the British Petroleum Company, vol 2. The Anglo-Iranian Years, 1928-1954, 180
Mostafa Elm
Olivier Roy
The Failure of Political Islam, translates by Carol Volk, 184
Majid Tehranian
A.I. Sabra
The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: Books I-III On Direct Vision, 188
Elaheh Kheirandish
Simon Bromley
American Hegemony and World Oil, 194
Cyrus Bina
John F. Richards
The New Cambridge History of India, volume 5: The Mughal Empire, 198
Richard Foltz
Tim McDaniel
Autocracy, Modernization, and Revolution in Russian and Iran, 200
Firouzeh Mostashari
Roland Meynet, Louis Pouzet, Naïla Frouki, and Ahyaf Sinno
Ṭarīqat al-taḥlīl al-balāghī we-l-tafsīr, 203
Hassan Mneimneh
Books Received, 207
Documents and Records
Index of the Tadhkirat al-Muluk, 212
John Emerson
Demonstrations at Jaleh Square: The Point of No Return in the Iranian Revolution 1979, 222
Habib Ladjevardi