#  Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, Volume 1.2  

 



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 *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

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