Volume 2, Number 2, Autumn 1995
From the Managing Editor, i
Reza Alavi
Features
Contemporary Issues
The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique , 1
Roy P. Mottahedeh
Modern History
Egyptians in Blackface: Nationalism and the Representation of Sudan in Egypt, 1919, 27
Eve Troutt Powell
Iran’s Oil Crisis of 1951-1953
New Documents and Old Realities, 46
Mostafa Elm
Islamic Sciences
Healing the Soul: Perspectives of Medieval Muslim Writers, 62
Bazat- Tahera Qutbuddin
Literature and Society
Kings, Peasants and Shoemakers: Social Structure in Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmeh, 88
Louise Marlow
Review Essay
Oxford Between Islam and the West, 109
Reza Alavi
Book Reviews
Fergus Millar
The Roman Near East, 31 B.C.-A.D 337, 119
Morris M. Mottale
Yehuda Ben Meir
Civil-Military Relations in Israel, 121
Barak Kalfuss
Olga M. Davidson
Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings, 128
Richard N. Frye
Dwight F. Reynolds
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes, 130
William Granara
W. Montgomery Watt
Bell’s Introduction to the Qur’an, 134
Asma Afsaruddin
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed.
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, 138
Samar Attar
Document and Records
Society: Searching in its Time of Revolution for a Literature with Which it Can Soar Aloft, 142
Yehia Hakki