#  Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, Volume 2.2  

 



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 *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

##  Announcement, 149  


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