Volume 3, Number 1/2, 1996
From the Editor, iii
Features
Contemporary Issues
Can Oslo Survive?, 1
Everett Mendelsohn
Personalities
The Imam as Dandy: The Case of Musa Sadr, 20
H.E. Chehabi
History
Jihād and Cross-Cultural Encounter in Muslim Sicily, 42
William Granara
Mongol or Persian: The Government of Īlkhānid Iran, 62
D.O. Morgan
Learning
Learning in the First Century of the Madrasah in Baghdad: A Reconsideration of the Social Significance of Institutionalization, 77
Daphna Ephrat
Literature
Ibn al-Rūmī’s Ethics of Patronage, 104
Beatrice Gruendler
Book Reviews
Meron Benvenisti
Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land, 161
Sara Roy
Jacob M. Landau
The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991: Political Aspects, 164
L.H. Pasons
Shabtai Teveth
Ben-Gurion’s Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal that Shaped Modern Israel, 166
Barak Kalfuss
Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health, 172
Roger Owen
Heinz Halm
The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning, 173
C. Edmund Bosworth
Shams C. Inati
Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism. Remarks and Admonitions: part four, 175
Robert Wisnovsky
Richard N. Frye
The Heritage of Central Asia, 178
Richard Foltz