#  Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, Volume 5  

 



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 *Volume 5, 1999-2000*

##  Features

 **The Stages of the Family Life Cycle in Cairo at the End of the Reign of Muḥammad ʿAllī, According to the 1848 Census**, 1  
Philippe Fargues

 **Masʿud Saʿd Salmān and the Topos of Exile in Ghaznavid Poetry** , 40  
Sunil Sharma

 **The Coexistence of Turks and Greeks in Medieval Anatolia (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries)**, 58  
Nevra Necipoğlu

 **The Jing Xing Ji of Du Huan: Notes on the West by a Chinese Prisoner of War**, 77  
Alexander Akin

##  Forum

 **A survey on the Present State of Ottoman and Turkish Studies in North America**, 103  
Edited by Cengiz Şişman

 **Afterthoughts on Imagining the Balkans**, 125  
Maria Todorova

##  Book Reviews

 **M.W. Daly, ed.**   
***The Cambridge History of Egypt: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the end of the Twentieth Century***, 149  
Roger Owen

 **Layla S. Diba and Maryam Ekhitar, eds.**   
***Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925***, 151  
Zeynep Yürekli

 **Kevin Rushby**  
***Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey Through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia and Yemen***, 154  
Giancarlo Casale

 **al-Ghazālī**  
***The incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahāfut al-Falāsifa)***  
**Translated, Introduced, and Anotated by Michael E. Marmura**, 155  
Rahim Acar

 **Joshua Prawer and Haggai Ben-Shammi, eds.**   
***The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period, 638-1099***, 160  
Nitza Rosovsky

 **Bruce Lawrence**  
***Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence***, 163  
Bruce Fudge

 **Selim Deringil**  
***The Well- Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimization of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909***, 167  
Hasan Kayalı

 **Eyal Ben-Ari**  
***Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit***, 170  
Barak Salmoni

 **Nawal El Saadawi**  
***The Innocence of the Devil***, 173  
Ahmad Kanna

 **Robert D. McChesney**  
***Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad’s Account of the 1929 Uprising***, 175  
Michael Connell

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