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Book reviewed in this article: Iran Under the Pahlavis. Edited by George Lenczowski Islam in Tropical Africa, 2nd edition. Edited by I. M. Lewis A Palestinian Agenda for the West Bank and Gaza. Edited by Emile A. Nakhleh Michigan Oriental Studies in honor of George C. Cameron offered by the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan. Edited by Louis L. Orlin. Ann Arbor The Peasant Venture: Tradition, Migration, and Change among Georgian Peasants in Turkey. By Paul J. Magnarella The Arab Press. By William A. Rugh Imale: Yoruba Participation in the Muslim Tradition. A Study of Clerical Piety. By Patrick J. Ryan Studies on Islam. Translated and edited by Merlin L. Swartz Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World. By Anthony Welch Decision on Palestine: How the U. S. Came to Recognize Israel. By Evan M. Wilson Media Briefing Packet: The Middle East. Compiled by Sheila A. Scoville The Image of Islamic Civilization. Edited by Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg Studies in Islamic Economics. Edited by Khurshid Ahmad Social Life under the Abbasids 170–289 AH; 786–902 AD. By M. M. Ahsan Mystical poems of Rumi. By Jalal aldin Rūm?. Translated by A. J. Arberry Concept of Islamic State. By the Islamic Council of Europe. Edited by Salem Azzam Readings on the History of the Holy Land—From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Ray L. Cleveland Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. By Michael M. J. Fischer Lebanon in Crisis: Participants and Issues. Edited by Edward P. Haley and Lewis W. Snider Mizh: A Monograph on Government's Relations with the Mahsud Tribe. By Evelyn Howell Intellectual Modernism of Shibli Nu'mani: An Exposition of His Religious and Socio‐Political Ideas. By Mehr Afroz Murad Egyptian One‐Act Plays. Selected and translated by Denys Johnson‐Davies Al‐Jujani's Theory of Poetic Imagery. By Kamal Abu Deeb Children of Gebelawi. By Naguib Mahfouz. Translated by Philip Stewart Mundus Arabicus [An Annual Devoted to Arabic Literature]. Vol. I, 1981. Arab Writers in America: Critical Essays and Annotated Bibliography The Fundamental Principles and Precepts of Islamic Government. By Abolhassan Banisadr Islam and Power. Edited by Alexander S. Cudsi and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi. By Robert Grant Irving Akbar: The Architect of the Mughul Empire. By Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi Don't You Hear the Thunder: A Dutchman's Life Story. By D. van der Meulen New Paths in Muslim Evangelism: Evangelical Approaches to Contextualization. By Phil Parshall Muhammad Iqbal und dei drei Reiche des Geistes (Muhammad Iqbal and the Three Realms of the Spirit). Edited by Wolfgang Koehler The Arab World, 4th Edition. By William R. Polk The Early Abbasid Caliphate. By Hugh Kennedy The Islamic State. By Asghar Ali Engineer Beyond Camp David: Emerging Alignments and Leaders in the Middle East. By Paul A. Jureidini and R. D. McLaurin Beyond Camp David The Camp David Framework for Peace: A Shift Toward Shared Rule. By Daniel J. Elazar Beyond Camp David The West Bank and Gazn: Toward the Making of a Palestinian State. By Emile A. Nakhleh Beyond Camp David Iran under the Safavids. By Roger Savory The Economic History of Turkey 1800–1914. By Charles Issawi Cultures of the Islamic Middle East: a guide to introductory readings for the non‐specialist. By John W. Bagnole Nubian Ceremonial Life. Edited by John Kennedy Muslim Society. By Ernest Gellner Muslim Women: In Purdah and Out of It. By Jamila Brijbhushan Women in Islam: By Naila Minai Women's Status in the Muslim World: A Bibliographical Survey. Compiled by lnger Marie Ruud