New Books in the Library / Spring 2008

The Library's most recent acquisitions can be found by searching our online catalog under 'Recent Acquisitions'.

Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East / Ussama Samir Makdisi (2008)

Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization /Jason Brownlee (2007)

Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East
& North Africa, Vol. 1 and 2 / Michael R. Fischbach (2008)

Critical Encounters: Essays on Persian Literature and
Culture in Honor of Peter J. Chelkowski / Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and M.R. Ghanoonparvar, eds. (2007)

Culture Smart! UAE: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette / John Walsh (2008)

Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons / Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark (2007)

Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in
the Gulf States / Aamir A. Rehman (2008)

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State / Noah Feldman (2008)

From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930 / Mohammad Gholi Majd (2008)

Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States, 2nd Edition
/ Malcolm C. Peck (2008)

The Historical Muhammad / Irving M. Zeitlan (2007)*

A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present / Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot (2007)

An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World / Fuad I. Khuri, Sonia Jalbout Khuri, ed. (2007)*

Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds / Anne F. Broadbridge (2008)

The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish problem in Iraq and Turkey / Michael Gunter (2008)

Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century / Marc Sageman (2008)

The Libyan Paradox / Luis Martinez (2007)

The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World / Mohammed Ayoob (2008)*

Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq / Michael Scheuer (2008)

The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace / Aaron Miller (2008)

Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects /Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber, eds. (2008)

The Sayyid Qutb Reader: Selected Writings on Politics, Religion, and Society / Sayyid Qutb, Albert Bergesen, ed. (2008)

Tuhfah yi-Abbasi: The Golden Chain of Sufism in Shi‘ite Islam / Mohammad Ali Sabzvaari (2008)

Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think / John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed (2008)

Books followed by an asterisk (*) denote that they have been reviewed in the Spring 2008 edition of The Middle East Journal.