Livre - Volume 50 Number 6 - Novembre 2014

EDITORIAL KEDOURIE Sylvia, A Word from the Editor, p. 849 ARTICLES RABINOVITCH Itamar, Middle Eastern Studies: A Celebration, p. 851 WASTI Syed Tanvir, Middle Eastern Studies at Fifty: Felicitations!, p. 852 WILSON Rodney, Fiftieth Anniversary of Middle Eastern Studies, p. 854 LANDAU Jacob M., Arminius Vambéry: Traveller, Scholar, Politician, p. 857 REZVANI Babak, Reflections on the Chechen Conflict: Geopolitics, Timing and Transformations, p. 870 GERSHON LEWENTAL D, ‘Saddam's Qadisiyyah’: Religion and History in the Service of State Ideology in Baʿthi Iraq, p. 891 ALROEY Gur, Mesopotamia – ‘The Promised Land’: The Jewish Territorial Organization Project in the Bilād Al-Rāfidayn and the Question of Palestine, 1899–1917, p. 911 MILLER Rory, The Euro-Arab Dialogue and the Limits of European External Intervention in the Middle East, 1974–77, p. 936 ZÜRCHER Erik Jan, Macedonians in Anatolia: The Importance of the Macedonian Roots of the Unionists for their Policies in Anatolia after 1914, p. 960 BALSOY Gülhan, Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society, p. 976 RONEN Yehudit, The Rise and Fall of Hasan Abdallah al-Turabi: A Unique Chapter in Sudan's Political History (1989–99), p. 992 KELLY Saul, Desert Conquests: Early British Planning on the Future of the Italian Colonies, June 1940–September 1943, p. 1006 BOOK REVIEWS JONES Clive, Confronting the Colonies: British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency, by Rory Cormac, London, Hurst & Company 2013. Pp. 295, notes, bibliography, index. £35 (hardback) ISBN 978-184904-293-2, p. 1027 MADDY-WEITZMAN Bruce, Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding, by David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb (eds.), Afterword by Kevin Dwyer, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 278, references, contributors, index. n.p. ISBN 978-0-253-00904-3 (hardback); ISBN 978-0-253-00911; (paperback); ISBN 978-0-253-00919-7 (electronic), p. 1032 HUGHES Matthew, Armies and State-Building in the Modern Middle East: Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform, by Stephanie Cronin, New York and Oxford, I.B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. viii + 310, index. £17.99 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-78076-740-6, p. 1038 TAKRITI, Abdel Razzaq, Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965–1976, by LACKNER Helen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 340, bibliography and index. £65 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-19-967443-5, p. 1041 ZELKOVITZ Ido, Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God, by Matthew Levitt, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2012. Pp. 407, bibliography, index. US$21.00 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-84904-333-5, p. 1043 EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Board, p. ebi