MELA NOTES


Number 79

2006

CONTENTS

(All articles in PDF)

ARTICLES

Fawzi Abdulrazak

 al-Mubah. wa-al-la-Mubah.: Fusul min al-Turath al-Islami (The Permitted & The Non-Permitted: Chapters in Islamic Heritage)


Mustafa Dehqan  

Allusions to the Kurdish Community in Shiite Classical Literature


John Russell  

Open Access and Middle East Studies


REVIEWS

Daftary: Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies (Erik S. Ohlander)

Daftary & Meri: Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam: Essays in Honour of Wilferd Madelung (Erik S. Ohlander)

Daftary: Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies (Erik S. Ohlander)

Badakhchani: Paradise of Submission: A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought (Erik S. Ohlander)

Zakani: Kulliyat-i ,Ubayd Zakani (Matthew C. Smith)

Bateson: Arabic Language Handbook (Kristen Kern)

Elena: The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami (David Giovacchini)

Ibrahim, Aydelott and Kassabgy: Diversity in Language: Contrastive Studies in English and Arabic Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Kristen Kern)

El Badry: A Certain Woman (Blair Kuntz)

Yambert: The Contemporary Middle East (Antoinette W. Satterfield)

Abou-el-Haj: Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (Thomas M. Izbicki)

Schmitt: Selected Onomastic Writings (Ilya Yakubovich)

Goldschmidt and Davidson: A Concise history of the Middle East (Barbara Brownell)

Sultany: Citizens without Citizenship: Mada’s First Annual Political Monitoring Report: Israel and the Palestinian Minority, 2000-2002 (Liz Cooper)

Schabler and Stenberg: Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity (Mohamed Taher)

Agmon: Family & Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine (Rachel Simon)

Collins: Occupied by Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency (Fadi H. Dagher)

Kumar and Garg: Advanced Cataloguing Practice: Based on Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (Second edition) (Mohamed Taher)

Coleman: Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966–1999: An Annotated Bibliography (Mohamed Taher)


Editor’s Note: Correction to Blair Kuntz, “Arabic Transliteration Scheme: ISO or LC?” MELA Notes 78 (2005) 56


Books Received for Review in MELA Notes

ANNUAL MEETING 2005

Minutes and Reports: 2005 MELA Annual Business Meeting



David H. Partington Award Citation (Abazar Sepehri)

Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) al-Samir Brooklyn, New York 1936-1957

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