Book reviews

The Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, sixth edition 1993. Pp.x + 240. £6.99. Islam and the West by Bernard Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp.ix + 217. £17.50. The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East edited by Henri Barkey. New York: St Martin's Press, 1992. Genre and Language in Modern Arabic Literature by Sasson Somekh. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1991. Pp.xii + 141, bibliography, index The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade edited by Elizabeth Savage. London: Frank Cass 1992. pp. 279. £25.00/$30.00 Syria and the Middle East Peace Process by Alasdair Drysdale and Raymond A. Hinnebusch. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 244, notes, bibliography and index. $16.95 (paperback). The Road Not Taken by Itamar Rabinovich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. ix +259. £19.50. ZeitschriftFurTiirkeistudien(1988-1992). Leverkusen, Germany: Leske Verlag, for the Zentrum fiir Tiirkeistudien, Essen. The Politics of Change in Middle East edited by Robert Satloff. Westview Press for the Washingon Institute for Near East Policy. Pp. 237, Index. £9.95 (paperback).