Book reviews

Middle Eastern Lectures, No. 1, 1995, edited by Martin Kramer. Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1995 (distributed by Syracuse University Press). Pp. 133, $12.95. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror 1940-1949 by Joseph Heller. London: Frank Cass, 1995. Pp. x + 358. index. £37.50 (hardback), £ 18 (paperback). Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad by Ziad Abu-Amr. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 169, references, index. £27.50 (hardback); £9.99 (paperback). Pioneers of Islamic Revival edited by Ali Rahnema. London: Zed Books, 1994. Pp. viii + 279, index. £14.95 (paperback). The Political Dimensions of Religion edited by Said Amir Arjomand. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 293, index. No price indicated. Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Ideological and Political Discourse of Sayyid Qutb by Ahmad S. Moussalli. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1992. Pp. 262, bibliography, index. No price indicated. Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer. Boulder: Westview and London: Pinter, 1991. Pp. xxii + 258, index. £14.99. Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen by Martha Mundy. London: I.B. Tauris. 1995. Pp. xviii +317, bibliography, index. £39.50 (hardback). Central Asia: 130 Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview edited by Edward Allworth. Durham and London: Duke University Press,1994. Pp. xix+652. £65.00 (hardback); £25.00 (paperback). The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia 1935-1941 by Haile Larebo. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 350. £45.00. The Arabian Epic by M.C. Lyons. Cambridge, 1995. 3 vols. Pp. 183+489+660. £125.