International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 25, 1993, No. 1-4.

From the estate of Gerd Winkelhane (1949-2018), head of the Klaus Schwarz Verlag from 1989. - A good copy. - Contents: MANSOUREH ETTEHADIEH NEZAM-MAFI The Khalisah of Varamin -- GIDEON M. KRESSEL Haqq Akhu Manshad: Major and Minor Wrongs and Specialized Judges Among the Negev Bedouin -- NATHAN J. BROWN The Precarious Life and Slow Death of the Mixed Courts of Egypt -- VIRGINIA H. AKSAN Ottoman Political Writing, 1768-1808 -- SHERMAN A. JACKSON From Prophetic Actions to Constitutional Theory: A Novel Chapter in Medieval Muslim Jurisprudence -- MAHMUT BALI AYKAN The Palestinian Question in Turkish Foreign Policy From the 1950s to the 1990s -- LEILA FAWAZ In Memoriam: Albert Hourani (1915-1993) -- LILA ABU-LUGHOD Islam and the Gendered Discourses of Death -- T. M. Aziz The Role of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr in Shici Political Activism in Iraq from 1958 to 1980 -- NEDAL M. AL-MOUSA The Arabic Bildungsroman: A Generic Appraisal -- JONATHAN MENDILOW The Swing of the Pendulum: The Israeli Labor Alignment, 1988 -- SEYYED VAL�REZA NASR Islamic Opposition to the Islamic State: The Jama'at-i Islami, 1977-88 -- WILLIAM C. YOUNG The Ka'ba, Gender, and the Rites of Pilgrimage -- GLENN E. ROBINSON The Role of the Professional Middle Class in the Mobilization of Palestinian Society: The Medical and Agricultural Committees -- DAVID S. POWERS The Maliki Family Endowment: Legal Norms and Social Practices -- HANS L�GREN Economic Policy in Egypt: A Breakdown in Reform Resistance? -- ELIA ZUREIK, FOUAD MOUGHRABI, AND VINCENT F. SACCO Perception of Legal Inequality in Deeply Divided Societies: The Case of Israel -- ANH NGA LONGVA Kuwaiti Women at a Crossroads: Privileged Development and the Constraints of Ethnic Stratification -- ELIZABETH THOMPSON Ottoman Political Reform in the Provinces: The Damascus Advisory Council in 1844-45 -- M. REZA AFSHARI The Historians of the Constitutional Movement and the Making of the Iranian Populist Tradition -- DOUGLAS LITTLE The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and Israel, 1957-68 -- WAEL B. HALLAQ Was al-Shafi'i the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence? -- RICHARD T. ANTOUN Themes and Symbols in the Religious Lesson: A Jordanian Case Study -- MARK J. GASIOROWSKI The Qarani Affair and Iranian Politics -- N. E. BOU-NACKLIE Les Troupes Sp�ales: Religious and Ethnic Recruitment, 1916-46 -- AUDREY C. SHALINSKY Women's Roles in the Afghanistan Jihad.