Book Reviews and Notices : A Short History of the Middle East. BY GEORGE E. KIRK. (Washington, D. C.: Public Affairs Press. 1949. Pp. 301. $3.75.)

1949 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-649
Author(s):  
H. Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of

Book reviews: Outrunning the dominant males

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-328
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Short History ◽  
75Th Anniversary ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
Animal Physiology ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
History Of

Women Physiologists , edited by Lynn Bindman, Alison Bruding and Tilli Tansey. Portland Press, 1993. £16.95. ISBN 1-85578-021-6. The Physiological Society originated as a scientific dining club in 1879 for men interested in animal physiology. It was not until 1915 that the first woman was elected as a member, and it is the 75th anniversary of this event that is marked by this book, which consists of brief biographies of 18 women physiologists whose scientific careers are outlined. As an introduction there is a short history of women and the Physiological Society. The next section is devoted to those - 8 out of the 18 - who received public recognition in the form of F.R.S. and/or D.B.E.: they are considered at greater length. All the biographies are written by women, themselves physiologists of high standing, who knew their subjects personally or through close associates. (The final section has details of each contributor.)

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
Sulayman S. Nyang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Salient Points ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short Span ◽  
Arabic Christian ◽  
Desperate Attempt

Bernard LEWIS, The Muslim Discovery of Europe (New York/London:W.W. Norton & Co., 1982), 350 pp., Index & Illustrations. Price $19.95.The Muslims have had a long history of relations with WesternEuropean peoples. Some part of it was tumultous and violent and theother was peaceful and harmonious. It was the Muslims who held thetorch of civilization when the lights went out in Europe and elsewhere inthe world. And indeed it was the Muslims who passed on to Europe in theMiddle Ages the coveted intellectual jewels of the ancient world.However, such transactions and ties between the Western Europeanpeoples and the Muslim world have led to two major historicaldevelopments. The first was the renaissance in Europe, whichinterestingly enough led to the distancing of Europe from the MuslimWorld. The second was the subsequent development of learning and thesciences in Europe and the rise of European power to challenge,threaten, and finally defeat Muslim power in the world.It is indeed against this background that one can examine this book bythe well-known but controversial British orientalist, Professor BernardLewis. His book is certainly an important contribution to the limitedliterature on early and medieval Muslim transactions with theEuropean world. But in order to do justice to the work and its author, letus analyze its contents and see how and to what extent the authorcaptures the salient points about the Muslim discovery of the West.The book is divided into twelve chapters with a preface and a note onthe source of illustrations. In the first chapter, entitled "Contact andImpact", Professor Lewis traces the rise of Islam in the Middle East andthe geopolitical revisions that accompanied the Muslim ascendancy. Hepoints out that at the time the Muslim armies made their sweep over theMediterranean region Christianity served as the dominant worldview ofthe area's inhabitants. But within a very short span of time the Muslimswere able not only to conquer Christian lands but also to Arabicize andIslamize the hitherto non-Arabic, Christian peoples.Professor Lewis goes on to identify important milestones in Islamichistory. Among these milestones four are of great importance. First ofall, he talks about the Western perception of the Islamic threat. This wasevident in the desperate attempt to check the tide of lslamism inByzantium and later in the southern part of Western Europe.particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. He brings out an important point ...

Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Metin Atmaca ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Sabri Ateş ◽  
Francis O’Connor ◽  
Marouf Cabi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
History Of ◽  
Kurdish Question ◽  
Armed Actors

Sebastian Maisel, ed., The Kurds: an Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2018, 376 pp., (978-1-4408-4256-6).Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş, eds., Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: Geopolitics, Ideology, Strategy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 278 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-319-55287-3). Barbara Henning, Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts: Continuities and Changes. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2018, 756 pp., (ISBN: 9783863095512).Gareth Stansfield and Mohammed Shareef, eds, The Kurdish Question Revisited. London: C Hurst & Co., 2017, 712 pp., (ISBN-10: 0190687185; ISBN-13: 978-0190687182).Abbas Amanat, Iran: A Modern History, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2017, pp. 1000, (ISBN-10: 0300112548, ISBN-13: 978-0300112542).

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