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1. Law and Power in the Islamic World by Sami Zubaida
   
   
2. Islam, the People and the State: Essays on Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East by Sami Zubaida
   
   
3. Forbidding Wrong in Islam by Michael Cook (Cambridge University Press, August 2003)
   
   
4. The New Pillar: Conservative Arab Gulf States and U.S. Strategy by Simon Henderson (Washington Institute Policy Paper 58, October 2003)
   
   
5. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World Richard C. Martin, ed. (Hardcover, October 2003)
   
   
6. Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace by Ralph Peters
   
   
7. Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf by Barry Rubin et al. (BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel, 30 Nov 2001)
   
   
8. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East, by Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg (2001)
   
   
9. Index of Academic Journal Articles on the Middle East
   Compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations.
   
   
10. The Persian Gulf at the Millennium : Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion by Gary Sick (Editor), Lawrence G. Potter (Editor) (1998)
    
    
11. The Persian Gulf in Transition (Headline Series, No. 315) by Lawrence G. Potter (1998)
    
    
12. Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf by Daniel Byman, Jerrold D. Green (1999)
    
    
13. New Media in the Muslim World : The Emerging Public Sphere (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) by Dale F. Eickelman (Editor), Jon W. Anderson, Anderson Jon W. (Editor) (1999)
    
    
14. Middle East at the Crossroads : The Changing Political Dynamics and the Foreign Policy Challenges by Manochehr Dorraj (Editor) (1999)
    
    
15. The Middle East : A History by Sydney Nettleton Fisher, William L. Ochsenwald (1997)
    
    
16. Liberal Islam : A Sourcebook by Charles Kurzman (Editor) (1998)
    
    
17. War and Peace in the Gulf : Domestic Politics and Regional Relations into the 1990s by Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Gerd Nonneman, Charles Tripp (1991)
    
    
18. The Persian Gulf Crisis by Steven A. Yetiv (1997)
    
    
19. The Arab Gulf States by John Peterson (1988)
    
    
20. After the Storm : Lessons from the Gulf War by Roger K. Smith (Editor), Joseph S. Nye (Editor) (1993)
    
    
21. All in the Family : Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies (Suny Series in Middle Eastern Studies) by Michael Herb (1999)
    
    
22. The Arab Gulf and the West by Brian Pridham (Editor) (1985)
    
    
23. Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and the Uae : Challenges of Security (Csis Middle East Dynamic Net Assessment) by Anthony H. Cordesman (1997)
    
    
24. Change and Development in the Gulf by Abbas Abdelkarim (Editor) (1999)
    
    
25. Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War by Mark Grossman (Editor), Sheikh R. Ali, Rolin G. Mainuddin (Contributor) (1995)
    
    
26. Guardians of the Gulf; A History of America's Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf, 1833-1992 by Michael A. Palmer (1992)
    
    
27. Iran and the Gulf : A Search for Stability by Jamal S. Suwaidi (Editor) (1997)
    
    
28. Iraq's Road to War by Amatzia Baram (Editor), Barry M. Rubin (Editor) (1994)
    
    
29. Small Islands, Big Politics : The Tonbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf by Hooshang Amirahmadi (Editor) (1996)
    
    
30. Countries & Tribes of the Persian Gulf by Samuel Miles (1997)
    
    
31. Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States (Asian Historical Dictionaries, No 21) by Malcolm C. Peck (1996)
    
    
32. Iran-Iraq War : Impact and Implications by Efraim Karsh (Editor) (1989)
    
    
33. The Persian Gulf Region in the Twenty First Century : Stability and Change by Nozar Alaolmolki (1996)
    
    
34. The GCC states in an unstable world : foreign-policy dilemmas of small states by Hassan Hamdan Alkim
    
    
35. Arab-Iranian Relations by Khair El-Din Haseeb (Editor), Khair El-Din Haseeb (1998)
    
    
36. Global Communication and World Politics : Domination, Development, and Discourse by Majid Tehranian (1999)
    
    
37. New Media, New Politics? From Satellite Television to the Internet in the Arab World by Jon B. Alterman (1998).
    
    
38. New Frontiers in Middle East Security, Lenore G. Martin(Editor) (1998)
    
    
39. Modernity and the Millennium : The Genesis of the Baha'I Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East by Juan Ricardo Cole (1998)
    
    
40. Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves by Mark N. Katz (1999)
    
    
41. Reflections on Revolutions by Mark N. Katz
    
    
42. Security and Territoriality in the Persian Gulf by Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh (October 1999)
    
    
43. Women, States, and Nationalism : At Home in the Nation by Sita Ranchod-Nilsson(Editor), Mary Ann Tetreault (Editor) - (London and New York: Routledge, 2000)--includes chapters on Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India by Geeta Chowdhry, on citizenship in Kuwait by Mary Ann Tetreault and Haya al-Mughni, and on women in the Israeli military by Edna Levy
    
    
44. The Caspian Region at a Crossroad: A New Frontier of Energy and Development, by Hooshang Amirahmadi, ed., St. Martin Press, NY, 2000.
    
    
45. The Arab Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslims, by Graham E. Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke, Saint Martin's Press, 1999
    
    
46. Managing New Developments in the Gulf by Rosemary Hollis (ed), (RIIA, October 2000)
    
    
47. Islam : A Short History by Karen Armstrong (Modern Library Chronicles, 2000)
    
    
48. Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International Relations of Regional and Outside Powers edited by L. Carl Brown (I. B. Tauris, February 2001). $59.50 (cloth). ISBN 1-86064-640-9.
    
    
49. Contemporary Debates In Islam: An Anthology of modernist and Fundamentalist Thought, edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof (Macmillan, 2000). 35.00 Pounds (hardcover). ISBN 0-333-75474-3.
    
    
50. 'Pariah States' and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq Libya Sudan by Tim Niblock (Lynne Rienner, April 2001). $49.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-55587-962-4.
    
    
51. Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World by Paul Rivlin (Lynne Rienner, January 2001). $49.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-55587-932-2.
    
    
52. The Gulf: Future Security and British Policy by The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR, 2000). 20.00 Pounds (hardcover). ISBN 0-86372-260-1.
    
    
53. Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics by L. Carl Brown, Columbia University Press, 2000
    
    
54. The Persian Gulf and South Asia : Prospects and Problems of Inter-Regional Cooperation by Bhabani Sen Gupta (Editor), 2001
    
    
55. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere by Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson (eds.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999
    
    
56. Jihad: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Extremism by Gilles Kepel, (IB Tauris, 2001), 384 pp.