153 - MERIP

July/August 1988

Middle East Report 153 inquires into the dynamic relationship between religion and politics in the region.


From the Editors (July/August 1988)	The Editors
Articles
An Islamic State?	Sami Zubaida
Muslim Women and Fundamentalism	Fatima Mernissi
The Political Uses of Islam in Turkey	Ergin Yildizoğlu, Ronnie Margulies
The Rabita Affair	Erkan Akin, Ömer Karasapan
Turkey’s Tarikats	Erkan Akin, Ömer Karasapan
The “Turkish-Islamic Synthesis”	Erkan Akin, Ömer Karasapan
Portrait of Rachid al-Ghannouchi	Linda G. Jones
“How Can a Muslim Live in This Era?”
Document: “Deficiencies in the Islamic Movement” (Rashid al-Ghannouchi)
Egypt: A New Secularism?	Alexander Flores
Special Reports
What Happened in Soviet Armenia?	Joe Stork
Between Guerrilla Warfare and Political Murder	Martin Van Bruinessen
Democracy and the Kurds	Ömer Karasapan
Document: Ismail Besikci on State Ideology and the Kurds
Birth (Al-Maulid)	Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majdhoub
Reviews
Apprehensions of Islam	Michael Gilsenan
Dorman and Farhang, The US Press and Iran	Ervand Abrahamian
Bayat, Workers and Revolution in Iran	Val Moghadam
Lessing, The Wind Blows Away Our Words	Fred Halliday
Editor’s Bookshelf (July/August 1988)	Joel Beinin
Letter (July/August 1988)