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CONTENTS EDITORIAL Basheer Nafi i ARTICLES: A Neoimperial Discourse on the Middle East Ralph Coury 155 • On Others as Evil: Toward a Truly Comparative Politics Charles Butterworth 164 The Testimony of Women in Islamic Law Tiihii J.
al 'Alwant 173 Islamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Futures Mohammad Hashim Kamali .
197 Foundations for Communication in the Qur'an and Sunnah S.
Shaukat Ali 225 REFLECTIONS: Islam in a More Conservative Western World Ali A.
Mazrui 246 REVIEW ESSAY: Islam and Contemporary Western Thought: The Case of Islam and Postmodemism M.
Hazim Shah ibn Abdul Murad 250 BOOK REVIEWS: Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modem Arab World (by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi') Charles D.
Smith 261 The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Relinquishment of Power in Her Last Three Arab Dependencies (by Glen Balfour-Paul) Anthony T.
Sullivan 265 Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt: Islamic Development, Private Initiative, and State Control (by Dennis J.
Sullivan) Sheila Carapico 269 The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?
(by Ahmad Rashid) M.
Ehsan Ahrari 271 Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook (by Yahya R.
Kamalipour and Hamid Mowlana, eds.
) Abdelwahab El-Affendi 215 World Orders, Old and New (by Noam Chomsky) Mohamed Karbal 278 SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/ ADDRESSES: Workshop on Medical Ethics Khurshid Ahmad Nadeem 283 The Role of Muslim Psychologists in the New Paradigm of Human Development Khurshid Ahmad Nadeem 285 ABSTRACTS OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 288