Vol. 48

• Editorial Board
• Editorial Preface
• Culture of Beauty
  • Outward Appearance, Personal Care and Sexuality in Early Muslim Sources / Hadas Hirsch
  • The "Gate of Heaven" (Sha'ar Hashamayim)
    Synagogue in Cairo (1898-1905):
    On the Contextualization of Jewish Communal
    Architecture / Hana Taragan
• Elites and Masses
  • Between Sacredness and Worldliness:
    Between Sacredness and Worldliness: The Involvement of Ulama Households in Ottoman High Politics - The Case of ?eyh?lislam Feyzullah Efendi (1695-1703) / Michael Nizri
  • Patrons, Collaborators and the Crowd:
    Politics, Protest and Violence in the City of Shiraz during the first half of the 19th Century / Moshe Aharonov
• The Palestinian Arabs and Israel
  • The Subjugation of the Arab Economy in Israel to the Jewish Sector, 1958-1967 / Yair B?uml
  • A "Symbolic Repatriation": the Formulation of the Family Reunification" Procedure, 1949-1955 / Jacob Tovy
  • Searching for Identity: the Fatah Movement, Islam and the Armed Struggle, 1959-1968 / Ido Zelkovitz
• Islam and the West
  • The Decline of the West in Arab-Muslim Thought:
    Three Reincarnations of a Prophecy / Uriya Shavit
• Literature and Politics
  • Symposium on Jews and Arabs after the 1967 War:
    Readings in Jasmine by Eli Amir / Meir Hatina (editor)
• Motion Picture
  • Iraq in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema:
    Impotency and Lack of Interest / Sariel Birenbaum

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• Book Reviews