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“... strikingly successful example of such intimate reporting is provided by The House of Si Abd Allah. Henry Munson presents his story in a most original manner and it deserves to be read and enjoyed by all sorts of people who have no professional interest in anthropology. There are really three authors. The two principal narrators, both born in Tangier, are ...”

“... from Morocco to Indonesia. Lewis is implicitly challenged in a number of respects, too, in Henry Munson’s stimulating book, Islam and Revolution in the Middle East. Take, for example, Lewis’s endorsement of the familiar argument that there is no separation of religion and politics in Islam. ‘It is all very well,’ ...”

“... embarras de richesses, a dazzling variety of (not seldom contradictory) choices. Rosaria Vignolo Munson has put together two hefty volumes of articles chronicling the recent development of this revaluation of Herodotus. Volume 1 deals with the narrative of past events, Volume II with ‘the atemporal description of cultures and lands’: ...”