8vo. 298 pp; 7 tables, cloth in d/w (d/w covered in self adhesive protection), gilt title on spine, previous owner’s name signed on verso of front and back covers, index, Croom Helm Publication, London, first edition, 1981.

Synopsis

The book surveys the nature of opinion and of government in the larger Muslim regions of the world, and the position of Muslims in states where they are not the dominant population. Each contributor expresses his own assessment of the regional data, and the editor’s concluding chapter draws together the threads of a work which will form an important contribution to international understanding and a first breach in the ‘Green Curtain’ dividing East and West.