ISRAEL AFFAIRS Editor: Efraim Karsh Associate Editor: Rory Miller Book Reviews Editor: David Rodman Shlomo Avineri Sylvia Kedourie Howard Sachar Walter Laqueur Anthony Smith Moshe Lissak George Steiner Daniel Pipes David Vital Michael Walzer A.B. Yehoshua Moshe Brawer Michael Brecher Eliot Cohen Benjamin Harshav Itamar Rabinovich Assaf Razin Arthur Hertzberg J.C. Hurewitz Bernard Reich Efraim Inbar Jehuda Reinharz Editorial Board Israel Affairs is indexed and abstracted in: CSA Political Science & Government; Science Abstracts; International Political Science Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts; Index to Jewish Periodicals; The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Manuscripts, editorial communications and book reviews should be sent to: Efraim Karsh, Mediterranean Studies Programme, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. Subscriptions and advertising inquires should be sent to Israel Affairs at the address below. Annual subscription Volume 13, 2007 Institutions £316/US$521 postage included Individuals £79/US$111 postage included Online £300/US$494 Single issue and back issue prices available from the publisher Israel Affairs (USPS permit number 022 312) is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October. Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica, NY by US Mailing Agent Air Business Ltd, c/o Priority Airfreight NY Ltd, 130-29 135th Avenue, South Ozone Park, NY 11420. US Postmaster: Please send address changes to Air Business Ltd, c/o Priority Airfreight NY Ltd, 130-29 135th Avenue, South Ozone Park, NY 11420. Statements of fact or opinion appearing in Israel Affairs are solely those of the authors and do not imply endorsement by the editors or publisher. Authors should consult the Notes for Contributors at the front of the journal before submitting their final draft. The editors cannot accept responsibility for any damage to or loss of manuscripts. Published quarterly in January, April, July and October Taylor & Francis, 2007 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK Tel .: +44 (0)207 017 6000; Fax: +44 (0)207 017 6336 E-mail: enquiry@tandf.co.uk Website: www.tandf.co.uk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Typeset by Alden Prepress Services, Northampton, UK .... .. Contents Special Issue: Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict Guest Editors: Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson Divine Abstracts 669 Introduction Donna Robinson Divine 678 Postcolonial Theory Essentialism, Consistency and Islam: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism Irfan Khawaja 689 Postcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination 714 Ronald Niezen Orientalism and the Foreign Sovereign: Today I am a Man of Law Ed Morgan 730 Mistakenness and the Nature of the 'Post': The Ethics and the Inevitability of Error in Theoretical Work Laurie Zoloth 757 Postcolonialism in the Disciplines The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or: Can the Anthropologist Speak? Herbert S. Lewis 774 Postcolonial Theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies Gerald M. Steinberg 786 Postcolonialism and Middle Eastern History The Missing Piece: Islamic Imperialism Efraim Karsh 797 The Muslim Man's