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"Professor Oweiss' book recounts in clear prose the story of an active and productive life lived largely in two different cultures--Egyptian (and Middle Eastern) and American. The reader will meet many interesting personages--well known and not well known--across seven decades of important changes in the world."--Carol Lancaster, Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor of Politics, Georgetown University.

"Professor Oweiss' book recounts in clear prose the story of an active and productive life lived largely in two different cultures--Egyptian (and Middle Eastern) and American. The reader will meet many interesting personages--well known and not well known-across seven decades of important changes in the world."--Carol Lancaster, Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor of Politics, Georgetown University.

Kitab al-Amwal (The Book of Revenue) is the work of a brilliant legal mind. Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam provides us with an accurate record of legal precedents laid down in the first two centuries of Islam, in particular those pertaining to the sources of revenue and the avenues of public expenditure. The power of the book, however, lies in the method of the author and the analysis undertaken by him. He gathers together the traditions of the Prophet (pbuh), the opinions of his companions and the views of eminent jurists, and then subjects them to legal analysis that is unparalleled in...