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The Muslims of America, edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. (Religion in America Series) 249 pages, tables, figures. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 0–19-508559–0

The essays by Shimon Shamir and Zeev Maoz are the most interesting and theoretically relevant contributions. Shamir examines the war at two different levels of analysis: individual and societal. While Sadat's "operational code" provides a necessary explanation, Shamir does not find it convincing. One must consider the significance of honor in the Arab world, proposes Shamir, for a sufficient explanation. Given the humiliating defeat in 1967, Sadat needed to retrieve Arab honor in the 1973 war before undertaking peace negotiations with Israel. Using a game theoretic approach, Zeev Maoz argues that Sadat's primary objective was to rekindle the peace process through superpower involvement. By setting that limited objective, adds Maoz, Sadat was successful in his gambit. The editors are to be commended for including a Jordanian and two Russians among the authors. Since the editors emphasize the importance of the 1973 Egyptian-Israeli military front, inviting Egyptian scholars to participate would have added insight. With a large number of contributors, the essays understandably vary in length and quality. While a few chapters include source citations, most do not. Furthermore, none of the authors adequately relate their work to the analytical framework of the book. Nevertheless, From War to Peace is interesting as part of a genre that examines defining moments in contemporary Middle East history.