A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh
account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this
region.
* A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history
of the Middle East
* Comprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international
scholars
* Primarily focused on the modern and contemporary periods
* Covers religious, social, cultural, economic, political and
military history
* Treats the region as four differentiated political units
– Iran, Turkey, Israel and the Arab world
* Includes a section on current issues, such as oil, urban
growth, the role of women, and democratic human rights
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations viii
List of Maps ix
List of Tables x
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Youssef M. Choueiri
PART I THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF ISLAM
1 The Rise of Islam 9
Gerald R. Hawting
2 The Islamic Conquests 28
Fred M. Donner
3 The Caliphate 52
Hugh Kennedy
PART II CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
4 The ‘Ulama’ : Status and Function 71
Zouhair Ghazzal
5 Shi’ism 87
Robert Gleave
6 Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West 106
Alexander Knysh
PART III IMPERIAL STRUCTURES AND DYNASTIC RULE
7 Military Patronage States and the Political Economy of the Frontier, 1000-1250 135
Michael Chamberlain
8 The Mamluk Institution 154
P. M. Holt
9 North Africa: State and Society, 1056-1659 170
Michael Brett
PART IV A NEW MIDDLE EASTERN SYSTEM
10 Ottomans and Safavids: States, Statecraft, and Societies, 1500-1800 191
Metin Kunt
11 Urban Life and Middle Eastern Cities: The Traditional Arab City 207
André Raymond (translated James Mc Dougall)
PART V THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
12 A Different Balance of Power: Europe and the Middle East in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 229
Abdul-Karim Rafeq
13 Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the Struggle for Independence: The Arab World, Turkey, and Iran 248
Peter Sluglett
PART VI INDEPENDENCE AND NATION BUILDING
14 Zionism and the Palestine Question 269
Emma C. Murphy
15 Nationalisms in the Middle East: The Case of Pan-Arabism 291
Youssef M. Choueiri
16 Turkish and Iranian Nationalisms 313
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari
17 Political Parties and Trade Unions 334
Raymond Hinnebusch
18 Political Life and the Military 355
Gareth Stansfield
19 Political Economy: From Modernization to Globalization 372
Simon Murden
PART VII MODERN ISSUES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
20 Islamic Urbanism, Urbanites, and the Middle Eastern City 393
Michael E. Bonine
21 Oil and Development 407
Paul Stevens
22 Modernizing Women in the Middle East 425
Valentine M. Moghadam
23 Politics and Religion 444
Beverley Milton-Edwards
24 Ethnonational Minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians 462
Lise Storm
25 Civil Society in the Middle East 486
Tim Niblock
26 The States-system in the Middle East: Origins, Development, and Prospects 504
Simon Bromley
Bibliography 534
Index 582
Circa l’autore
Youssef M. Choueiri is Reader in Islamic Studies at the
University of Manchester. He has lectured on Middle Eastern history
in the US and Australia, as well as in the UK. His previous
publications include Islamic Fundamentalism (1997), Arab
Nationalism (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and Modern Arab
Historiography (2003).
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