A companion to the history of the Middle East /

A companion to the history of the Middle East /

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Other Authors: Choueiri, Youssef M., 1948-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Published Ltd., 2005.

Series: Blackwell Companions to World History.

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Middle East > History.

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Call Number: DS62 .C63 2005

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri
  • The formative period of Islam
  • The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting
  • The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner
  • The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy
  • Cultural traditions and social structure
  • The ʻulama:̉ function and status / Zouhair Ghazzal
  • Shīʻism / Robert Gleave
  • Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh
  • Imperial structures and dynastic rule
  • Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain
  • The Mamluk institution / P.M. Holt
  • State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett
  • A new Middle Eastern system
  • Ottomans and Safavids: states, statecraft, and societies, 1500-1800 / Metin Kunt
  • Urban life and Middle Eastern cities: the traditional Arab city / André Raymond (translated James McDougall)
  • The Middle East and the new world order
  • A different balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
  • Colonialism, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran / Peter Sluglett
  • Independence and nation building
  • Zionism and the Palestine question / Emma C. Murphy
  • Nationalisms in the Middle East: the case of Pan-Arabism / Youssef M. Choueiri
  • Turkish and Iranian nationalisms / Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari
  • Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch
  • Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield
  • Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden
  • Modern issues and contemporary challenges
  • Islamic urbanism, urbanites, and the Middle Eastern city / Michael E. Bonine
  • Oil and development / Paul Stevens
  • Modernizing women in the Middle East / Valentine M. Moghadam
  • Politics and religion / Beverley Milton-Edwards
  • Ethno-national minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians / Lise Storm
  • Civil society in the Middle East / Tim Niblock
  • The states-system in the Middle East: origins, developments, and prospects / Simon Bromley.