The Modern Middle East: A History

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Vignettes and Maps p. v Acknowledgments p. vii A Note on Transliteration p. viii Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective p. 1 Part I The Advent of the Modern Age p. 9 1 From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age p. 15 2 Gunpowder Empires p. 27 3 The Middle East and the Modern World System p. 35 4 War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power p. 47 Documents p. 60 Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535 p. 60 The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1) p. 61 The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2) p. 63 Suggested Readings p. 66 Part II The Question of Modernity p. 69 5 Defensive Developmentalism p. 73 6 Imperialism p. 88 7 Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation p. 100 Photo Essay: The Great Transformation p. 111 8 The Life of the Mind p. 123 9 Secularism and Modernity p. 132 10 Constitutionalism p. 139 Documents p. 147 Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire p. 147 The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane p. 148 The Islahat Fermani p. 150 The d’Arcy Oil Concession p. 154 Algeria: Poetry of Loss p. 157 Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women p. 158 Rifa’a Rafi’ al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris p. 160 Muhammad ‘Abduh: The Theology of Unity p. 161 Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hurriyet p. 163 The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907 p. 164 Suggested Readings p. 167 Part III World War and the Middle East State System p. 171 11 State-Building by Decree p. 175 12 State-Building by Revolution and Conquest p. 186 13 The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism p. 197 14 The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute p. 206 Documents p. 215 Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919 p. 215 Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question p. 217 The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917 p. 218 Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky p. 219 Suggested Readings p. 220 Part IV The Contemporary Era p. 223 15 State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship p. 231 16 Oil p. 247 17 The United States and the Middle East p. 257 18 Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians p. 271 19 The Iranian Revolution p. 282 20 Islamic Political Movements p. 294 Conclusion: The Middle East in the “Age of Globalization” p. 304 Documents p. 312 Speech Delivered by President Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961 p. 312 Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day p. 313 U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 p. 316 ‘Ali Shari’ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel p. 317 Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government p. 319 Sayyid Qutb: Milestones p. 320 Suggested Readings p. 323 Timeline p. 325 Biographical Sketches p. 329 Glossary p. 335 Credits p. 344 Index p. 346.

• Author: James L. Gelvin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Published: 2005
• ISBN-13: 9780195167894