Synopses & Reviews
This reader brings together key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the best-known specialists in the field. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present day, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only text of its kind available. Fully updated with two new chapters to take into account recent world events, this book remains of great use to all those with a general interest in the Middle East.
About the Author
Albert Hourani (1915-1993) was Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and Reader in the Modern History of the Middle East at the University of Oxford. His books include 'A History of the Arab Peoples'.
Philip S. Khoury is Professor of History and Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism (1983) and Syria and the French Mandate (1987), and Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (1990).
Mary C. Wilson is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is author of King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan (1987).
Table of Contents
Preface * Acknowledgements * Note on Presentation * Introduction--Albert Hourani *
Part I: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918 * Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * The Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the Time of Selim III and Mahmud II--Uriel Heyd * Turkish Attitudes Concerning Christian-Muslim Equality in the Nineteenth Century--Roderic H. Davison * Ottoman Reform and the Politics of Notables--Albert Hourani * Egypt and Europe: from French Expedition to British Occupation--Roger Owen * War & Society under the Young Turks, 1908-18--Feroz Ahmad * Social Change in Persia in the Nineteenth Century--Ann K.S. Lambton *
Part II: Transformations in Society & Economy, 1789-1918 * Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * Middle East Economic Development, 1815-1914: the General and the Secific--Charles Issawi * The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt: a Reappraisal--Kenneth M. Cuno * Decline of the Family Economy in Mid-Nineteenth Century Egypt--Judith Tucker * Ottoman Women, Households, and textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914--Donald Quataert * Said Bey--The Everyday Life of an Istanbul Townsman at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century--Paul Dumont * The Crowd in the Persian Revolution--Ervand Abrahamian * Cairo--Andre Raymond *
Part III: The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics to the 1950s * Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * Religion and Secularism in Turkey--Serif Mardin * From Ottomanism to Arabism: The Origin of an Ideology--C. Ernest Dawn * 1919: Labor Upsurge and National Revolution--Joel Beinin & Zachary Lockman * Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate--Philip S. Khoury * The Role of the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt--1936-1939--Ted Swedenburg * Of the Diversity of Iraqis, the Incohesiveness of their Society, and their Progress in the Monarchic Period toward a Consolidated Political Structure-- Hanna Batatu *
Part IV: The Middle East Since the Second World War * Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948--Avi Shlaim * Dilemmas of the Jewish State--David McDowall * The Strange Career of Pan Arabism--Stephen Humphreys * Nasser 56/Cairo 96--Joel Gordon * Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective--Nikki Keddie * The Crisis of Religious Legitimacy in Iran--Olivier Roy * Religion, Social Structure and Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia--Mamoun Fandy