The Modern Middle East: A Reader

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Albert Hourani, Philip Shukry Khoury, Mary Christina Wilson
University of California Press, 01.01.1993 - 691 Seiten
This valuable collection of essays brings leading Middle Eastern scholars together in one volume and provides an unparalleled view of the modern Middle East. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only available text of its kind. It will also appeal to anyone with a general interest in the Middle East.
The book is divided into four sections: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918; Transformations in Society and Economy, 1789-1918; The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics up to the 1950s; and The Middle East since the Second World War. This valuable collection of essays brings leading Middle Eastern scholars together in one volume and provides an unparalleled view of the modern Middle East. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only available text of its kind. It will also appeal to anyone with a general interest in the Middle East.
The book is divided into four sections: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918; Transformations in Society and Economy, 1789-1918; The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics up to the 1950s; and The Middle East since the Second World War.
 

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Introduction Albert Hourani
1
Introduction Mary C Wilson
23
The Ottoman Ulemā and Westernization in the Time of Selim III
29
Turkish Attitudes Concerning ChristianMuslim Equality in
61
Ottoman Reform and the Politics of Notables Albert Hourani
83
from French Expedition to British Occupation
111
War and Society under the Young Turks 190818 Feroz Ahmad
125
Social Change in Persia in the Nineteenth Century Ann K
145
Religion and Secularism in Turkey Şerif Mardin
347
The Origin of an Ideology C Ernest
375
Labor Upsurge and National Revolution Joel Beinin
395
the Quarters of Damascus
429
The Role of the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt 1936
467
Of the Diversity of Iraqis the Incohesiveness of their Society
503
Introduction Mary C Wilson
529
Consequences of the Suez Crisis in the Arab World Rashid
535

Introduction Mary C Wilson
171
the General
177
Cuno
195
Decline of the Family Economy in MidNineteenthCentury Egypt
229
Ottoman Women Households and Textile Manufacturing 1800
255
Said BeyThe Everyday Life of an Istanbul Townsman at
271
The Crowd in the Persian Revolution Ervand Abrahamian
289
Cairo André Raymond
311
Introduction Mary C Wilson
341
from Revolutionary Plot to Authoritarian
551
Political Power and the Saudi State Ghassan Salamé
579
Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective
601
The Religious Right Binnaz Toprak
625
Dilemmas of the Jewish State David McDowall
643
Women State and Ideology
663
Notes on Contributors
688
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Albert Hourani (1915-1993) was Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and the author of A History of the Arab Peoples (1991). Philip S. Khoury is Professor of Middle East History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-editor of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (California, 1991). Mary C. Wilson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author of King Abdullah, Britain, and the Making of Jordan (1988).

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