A companion to the history of the Middle East /

A companion to the history of the Middle East / [print] edited by Youssef M. Choueiri. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. Ltd, (c)2005. - xvii, 602 pages : illustrations, maps. - Blackwell companions to world history . - Blackwell companions to world history. .



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




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