A companion to the history of the Middle East / edited by Youssef M. Choueiri. [print]

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 ulamaa: function and status/ Zouhair Ghazzal ; -- Shiism/ 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/ Andre 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.