A History of the Modern Middle East [Fifth edition] 9780813348346, 081334834X, 9781785395130, 1785395130

Table of contents :
List of illustrations --
Preface to the fifth edition --
Acknowledgments --
A note about place names and transliteration --
Part one. The development of Islamic civilization to the eighteenth century: Preface
1. The rise and expansion of Islam
2. The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century
3. The Ottoman and Safavid empires: a new imperial synthesis --
Part two. The beginnings of the era of transformation: Preface
4. Forging a new synthesis: the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849
5. The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the Tanzimat
6. Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century
7. The response of Islamic society
8. The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists
9. World War I and the end of the Ottoman Order --
Part three. The struggle for independence: the interwar era to the end of World War II: Preface
10. Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran
11. The Arab struggle for independence: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the Interwar Era to 1945
12. The Arab struggle for independence: Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the Interwar Era to 1945
13. The Palestine Mandate and the birth of the state of Israel. Part four. The independent Middle East from the end of World War II to the 1970s: Preface
14. Democracy and authoritarianism: Turkey and Iran
15. The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: the Egyptian base
16. The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: the radicalization of Arab politics
17. Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s --
Part five. The resurgence of Islam: the Middle East from the 1970s to the 1991 Gulf War: Preface
18. The Iranian Revolution and the revival of Islam
19. Changing patterns of war and peace: Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s
20. The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era
21. The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq: The regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn --
Part six. Challenges to the existing order: the Middle East in the 1990s and 2000s: Preface
22. The Palestinian Intifada and the 1991 Gulf War
23. A peace so near, a peace so far: Palestinian-Israeli relations since the 1991 Gulf War
24. Patterns of continuity and change in Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon
25. America's troubled moment in the Middle East
26. The 2011 Arab uprisings --
Glossary --
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