Vignettes and Maps | p. v |
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
A Note on Transliteration | p. viii |
Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective | p. 1 |
The Advent of the Modern Age | p. 9 |
From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age | p. 15 |
Gunpowder Empires | p. 27 |
The Middle East and the Modern World System | p. 35 |
War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power | p. 47 |
Documents | p. 60 |
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535 | p. 60 |
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1) | p. 61 |
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2) | p. 63 |
Suggested Readings | p. 66 |
The Question of Modernity | p. 69 |
Defensive Developmentalism | p. 73 |
Imperialism | p. 88 |
Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation | p. 100 |
Photo Essay: The Great Transformation | p. 111 |
The Life of the Mind | p. 123 |
Secularism and Modernity | p. 132 |
Constitutionalism | p. 139 |
Documents | p. 147 |
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire | p. 147 |
The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane | p. 148 |
The Islahat Fermani | p. 150 |
The d'Arcy Oil Concession | p. 154 |
Algeria: Poetry of Loss | p. 157 |
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women | p. 158 |
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris | p. 160 |
Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity | p. 161 |
Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hurriyet | p. 163 |
The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907 | p. 164 |
Suggested Readings | p. 167 |
World War and the Middle East State System | p. 171 |
State-Building by Decree | p. 175 |
State-Building by Revolution and Conquest | p. 186 |
The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism | p. 197 |
The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute | p. 206 |
Documents | p. 215 |
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919 | p. 215 |
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question | p. 217 |
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917 | p. 218 |
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky | p. 219 |
Suggested Readings | p. 220 |
The Contemporary Era | p. 223 |
State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship | p. 231 |
Oil | p. 247 |
The United States and the Middle East | p. 257 |
Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians | p. 271 |
The Iranian Revolution | p. 282 |
Islamic Political Movements | p. 294 |
Conclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization" | p. 304 |
Documents | p. 312 |
Speech Delivered by President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961 | p. 312 |
Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day | p. 313 |
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 | p. 316 |
'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel | p. 317 |
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government | p. 319 |
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones | p. 320 |
Suggested Readings | p. 323 |
Timeline | p. 325 |
Biographical Sketches | p. 329 |
Glossary | p. 335 |
Credits | p. 344 |
Index | p. 346 |
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