A Companion To The History Of The Middle East

by Choueiri, Youssef M.

• ISBN13: 9781405106818
• ISBN10: 1405106816
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. Comprising 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, this Companion treats the Middle East as four differentiated political units Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Arab world. While focused primarily on the modern and contemporary periods, it also includes a number of chapters on classical and pre-modern themes. Topics are situated within a chronological framework and include the rise of Islam, the militarization of Islam under a wide variety of dynasties, the commercial and industrial revolutions, colonial rule, and the struggle for independence. A final section highlights issues that have preoccupied historians in the second half of the twentieth century, and are most likely to gain momentum well into the twenty-first. These range from oil and urban growth to the role of women and democratic human rights.

Author Biography

Youssef M. Choueiri is Reader in Islamic Studies at the University of Manchester. He has lectured on Middle Eastern history in the US and Australia, as well as in the UK. His previous publications include Islamic Fundamentalism (1997), Arab Nationalism (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and Modern Arab Historiography (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
List of Maps	ix
List of Tables	x
Notes on Contributors	xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
Youssef M. Choueiri
Part I The Formative Period of Islam
The Rise of Islam	9	(19)
Gerald R. Hawting
The Islamic Conquests	28	(24)
Fred M. Donner
The Caliphate	52	(19)
Hugh Kennedy
Part II Cultural Traditions and Social Structure
The `Ulama': Status and Function	71	(16)
Zouhair Ghazzal
Shiism	87	(19)
Robert Gleave
Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West	106	(29)
Alexander Knysh
Part III Imperial Structures and Dynastic Rule
Military Patronage States and the Political Economy of the Frontier, 1000--1250	135	(19)
Michael Chamberlain
The Mamluk Institution	154	(16)
P. M. Holt
North Africa: State and Society, 1056--1659	170	(21)
Michael Brett
Part IV A New Middle Eastern System
Ottomans and Safavids: States, Statecraft, and Societies, 1500--1800	191	(16)
Metin Kunt
Urban Life and Middle Eastern Cities: The Traditional Arab City	207	(22)
Andre Raymond
James McDougall
Part V The Middle East and the New World Order
A Different Balance of Power: Europe and the Middle East in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	229	(19)
Abdul-Karim Rafeq
Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the Struggle for Independence: The Arab World, Turkey, and Iran	248	(21)
Peter Sluglett
Part VI Independence and Nation Building
Zionism and the Palestine Question	269	(22)
Emma C. Murphy
Nationalisms in the Middle East: The Case of Pan-Arabism	291	(22)
Youssef M. Choueiri
Turkish and Iranian Nationalisms	313	(21)
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Ali M. Ansari
Political Parties and Trade Unions	334	(21)
Raymond Hinnebusch
Political Life and the Military	355	(17)
Gareth Stansfield
Political Economy: From Modernization to Globalization	372	(21)
Simon Murden
Part VII Modern Issues and Contemporary Challenges
Islamic Urbanism, Urbanites, and the Middle Eastern City	393	(14)
Michael E. Bonine
Oil and Development	407	(18)
Paul Stevens
Modernizing Women in the Middle East	425	(19)
Valentine M. Moghadam
Politics and Religion	444	(18)
Beverley Milton-Edwards
Ethnonational Minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians	462	(24)
Lise Storm
Civil Society in the Middle East	486	(18)
Tim Niblock
The States-system in the Middle East: Origins, Development, and Prospects	504	(30)
Simon Bromley
Bibliography	534	(48)
Index	582