A History of the Modern Middle East

by Cleveland, William L.

• ISBN13: 9780813334899
• ISBN10: 0813334896
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-09
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. After introducing the reader to the region's history from the origins of Islam in the seventh century, Cleveland focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. While built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural, and economic developments into a single, carefully crafted account. The revised and updated second edition of this benchmark text includes information on the Middle East since the close of the Cold War, and a new section on civil society and Islamic politics in the 1990s.

Author Biography

William L. Cleveland is professor of history at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
A Note about Place Names and Transliteration	p. xxi
The Development of Islamic Civilization to the Eighteenth Century	p. 1
The Rise and Expansion of Islam	p. 4
The Development of Islamic Civilization to the Fifteenth Century	p. 20
The Ottoman and Safavid Empires: a New Imperial Synthesis	p. 40
The Beginnings of the Era of Transformation	p. 59
Forging a New Synthesis: the Pattern of Reforms, 1789-1849	p. 62
The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the Era of the Tanzimat	p. 81
Egypt and Iran in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 102
The Response of Islamic Society	p. 117
The Era of the Young Turks and the Iranian Constitutionalists	p. 130
World War 1 and the End of the Ottoman Order	p. 146
The Struggle for Independence: the Interwar Era to the End of World War II	p. 169
Authoritarian Reform in Turkey and Iran	p. 172
The Arab Struggle for Independence: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the Interwar Era to 1945	p. 190
The Arab Struggle for Independence: Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the Interwar Era to 1945	p. 212
The Palestine Mandate and the Birth of the State of Israel	p. 233
The Independent Middle East from the End of World War II to the 1970s	p. 265
Democracy and Authoritarianism: Turkey and Iran	p. 267
The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: the Egyptian Base	p. 293
The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: the Radicalization of Arab Politics	p. 314
Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s	p. 336
A Time of Disorder and Renewal: the Middle East from the 1970s to the 1990s	p. 359
Changing Patterns of War and Peace: Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s	p. 363
The Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in Syria and Iraq: the Regimes of Hafiz Al-Asad and Saddam Husayn	p. 385
The Iranian Revolution and the Resurgence of Islam	p. 410
The Arabian Peninsula in the Petroleum Era	p. 436
Challenges to the Existing Order: the Palestinian Uprising and the Gulf War	p. 458
A Peace So Near, a Peace So Far: Israeli-Palestinian Relations since the Gulf War	p. 483
Patterns of Continuity and Change in the Central Middle East since the Gulf War	p. 500
Glossary	p. 527
Select Bibliography	p. 533
Index	p. 555
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