Middle East Historiographies

by Gershoni, I.; Singer, Amy; Erdem, Y. Hakan

• ISBN13: 9780295986043
• ISBN10: 0295986042
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Middle East Historiographiesexamines Middle East history writing from the cusp of the twenty-first century. Internationally renowned scholars consider how individual historians, historical schools, and historical paradigms have shaped the study of the history of the Middle East over the twentieth century, chiefly after the First World War. Middle Eastern studies today cover a rich and varied terrain, yet the study of the profession itself has been relatively neglected. There is, however, an ever-present need to give serious attention to what the research has chosen to include and exclude and to become more consciously aware of shifts in research approaches and methods. This collection critically examines the evolving state of the art and suggests new directions for further research.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	VII
PART I: THE STATE OF THE ART
Introduction	3	(208)
ISRAEL GERSHONI AND AMY SINGER
1 The Historiography of the Modern Middle East: Transforming a Field of Study	19	(20)
R. STEPHEN HUMPHREYS
PART II: COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM
2 The Historiography of World War I and the Emergence of the Contemporary Middle East	39	(31)
CHARLES D. SMITH
3 Twentieth-Century Historians and Historiography of the Middle East: Women, Gender, and Empire	70	(31)
JULIA CLANCY-SMITH
4 Reading Genocide: Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Deportations and Massacres of 1915	101	(30)
FATMA MÜGE GÖÇEK
PART III: NARRATIVES OF CRISIS
5 The Theory of Crisis and the Crisis in a Theory: Intellectual History in Twentieth-Century Middle Eastern Studies	131	(52)
ISRAEL GERSHONI
6 The Historiography of Crisis in the Egyptian Political Economy	183	(28)
ELLIS GOLDBERG
PART IV: EMERGING VOICES
7 On Gender, History,...and Fiction	211	(31)
MARILYN BOOTH
8 Will That Subaltern Ever Speak? Finding African Slaves in the Historiography of the Middle East	242	(20)
EVE M. TROUT POWELL
9 Muslim Religious Extremism in Egypt: A Historiographical Critique of Narratives	262	(26)
JUAN R.I. COLE
10 Audiovisual Media and History of the Arab Middle East	288	(27)
WALTER ARMBRUST
GLOSSARY	315	(2)
CONTRIBUTORS	317	(4)
INDEX	321