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General Introduction | p. 1 |
Islamic Beginnings: Revelation, State Building, and Culture | |
Introduction | p. 5 |
The Quran and Other Islamic Texts | p. 12 |
Shiite and Sunni Views on Political Legitimacy | p. 21 |
Abd al-Hassan Ali al-Mawardi, On Choosing a Caliph | p. 22 |
Allama al-Hilli on the Shiite Imamate | p. 24 |
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina [Avicenna], The Ideal Muslim Intellectual | p. 26 |
Rabia al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya, A Woman's Voice in Sufi Poetry | p. 29 |
Abu al-Rayhum Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, A Muslim Scholar Examines Hinduism | p. 31 |
From the Coming of Steppe Peoples to the Age of Gunpowder Empires | |
Introduction | p. 37 |
Disasters Strike the Muslim World | p. 46 |
Usamah ibn Munquidh, An Arab Perspective on the Crusades | p. 46 |
Rashid al-Din Fazlullah, The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad | p. 48 |
Ahmad al-Maqrizi, The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt | p. 51 |
Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, Effective Rule and Dynastic Cycles | p. 54 |
Shah Abbas and Emperor Jahangir Debate the Persian Conquest of Kandahar | p. 58 |
Suraiya Faroqhi, Ottoman Women's Lives | p. 62 |
Contradictions of Modernity: Imperialism and Social Change | |
Introduction | p. 69 |
Decrees from the Ottoman Tanzimat | p. 80 |
The Gulhane Proclamation | p. 81 |
An Ottoman "Bill of Rights" | p. 82 |
Social and Economic Change in the Ottoman Empire | p. 84 |
Suraiya Faroqhi, Ottoman Peasants | p. 85 |
Hanna Batatu, Political Centralization in Iraq and Kurdistan | p. 88 |
Donald Quataert, Manufacturing Workshops | p. 92 |
Alexander Scholch, European Trade with Palestine | p. 95 |
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Plan for Islamic Union | p. 97 |
The Two World Wars and their Aftermaths | |
Introduction | p. 103 |
Conflicting Promises During World War I | p. 113 |
Sharif Husayn ibn Ali, Desire for Arab Independence | p. 113 |
Sir Henry McMahon, Qualifying British Pledges | p. 115 |
The Sykes-Picot Agreement on Dividing up Arab Lands | p. 116 |
Vahakn N. Dadrian, The Fate of the Armenians in World War I | p. 119 |
Challenges to New Nations: Afghanistan, Turkey, and the Fertile Crescent | p. 122 |
Queen Soraya, The Liberation of Afghan Women | p. 123 |
Mustafa Kemal, Design for a Modern Secular Turkish State | p. 125 |
Halidé Edib [Adivar], Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey | p. 127 |
Michel Aflaq, Purifying the National Ideal: Baath Ideology | p. 132 |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Divide India; Create Pakistan | p. 135 |
Peter J. Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Divide and Rule in British-Controlled Iraq | p. 138 |
Arabs and Zionists Struggle Over Palestine | |
Introduction | p. 147 |
Zionism and its Early Arab Opponents | p. 165 |
Theodor Herzl, Zionism: The Vision of an Eventual Jewish State | p. 165 |
Rashid Rida, Pay Attention to Zionist Encroachment | p. 168 |
"Tiberias," Warning of Zionist Colonization | p. 169 |
The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Period | p. 170 |
The Balfour Declaration: AJewish Home in Palestine | p. 170 |
The General Syrian Congress, Our Objections to Zionism and Western Imperialism | p. 171 |
James Ramsay MacDonald, Letter to Chaim Weizmann | p. 173 |
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Let Us Settle Palestine and Transjordan | p. 174 |
Palestine on Eve of World War II | p. 176 |
Ted Swedenburg, The Palestinian Revolt, 1936-39 | p. 177 |
The Arab Response to the Proposed Partition of Palestine | p. 182 |
The British Government's White Paper on Palestine | p. 184 |
The Biltmore Program | p. 186 |
The Creation of the State of Israel | p. 188 |
UN General Assembly, the Partition Plan: Resolution #181 | p. 189 |
UN General Assembly, Palestinian Right of Return: Resolution #194 | p. 191 |
The Israeli Knesset, The Law of Return | p. 192 |
Arab Assertions: Out of Despair Revived Nationalism | p. 193 |
Nizar Qabbani, The Catastrophe of Arab Defeat | p. 194 |
Palestinian National Council, The National Charter | p. 198 |
Reaching for Peace: United Nations Security Council Resolutions | p. 201 |
UN Resolution #242: Withdrawal from Occupied Territory | p. 201 |
UN Resolution #338: End the Fighting | p. 203 |
Transformation of Palestinian Politics | p. 203 |
Yasir Arafat, We Recognize Israel | p. 204 |
Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, The Meaning of the Intifada | p. 205 |
Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement of Palestine (Hamas) | p. 207 |
The Peace Process | p. 211 |
Principles of a Peace Agreement-Oslo, Norway | p. 212 |
Yitzhak Rabin, The Price of Occupation | p. 214 |
The Taba Negotiations | p. 215 |
Impasse and New Intifada | p. 221 |
King Husayn I of Jordan, Eulogy of Yitzhak Rabin | p. 221 |
Ariel Sharon, Program for Dealing with the Palestinians | p. 222 |
Marwan Barghouti, Grassroots Leadership and the Second Intifada | p. 225 |
The Arab League, Ratification of the Peace Plan Proposed by Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz of Saudi Arabia | p. 228 |
Palestinian Intellectuals' Urgent Appeal to Stop Suicide Bombings | p. 230 |
George W. Bush, A New and Different Palestinian Leadership | p. 232 |
Geopolitics of Oil and the Cold War Conflict | |
Introduction | p. 237 |
U.S. Presidential Policies, 1947-2002 | p. 244 |
The Truman Doctrine | p. 245 |
The Eisenhower Doctrine | p. 247 |
George H. W. Bush, The New World Order | p. 248 |
William J. Clinton, The Battle Against. Terrorism | p. 250 |
George W. Bush, Beyond Containment and Deterrence to Preemptive Action | p. 251 |
Intervention and Revolution in Iran | p. 253 |
Muhammad Mossadeq, Nationalizing Iranian Oil | p. 254 |
Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Iran in Imperialism's Clutches | p. 255 |
Ervand Abrahamian, Democracy or Theocracy: Iran's Islamic Republic | p. 257 |
OPEC and the World Economy | p. 262 |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: Getting Our Share | p. 262 |
Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz, Oil and the World Economy | p. 263 |
Wars at the End of the Twentieth Century and the Beginning of the Twenty-First | p. 266 |
Joe Stork, The First Gulf War: Iran vs. Iraq, 1980-88 | p. 266 |
The United Nations and the Second Gulf War: Security Council Resolution #687 | p. 269 |
George H.W. Bush, The Second Gulf War and Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome | p. 271 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Some Stirred-up Muslims": Reflections on Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan | p. 273 |
Ideologies, Movements, and Social Trends | |
Introduction | p. 277 |
Egypt and Lebanon: Secularism and Confessionalism | p. 288 |
Jamal Abd al-Nasser, Arab Socialism | p. 289 |
Anwar Sadat, Infitah: Opening to the West | p. 291 |
The Taif Agreement: Syrian Influence over Lebanon | p. 293 |
Early Ideologues of Islamic Radicalism | p. 296 |
Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taimiyya, Against Heretical Innovation | p. 297 |
Hasan al-Banna, Overcome Western Materialism | p. 300 |
Sayyid Qutb, Corruptions of the Modern World | p. 303 |
Modern Islamic Radicalism | p. 306 |
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egypt's Islamic Militants | p. 307 |
Taliban Decrees about Women, Men's Beards, Children's Games and Music | p. 310 |
9/11: Terrorism and Wars; Arab Citizens' Revolt | |
Introduction | p. 317 |
The Threat of Osama bin Laden and American Responses | p. 325 |
Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders: The 1998 Fatwa | p. 326 |
George W. Bush, Hand Over Terrorists or Share Their Fate | p. 328 |
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, No Blank Check to President Bush | p. 330 |
The Policy Debate | p. 332 |
George W. Bush, Battling the Axis of Evil | p. 332 |
Brent Scowcroft, Don't Attack Saddam | p. 335 |
President Obama's Vision for New Beginnings in the Middle East: Cairo University, Egypt, June 4, 2009 | p. 337 |
WikiLeaks | p. 344 |
Saudi Royal Wealth: Where Do They Get All That Money? | p. 346 |
Corruption in Tunisia: What's Yours Is Mine | p. 344 |
Egypt Seen from the Inside | p. 349 |
The Arab Citizens' Revolt | p. 353 |
Stuart Schaar, Arab Dictatorships Under Fire in the New Information Age | p. 353 |
Paul Amar, Why Mubarack Is Out | p. 357 |
The Historical Context: The West and Islam | p. 363 |
Bernard Lewis, The Clash of Civilizations | p. 363 |
Edward W. Said, The Clash of Ignorance | p. 367 |
Stuart Schaar, Orientalism's Persistence in Mass Culture and Foreign Policy | p. 372 |
Epilogue | p. 377 |
Glossary | p. 383 |
Select Bibliography | p. 391 |
Index | p. 399 |
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