The Middle East and North Africa

by Simon, Reeva S.; Goldstein, Phyllis; Wasserstein, Stephen; Simon, Reeva S.; Goldstein, Phyllis; Wasserstein, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780835904377
• ISBN10: 0835904377
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

Table of Contents

The Land	1	(30)
What Is the Middle East?	1	(1)
What Elements Characterize the Region?	2	(5)
A Large Dry Region	7	(6)
Agriculture and Industry	13	(9)
Case Study: From an Egyptain Village	16	(6)
Problems of Development	22	(4)
Checkup	26	(5)
People and Culture	31	(24)
The Cities	31	(2)
Problems and Patterns of City Life	33	(10)
Case Study: Modern Cairo	35	(8)
Population Trends	43	(1)
The Villages	44	(3)
Israel	47	(4)
Checkup	51	(4)
People of the Ancient Middle East (c. 10,000 B.C.--A.D. 500)	55	(28)
The Process of Change	55	(5)
The Ancient Middle East (4000 B.C.--500 B.C.)	60	(4)
The Egyptains of the Nile Valley	64	(2)
Anatolia and the Mediterranean Coast	66	(4)
Case Study: The Book of Ruth	68	(2)
Persia, Greece, and Rome Rule the Middle East (500 B.C.--A.D. 500)	70	(3)
Judaism and Christianity	73	(5)
Checkup	78	(5)
Muhammad and the Emergence of Islam (A.D. 500--1000)	83	(24)
The Founding of Islam	84	(3)
Islam: the Religion	87	(6)
Case Study: The Example of the Prophet	92	(1)
Islam and the Individual	93	(3)
Islam As an Institution	96	(4)
The Expansion of Islam	100	(3)
Checkup	103	(4)
The Development of an Islamic Civilization (750--1400)	107	(28)
Bringing Together an Empire	107	(10)
Case Study: A Day in the Life of a Court Physician	116	(1)
Islamic Civilization (750--1000)	117	(9)
Invasion and Decline	126	(4)
Checkup	130	(5)
The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire (1280--1914)	135	(28)
The Ottoman Empire, from Its Origins to the End of the Eighteenth Century	135	(10)
Case Study: The Ottoman Siege of Vienna	143	(2)
The Impact of the West	145	(5)
From the Era of Reform to World War I	150	(7)
Checkup	157	(6)
Two World Wars and Their Impact (1914--1967)	163	(34)
The Middle East After 1914	163	(3)
Turkey and Iran: Two Attempts at Modernization	166	(7)
Developments in the French Middle East	173	(3)
Palestine, a Troubled Land	176	(11)
Case Study: The Pioneers	180	(7)
Egypt in the Twentieth Century	187	(6)
Checkup	193	(4)
More Turbulent Years (1967--1989)	197	(32)
Religious Revival	197	(4)
No War, No Peace	201	(9)
The Politics of Oil	210	(4)
The Iranian Revolution	214	(5)
Case Study: The Fall of the Shah of Iran	217	(2)
Crisis in Lebanon	219	(7)
Checkup	226	(3)
The Middle East and the World (1989-Present)	229	(30)
War in the Persian Gulf	229	(6)
A Bitter Peace	235	(11)
Case Study: The Problems of Oil Wealth	239	(7)
A Window of Opportunity	246	(5)
Winds of Change	251	(4)
Checkup	255	(4)
Glossary	259	(6)
Bibliography	265	(3)
Index	268