The Modern Middle East A History

by Gelvin, James L.

• ISBN13: 9780199766055
• ISBN10: 0199766053
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Newly revised and updated for the second decade of the twenty-first century, the third edition ofThe Modern Middle East: A Historyexplores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, this book examines the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century transformation, cultural continuities and upheavals, international diplomacy, economic booms and busts, the emergence of authoritarian regimes, and the current challenges to those regimes on everyday life in an area of vital concern to us all. Engagingly written, drawing from the author's own research and other studies, and stocked with maps and photographs, original documents, and an abundance of supplementary materials,The Modern Middle East: A History, Third Edition, will provide both novices and specialists with fresh insights into the events that have shaped history and the debates about them that have absorbed historians. New to this Edition * The Introduction and Parts III and IV have been extensively revised and updated * Chapter 20, on political Islam, has been entirely rewritten * New vignettes and document selections have been added to the text * A new, expanded, photo essay, along with new photographs, have also been added

Author Biography

James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2005, 2007), Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and numerous shorter works.

Table of Contents

Vignettes and Maps	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
A Note on Transliteration	p. xiii
New to This Edition	p. xv
Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective	p. 1
The Advent of the Modern Age	p. 9
From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age	p. 13
Gunpowder Empires	p. 25
The Middle East and the Modern World System	p. 33
War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power	p. 45
Documents	p. 58
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanamé (1)	p. 58
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanamé (2)	p. 59
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535	p. 60
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)	p. 61
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)	p. 64
Suggested Readings	p. 66
The Question of Modernity	p. 69
Defensive Developmentalism	p. 71
Imperialism	p. 87
Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation	p. 100
Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation and its Aftermath	p. 110
The Life of the Mind	p. 133
Secularism and Modernity	p. 143
Constitutionalism	p. 150
Documents	p. 158
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire	p. 158
The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane	p. 159
The Islahat Fermani	p. 161
The d'Arcy Oil Concession	p. 164
Algeria: The Poetry of Loss	p. 167
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women	p. 169
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris	p. 170
Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity	p. 171
Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hürriyet	p. 173
The Supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907	p. 174
Suggested Readings	p. 177
World War I and the Middle East State System	p. 180
State-Building by Decree	p. 184
State-Building by Revolution and Conquest	p. 196
The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism	p. 208
The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute	p. 217
Documents	p. 227
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919	p. 227
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question	p. 228
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917	p. 230
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky	p. 230
Suggested Readings	p. 231
The Contemporary Era	p. 233
State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship	p. 240
Oil	p. 256
The United States and the Middle East	p. 266
Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians	p. 283
The Iranian Revolution	p. 294
Political Islam	p. 307
Conclusion The Middle East in the ôAge of Globalizationö	p. 319
Documents	p. 327
Speech Delivered by President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961	p. 327
Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day	p. 328
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242	p. 330
'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel	p. 331
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government	p. 333
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones	p. 334
Suggested Readings	p. 337
Timeline	p. 339
Biographical Sketches	p. 343
Glossary	p. 349
Credits	p. 359
Index	p. 361
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