The Modern Middle East A History

by Gelvin, James L.

• ISBN13: 9780195167894
• ISBN10: 0195167899
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between "East" and "West." This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader on a guided tour of the past five hundredyears of Middle Eastern history, this book examines how the very forces associated with global "modernity" have shaped social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region. Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century,The Modern Middle East: A History explores 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 thoseregimes 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 will provide both novices and specialists with fresh insights into the events thathave shaped history and the debates about them that have absorbed historians.

Author Biography

James L. Gelvin is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Vignettes and Maps	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on Transliteration	x
Introduction: September 11 in Historical Perspective	1	(8)
PART I: THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE	9	(60)
1 From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age	15	(12)
2 Gunpowder Empires	27	(8)
3 The Middle East and the Modern World System	35	(12)
4 War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power	47	(13)
Documents	60	(6)
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535	60	(1)
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)	61	(2)
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)	63	(3)
Suggested Readings	66	(3)
PART II: THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY	69	(102)
5 Defensive Developmentalism	73	(15)
6 Imperialism	88	(12)
7 Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation	100	(23)
Photo Essay: The Great Transformation	111	(12)
8 The Life of the Mind	123	(9)
9 Secularism and Modernity	132	(7)
10 Constitutionalism	139	(8)
Documents	147	(20)
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire	147	(1)
The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane	148	(2)
The Islahat Fermani	150	(4)
The d'Arcy Oil Concession	154	(3)
Algeria: Poetry of Loss	157	(1)
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women	158	(2)
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris	160	(1)
Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity	161	(2)
Narvik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hiirriyet	163	(1)
The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907	164	(3)
Suggested Readings	167	(4)
PART III: WORLD WAR I AND THE MIDDLE EAST STATE SYSTEM	171	(52)
11 State-Building by Decree	175	(11)
12 State-Building by Revolution and Conquest	186	(11)
13 The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism	197	(9)
14 The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Dispute	206	(9)
Documents	215	(4)
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919	215	(2)
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question	217	(1)
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917	218	(1)
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky	218	(1)
Suggested Readings	219	(4)
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA	223	(97)
15 State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship	231	(16)
16 Oil	247	(10)
17 The United States and the Middle East	257	(11)
18 Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians	268	(10)
19 The Iranian Revolution	278	(13)
20 Islamic Political Movements	291	(9)
Conclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization"	300	(7)
Documents	307	(11)
Speech Delivered by President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961	307	(1)
Zakarin Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day	308	(3)
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242	311	(1)
'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel	312	(2)
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government	314	(1)
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones	315	(3)
Suggested Readings	318	(2)
Timeline	320	(4)
Biographical Sketches	324	(6)
Glossary	330	(9)
Credits	339	(2)
Index	341