The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History

by Hanssen, Jens; Ghazal, Amal N.

• ISBN13: 9780199672530
• ISBN10: 0199672539
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-01-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries. The Handbook pays particular attention to countries that have leapt out of the political shadows of dominant and better-studied neighbours in the course of the unfolding uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. These dramatic and interconnected developments have exposed the dearth of informative analysis available in surveys and textbooks, particularly on Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.

Author Biography

Jens Hanssen, Associate Professor of Arab Civilization, Modern Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean History, University of Toronto,Amal N. Ghazal, University Professor, History Department, Simon Fraser University

Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Arab Civilization, Middle Eastern Studies and Mediterranean History. He received his D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001 and joined the University of Toronto the following year. He held a SSHRC Insight Grant (2014-2018) on "German-Jewish Echoes in 20th-Arab Thought."
His writings have appeared in The New Cambridge History of Islam, Critical Inquiry, Arab Studies Journal, and the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.


Amal Ghazal received her BA from the American University of Beirut and her MA and PhD from the University of Alberta. She held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. She was a faculty member at Dalhousie University (2006-2017) before she moved to Simon Fraser University where she holds the title of a University Professor and is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. She specializes in modern Arab intellectual history. Her work has covered the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and East Africa. Her first book looked at the politics of identity of the Omani intellectual elite in Zanzibar, situating then in the context of the Arab nahda, Islamic reform, Arabism and anti-colonialism. Her publications have covered a broad spectrum of topics, including Sufism, Islamic reform, conservative thought, Arab nationalism, Ibadism, Word War I, and slavery.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
I. FOUNDATIONS
1. Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa, Elizabeth Williams
2. Fiscal Crisis and Structural Change in the Late Ottoman Economy, Murat Birdal
3. Foundations of Religious Reform (Islah) and Cultural Revival (Nahda), Dyala Hamzah
4. Constitutional Revolutions and State Formations in Comparison: Iran and Turkey, Nader Sohrabi
II. FORMATIONS
5. The First World War and Its Legacyryme in the Middle East, Eugene Rogan
6. The Levant Mandates, Michael Provence
7. The Emergence of Nationalism, James McDougall
8. The Matter of Sectarianism, Max Weiss
9. Kemalism and Beyond, Chris Houston
10. Fascism in the Middle East and North Africa, Gilbert Achcar
III. LEGACIES OF WAR & REVOLUTION
11. Communism, Jens Hanssen
12. Nasserism, Reem Abou El-Fadl
13. A War over the People: The Algerian War of Independence, 1954 1962, Ryme Seferdjeli
14. Dodging the Peril of Peace: Israel and the Arabs in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War, Avi Raz
15. Reliving Tragedies as Historical Reawakenings: Modern Iran and Its Revolutions, Shahla Talebi
IV. NEOLIBERAL AUTHORITARIANISMS
16. Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf, Adam Hanieh
17. Media as Method in the Age of Revolution: Statism and Digital Contestation, Adel Iskandar
18. Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in the Neoliberal Age, Laleh Khalili
19. W(h)ither Arabian Peninsula Studies?, Rosie Bsheer
V. STATE, LAW & GENDER
20. Syria s Economic History: Bumpy Road from Economic Nationalism to Neoliberalism, Linda Matar
21. The Fragmentation of Gender in Post-Invasion Iraq, Zahra Ali
22. Sextarianism: Notes on Studying the Lebanese State, Maya Mikdashi
23. Contemporary Israel/Palestine, Shourideh C. Molavi
24. Toward New Approaches to the Anthropology of Islamic Movements: Women s Islamic Activism and the Question of Subjectivity, Sherine Hafez
VI. FROM PROTEST MOVEMENTS TO THE ARAB UPRISINGS
25. The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective, John Chalcraft
26. Political Movements in Bahrain Across the Long Twentieth Century (1900-2015), Omar Al-Shehabi
27. Before the Spring: Shifting Patterns of Protest in Rural Egypt, Reem Saad
28. Cascading Liberation and Renewal Tunisia in History, Larbi Sadiki
29. Arab Youth: Disruptive Generation of the Twenty-first Century?, Linda Herrera and Abdel-Rahman Mansour
30. The Yemeni Uprising of 2011: A Product of 20 Years of Grassroot Activism, Atiaf Alwazir
VII. CRISIS & COLLAPSE
31. The New Turkey at Home and Abroad, Asli Bali
32. The Crisis of Sovereignty, Ruptured Domination and the Kurdish Quest for Democratic Self-Government in Syria, Abbas Vali
33. After Qadhafi: Libya s Path to Collapse, Frederic Wehrey
EPILOGUE