The Modern Middle East / edited by Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury, and Mary Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hourani, Albert, 1915-1993.

Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry), 1949-

Wilson, Mary C. (Mary Christina), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--History--1517-.

Middle East.

History.

Middle East--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 680 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2003.

Summary:

The new edition of this widely-acclaimed reader brings together key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the best-known specialists in the field. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only text of its kind available. It will, in addition, be of great use to all those with a general interest in the Middle East. Already in extensive use in Middle East Studies courses internationally, this revised second edition will be welcomed for the important new contributions that have been added.

Contents:

The Ottoman ʻUmelā and Westernization in the time of Selīm III and Maḥmūd II / Uriel Heyd

Turkish attitudes concerning Christian-Muslim equality in the nineteenth century / Roderic H. Davison

Ottoman reform and the politics of notables / Albert Hourani

Egypt and Europe : from French expedition to British occupation / Roger Owen

War and society under the Young Turks, 1908-18 / Feroz Ahmad

Social change in Persia in the nineteenth century / Ann K.S. Lambton

Middle East economic development, 1815-1914 : the general and the specific / Charles Issawi

The origins of private ownership of land in Egypt : a reappraisal / Kenneth M. Cuno

Decline of the family economy in mid-nineteenth century Egypt / Judith Tucker

Ottoman women, households and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert

Said Bey - the everyday life of an Istanbul townsman at the beginning of the twentieth century / Paul Dumont

The crowd in the Persian revolution / Ervand Abrahamian

Cairo / André Raymond

Religion and secularism in Turkey / Şerif Mardin

From Ottomanism to Arabism : the origin of an ideology / C. Ernest Dawn

1919 : labour upsurge and national revolution / Zachary Lockman

Syrian urban politics in transition : the quarters of Damascus during the French mandate / Philip S. Khoury

The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-1939) / Ted Swedenburg

Of the diversity of Iraquis, the incohesiveness of their society, and their progress in the monarchic period toward a consolidated political structure / Hanna Batatu

Israel and the Arab coalition in 1948 / Avi Shlaim

Dilemmas of the Jewish state / David McDowall

The strange career of Pan-Arabism / Stephen Humphreys

Nasser 56/Cairo 96 / Joel Gordon

Iranian revolutions in comparative perspective / Nikki Keddie

The crisis of religious legitimacy in Iran / Olivier Roy

Religion, social structure, and political dissent in Saudi Arabia / Mamoun Fandy.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1860649637

OCLC:

52921657