A Companion to the History of the Middle East

Herausgeber: Choueiri, Youssef M

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. Comprising 26 newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, this companion treats the Middle East as four differentiated political units - Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Arab world. While focused primarily on the modern and contemporary periods, it also includes a number of chapters on classical and pre-modern themes. Topics are situated within a chronological framework and include the rise of Islam, the militarization of Islam under a wide variety of dynasties, the commercial and industrial revolutions, colonial rule, and the struggle for independence. A final section highlights issues that have preoccupied historians in the second half of the twentieth century, and are most likely to gain momentum well into the twenty-first. These range from oil and urban growth to the role of women and democratic human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9781405183796
• ISBN-10: 1405183799
• Artikelnr.: 25030704

Autorenporträt

Youssef M. Choueiri is Reader in Islamic Studies at the University of Manchester. He has lectured on Middle Eastern history in the US and Australia, as well as in the UK. His previous publications include Islamic Fundamentalism (1997), Arab Nationalism (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and Modern Arab Historiography (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii
List of Maps ix
List of Tables x
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Youssef M. Choueiri
PART I THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF ISLAM
1 The Rise of Islam 9
Gerald R. Hawting
2 The Islamic Conquests 28
Fred M. Donner
3 The Caliphate 52
Hugh Kennedy
PART II CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
4 The "Ulama" : Status and Function 71
Zouhair Ghazzal
5 Shi'ism 87
Robert Gleave
6 Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West 106
Alexander Knysh
PART III IMPERIAL STRUCTURES AND DYNASTIC RULE
7 Military Patronage States and the Political Economy of the Frontier,
1000-1250 135
Michael Chamberlain
8 The Mamluk Institution 154
P. M. Holt
9 North Africa: State and Society, 1056-1659 170
Michael Brett
PART IV A NEW MIDDLE EASTERN SYSTEM
10 Ottomans and Safavids: States, Statecraft, and Societies, 1500-1800 191
Metin Kunt
11 Urban Life and Middle Eastern Cities: The Traditional Arab City 207
André Raymond (translated James McDougall)
PART V THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
12 A Different Balance of Power: Europe and the Middle East in the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 229
Abdul-Karim Rafeq
13 Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the Struggle for
Independence: The Arab World, Turkey, and Iran 248
Peter Sluglett
PART VI INDEPENDENCE AND NATION BUILDING
14 Zionism and the Palestine Question 269
Emma C. Murphy
15 Nationalisms in the Middle East: The Case of Pan-Arabism 291
Youssef M. Choueiri
16 Turkish and Iranian Nationalisms 313
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari
17 Political Parties and Trade Unions 334
Raymond Hinnebusch
18 Political Life and the Military 355
Gareth Stansfield
19 Political Economy: From Modernization to Globalization 372
Simon Murden
PART VII MODERN ISSUES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
20 Islamic Urbanism, Urbanites, and the Middle Eastern City 393
Michael E. Bonine
21 Oil and Development 407
Paul Stevens
22 Modernizing Women in the Middle East 425
Valentine M. Moghadam
23 Politics and Religion 444
Beverley Milton-Edwards
24 Ethnonational Minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and
Palestinians 462
Lise Storm
25 Civil Society in the Middle East 486
Tim Niblock
26 The States-system in the Middle East: Origins, Development, and
Prospects 504
Simon Bromley
Bibliography 534
Index 582

Rezensionen

?Conceived with the most recent scholarly efforts in mind thisCompanion to the History of the Middle East includes abalanced collection of essays on subjects from the early Islamic tothe contemporary periods covering the Arab World, Iran, Turkey andIsrael.? (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and AfricanStudies , May 2009)

"Youssef M. Choueiri is to be admired for assembling a group ofcontributors with genuine expertise in their respective fields andproducing a lively and interesting collection of essays dealingwith Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the present.General readers will be provided with a stimulating introduction tosome key issues in Middle East history." History

"Few books could cover the range of topics presented here andeven fewer shed so much light on the complexities associated withthe birth of the modern Middle East. One can almost feel the wisdomof the contributing authors, and must acknowledge the success ofYoussef Choueiri's strategy of making this much more than a historybook." Journal of Islamic Studies

"[A] worthy volume. It is recommended for both specialistcollections ... as well as for its natural home, the academiclibrary." Reference Reviews