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
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).
?Conceived with the most recent scholarly efforts in mind this
Companion to the History of the Middle East includes a balanced
collection of essays on subjects from the early Islamic to the
contemporary periods covering the Arab World, Iran, Turkey and
Israel.? (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ,
May 2009) "Youssef M. Choueiri is to be admired for assembling a
group of contributors with genuine expertise in their respective
fields and producing a lively and interesting collection of essays
dealing with Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the
present. General readers will be provided with a stimulating
introduction to some key issues in Middle East history."
History
"Few books could cover the range of topics presented here and even
fewer shed so much light on the complexities associated with the
birth of the modern Middle East. One can almost feel the wisdom of
the contributing authors, and must acknowledge the success of
Youssef Choueiri's strategy of making this much more than a history
book." Journal of Islamic Studies
"[A] worthy volume. It is recommended for both specialist
collections ... as well as for its natural home, the academic
library." Reference Reviews
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