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October 19, 2023 | History

A companion to the history of the Middle East

Pbk. ed.

xvii, 602 p. : 25 cm

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Wiley-Blackwell
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602

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri
The formative period of Islam
The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting
The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner
The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy
Cultural traditions and social structure
The ʻulama:̉ function and status / Zouhair Ghazzal
Shīʻism / Robert Gleave
Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh
Imperial structures and dynastic rule
Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain
The Mamluk institution / P.M. Holt
State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett
A new Middle Eastern system
Ottomans and Safavids: states, statecraft, and societies, 1500-1800 / Metin Kunt
Urban life and Middle Eastern cities: the traditional Arab city / André Raymond (translated James McDougall)
The Middle East and the new world order
A different balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
Colonialism, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran / Peter Sluglett
Independence and nation building
Zionism and the Palestine question / Emma C. Murphy
Nationalisms in the Middle East: the case of Pan-Arabism / Youssef M. Choueiri
Turkish and Iranian nationalisms / Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari
Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch
Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield
Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden
Modern issues and contemporary challenges
Islamic urbanism, urbanites, and the Middle Eastern city / Michael E. Bonine
Oil and development / Paul Stevens
Modernizing women in the Middle East / Valentine M. Moghadam
Politics and religion / Beverley Milton-Edwards
Ethno-national minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians / Lise Storm
Civil society in the Middle East / Tim Niblock
The states-system in the Middle East: origins, developments, and prospects / Simon Bromley.

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Chichester, Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell companions to world history

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956
Library of Congress
DS62 .C63 2008, DS62

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xvii, 602 p. :
Number of pages
602

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OL23145878M
Internet Archive
companiontohisto0000unse_n3t9
ISBN 13
9781405183796
LCCN
2008279249
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