Table of Contents:
  • Modernization and literature in the Near and Middle East 1850-1914 / Malcolm Yapp
  • Turkey / Saliha Paker
  • The Arab world / Pierre Cachia
  • Iran / Julie Meisami
  • Modern Hebrew / Tudor Parfitt
  • The political setting, 1914-1950 / Charles Tripp
  • Turkey / Geoffrey Lewis
  • The Arab world / Robin Ostle
  • Modern Hebrew / David Patterson
  • Iran / Homa Katouzian
  • The age of ideology and polarization / David Pool
  • Turkey / Cevat Çapan
  • The Maghrib / Ahmed al-Madini
  • Israel / Leon I. Yudkin.