A history of the modern Middle East /
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| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The rise and expansion of Islam
- The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century
- The Ottoman and Safavid Empires : a new imperial synthesis
- Forging a new synthesis : the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849
- The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the tanzimat
- Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century
- The response of Islamic society
- The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists
- World war I and the end of the Ottoman order
- Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran
- The Arab struggle for independence : Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the interwar era to 1945
- The Arab struggle for independence : Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the interwar era to 1945
- The Palestine mandate and the birth of the state of Israel
- Democracy and authoritarianism : Turkey and Iran
- The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the Egyptian base
- The Middle East in the age of Nasser : the radicalization of Arab politics
- Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s
- Changing patterns of war and peace : Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s
- The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq : the regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn
- The Iranian revolution and the resurgence of Islam
- The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era
- Challenges to the existing order : the Palestinian uprising and the 1991 Gulf War
- A peace so near, a peace so far : Israeli-Palestinian relations since the Gulf War
- Patterns of continuity and change since the 1991 Gulf War
- America's troubled moment in the Middle East.