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Tables of Contents for The Modern Middle East
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Vignettes and Maps
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
A Note on Transliteration
x
Introduction: September 11 in Historical Perspective
1
8
PART I: THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE
9
60
1 From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age
15
12
2 Gunpowder Empires
27
8
3 The Middle East and the Modern World System
35
12
4 War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power
47
13
Documents
60
6
Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535
60
1
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1)
61
2
The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2)
63
3
Suggested Readings
66
3
PART II: THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
69
102
5 Defensive Developmentalism
73
15
6 Imperialism
88
12
7 Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation
100
23
Photo Essay: The Great Transformation
111
12
8 The Life of the Mind
123
9
9 Secularism and Modernity
132
7
10 Constitutionalism
139
8
Documents
147
20
Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire
147
1
The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane
148
2
The Islahat Fermani
150
4
The d'Arcy Oil Concession
154
3
Algeria: Poetry of Loss
157
1
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women
158
2
Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris
160
1
Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity
161
2
Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hürriyet
163
1
The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907
164
3
Suggested Readings
167
4
PART III: WORLD WAR I AND THE MIDDLE EAST STATE SYSTEM
171
52
11 State-Building by Decree
175
11
12 State-Building by Revolution and Conquest
186
11
13 The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism
197
9
14 The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Dispute
206
9
Documents
215
4
Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919
215
2
Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question
217
1
The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
218
1
Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky
218
1
Suggested Readings
219
4
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA
223
97
15 State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old /New Relationship
231
16
16 Oil
247
10
17 The United States and the Middle East
257
11
18 Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians
268
10
19 The Iranian Revolution
278
13
20 Islamic Political Movements
291
9
Conclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization"
300
7
Documents
307
11
Speech Delivered by President Carnal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961
307
1
Zakarin Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day
308
3
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
311
1
'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel
312
2
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government
314
1
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones
315
3
Suggested Readings
318
2
Timeline
320
4
Biographical Sketches
324
6
Glossary
330
9
Credits
339
2
Index
341