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A companion to the history of the Middle East / edited by Youssef M. Choueiri.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to world historyPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005.Description: xvii, 602 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781405106818 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1405106816 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956 22
LOC classification:
  • DS62 .C63 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri -- The rise of Islam / G. R. Hawting -- The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner -- The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy -- The 'ulama': status and function / Zouhair Ghazzal -- Shi'ism / Robert Gleave -- Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh -- Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain -- The Mamluk institution / P. M. Holt -- North Africa: state and society, 1056-1659 / Michael Brett -- 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 -- A different balance of power -- Europe and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey and Iran / Peter Sluglett -- 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 A. M. Ansari -- Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch -- Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield -- Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden -- 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 -- Ethnonational 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, development, and prospects / Simon Bromley.
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Includes bibliography (p. [534]-581) and index.

Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri -- The rise of Islam / G. R. Hawting -- The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner -- The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy -- The 'ulama': status and function / Zouhair Ghazzal -- Shi'ism / Robert Gleave -- Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh -- Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain -- The Mamluk institution / P. M. Holt -- North Africa: state and society, 1056-1659 / Michael Brett -- 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 -- A different balance of power -- Europe and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey and Iran / Peter Sluglett -- 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 A. M. Ansari -- Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch -- Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield -- Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden -- 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 -- Ethnonational 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, development, and prospects / Simon Bromley.

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