| |
| |
| Vignettes and Maps | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| A Note on Transliteration | |
| |
| |
| Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Advent of the Modern Age | |
| |
| |
| |
| From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age | |
| |
| |
| |
| Gunpowder Empires | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Middle East and the Modern World System | |
| |
| |
| |
| War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power | |
| |
| |
| Documents | |
| |
| |
| Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535 | |
| |
| |
| The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1) | |
| |
| |
| The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2) | |
| |
| |
| Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Question of Modernity | |
| |
| |
| |
| Defensive Developmentalism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Imperialism | |
| |
| |
| |
| Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation | |
| |
| |
| Photo Essay: The Great Transformation | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Life of the Mind | |
| |
| |
| |
| Secularism and Modernity | |
| |
| |
| |
| Constitutionalism | |
| |
| |
| Documents | |
| |
| |
| Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire | |
| |
| |
| The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane | |
| |
| |
| The Islahat Fermani | |
| |
| |
| The d'Arcy Oil Concession | |
| |
| |
| Algeria: Poetry of Loss | |
| |
| |
| Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women | |
| |
| |
| Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris | |
| |
| |
| Muhammad 'Abduh: The Theology of Unity | |
| |
| |
| Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hurriyet | |
| |
| |
| The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907 | |
| |
| |
| Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
| |
| World War and the Middle East State System | |
| |
| |
| |
| State-Building by Decree | |
| |
| |
| |
| State-Building by Revolution and Conquest | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute | |
| |
| |
| Documents | |
| |
| |
| Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919 | |
| |
| |
| Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question | |
| |
| |
| The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917 | |
| |
| |
| Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky | |
| |
| |
| Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Contemporary Era | |
| |
| |
| |
| State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship | |
| |
| |
| |
| Oil | |
| |
| |
| |
| The United States and the Middle East | |
| |
| |
| |
| Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Iranian Revolution | |
| |
| |
| |
| Islamic Political Movements | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization" | |
| |
| |
| Documents | |
| |
| |
| Speech Delivered by President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961 | |
| |
| |
| Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day | |
| |
| |
| U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 | |
| |
| |
| 'Ali Shari'ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel | |
| |
| |
| Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government | |
| |
| |
| Sayyid Qutb: Milestones | |
| |
| |
| Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
| Timeline | |
| |
| |
| Biographical Sketches | |
| |
| |
| Glossary | |
| |
| |
| Credits | |
| |
| |
| Index | |