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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465273503321

Titolo

The First World War and its aftermath: : the shaping of the Middle East / / edited by T. G. Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Gingko Library, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-909942-76-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

940.356

Soggetti

Reconstruction (1914-1939) - Middle East

Electronic books.

Middle East History 20th century

Middle East Politics and government 20th century

Middle East Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: the political transformation of the Middle East 1914-1923 / T.G. Fraser; 1. The rise of Egyptian nationalism and the perception of foreigners in Egypt 1914-1923 / Amany Soliman; 2. The antecedents and implications of the so-called Anglo-Sanussi War 1915-1917 / Jason Pack; 3. British intelligence and Arab nationalism: the origins of the modern Middle East / Steven Wagner; 4. The First World War and its legacy for women in Iraq / Noga Efrati

5. From anti-imperial dissent to national consent: the First World War and the formation of a trans-sectarian national consciousness in Lebanon / Mark Farha6. Historicising hunger: the famine in wartime Lebanon and Syria / Najwa al-Qattan; 7. The patriarch, the amir and the patriots: civilisation and self determination at the Paris Peace Conference / Andrew Arsan; 8. A thoroughly modern Caliphate: could legitimate governance for the Middle East in the aftermath of the First World War have been found by looking within? / Louise Pyne-Jones

9. From the Archduke to the Caliph: the Islamist evolution that led to 'The Islamic State' / Aaron Y. Zelin10. Some reflections on whether the Mandates were a slow burning fuse for toxic sectarianism in Arab



countries / John Mchugo; 11. Oil, state and society in Iran in the aftermath of the First World War / Kaveh Ehsani; 12. The new Arab intellectuals of the post-First World War period: the case of Taha Husayn / Bruno Ronfard; 13. A tale of two nationalists: parallelisms in the writings of Ziya Gökalp and Michel Aflaq / Michael Erdman

14. Women, war and the foundations of the Turkish Republic: the vision of New Womanhood in Halide Edib Adıvar's The Shirt of Flame (1922) / Sevinç Elaman-Garner15. The limits of soft power: why Kurdish nationalism failed in the French Mandate of Syria / Laila McQuade and Nabil Al-Tikriti; 16. The other jihad: Enver Pasha, Bolsheviks, and politics of anticolonial Muslim nationalism during the Baku Congress 1920 / Alp Yenen; 17. A point of order: a battle for autonomy in the First Legislative Council of Transjordan / Harrison Guthorn

18. Drawing the line: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Red Line Agreement of 1928 / Jonathan ConlinAcknowledgements; Contributors; Index