04512nam 22006494a 450 991082601780332120200520144314.01-280-28589-31-78034-158-X97866102858911-4051-6577-40-470-99642-01-4051-5204-4(CKB)1000000000342145(EBL)243567(OCoLC)437159287(SSID)ssj0000126202(PQKBManifestationID)11143610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126202(PQKBWorkID)10030926(PQKB)10750577(MiAaPQ)EBC243567(MiAaPQ)EBC4956240(Au-PeEL)EBL243567(CaPaEBR)ebr10158714(Au-PeEL)EBL4956240(CaONFJC)MIL28589(OCoLC)1027198469(EXLCZ)99100000000034214520050125d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to the history of the Middle East /edited by Youssef M. Choueiri1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell Pub. Ltd20051 online resource (623 p.)Blackwell companions to world historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-8379-9 1-4051-0681-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-581) and index.Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri -- The formative period of Islam -- The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting -- The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner -- The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy -- Cultural traditions and social structure -- The °ulamaa: function and status / Zouhair Ghazzal -- Shī°ism / Robert Gleave -- Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh -- Imperial structures and dynastic rule -- Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain -- The Mamluk institution / P.M. Holt -- State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett -- A new Middle Eastern system -- 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) -- The Middle East and the new world order -- A different balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Colonialism, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran / Peter Sluglett -- Independence and nation building -- 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 Ali M. Ansari -- Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch -- Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield -- Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden -- Modern issues and contemporary challenges -- 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 -- Ethno-national 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, developments, and prospects / Simon Bromley.A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle EastComprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholarsPrimarily focused on the modern and contemporary periodsCovers religious, social, cultural, economic, political and military historyTreats the region as four differentiated political units - Iran, Turkey, Israel and the Arab worldIncludes a section onBlackwell companions to world history.Middle EastHistory956Choueiri Youssef M.1948-122869MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826017803321A companion to the history of the Middle East1934503UNINA