• Each Part end with Suggested Readings. Vignettes and maps Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration New to this Edition Introduction PART I. THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE
• Chapter 1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age
• Chapter 2. Gunpowder Empires
• Chapter 3. The Middle East and the Modern World System
• Chapter 4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power Documents Evliya Chelebi: Seyahataname(1) Evliya Chelebi: Seyahataname (2) 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) PART II. THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
• Chapter 5. Defensive Developmentalism
• Chapter 6. Imperialism
• Chapter 7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation and Its Aftermath
• Chapter 8. The Life of the Mind
• Chapter 9. Secularism and Modernity
• Chapter 10. 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: The Poetry of Loss Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women Rifaca Rafic al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris Muhammad cAbduh: The Theology of Unity Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal H:urriyet The Supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907 PART III. WORLD WAR I AND THE MIDDLE EAST STATE SYSTEM
• Chapter 11. State-Building by Decree
• Chapter 12. State-Building by Revolution and Conquest
• Chapter 13. The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms
• Chapter 14. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Documents An Arab Soldier in the Ottoman Army 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 PART IV. THE CONTEMPORARY ERA
• Chapter 15. The Autocratic State
• Chapter 16. Oil
• Chapter 17. The United States and the Middle East
• Chapter 18. Resistance Conclusion. A New Middle East? Documents Speech Delivered by President Gamal cAbd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961 Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day Ali Shariati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government Sayyid Qutb: Milestones "Statement of the April 6 Movement Regarding the Demands of the Youth and the Refusal to Negotiate with Any Side" Yassir al-Manawahly: "The International Monetary Fund" Timeline Biographical Sketches Glossary Credits Index.
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Extensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years.Beginning with the first glimmerings of the current international state and economic systems in the sixteenth century, this book examines the impact of imperial and imperialist legacies, the great nineteenth-century transformation, cultural continuities and upheavals, international diplomacy, economic booms and busts, and the emergence of authoritarian regimes and the varied forms of resistance to them and to imperialism in an area of vital concern to us all.The text is engagingly written--drawing from the author's own research and other studies--and enriched with maps and photographs, original documents, and an abundance of supplementary materials.
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Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father's wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise. Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and the economic sanctions of the 1990s destroy the socioeconomic fabric of society. The 2003 invasion and military occupation unleash sectarian violence. Corpses pile up, and Jawad returns to the inevitable washing and shrouding. Trained as an artist to shape materials to represent life aesthetically, he now must contemplate how death shapes daily life and the bodies of Baghdad's inhabitants. Through the struggles of a single desperate family, Sinan Antoon's novel shows us the heart of Iraq's complex and violent recent history. Descending into the underworld where the borders between life and death are blurred and where there is no refuge from unending nightmares, Antoon limns a world of great sorrows, a world where the winds wail.
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• Part I: The rise of a constitutional model of justice, 1839-1920
• Mustafa Ali: Ottoman justice and bureaucratic reform
• Tanyus Shahin of Mount Lebanon: peasant republic and Christian rights
• Ahmad Urabi and Nizam al-Islam: a new model of justice in Egypt and Iran
• Part II: Movements for local and collective models of justice, 1920-1965
• Halide Edib, Turkey's Joan of Arc: the fate of liberalism after World War I
• David Ben-Gurion and Musa Kazim in Palestine: genocide and justice for the nation
• Hasan al-Banna of Egypt: the Muslim Brothers?
• Pursuit of Islamic justice
• Comrade Fahd: the mass appeal of communism in Iraq
• Akram al-Hourani and the Baath Party in Syria: bringing peasants into politics
• Part III: Struggles for justice in the absence of a political arena after 1965
• Abu Iyad: the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the turn to political violence
• Sayyid Qutb and Ali Shariati: the idea of Islamic revolution in Egypt and Iran
• Wael Ghonim of Egypt: the Arab Spring and the return of universal rights
• Chronology.

The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were-and saw themselves as-heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law, a struggle obstructed by local elites as well as the interventions of foreign powers. Elizabeth F. Thompson uncovers the deep roots of liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East through the remarkable stories of those who fought against poverty, tyranny, and foreign rule. Fascinating, sometimes quixotic personalities come to light: Tanyus Shahin, the Lebanese blacksmith who founded a peasant republic in 1858; Halide Edib, the feminist novelist who played a prominent role in the 1908 Ottoman constitutional revolution; Ali Shariati, the history professor who helped ignite the 1979 Iranian Revolution; Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who rallied Egyptians to Tahrir Square in 2011, and many more. Their memoirs, speeches, and letters chart the complex lineage of political idealism, reform, and violence that informs today's Middle East. Often depicted as inherently anti-democratic, Islam was integral to egalitarian movements that sought to correct imbalances of power and wealth wrought by the modern global economy-and by global war. Motivated by a memory of betrayal at the hands of the Great Powers after World War I and in the Cold War, today's progressives assert a local tradition of liberal constitutionalism that has often been stifled but never extinguished.
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