A companion to the history of the Middle East
By: edited by Youssef M. Choueiri.
Contributors: Choueiri, Youssef M., 1948-
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: Blackwell companions to world history
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9781405183796
Subjects: Middle East -- History
Description: xvii, 602 p. : 25 cm
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri; title: The formative period of Islam; title: The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting; title: The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner; title: The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy; title: Cultural traditions and social structure; title: The ʻulama:̉ function and status / Zouhair Ghazzal; title: Shīʻism / Robert Gleave; title: Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh; title: Imperial structures and dynastic rule; title: Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain; title: The Mamluk institution / P.M. Holt; title: State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett; title: A new Middle Eastern system; title: Ottomans and Safavids: states, statecraft, and societies, 1500-1800 / Metin Kunt; title: Urban life and Middle Eastern cities: the traditional Arab city / André Raymond (translated James McDougall); title: The Middle East and the new world order; title: A different balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq; title: Colonialism, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran / Peter Sluglett; title: Independence and nation building; title: Zionism and the Palestine question / Emma C. Murphy; title: Nationalisms in the Middle East: the case of Pan-Arabism / Youssef M. Choueiri; title: Turkish and Iranian nationalisms / Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari; title: Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch; title: Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield; title: Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden; title: Modern issues and contemporary challenges; title: Islamic urbanism, urbanites, and the Middle Eastern city / Michael E. Bonine; title: Oil and development / Paul Stevens; title: Modernizing women in the Middle East / Valentine M. Moghadam; title: Politics and religion / Beverley Milton-Edwards; title: Ethno-national minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians / Lise Storm; title: Civil society in the Middle East / Tim Niblock; title: The states-system in the Middle East: origins, developments, and prospects / Simon Bromley.