The Middle East and Islamic world reader
By: [edited] by Marvin Gettleman and Stuart Schaar.
Contributors: Gettleman, Marvin E.; Schaar, Stuart.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Civilisation islamique.; Middle East.; Islamic countries -- Civilization.; Moyen-Orient.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and index.
Table of contents: title: Islamic beginnings: revelation, state building, and culture; title: From the coming of steppe peoples to the age of gunpowder empires; title: Contradictions of modernity: imperialism and social change; title: The two world wars and their aftermaths; title: Arabs and Zionists struggle over Palestine; title: Geopolitics of oil and the Cold War conflict; title: Ideologies, movements, and social trends; title: 9/11: terrorism, war, global responsibility.