Table of Contents

Contents

Vignettes and Maps
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: 9/11 in Historical Perspective

Part I: The Advent of the Modern Age

1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age
2. Gunpowder Empires
3. The Middle East and the Modern World System
4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power

Documents
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanamé
Draft Treaty of Amity & 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)

Suggested Readings

Part II: The Question of Modernity

5. Defensive Developmentalism
6. Imperialism
7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation

Photo Essay: The Great Transformation

8. The Life of the Mind
9. Secularism and Modernity
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: Poetry of Loss
Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women
Rifa"a Raf" al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris
Muhammad "Abduh: The Theology of Unity
Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hürriyet
The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907

Suggested Readings

Part III: World War I and the Middle East State System

11. State-Building by Decree
12. State-Building by Revolution and Conquest
13. The Introduction and Spread of Nationalism
14. The Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute

Documents
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

Suggested Readings

Part IV: The Contemporary Era

15. State and Society in the Contemporary Middle East: An Old/New Relationship??
16. Oil
17. The United States and the Middle East
18. Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians
19. The Iranian Revolution
20. Political Islam

Conclusion: The Middle East in the "Age of Globalization"

Documents
Speech Delivered by President Gamal "Abd al-Nasser at Port Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on
23 December 1961
Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
"Ali Shari"ati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones

Suggested Readings

Timeline
Biographical Sketches
Glossary
Credits
Index
Index