A history of the modern Middle East / William L. Cleveland, Martin Bunton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-567) and index.

List of illustrations -- Preface to the fifth edition -- Acknowledgments -- A note about place names and transliteration -- Part one. The development of Islamic civilization to the eighteenth century: Preface; 1. The rise and expansion of Islam; 2. The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century; 3. The Ottoman and Safavid empires: a new imperial synthesis -- Part two. The beginnings of the era of transformation: Preface; 4. Forging a new synthesis: the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849; 5. The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the Tanzimat; 6. Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century; 7. The response of Islamic society; 8. The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists; 9. World War I and the end of the Ottoman Order -- Part three. The struggle for independence: the interwar era to the end of World War II: Preface; 10. Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran; 11. The Arab struggle for independence: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the Interwar Era to 1945; 12. The Arab struggle for independence: Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the Interwar Era to 1945; 13. The Palestine Mandate and the birth of the state of Israel. Part four. The independent Middle East from the end of World War II to the 1970s: Preface; 14. Democracy and authoritarianism: Turkey and Iran; 15. The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: the Egyptian base; 16. The Middle East in the Age of Nasser: the radicalization of Arab politics; 17. Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s -- Part five. The resurgence of Islam: the Middle East from the 1970s to the 1991 Gulf War: Preface; 18. The Iranian Revolution and the revival of Islam; 19. Changing patterns of war and peace: Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s; 20. The Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era; 21. The consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq: The regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn -- Part six. Challenges to the existing order: the Middle East in the 1990s and 2000s: Preface; 22. The Palestinian Intifada and the 1991 Gulf War; 23. A peace so near, a peace so far: Palestinian-Israeli relations since the 1991 Gulf War; 24. Patterns of continuity and change in Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon; 25. America's troubled moment in the Middle East; 26. The 2011 Arab uprisings -- Glossary -- Select bibliography.

This definitive history of the modern Middle East includes significant new material covering major transformative developments over the past four years.