A companion to the history of the Middle East / edited by Youssef M. Choueiri.

Contributor(s):

Choueiri, Youssef M, 1948- [editor]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Blackwell companions to world historyPublication details: Malden, MA ; Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.Description: xvii, 602 p. : ill., cartes ; 25 cmISBN:

9781405183796 (pbk.)
1405183799 (pbk.)

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LOC classification:

439 DS 62 C737 2008

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Contents:

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

Summary: A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	439 DS 62 C737 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000142739

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

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region.

Publiâe aussi en version âelectronique.

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