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Informationen zum Autor Youssef M. Choueiri is Reader in Islamic Studies at the University of Manchester. He has lectured on Middle Eastern history in the US and Australia, as well as in the UK. His previous publications include Islamic Fundamentalism (1997), Arab Nationalism ( Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and Modern Arab Historiography (2003). Klappentext A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. Comprising 26 newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, this Companion treats the Middle East as four differentiated political units - Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Arab world. While focused primarily on the modern and contemporary periods, it also includes a number of chapters on classical and pre-modern themes. Topics are situated within a chronological framework and include the rise of Islam, the militarization of Islam under a wide variety of dynasties, the commercial and industrial revolutions, colonial rule, and the struggle for independence. A final section highlights issues that have preoccupied historians in the second half of the twentieth century, and are most likely to gain momentum well into the twenty-first. These range from oil and urban growth to the role of women and democratic human rights. Zusammenfassung A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. * A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle East. * Comprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viii List of Maps ix List of Tables x Notes on Contributors xi Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Youssef M. Choueiri PART I THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF ISLAM 1 The Rise of Islam 9 Gerald R. Hawting 2 The Islamic Conquests 28 Fred M. Donner 3 The Caliphate 52 Hugh Kennedy PART II CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 4 The "Ulama" : Status and Function 71 Zouhair Ghazzal 5 Shi'ism 87 Robert Gleave 6 Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West 106 Alexander Knysh PART III IMPERIAL STRUCTURES AND DYNASTIC RULE 7 Military Patronage States and the Political Economy of the Frontier, 1000-1250 135 Michael Chamberlain 8 The Mamluk Institution 154 P. M. Holt 9 North Africa: State and Society, 1056-1659 170 Michael Brett PART IV A NEW MIDDLE EASTERN SYSTEM 10 Ottomans and Safavids: States, Statecraft, and Societies, 1500-1800 191 Metin Kunt 11 Urban Life and Middle Eastern Cities: The Traditional Arab City 207 André Raymond (translated James McDougall) PART V THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER 12 A Different Balance of Power: Europe and the Middle East in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 229 Abdul-Karim Rafeq 13 Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the Struggle for Independence: The Arab World, Turkey, and Iran 248 Peter Sluglett PART VI INDEPENDENCE AND NATION BUILDING 14 Zionism and the Palestine Question 269 Emma C. Murphy 15 Nationalisms in the Middle East: The Case of Pan-Arabism 291 Youssef M. Choueiri 16 Turkish and Iranian Nationalisms 313 Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari 17 Political Parties and Trade Unions 334 Raymond Hinnebusch 18 Political Life and the Military 355 Gareth Stansfield 19 Political Economy: From Modernization to Globalization 372 Simon Mur...
